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February 18, 2006 |
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Family Activities |
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Art Adventures for Families
Weekends through February 26, 2006
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Our one-hour tours for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together feature a fun, activity-filled visit to the galleries. Offered in English and Spanish. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Daily through March 26, 2006
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the architecture and Richard Meier's design of the Getty Center. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through March 26, 2006
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish on weekends. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Garden Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the Getty gardens, including Robert Irwin's Central Garden. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Exhibition Tour
Daily through February 26, 2006
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Drawings from Leonardo to Titian: A North Italian Itinerary. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Looking Toward Modern Art
Saturdays through September 2, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Seeds of modern art are foreshadowed in photography, painting, sculpture, and drawing made in the late 19th century. Join a one-hour gallery tour focusing on the origins of modernism within the collection and throughout the Getty Center grounds. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through February 19, 2006
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This 15-minute gallery talk offers an in-depth look at one object. This week the featured work of art is Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, from The Hangings of François Boucher Series, produced at the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Current Exhibitions |
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Robert Adams: Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance
Daily through May 28, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Robert Adams (American, born 1937) has photographed the landscape of the American West for more than forty years, particularly in California, Colorado and Oregon. His vision is inspired on the one hand by his joy in its inherent natural beauty and on the other hand by his dismay at its exploitation and degradation. Adams uses photography to express his love for the landscape and to understand how urban and industrial growth have changed it, all the while insisting that beauty in the world has not been entirely eclipsed. He observes with unblinking but tender simplicity the whole geography, including recent development, and asks us through his photographs to consider where we live and how we relate to our environment. This exhibition features about seventy photographs drawn from the Getty Museum's strong holding of more than one hundred prints by Adams, augmented by loans from the artist and other sources.
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The Medieval Bookshelf: From Romance to Astronomy
Daily through April 9, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A wide variety of secular books were illuminated throughout the Middle Ages, including law texts, philosophical works, historical chronicles, scientific treatises, and even romances. This exhibition of approximately 21 manuscripts and leaves offers a look at some of the most beautiful medieval secular manuscripts from the Museum's collection.
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through December 28, 2008
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition traces the study of one Getty object to determine its date and place of manufacture. The cabinet, acquired in 1971, had since the 1980s been believed to be a pastiche if not an outright fake. However, documentary research and technical analysis undertaken by experts at the Getty revealed that the cabinet, rather than being a compromised object, is one of the most important pieces of French Renaissance furniture in the United States. This case study of the research into the authenticity of the cabinet presents the results of scientific and visual analyses of the object, studies of related materials, archival research, and other evidence. It is a story of how new information, careful research, and evolving analytic processes can alter our understanding of the art of the past.
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Drawings from Leonardo to Titian: A North Italian Itinerary
Daily through February 26, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition introduces the extraordinary stylistic range and draftsmanship of artists across northern Italy in the sixteenth century, from Leonardo da Vinci in Milan to Titian in Venice. It examines different approaches to drawing and how artists influenced each other. The exhibition presents works from the Getty Museum's collection as an itinerary across northern Italy, focusing on the artistic centers of Lombardy (Milan, Cremona, and Mantua), Emilia-Romagna (Parma and Bologna), and the Veneto (Verona and Venice).
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This installation of antiquities demonstrates the relationship of ancient art to later work, showing some of the themes, techniques, and motifs borrowed by later artists—from mythology to decorative design—and the approach to the human figure known today as the classical ideal. This permanent collection installation is on view in the North Pavilion.
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February 18, 2006 |
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Tickets on the Web are sold out for this day. Try calling (310) 440-7300.
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Performances and Films |
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Tafelmusik presents Metamorphosis: From Myth to Music (Concerts at the Villa)
Saturday February 18, 2006
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Internationally acclaimed Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik presents an enchanted evening inspired by the mythical stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. These ancient tales set the context for some of the greatest music in the baroque repertoire. Larger-than-life characters come to life on the Tafelmusik stage through dramatic retelling—highlights include the story of Echo and Narcissus accompanied by Handel's Overture to Acis and Galatea; and a suite from Purcell's The Fairy Queen with the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. Tickets $28; $22 students/seniors.
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 25, 2006
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 45-minute journey through the galleries features a fun, activity-filled visit for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place beginning at 1:30 p.m. Ofrecida en español.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 45-minute site tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, its history, renovation, and new educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 30, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
This 45-minute tour explores the architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa and their historical prototypes. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk: Lansdowne Herakles
Weekends through February 26, 2006
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 20-minute gallery talk introduces ways of looking at ancient art through an in-depth exploration of one object in the collection. This month the featured work of art is the Lansdowne Herakles, a 2nd-century Roman marble sculpture. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Curator's Gallery Talk
Saturday February 18, 2006
2 pm
Museum, Floor 1, Getty Villa
Claire L. Lyons, collections curator, the Getty Research Institute, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Focus Tour: Music and the Oral Tradition in Antiquity
Saturday February 18, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour explores the ancient tradition of communicating stories through music and poetry. Discover the rich tradition and importance of the poet in ancient cultures. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Current Exhibitions |
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The Getty Villa Reimagined
Daily through May 8, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition traces the renovation of the Getty Villa from the selection of architects Machado and Silvetti Associates through the master planning and realization of the project. Installed to look like an architect's studio, the display includes design competition sketchbooks, models and drawings, videos, and photographs.
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Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites
Daily through May 1, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
The Getty Villa's multidisciplinary approach to studying the ancient world is reflected in this exhibition, which examines how early photographs influenced and transformed thinking about antiquity. On view are over 100 images created between the 1840s and 1870s of celebrated ancient sites in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily through July 24, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition celebrates the acquisition of the Oppenländer collection of ancient glass, and will be among the first exhibitions to mark the opening of the Getty Villa. The Oppenländer collection is remarkable for its high quality and its chronological breadth, covering all periods of ancient glass production. The objects are arranged by their method of manufacture, from casting and core-forming to inflation, and in-gallery videos will illustrate ancient glassmaking techniques.
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