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April 22, 2007 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artist-at-Work Demonstration: Platinum Prints
Thursdays and Sundays through May 31, 2007
1 pm - 3 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Drop by as photographer Luther Gerlach demonstrates how to make platinum prints using authentic cameras, lenses, and procedures from the 19th century. Complements the exhibition The Old Order and the New: P.H. Emerson and Photography.
1:00–2:00 p.m. Cameras, lenses, and negative-making
2:00–3:00 p.m. Paper preparation and printing
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 20, 2007
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. The 2:30 p.m. session is also offered in Spanish. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes prior to the start of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2007
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 May 25, 2007
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, 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 May 6, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Renaissance Art
Sundays through May 6, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour looking at European art made in the 1400s and 1500s, when artists began focusing on the individual and renewed their interest in the ancient world. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through April 22, 2007
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 Faun Holding a Goat by Jacques-François-Joseph Saly. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through August 5, 2007
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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Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970
Daily through June 3, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
At the end of World War II, Japan was left in ruins and in a relative cultural void. Numerous anti-establishment artistic collaboratives emerged during this period, notably Jikken Kōbō/Experimental Workshop, Gutai, Group Ongaku, Tokyo Fluxus, Neo Dada, Hi Red Center, Vivo, Provoke, and Bikyōtō. These collectives eschewed traditional commercial art practice in favor of radical work that provoked its audience conceptually, politically, and socially. In experimenting with new materials and processes of art making and disruption of conventional art forms, the work of these artists reflected the dramatic changes and disjunctive character of everyday life in Japan over the course of two decades following the war. Drawn exclusively from Research Library holdings, the works presented in Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art range from musical scores and photo essays to performance documentation and interactive art kits.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2008
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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Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts
Daily through May 20, 2007
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Many of the greatest draftsmen of the Renaissance and Baroque eras made drawings for sculpture and the decorative arts. This exhibition comprises drawings for objects to be executed in a range of media, including metal, wood, glass, ceramics, and stone. It explores how artists translated two-dimensional designs into three-dimensional objects. Spanning the 1400s to the 1700s, the exhibition includes drawings from the Italian, German, French, Spanish, Netherlandish, and Flemish schools, all from the collection of the Getty Museum and an anonymous lender. It also presents new acquisitions, such as Design for a Quatrefoil (about 1475–90) by an artist in the circle of the Housebook Master and the Design for an Ewer (1629) by Stefano della Bella.
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The Old Order and the New: P.H. Emerson and Photography 1885-1895
Daily through July 8, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936) photographed the isolated region of East Anglia in England during the late 19th century, a time when traditional life and work along the Norfolk Broads were increasingly threatened by advances in modern technology. This exhibition explores Emerson's passion for recording customs that were unaffected by the Industrial Revolution and places his photographs in the context of paintings and etchings of the period. Organized by the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television in Bradford, England, the exhibition features more than 150 works of art, including a number of rare photographically illustrated books from the Getty Museum's collection. A new publication discussing Emerson's work accompanies the exhibition.
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From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden
Daily through April 29, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Emerging from a partnership between the Getty Museum and the Dresden State Museums, this exhibition presents a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister, one of the foremost collections of German art from 1800 to the present. Not a traditional survey, this exhibition instead presents 18 works by the two best-known painters from Dresden: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), the key voice of German Romanticism, and Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932), the most significant German artist working today. The works by Friedrich include his 1809 masterwork, Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altarpiece), while Richter is represented by 12 Abstractions from 2005. Twelve other paintings by such artists as Carl Gustav Carus, Johann Christian Dahl, Otto Dix, and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff are interspersed throughout the Museum's permanent collection of paintings. These juxtapositions address diverse aspects of German art between 1800 and World War I, including Romanticism and the sublime and the interrelationships between Germany's artistic heritage and European culture at large. An illustrated catalogue, featuring an interview with Gerhard Richter, accompanies the exhibition.
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Sigmar Polke: Photographs, 1968–1972
Daily through May 20, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This presentation of 35 photographs by Sigmar Polke (German, b. 1941) includes still life compositions of objects that the artist has found in his studio or excerpted from popular culture, as well as multiple exposures and prints developed in a manner that emulates his predilection to layer unrelated subjects and techniques in his painting. Identified only by the name of the city in which they were made, these photographs demonstrate the range of Polke's early fascination with the photographic medium and his desire to explore its expressive potential. Acquired in 1984, this group of photographs constitutes an important component of the Getty Museum's holdings of work by painters who have turned to the camera.
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Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
To inaugurate a series of artists' projects at the Getty Museum, internationally recognized Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson (American, b. 1960) has created four new works for first-time display. Zoopsia offers playful, alternative perspectives on the natural world. Concurrently, Überorgan, described by Hawkinson as a massive, self-playing, walk-in organ of balloons and horns, will be installed in the Museum Entrance Hall for its Los Angeles debut. Previously exhibited in Massachusetts and New York, Überorgan changes with each installation in response to the site. Typically incorporating household and industrial materials, and often mechanized to emit sound, evoke breath, or record the passage of time, Hawkinson's extraordinary art links form, process, and meaning to create unique and provocative viewing experiences.
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A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble
Daily through July 8, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
John Humble (American, b. 1944) has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for 30 years. During this time he has created a strong body of photographs inspired by architecture and its surrounding natural environment, often focusing on the incongruities and ironic juxtapositions of the Southern Californian landscape. This two-gallery exhibition features approximately 35 color photographs, many of which were acquired by the Getty Museum in January 2006, with the generous assistance of the Getty Museum Photographs Council, which also underwrote the accompanying publication. Both the exhibition and book celebrate Humble's distinct view of Los Angeles. From the concrete channels of the Los Angeles River to brightly colored commercial buildings, his photographs of the built environment capture that which is instantly recognizable yet very often overlooked.
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April 22, 2007 |
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2008
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 1:45 p.m. Ofrecida igualmente 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 40-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. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 a.m.
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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 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 Main Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk: Prize Vessel from the Athenian Games
Weekends through April 29, 2007
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 object is Prize Vessel from the Athenian Games from 340-339 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:15 p.m.
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Focus Tour: Ancient Divas and Fashionistas
Sunday April 22, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Discover ideals of female beauty and ancient fashion trends by looking closely at images of women, both mortal and immortal, in this one-hour tour. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:45 p.m.
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Exhibitions |
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Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa; Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia
Daily through April 30, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Between the second and sixth centuries, thousands of elaborate mosaics were fashioned to decorate the floors of both public buildings and private houses in Roman North Africa. A selection of mosaics from Tunisia are on view in this exhibition, which is structured around four principal themes: nature, theater and spectacle, myths and gods, and technique. Also included is extensive material on the conservation of mosaics. The exhibition is co-organized by the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia, and is accompanied by a catalogue.
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily through April 23, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
The Getty's recent acquisition from the Oppenländer collection of over 350 pieces of ancient glass is the focus of this exhibition. Remarkable for their high quality and chronological breadth, the roughly 180 works on view are accompanied by videos illustrating ancient glassmaking techniques.
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