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September 21, 2006 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Conservation at Angkor Wat
Thursday September 21, 2006
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
For the Cambodian community, the temple of Angkor Wat is a national symbol and a place of great spiritual meaning. The divinity Ta Reach (the Hindu god Vishnu), embodied in a colossal statue located in the southern portico of Angkor Wat, is especially venerated, and his protective powers are well known throughout the region and beyond. Stone conservator Simon Warrack discusses the restoration of this important religious statue, the responsibilities that the project entailed, and the impact it had on the local community.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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The Rise of Landscape in Renaissance Art (Gallery Course)
Thursday September 21, 2006
3 pm - 5 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Explore the rise of landscape as a subject for art in late medieval and Renaissance Europe with educators from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Part 1 focuses on the exhibition Landscape in the Renaissance at the Getty Center. Part 2, at LACMA, examines the museum's vast collection of paintings from the 14th through 17th centuries. Course fee $30; $20 students/seniors. Open to 40 participants.
Part One: September 21, 3:00–5:00pm, Getty Center
Part Two: September 28, 3:00–5:00pm, LACMA
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2007
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 June 30, 2007
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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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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Rubens and Brueghel Exhibition Tour
Daily through September 24, 2006
1:30 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Romanticism to Realism
Thursdays through November 16, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour exploring two contradictory movements in art that developed in the 19th century, when new ideas about the psychological nature of visual art and a social awareness stirred the imaginations of artists working in Europe. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through September 24, 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 The Fountain of Love by François Boucher. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship
Daily through September 24, 2006
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Between about 1598 and 1625, Antwerp's most eminent painters, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, jointly produced sophisticated, beautiful works that transformed the Flemish tradition of painting. Exploring their long, close friendship and fruitful partnership, this exhibition assembles—for the first time—more than a dozen of their collaborations together with important coproductions made with their Flemish contemporaries. The exhibition draws on the expertise of paintings conservators whose technical examination of the Getty Museum's painting Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus, among other works, has unearthed new information regarding this illustrious artistic partnership. Co-organized by the Getty Museum and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, the exhibition travels to the Mauritshuis after its showing at the Getty.
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Rubens and His Printmakers
Daily through September 24, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Peter Paul Rubens employed a small army of artists to make prints after his most successful paintings, drawings, and tapestry designs, thus increasing his fame throughout Europe. This exhibition explores the close working relationship between Rubens and his printmakers, elucidating a fascinating aspect of artistic collaboration. Not satisfied with making mere reproductions of his pictures, Rubens encouraged his artists to modify his compositions, which he also often reworked. In attempting to meet Rubens' strict demands, his printmakers contributed significantly to the development of Western printmaking techniques. The display's key theme of collaboration offers a supporting dialogue to the exhibition Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship.
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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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Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent
Daily through March 25, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition highlights the recent acquisition of a unique silver sculpture, La Machine d'Argent (1754), made by the French royal silversmith François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791). In the tradition of trophies of the hunt, the piece represents an assemblage of two game birds, a rabbit, and vegetables. The exhibition places the significance, beauty, and naturalistic virtuosity of La Machine d'Argent within the context of French mid-18th-century art, as illustrated through select loans of paintings and prints along with other works in silver and gilt bronze in the Getty Museum's collection.
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Landscape in the Renaissance
Daily through October 15, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The Renaissance witnessed a renewed awareness of the visible world and a pressing need to describe natural phenomena—rain, atmosphere, and the play of light—faithfully and with conviction. This exhibition explores the rapid and exciting development of landscape settings in art of the Renaissance, especially through examples in the Getty Museum's collection of illuminated manuscripts.
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A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists
Daily through January 7, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
In a manifesto of 1912, the Italian Futurists advocated the destruction of poetic convention and linguistic logic in the creation of a new literary genre that was both visual and verbal: the parole in libertà (words-in-freedom). These visual poems deployed explosive language, inventive typography, and unorthodox design to evoke the modern experience of speeding trains, airplanes, factories, bombs, and the urban cafe. This exhibition of manuscripts, drawings, rare books, and journals from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute features various experiments in the genre, including BIF&ZF+18 by Ardengno Soffici, "Fabbrica + Treno" by Angelo Rognoni, and Zang Tumb Tumb by F.T. Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurist movement. The poems range in theme from the battlefields of World War I to the everyday life of the Futurist artist-poet and are analyzed in terms of their political context and technical characteristics.
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September 21, 2006 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Reimagining Euripides' Hippolytos
Thursday September 21, 2006
3 pm
Office Building Meeting Rooms, Getty Villa
Euripides' Hippolytos presents special challenges to those attempting to stage or revise the play for modern audiences, such as the representation of Phaedra in an era where female roles have changed dramatically, Hippolytos's obsessive devotion to chastity, the powerful role of punitive gods in the action, and the staging of the Greek chorus. Helene Foley, professor of classics at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and author of numerous books and articles on Greek drama, looks at how a limited selection of performances and revisions of the original in English tried to make Hippolytos compelling for a modern audience. Examples will range from Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and H.D.'s Hippolytus Temporizes, to Tony Harrison's Phaedra Britannica, Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love, and other, less familiar productions.
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Performances and Films |
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Hippolytos
Thursday September 21, 2006
8 pm
The Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa
Award-winning playwright and theater director Stephen Sachs presents a thrilling new translation of Euripides' Hippolytos by noted poet and classicist Anne Carson. Can a play written more than 2,000 years ago feel new? Can the personal longings and human needs of characters in an ancient play seem as immediate and alive as the struggles of people in a modern drama? In this inaugural production, the answer is yes. Sachs notes, "the dangerous relationship between man and god is vividly brought to life, and demonstrates how a strict moral and spiritual fundamentalism can be one person's salvation and another's downfall." Complements the exhibition Enduring Myth: The Tragedy of Hippolytos and Phaidra. Tickets $38; students/seniors $32.
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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 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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Spotlight Talk: Theater Chair
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through September 29, 2006
11 am
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 a Greek marble theater seat dating from 400-300 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:30 a.m.
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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 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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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through June 29, 2007
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
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 Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Focus Tour: Beauty and Fashion in the Ancient World
Thursday September 21, 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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Exhibitions |
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Enduring Myth: The Tragedy of Hippolytos and Phaidra
Daily through December 4, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Co-organized by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition accompanies the inaugural performances of Euripides' Hippolytos in the Villa's Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. It assembles approximately 40 objects, dating from antiquity to the present, to illustrate the enduring allure of the myth of Phaidra's tragic love for Hippolytos. Enduring Myth includes a wide range of historical material, including an ancient vase, a medieval manuscript, rare books, early photographs, and modern film stills from collections around the world as well as the Getty's own holdings. The exhibition demonstrates how the ancient Greek play's themes of passion, mortality, and the frailties of human conviction were adapted and interpreted in different periods in art, stage, and film.
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