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April 20, 2010
Performances and Films
An Evening with Natalie Merchant
Tuesday April 20, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center


Natalie Merchant comes to the Getty Center to perform selections from Leave Your Sleep, her first studio album in seven years. Leave Your Sleep is a-collection of songs Merchant adapted from poems by British Victorians, early- and mid-20th-century Americans, contemporary writers, as well as popular nursery rhymes and lullabies. In her performance at the Getty, she is accompanied by a cello and two guitars. A brief introduction to the performance illustrates the importance of the visual arts among Victorian poets. Tickets $30.


Tours and Gallery Talks
Garden Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
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.

Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through May 25, 2010
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Connect with a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance in this special 15-minute gallery talk inspired by the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.

Getty Center
Architecture Tour
Daily
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center


Discover more about Richard Meier's architecture and the design of the Getty Center site in this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.

Halberdier / Pontormo
Collection Highlights Tour
Daily
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.

Representations of Architecture Tour
Daily through April 25, 2010
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Explore architecture in works of art in this one-hour overview centered on selections from the permanent collection and three current exhibitions: A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans; Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim; and Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts. Meet the Museum educator at the Museum Information Desk.

Renaissance
Focus Tour: Medieval and Renaissance Art
Tuesdays through April 25, 2010
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's medieval and Renaissance collections by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive historic periods. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.

Exhibitions
La Roldana's Saint Gines
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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Foundry to Finish
Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily

North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


Get a rare look at how bronze sculpture is born in Foundry to Finish. Visitors explore a process called direct lost-wax casting—a method that yields a single, unique bronze cast of an artist's original clay-and-wax model. Thirteen step-by-step models illustrate the sculpting and casting process. Through X-radiographs, visitors can even get a glimpse inside an original sculpture to see firsthand evidence of how the bronze was cast. The installation complements Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, an international touring exhibition also on view.

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Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts
Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts
Daily through May 16, 2010

North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


Among the lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand palaces. The daily presence of these towering and monumental architectural forms in both cities and in the countryside fascinated medieval viewers and crept into the fictional world of the painted page. This focused exhibition explores representations of medieval architecture in manuscript illumination. Artists incorporated examples of medieval church and domestic architecture into scenes depicting stories drawn from scripture, literature, and history. They also employed impressive architectural settings to symbolically convey the importance of individuals and events, and they frequently used architectural elements as decorative motifs to frame texts and images.

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A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick  H. Evans
A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans
Daily through June 6, 2010

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


Frederick H. Evans (English, 1853–1943) began pursuing photography in the mid-1880s. Focusing on architecture, he paid particular attention to medieval cathedrals in England and France. His images of York Minster and Ely Cathedral are among the most renowned architectural renderings in the history of photography. He attempted to capture what he called "a record of an emotion," by invoking the potent symbolism of these awe-inspiring spaces. These photographs and other cathedral subjects are displayed alongside rarely seen landscapes of the English countryside and intimate portraits of the artist's family and friends, including writer George Bernard Shaw and artist Aubrey Beardsley.

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Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim
Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim
Daily through June 6, 2010

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


Highlighting images by three contemporary photographers—each of whom implements a panoramic viewpoint to examine a specific urban environment—this exhibition explores the essential rhythms of three cities while showing the range of technologies used by photographic artists today. Catherine Opie (American, born 1961) created inkjet prints from scans of 7x17-inch negatives of the mini-malls that characterize Los Angeles's automobile culture. Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwanese, born 1977) digitally combined color film negatives into seamless inkjet prints for his Habitat 7 project, which traces the route of the New York subway from Queens to Manhattan. By layering hand-cut chromogenic prints made in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, during the summer solstice, Soo Kim (American, born South Korea, 1969) achieved the three-dimensional effect of a semitransparent city.

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Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention
Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention
Daily through June 20, 2010

West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


The first display of works by Leonardo da Vinci in Los Angeles in decades, this major international loan exhibition celebrates his achievements and involvement in the art of sculpture. Through original drawings, the exhibition explores his ambitious designs for huge equestrian sculpture projects that were never completed. Important works by artists who inspired Leonardo—and were inspired by him—are also on view. These include Donatello's marble Bearded Prophet and three larger-than-life-size bronze figures by Leonardo's collaborator Giovan Francesco Rustici, all recently restored in Florence and never before seen outside Italy. The exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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In Focus: Tasteful Pictures
In Focus: Tasteful Pictures
Daily through August 22, 2010

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


Photographers have been enticed by the subject of food since the earliest years of the medium. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's collection, this selection of more than 20 works highlights important technological and aesthetic developments, including bountiful still life compositions, innovative close-ups and photograms, and documentary studies. Among the photographers featured are Roger Fenton, Adolphe Braun, Edward Weston, Bill Owens, Martin Parr, and Taryn Simon.

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April 20, 2010
The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.