|
|
 |
 |
|
|
April 15, 2009 |
|
|
|
Lectures and Conferences |
|
|
Speaking Up for Themselves: Positive Messages in Convent Music and Art in Seicento Bologna
Wednesday April 15, 2009
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Responding to misogynistic portrayals of women in several images seen in the exhibition Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725, Craig Monson, professor of music at Washington University in St. Louis, considers how music, painting, and architecture of Bolognese convents were staged to show (at least some) women in an alternative, more positive light. Complements the exhibition Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725.
|
|
|
|
Tours and Gallery Talks |
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2009
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Curator's Gallery Talk
Wednesday April 15, 2009
2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Anne Lacoste, assistant curator of photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition In Focus: The Portrait. Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Focus Tour: Baroque and Rococo Art
Wednesdays through December 31, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's Baroque and Rococo collections by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive historic periods of the 17th- and 18th-centuries. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through April 19, 2009
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 Figure for Landscape by Barbara Hepworth. Meet the gallery teacher at the Museum Information Desk.
|
|
|
|
Exhibitions |
|
|
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.
 Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 artist's own archive.
Learn more about this exhibition
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
April 15, 2009 |
|
The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date, except for the following event(s):
|
|
Courses and Demonstrations |
|
|
Drawing from Antiquity
Wednesday April 15, 2009
2 pm - 5 pm
Education Studio, Getty Villa
Enjoy the Getty Villa on a day when it is closed to the public. Sharpen your drawing skills by looking closely at art objects in the galleries, as well as at the architecture and gardens. Skilled artists provide guidance; all experience levels welcome. Course fee $20. Open to 15 participants.
|
|
|
|
|
|
