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July 26, 2009 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Dancing on the Head of a Pin: Paul Outerbridge and the Art of Commerce
Sunday July 26, 2009
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
A pioneer in applying Modernist aesthetic principles to commercial photography, Paul Outerbridge helped close the great divide between art for art's sake and commercial art. Paul Martineau, curator of the exhibition, provides an overview of Outerbridge's career and explores his struggle to unite its artistic and commercial aspects during a time of significant change in the world of art and high-end advertising.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artist-at-Work Demonstration: Painting Lifelike Sculpture
Sundays through August 9, 2009
1 pm, 2 pm
Museum Courtyard, Getty Center
Join artist Sylvana Barrett as she brings sculpture to life with Baroque polychrome painting techniques including oil painting and estofado, the elegant and elaborate gilding decoration used in 17th-century Spain. Complements the exhibition La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture.
1–2 p.m. Estofado: gold gilding, paint, and surface decoration
2–3 p.m. Polychrome oil painting: size, gesso, and paint layers
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Lab: Fabulous Festivities
Weekends through August 2, 2009
11 am - 3:30 pm
Family Room Patio, Getty Center
Join your children in an outdoor, drop-in workshop designed to exercise the imagination. Discover how artists capture the energy and excitement of celebrations and then create a colorful, dynamic collage that captures your own! Ofrecida en español.
Saturdays and Sundays, July 5–August 2 (except Saturday, August 1)
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Art Adventures for Families
Weekends through September 6, 2009
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Our one-hour tours for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together feature a fun, activity-filled visit to the galleries. Space is limited. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 1:30 p.m. the day of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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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.
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 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
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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Exhibition Tour: Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Daily through September 27, 2009
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour overview of the exhibition Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution. Meet the gallery teacher at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Sculpture Discovery Walk
Sundays
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's collection of Sculpture by exploring works from European history and the recent past. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays
4 pm
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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Exhibitions |
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Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Daily through October 18, 2009
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
The city of Algiers, renowned for its white walls cascading to the Mediterranean, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529–1830), Algeria had been a semi-independent province of the empire. French rule (1830–1962) transformed Algeria. European norms and the French system of governance were imposed. The land was mapped, its peoples surveyed and classified, and dramatic interventions to urban fabrics enforced a new duality. In Algiers the "Arab" city on the hillside, known as the Casbah, was separated from the "French" or European city that spread out in districts below and around the Casbah. This division endured during the 132 years of French occupation leading to the War of Independence (1954–1962). More than a colonial capital, Algiers served as a testing ground for urban renewal with its walls extending metaphorically across the Mediterranean to take part in the search for modernity. Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City, examines the city's complex history by considering its places and peoples through diverse 19th- and 20th-century visual sources. The exhibition will trace, for example, an itinerary of the Casbah and the European quarters through vintage postcards, and juxtapose the long-tradition of staged Orientalist representations of "indigenous" people with photojournalist coverage from the Algerian War.
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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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Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance
Daily through August 9, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896–1958) burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1920s with photographs that were visually fresh and decidedly Modernist. He applied his talent for the formal arrangement of objects to the commercial world and was a visionary for his use of color. This exhibition brings together nearly one hundred photographs from all periods of Outerbridge's career, including his Cubist still life images, staged magazine photographs, and controversial nudes.
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Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling
Daily through August 9, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
In 1977 Susan Sontag's now-classic collection of serious criticism, On Photography, brought photography to center stage. That same year, Jo Ann Callis, an art student at the University of California, Los Angeles, who had learned to draw, paint, and photograph, received her master of fine arts degree. Her mentor, legendary art professor Robert Heinecken, taught that photographs should be made, not found, and Callis has been constructing photographs, as well as paintings and sculpture, in her studio ever since. Over the past 30 years, she has borrowed inspiration and imagery from the best of Los Angeles's traditions in film, fashion, and design. Fabricated tableaux of the 1980s and 1990s dominate this photographs exhibition selected from the Getty's holdings, gifts from the photographer Gay Block, and the artist's own archive.
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Temptation and Salvation: The Psalms of King David
Daily through August 16, 2009
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The 150 Psalms of the Bible played a central role in Christian religious life throughout the Middle Ages, their elusive poetry attracting both written interpretation and painted decoration. Medieval artists illustrated the psalms in a variety of ways, at times concentrating on the literal meaning of single verses, and at other times addressing broader themes, such as the role of the Psalms in preparing the Christian faithful for the Last Judgment. This exhibition celebrates the importance of the Psalms in medieval devotion and reveals the splendor and variety of the illumination developed to accompany them.
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Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily
South 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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Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Daily through September 27, 2009
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Taking advantage of the current resurgence of interest in sculpture and a widespread taste for Renaissance and Baroque art, this exhibition brings together a large number of spectacular bronzes that exemplify an art form that has been described as "among the most splendid manifestations of artistic genius in France." It is the first comprehensive exhibition on the art of French bronze sculpture from its beginnings during the Renaissance until the French Revolution of 1789. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Musée du Louvre, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition reflects the latest scholarship on the subject. At the same time, it provides a platform for the exploration of 16th- to 18th-century French culture on many levels. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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In Focus: Making a Scene
Daily through October 18, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Photography, despite its association with truth, has been used to create fiction throughout its history. Staged photographs—from casually directed scenes to elaborate tableaux vivants made with props, costumes, and posed actors—embody many styles, techniques, and subjects. Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and cinema, the photographs in this exhibition include early daguerreotypes, bromoil and platinum prints as well as contemporary Polaroids and chromogenic prints. Comprising more than twenty-five photographs from the GettyÕs collection, it features works by Henry Peach Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Man Ray, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucas Samaras, and Eileen Cowin.
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July 26, 2009 |
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Performances and Films |
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Master of Myth, Magic and Monsters Film Series: Clash of the Titans
Sunday July 26, 2009
11 am
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Produced by special effects master Ray Harryhausen, this 1981 "kitsch classic" introduced to audiences a very young and scantily-clad Harry Hamlin as the half-mortal hero Perseus. The film features some of Harryhausen's most memorable monsters and creatures (including Pegesus, the flying horse of the gods, and the fatal Medusa) and an unrivaled constellation of British and American stars in cameo roles. Free admission; tickets required.
(Note: Film includes some partial mythological nudity and epic hero violence.)
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Wine Tasting: The Wines of Georgia
Sunday July 26, 2009
11 am - 2 pm
Education Studio, Getty Villa
Ancient wine-making traditions began along the Black Sea. Modern Georgia is the source of delicious wines that hark back to antiquity. Join wine expert Barbara Baxter for a wine tasting experience of Georgian wines. A guided tour of the exhibition The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani is included. Course fee $90. Open to 15 participants.
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Family Activities |
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ArtQuest!
Weekends through September 6, 2009
11 am - 4 pm
Outer Peristyle, Getty Villa
Drop by to explore travel and trade in the classical world. Play the Trading Game, where you and your family become ancient merchants crossing the high seas! Take an Art Odyssey Family Tour through the galleries to discover actual objects traded in the ancient world.
Every Saturday and Sunday through September 6, and Monday, September 7.
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through August 30, 2009
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
A fun, activity-filled experience for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together, this 45-minute tour through the galleries explores trade and travel in the ancient world. Space is limited. Ofrecida en español. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Spotlight Talk
Weekends through July 28, 2009
1 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 the Lansdowne Herakles, a Roman marble sculpture from around A.D. 125. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibition Spotlight Talk: The Chimaera of Arezzo
Weekends through July 26, 2009
11:30 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this 20-minute discussion, learn about the large-scale bronze masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture featured in this exhibition, which inaugurates a partnership with the National Archaeological Museum in Florence. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Orientation Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
Learn about the Getty Villa's architecture and educational mission in this 40-minute introduction to the site. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through December 31, 2009
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 Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the ancient Roman world through the Museum's architecture and gardens in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Gem-Handling Session
Weekends through July 26, 2009
11:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Ever wonder what it would be like to take a museum object out of its case for a closer look? Drop by the Reading Room adjacent to the exhibitionCarvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems to handle replicas of gems on display as well as the materials and tools used by ancient carvers.
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Exhibitions |
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Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems
Daily through September 7, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Carved gemstones have captivated connoisseurs of every age, from antiquity to the modern period. The exhibition Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems brings together remarkable intaglios and cameos carved by ancient master engravers along with some of the outstanding works by modern carvers that they have inspired. The gems are displayed together with material from later periods that evinces their importance through the ages—illuminated manuscripts, rare engravings from early catalogues, cabinets designed to house collections of gems, and other works of art in diverse media to illustrate the lasting allure of these masterpieces in miniature.
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The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
Daily through October 5, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
The Georgian site of Vani lies in what was the ancient kingdom of Colchis, known in Greek myth as the destination of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. Colchis was renowned as a region rich in gold, and excavations at Vani have confirmed this reputation. The archaeological finds not only demonstrate the highly refined craftsmanship of local goldworkers but also testify to contacts with both the Greek world and the Persian Empire. This exhibition presents an array of precious objects from Vani, including four bronze lamps that were discovered in 2007 and are displayed together for the first time. The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, and the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi.
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The Chimaera of Arezzo
Daily through February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Inaugurating a partnership with the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, this exhibition traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera over five centuries of classical art. Featured is a masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture known as the Chimaera of Arezzo: a large-scale bronze of the triple-headed, fire-breathing monster that was slain by the virtuous hero. From its ancient dedication to the supreme Etruscan deity in a sanctuary at Arezzo to its Renaissance display in the Medici collection, the Chimaera has endured as an emblem of the triumph of right over might.
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Roman Ephebe from Naples
Daily
Getty Villa
Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.
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