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Exhibitions
Readings and Book Signings
Autry National Center
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Hammer Museum
Huntington Library
Japanese American National Museum
LACMA
Los Angeles Public Library
MAK Center for Art & Architecture
MoCA
Museum of Latin American Art
Natural History Museum
Norton Simon Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Skirball Cultural Center
Fowler Museum at UCLA
August 12, 2009
Courses and Demonstrations
Bronze Sculpture Workshop
Wednesdays through August 19, 2009
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center


Learn the art of lost wax casting in this three-session workshop complementing the exhibition Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution. Explore sculpting, moldmaking, casting, and finishing techniques to create a small, relief medallion cast in bronze. Sessions take place at the Getty Center and the Decker Studios Fine Arts Foundry in North Hollywood. Course fee $215; $195 students (includes materials, foundry tour, and bronze casting fees). Open to 25 participants.

Part 1: Wed., Aug 5, 1–5 p.m. Getty Center, Museum Studios
Part 2: Wed., Aug 12, 1–5 p.m. Decker Studios Fine Arts Foundry
Part 3: Wed., Aug. 19, 1–5 p.m. Decker Studios Fine Arts Foundry


Family Activities
Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through September 4, 2009
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. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.

Tours and Gallery Talks
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.

Getty Center
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.

Halberdier / Pontormo
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.

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.

Baroque
Focus Tour: Baroque and Rococo Art
Wednesdays
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's Baroque and Rococo collections by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive historic periods of the 17th- and 18th-centuries. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

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.

Exhibitions
Walls Of Algiers: Narratives of the City
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 Gines
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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The Psalms of King David
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
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
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
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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Capturing Nature's Beauty
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Daily through November 1, 2009

West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


Highlighting key moments of the French landscape tradition—from its emergence in the 1600s to its preeminence in the 1800s—this selection of drawings reveals the engrossing tension between the passion for the real and the quest for an ideal. Featuring a wide array of techniques, functions, and styles, the exhibition showcases the work of major exponents of the genre, including Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh.

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August 12, 2009
The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.