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June 14, 2006 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture (Seminar)
Wednesday June 14, 2006
3 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Penelope Curtis, curator at the Henry Moore Institute, a center for the study of sculpture in Leeds, England, discusses her Getty-supported research project in light of curatorial practice at the Institute. In this project, Curtis reviewed recent exhibition installations and the dynamics between content and display. She also investigated the relationship between sculpture and architecture in the mid-20th century. Curtis's research focused on the period that opened with the use by modernist architects of figurative sculpture and ended with the convergence of the two disciplines in the mid-1960s.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through September 1, 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
Tuesdays - Thursdays through August 31, 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
Tuesdays - Thursdays through July 6, 2006
11 am, 1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Also offered in Spanish at 11:00 a.m. on the 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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Curator's Gallery Talk
Wednesday June 14, 2006
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Scott Schaefer, curator of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition Ensor's Graphic Modernism. Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Neoclassical Art
Wednesdays through June 27, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on Neoclassical art made between 1750 and 1820, when Europeans on the Grand Tour encountered works from the ancient past that inspired a new artistic style. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature
Daily through September 17, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Eliot Porter (American, 1901–1990) is known for his detailed and exquisite photographs of birds and landscapes. Porter promoted the use of color materials at a time when most serious photographers worked in black-and-white. An artist of uncommon perception, his artistic and technical contributions to bird and landscape photography transformed these genres. This exhibition includes a selection of Porter's early black-and-white landscape photographs, later color landscapes, and bird photographs made over the course of his career.
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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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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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June 14, 2006 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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