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July 29, 2007 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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A Restoration Tale: The Odyssey of Oudry's Painted Menagerie (Seminar)
Sunday July 29, 2007
4 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Mark Leonard, conservator, department of painting conservation, and Scott Schaefer, curator, department of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, tell the story of the five-year project undertaken prior to the opening of the exhibition Oudry's Painted Menagerie. The odyssey began with their first glimpse of the two large paintings, Rhinoceros and Lion, in Schwerin, Germany, in 2001, and evolved as the two pictures traveled to Los Angeles for an intensive restoration campaign.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artist-at-Work Demonstration: Drawing and Painting Animals
Sundays through September 2, 2007
1 pm - 3 pm
Museum Courtyard, Getty Center
Drop by as artist David Luce demonstrates old master techniques for drawing and painting the world of animals. Complements the exhibition Oudry's Painted Menagerie.
1:00–2:00 p.m. Drawing techniques
2:00–3:00 p.m. Painting techniques
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Religious Art in Dialogue (Gallery Course)
Sunday July 29, 2007
2 pm - 4 pm
Skirball Cultural Center
This two-part course explores Jewish and Christian approaches to religious art. Jewish ceremonial art at the Skirball Cultural Center and Christian art at the J. Paul Getty Museum serve as points of comparison. Course fee $30; $20 students. Open to 30 participants.
Part One: July 29, 2:00–4:00 p.m., Skirball Cultural Center
Part Two: August 5, 2:00–4:00 p.m., Getty Center
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Lab
Thursdays - Sundays through September 2, 2007
11 am - 3:30 pm
Family Room Patio, Getty Center
Join your children in an outdoor, drop-in workshop designed to exercise the imagination. Visit the galleries to see French treasures from long ago and then make your own "golden" masterpiece inspired by what you see! Offered in English and Spanish. Drop in anytime between 11:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
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Art Adventures for Families
Weekends through September 2, 2007
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. Offered in English and Spanish. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 29, 2008
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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Community Group Site Tours
Fridays - Sundays through September 2, 2007
11 am
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
This is a special 45-minute tour of the architecture and gardens of the Getty Center offered to community groups and families. Meet the docent outside at the top of the stairs near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through September 2, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. The 11:00 a.m. tour is 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
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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Focus Tour: Renaissance Art
Sundays through September 2, 2007
1:30 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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Oudry's Painted Menagerie Exhibition Tour
Daily through September 2, 2007
3 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Enjoy an introduction to exotic animals through a guided tour of the life size animal portraits created by Jean Baptiste Oudry, one of Louis XV's favorite court painters. 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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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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Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Daily through September 2, 2007
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) was the principal animal painter during the first half of Louis XV's reign. Commissioned to paint a portrait series of the animals in the king's royal menagerie at Versailles, Oudry employed his prodigious talents and illustrative power to produce life-size paintings of a lion, an antelope, a male and a female leopard, and several other exotic animals and fowl. Oudry's Painted Menagerie features twelve paintings, including a life-size portrait of a famous rhinoceros named Clara (the subject of a multiyear project of the Getty Museum's Paintings Conservation Department), and a group of Oudry's drawings. Meissen porcelain, clocks, paintings, prints, and drawings represent the sociocultural phenomenon of exotic animal celebrity in the 18th century. This exhibition has been organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Staatliches Museum Schwerin and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Medieval Beasts
Daily through July 29, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition focuses on the central role of beasts both in medieval art and the medieval conception of the world. Domesticated animals often appear in medieval images of daily life since they provided many basic provisions, such leather and dairy products. Animals could also serve a symbolic function: astronomical constellations, for example, were frequently represented by creatures formed of stars. In addition, there was a great delight in depicting fantastic animals, ranging from noble unicorns to fearsome dragons. The exhibition features manuscripts drawn from the Getty's collection, including the Getty's two popular bestiaries, as well as a lively manuscript of Aesop's fables. Medieval Beasts complements the Premiere Presentation Oudry's Painted Menagerie.
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Defining Modernity: European Drawings, 1800–1900
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The development of new materials, the expansion of artistic themes to include subjects from modern life, and the increased demand for images created by new print mediums all invigorated the practice of drawing during the 1800s. This exhibition surveys the depth and variety of 19th-century draftsmanship with works from the Getty Museum's collection and loans from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. It features works by artists such as Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, who exploited the new subjects and materials of drawing and used traditional subjects and mediums in innovative ways. This exhibition inaugurates the new galleries for drawings on the Plaza Level of the West Pavilion.
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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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Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This focus exhibition highlights one of the great masterpieces of 19th-century French art, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, the 1882 Salon painting by Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883) on loan to the Getty from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. The exhibition runs concurrently with Defining Modernity: European Drawings, 1800-1900, which also features several Courtauld loans, and is accompanied by a detailed illustrated brochure providing the viewer with essential historical, social, and critical context.
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Evidence of Movement
Daily through October 7, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
In the collecting and display of art, performance has posed strong challenges to traditional notions of both the art collection and the archive. Unlike painting or sculpture, performance-based art lacks an original, fully-present and self-contained object. Because of this, archival material such as documentary photography, film and video, and artistsŐ notes and sketches are often studied, collected, and exhibited as works of art. Drawn primarily from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition surveys the variety of creative means by which artists have used traditional media to document performance-based art.
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July 29, 2007 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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The Theater of Herculaneum and the Origins of Archaeology
Sunday July 29, 2007
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
The rediscovery of the buried theater at Herculaneum in 1738 played a pivotal role in the history of archaeology. Its fully preserved remains promised sensational sculptural finds like the Herculaneum Women and the potential to illustrate aspects of ancient theater design. Christopher Parslow, professor of classical studies at Wesleyan University and author of Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae, surveys the successes and failures of the early excavations of the cities buried by Mt. Vesuvius.
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Family Activities |
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ArtQuest
Weekends through September 2, 2007
11 am - 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Drop-in on this outdoor art-making workshop for families designed to inspire artists of all ages. Visit the exhibition Greeks on the Black Sea: Ancient Art from the Hermitage and then create your own amazing jewelry-inspired work of art.
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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, 2008
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 29, 2008
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, 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 Main Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk: Statue of Jupiter
Weekends through July 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 Statue of Jupiter, also known as The Marbury Hall Zeus, A.D. 1-100. 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: The Unexplained and Mysterious
Sunday July 29, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join us for this one-hour tour as we take a look at some of the Museum's most mysterious pieces and discuss the unknown, from a Roman mummy to one of the oldest and most puzzling sculptures in the collection. 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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The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology
Daily through November 5, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Discovered around 1710, two life-size Roman marble statues of draped women—the so-called Large and Small Herculaneum Women—became famous as the first finds from the site of Herculaneum, the ancient city that was buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. This exhibition explores the circumstances of their discovery, their original display in the Roman theater of Herculaneum, and their prominent role in the development of archaeology. Traveling abroad for the first time from the Dresden State Museums, the statues are complemented by more than a dozen items from the Getty Research Institute collections, including sketchbooks, prints, and rare books. The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Following the exhibition, the two Herculaneum Women are then installed in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) through October 13, 2008.
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Greeks on the Black Sea: Ancient Art from the Hermitage
Daily through September 3, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
At the end of the 7th century B.C., Greek city-states created settlements in the northern Black Sea region, which quickly became wealthy through trade with indigenous tribes such as the Scythians. Artisans working there produced objects that linked Greek artistic traditions with those of the cultures of the Eurasian steppes. A collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this exhibition features approximately 175 objects of the Greek and Roman periods that demonstrate the opulence and high aesthetic quality of these unique works of art.
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