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April 4, 2009 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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MYhistoricLA - Preserving Los Angeles
Saturday April 4, 2009through April 4, 2009
11 am - 4 pm
Los Angeles Central Library
What's Your HistoricLA? Do you know a special story about a local building or the neighborhood you live in? Come join like-minded amateur historians and Los Angeles aficionados for the public kickoff of SurveyLA, Los Angeles' first-ever citywide survey of its historic resources. A full day of activities will include opportunities to share your knowledge on L.A.'s hidden gems, screenings of the SurveyLA video, and a panel discussion moderated by Larry Mantle, host of KPCC's Air Talk. For more information, visit www.surveyla.org. Sponsored by the Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles; the Getty Conservation Institute; and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Saturday, April 4, 11 a.m.- 4:00 p.m., Los Angeles Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium
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Performances and Films |
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Sounds of L.A.: Chango Spasiuk
Saturday April 4, 2009
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Chango Spasiuk is the unquestioned master of chamamé, music that comes from the heart of northeastern Argentina. Spasiuk's energetic virtuosity unleashes wild howls of creative fervor coupled with an almost terrifying mastery of the accordion. The resulting sound is at once hauntingly familiar and movingly distinct.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Art Circles
Saturday April 4, 2009
6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Participants have the opportunity to study and explore a select masterpiece with educators in the galleries of the Museum. The chosen work of art changes every session, making each visit a new experience. Course fee $15 per session (includes a sandwich voucher). Open to 25 participants. Meet at the Museum Information Desk for course introduction.
The Art Circles series meets throughout the year.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops / Enfoque Artístico
Weekends through May 17, 2009
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Get up close and personal with a single work of art at this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared for families with children ages 5 and up. Ofrecida en español a 2:30 p.m. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk 30 minutes before the start of the program.
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Family Drawing Hour: Put Your Best Face Forward!
Saturday April 4, 2009
3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Join us for an up-close look at faces in the Getty collection, then try your hand at making an expressive portrait of your own! Space is limited. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 3 p.m. the day of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Exhibition Tour: Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725
Daily through May 3, 2009
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 30, 2009
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Getty Center architecture tours are offered daily by docents. Tours last 30–45 minutes. Meet outside in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
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 Museum Information Desk.
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Garden Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
Garden Tours are offered daily by docents. They focus on the Central Garden and landscaping of the Getty Center site. Tours last 45–60 minutes. Meet in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays through December 31, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on Modern and Contemporary works at the Getty museum by exploring the art and culture of the late 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-centuries. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
Daily through April 19, 2009
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Drawing principally from the Getty Research Institute's superb collection of Russian modernist books, Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917 brings into focus a brief, but tumultuous period when Russian visual artists and poets, including Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Alexei Kruchenykh, and Velimir Khlebnikov, challenged Symbolism and revolutionized book art. They fabricated pocket-sized, hand-lithographed books and juxtaposed primitive and abstract imagery with a transrational poetry they called zaum'("beyonsense"). The exhibition traces the avant-garde's use of the materials of their book art—imagery, language and its sounds, design, graphic technique—to convey humor, parody, and an intriguing ambivalence and apprehension about Russia's past, present, and future.
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Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725
Daily through May 3, 2009
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
In the late sixteenth century, a small group of artists from Bologna changed the course of art history. This exhibition tells the extraordinary story of the Carracci family, who reinvigorated the art of painting with tremendous energy and vitality. Their achievement set standards that remained authoritative for more than two centuries. A selection of key works by the Carracci and their followers brings this artistic triumph to life. Twenty-seven of them—most never exhibited before in North America—are on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, one of the world's premier collections of old master paintings. This exhibition has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
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German and Central European Manuscript Illumination
Daily through May 24, 2009
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Highlighting masterworks from the Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic periods, this exhibition features manuscripts and leaves from the Museum's holdings of German and Central European illumination. Illustrating the artistic achievement of one of the greatest epochs of German and Central European art, the selection shows how manuscript illumination continued to flourish, even after the invention of the printed book in the 1400s.
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Made for Manufacture
Daily through July 5, 2009
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
For both economic and creative reasons, many Renaissance and Baroque artists made drawings for sculpture and decorative arts. Such designs are appreciated not only for their aesthetic merit, but for how they were actually used. This exhibition comprises drawings for three-dimensional objects to be made in a variety of media, including metal, wood, glass, ceramic, and stone, with particular attention paid to how the form of a design reflects an object's function and how two-dimensional drawings were transferred to three-dimensional works of art.
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In Focus: The Portrait
Daily through June 14, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Since its invention, photography has forged a revolution in documentary evidence and artistic representation, especially in the realm of portraiture. A more democratic, inexpensive medium than most traditional artistic media, photography made portraits available to a wider public. This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's collection, presents the evolution of the genre from commissioned portraits to intimate views as well as those reflecting social concerns. Works by such photographers as Félix Nadar, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, and Nan Goldin are included.
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La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
Daily
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Luisa Roldán (Spanish, 1650–1704), affectionately known as La Roldana, was one of the most celebrated and prolific sculptors of the Baroque period. This intimate exhibition introduces visitors to La Roldana, whose artistic superiority catapulted her to fame at the royal court in an otherwise male-dominated profession. She ran a workshop, worked for the king, raised a family, and was a celebrity in her own day. With her polychrome sculpture of Saint Ginés de la Jara from the Getty Museum's collection as a focal point, this exhibition explores the artist's life, artistic achievement, and the multifaceted process used to create masterfully lifelike polychrome sculpture.
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Tales in Sprinkled Gold: Japanese Lacquer for European Collectors
Daily through May 24, 2009
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The Mazarin Chest and the Van Diemen Box (now in the collection of Japanese art at London's Victoria and Albert Museum) were made in about 1635 for European patrons. These beautiful and important examples of Japanese export lacquer are the centerpieces of this exhibition, which also includes a selection of lacquer objects that provide history and context. Tales in Sprinkled Gold marks the completion of an international research and conservation project on the Mazarin Chest that was funded by a major grant from the Getty Foundation.
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Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts
Daily through July 5, 2009
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Focusing on the sculptural aspects of the decorative arts, this exhibition explores the rich plasticity of objects intended for functional or ceremonial use. In addition to sculpture, it showcases astonishingly inventive works of art, such as furniture, light fixtures, and accessories for the hearth from the Getty Museum and Temple Newsam, a historic country house near Leeds, England. Nearly forty extraordinary works from England, France, Holland, and Italy—executed in the exuberant Baroque and Rococo styles popular during the 1600s and 1700s—are featured. Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
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Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance
Daily through August 9, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896–1958) burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1920s with photographs that were visually fresh and decidedly Modernist. He applied his talent for the formal arrangement of objects to the commercial world and was a visionary for his use of color. This exhibition brings together nearly one hundred photographs from all periods of Outerbridge's career, including his Cubist still life images, staged magazine photographs, and controversial nudes.
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Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling
Daily through August 9, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
In 1977 Susan Sontag's now-classic collection of serious criticism, On Photography, brought photography to center stage. That same year, Jo Ann Callis, an art student at the University of California, Los Angeles, who had learned to draw, paint, and photograph, received her master of fine arts degree. Her mentor, legendary art professor Robert Heinecken, taught that photographs should be made, not found, and Callis has been constructing photographs, as well as paintings and sculpture, in her studio ever since. Over the past 30 years, she has borrowed inspiration and imagery from the best of Los Angeles's traditions in film, fashion, and design. Fabricated tableaux of the 1980s and 1990s dominate this photographs exhibition selected from the Getty's holdings, gifts from the photographer Gay Block, and the artistŐs own archive.
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April 4, 2009 |
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through December 31, 2009
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. Ofrecida en español. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Spotlight Talk
Weekends through April 30, 2009
1 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 object is a mosaic floor featuring a boxing scene from 175 A.D. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Orientation Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on its architecture and educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through December 31, 2009
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. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour explores the architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa and their historical prototypes. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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An Introduction to Three Exhibitions at the Villa
Saturdays through April 25, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join a Museum educator in this one-hour tour through current exhibitions Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden, Fragment to Vase: Approaches to Ceramic Restoration, and The Getty Commodus: Roman Portraits and Modern Copies. Themes of historical context, conservation and restoration, and the study of objects by archaeologists, conservators, collectors, and curators are explored. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden
Daily through June 1, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition examines the restoration history of a Roman statue from the Dresden State Art Collections. Since its discovery in the 1600s, the figure has been successively restored as Alexander the Great, Bacchus, and Antinous in the guise of the wine god. Damaged in World War II, the sculpture was recently reassembled by Getty and Dresden conservators.
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The Getty Commodus: Roman Portraits and Modern Copies
Daily through June 1, 2009
Getty Villa
The Getty's marble bust of the Roman emperor Commodus was acquired in 1992 as an Italian work of the 1500s, but specialists later proposed that it may be from the second century A.D. Putting the object in context with Roman portraits and modern copies from the Mannerist and Neoclassical periods, this exhibition shows how curators and conservators have determined the sculpture's date.
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Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems
Daily through September 7, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Carved gemstones have captivated connoisseurs of every age, from antiquity to the modern period. The exhibition Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems brings together remarkable intaglios and cameos carved by ancient master engravers along with some of the outstanding works by modern carvers that they have inspired. The gems are displayed together with material from later periods that evinces their importance through the ages—illuminated manuscripts, rare engravings from early catalogues, cabinets designed to house collections of gems, and other works of art in diverse media to illustrate the lasting allure of these masterpieces in miniature.
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Fragment to Vase: Approaches to Ceramic Restoration
Daily through June 1, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Exploring contemporary issues in vase restoration, this exhibition provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Getty conservators assemble ancient pottery fragments into understandable forms. It illustrates how technical innovations, scholarly contributions, and aesthetic choices combine to reveal the original design and iconography of ceramic masterpieces.
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