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May 13, 2006 |
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 21, 2006
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
Daily through May 25, 2006
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, 2006
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 Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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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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Courbet and the Modern Landscape Exhibition Tour
Daily through May 14, 2006
1:30 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Looking Toward Modern Art
Saturdays through June 30, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour that focuses on the origins of modern art in the late 1800s and explores how artists rejected traditional rules of representation to develop new forms of art. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through May 14, 2006
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 Python Killing a Gnu by Antoine-Louis Barye. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Current Exhibitions |
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Robert Adams: Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance
Daily through May 28, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Robert Adams (American, born 1937) has photographed the landscape of the American West for more than forty years, particularly in California, Colorado and Oregon. His vision is inspired on the one hand by his joy in its inherent natural beauty and on the other hand by his dismay at its exploitation and degradation. Adams uses photography to express his love for the landscape and to understand how urban and industrial growth have changed it, all the while insisting that beauty in the world has not been entirely eclipsed. He observes with unblinking but tender simplicity the whole geography, including recent development, and asks us through his photographs to consider where we live and how we relate to our environment. This exhibition features 68 photographs drawn from the Getty Museum's strong holding of more than one hundred prints by Adams, augmented by loans from other sources.
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Courbet and the Modern Landscape
Daily through May 14, 2006
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
This exhibition brings together 47 landscape paintings by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) to focus for the first time on his extraordinary innovation in this genre. Courbet's landscapes of the 1860s forced a break from the tradition of viewing painting as an experience of reading and interpreting to that of witnessing an original, vital performance-in-paint. His landscape planted the seeds of modernist painting and defined artistic issues that would concern the Impressionists, changing the course of painting for the next 100 years. The exhibition has been organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walters Art Museum, and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through December 28, 2008
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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Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938
Daily through June 25, 2006
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Drawing exclusively from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition concentrates on the diverse output of art history's most significant photomontage artist, the German originally named Helmut Herzfeld. Focusing on his success at creating a politically engaged visual rhetoric, the exhibition includes examples of German and American periodicals in which John Heartfield published his work, and shows how he transformed a procedure that once lay in the domain of advertising and avant-garde art into a broadly significant mode of mass communication. This exhibition concentrates on the interwar world of publishing in which Heartfield's images appeared, illustrated through examples of original press photographs from the Research Library's Stefan Lorant collection and correspondence such as that between Heartfield's widow and the renowned typographer Jan Tschichold.
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Degas at the Getty
Daily through June 11, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) is at once the most traditional and the most modern of 19th-century artists. Academically trained and steeped in the history of art, Degas used his immersion in work of past masters to bring an intellectual and formal rigor to the novel subjects of contemporary life, such as dancers and shop girls, with which he has become synonymous. Degas also pushed the boundaries of traditional subjects such as portraits and bathers, using the human form and face to present unusual viewpoints and penetrating psychology. On the occasion of the Getty Museum's recent acquisitions of the pastel drawing Miss Lala at the Fernando Circus and the painting The Milliners, this exhibition brings together works by this seminal artist from across the Museum's paintings, drawings and photographs collections. From the youthful Self-portrait to the late painting After the Bath, the Getty's collections span Degas's career, and the exhibition highlights three of his key subjects: portraits, popular entertainments and social life, and bathers.
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Carmontelle's Transparency: An 18th-Century Motion Picture
Daily through June 18, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Invented by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle (French, 1717-1806), the transparency, a transparent drawing that was rolled through a back-lit viewing box, was a forerunner of the modern motion picture. The Getty Museum's 12-foot-long transparency, Figures Walking in a Parkland, is the focus of this exhibition, and will be displayed with a facsimile of the transparency in a viewing box. Eighteenth-century drawings from the Museum's collection will also be on view to complement Carmontelle's invention.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2006
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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The Cult of Saints
Daily through July 16, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Devotion to saints was a central component of the spiritual and cultural life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and a central element in Roman Catholic spiritual practice. That devotion continued into the modern period and still has an impact today. This exhibition offers an overview of the pervasive role of the Cult of the Saints in medieval and Renaissance society through images created in its service.
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Ensor's Graphic Modernism
Daily through July 30, 2006
West Pavilion, Upper Level, Getty Center
James Ensor's (Belgian, 1860Ð1949) greatest painting, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888) in the Getty Museum's permanent collection, is united for the first time with a significant body of his related prints. Since the monumental painting cannot travel, the opportunity to situate it in the context of Ensor's achievements and ambitions as a print maker will give the public a deeper understanding of Ensor's multifaceted modernity and his mastery of painting and printmaking with very distinct technical demands.
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May 13, 2006 |
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Performances and Films |
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Liz Estrada in the City of Angels (Villa Playreading Series)
Saturday May 13, 2006
4 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Noted Los Angeles playwright Evelina Fernandez puts her contemporary spin on the Aristophanic classic Lysistrata. In this version, set in L.A. sometime in the future, Liz Estrada, the first lady of Angelinia, has grown tired of the war that has continued for 25 years and decides to take matters into her own hands. Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, award-winning artistic director of the Latino Theater Company, this staged reading promises to be an entertaining yet poignant retelling of a play whose lessons we have not seemed to learn over the past 2,400 years. Please note that this program contains explicit language and is not recommended for younger audiences.
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Liz Estrada in the City of Angels (Villa Playreading Series)
Saturday May 13, 2006
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Noted Los Angeles playwright Evelina Fernandez puts her contemporary spin on the Aristophanic classic Lysistrata. In this version, set in L.A. sometime in the future, Liz Estrada, the first lady of Angelinia, has grown tired of the war that has continued for 25 years and decides to take matters into her own hands. Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, award-winning artistic director of the Latino Theater Company, this staged reading promises to be an entertaining yet poignant retelling of a play whose lessons we have not seemed to learn over the past 2,400 years. Please note that this program contains explicit language and is not recommended for younger audiences.
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2007
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 1:30 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 45-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. Ofrecida en español. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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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 45-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: Harp Player
Weekends through May 28, 2006
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 work of art is the Harp Player, a Cycladic marble sculpture dating from 2700 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:00 p.m.
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Focus Tour: Beauty and Fashion in the Ancient World
Saturday May 13, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Explore ancient ideas of beauty in this one-hour tour. Looking closely at images of women, both mortal and immortal, discover ideals of female beauty and explore trends in ancient fashion. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m.
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Current Exhibitions |
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily through July 24, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition celebrates the acquisition of the Oppenländer collection of ancient glass, and will be among the first exhibitions to mark the opening of the Getty Villa. The Oppenländer collection is remarkable for its high quality and its chronological breadth, covering all periods of ancient glass production. The objects are arranged by their method of manufacture, from casting and core-forming to inflation, and in-gallery videos will illustrate ancient glassmaking techniques.
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