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May 9, 2008 |
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Performances and Films |
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Hotbed: Video Cultivation beside the Getty Gardens
Friday May 9, 2008
7 pm - 9 pm
Museum Courtyard, Getty Center
Projected onto the exterior walls of the Getty Center, 18 artists' videos from 1984 to 2007 explore the theme of the body as nature or culture. Spectacularly displayed between the architecture and gardens, viewers stroll the grounds from the tram arrival plaza to the cactus garden in this special two-evening installation curated by Anne Bray, director of Freewaves. Complements the exhibition California Video.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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California Video Orientation Talk
Daily through June 8, 2008
12 pm, 1:30 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Join a Museum educator before or after your visit to the California Video exhibition to hear a brief overview and participate in a 15-minute question and answer session. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 28, 2008
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 June 29, 2008
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 29, 2008
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: Realist and Impressionist Art
Fridays through June 30, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on realism and impressionism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive 19th-century movements. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Point-of-View: Artist Talks
Friday May 9, 2008
4:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Internationally-known photographer Catherine Opie, whose portraits and architectural landscapes explore issues of place and identity, will discuss the work and influence of photographers August Sander and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Complements the exhibitions August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century and Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms. Sign-up at the information desk beginning at 3:00 p.m. the day of the talks.
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Point-of-View: Artist Talks
Friday May 9, 2008
6 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Internationally-known photographer Catherine Opie, whose portraits and architectural landscapes explore issues of place and identity, will discuss the work and influence of photographers August Sander and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Complements the exhibitions August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century and Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms. Sign-up at the information desk beginning at 3:00 p.m. the day of the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2009
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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Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
Daily through January 11, 2009
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.
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Imagining Christ
Daily through July 27, 2008
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Over a period of almost 2,000 years, the image of Christ has changed and evolved, often in response to political forces or social changes. This exhibition of manuscripts from the Getty Museum's collection covers the years from around 1000 to 1500, and explores how medieval Christians pictured Christ as both divine judge and human son of God, and even used Christ's image to express such complex religious concepts as the Trinity. The exhibition examines the role Christ played in the imaginative life of medieval and renaissance viewers, demonstrating how in focusing on certain aspects of Christ—most notably his suffering—viewers gained access to their own piety.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
Daily through September 14, 2008
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Bernd and Hilla Becher began investigating basic forms of industrial architecture in Western Europe and the United States in 1959. Their collaboration has resulted in a body of work that is immediately recognizable for its spare and systematic style, an approach that is directly indebted to August Sander's categorization of basic social types by profession and class. Many of the Becher's early images were taken in the Siegen district, where Sander's subjects had lived or worked half a century before.
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
Daily through June 8, 2008
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Bernard Rudofsky (American, 1905–1988, born in Austria) was an architect, curator, critic, exhibition designer, and fashion designer whose entire oeuvre was influenced by his lifelong interest in people's concepts about the body. He is as well known for his controversial exhibitions and publications as he is for the design of the popular Bernardo sandals in the 1950s and 1960s. Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Architekturzentrum Wien, Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky illustrates Rudofsky's thought process through the diverse presentation of sketches, architectural models, travel notebooks, photographs, sculptures, fabrics, and footwear drawn heavily from the Rudofsky archive of the Research Library at the GRI. The exhibition premiered at the Architekturzentrum Wien in spring 2007 and travels to the Canadian Centre for Architecture before opening at the Getty in spring 2008.
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California Video
Daily through June 8, 2008
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
The first comprehensive survey of California video art from 1968 to the present, this exhibition includes important examples of single-channel video, video sculpture, and video installation. Featuring the work of 58 artists, duos, and collectives, California Video locates a distinctively West Coast aesthetic within the broader history of video art while highlighting the Getty's major commitment to the preservation and exhibition of a young but vital artistic medium. This exhibition is co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera
Daily through August 10, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
This exhibition of notable acquisitions that have entered the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in the past ten years brings together two complementary aspects of the medium of photography: a "painterly" approach used by many artists to set their work apart from that of practitioners of a more documentary style, and the apparatus integral to the resulting pictures. Whether the connection to painting is in the form of traditional subject matter (portraits, landscapes), one-of-a-kind prints, or the translation of a painterly vocabulary into a photograph, artists are always drawn to new materials. The pictures and the equipment presented here provide insight into photography as a unique marriage of art and technology.
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August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
Daily through September 14, 2008
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
This exhibition presents August Sander's collective portrait of the German people during the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with farmers, skilled tradesmen and professionals, women and artists, and ending with the disabled and disenfranchised, Sander arranged his portraits in groupings that examined his sitters according to their classes and professions, as well as their association with the country or the city. Neither snapshots nor conventional studio portraits, Sander's images have an appeal that is timeless and universal.
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May 9, 2008 |
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
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 Store.
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Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through May 31, 2008
11 am
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. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 15 minutes before the talk.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
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 Store.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
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 Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:45 p.m.
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Curator's Gallery Talk
Friday May 9, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join Kenneth Lapatin, associate curator of antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum, for a one-hour talk on the exhibition The Color of Life. Space is limited. Sign up at Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present
Daily through June 23, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Focusing on representations of the human figure, this exhibition explores the role of color in sculpture and its place in Western taste. Ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance statues were regularly painted, but Neoclassical collecting interests and aesthetic concerns have privileged monochrome marble and bronze. Following recent research on ancient pigments, The Color of Life includes a variety of masterpieces that reveal the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia.
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The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History
Daily through September 8, 2008
Museum, Getty Villa
A Roman marble statue of Hygieia, ancient goddess of health, was found at Ostia in 1797 and restored shortly thereafter. The sculpture was first acquired by the British interior designer Thomas Hope and was later owned by American newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The figure's 19th-century restorations were removed in the 1970s, but these historical additions were recently reintegrated at the Getty Villa. On loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hope Hygieia exemplifies evolving attitudes toward the restoration and display of classical sculpture on the part of collectors, curators, and conservators.
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