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September 25, 2010 |
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Performances and Films |
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Witnesses in Action: A Documentary Film Series
Saturday September 25, 2010
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
This documentary series explores the moving image as another mode of critically engaged observation, with probing films that investigate war, globalization, and youth culture. Complements the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixites.
Manufactured Landscapes
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal
(2007, 90 min., 35mm, not rated)
Follow photographer Edward Burtynsky through China as he shoots the extraordinary evidence and effects of the country's massive industrial revolution.
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Witnesses in Action: A Documentary Film Series
Saturday September 25, 2010
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
This documentary series explores the moving image as another mode of critically engaged observation, with probing films that investigate war, globalization, and youth culture. Complements the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixites.
Burma VJ
Directed by Anders Ostergaard
(2009, 84 min., Digibeta, not rated)
The military junta rules Burma, and undercover video journalists must undertake a dangerous reportage: to document events and smuggle out images for the rest of the world to see.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Experiencing the Getty Collection: Taste and Identity, Collecting and Display (Part 1)
Saturday September 25, 2010
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
The enduring ability of an artwork to indicate the power and status of its purchaser accounts for the illutrious provenance of many objects at the Getty. Join Museum educators Lilit Sadoyan and Noelle Valentino in a three-part course focusing on royal and private collectors as well as arbiters of taste. Course fee $15 per session. Open to 35 participants.
Part 1: Saturday, September 25, Collecting with Mr. Getty
Part 2: Saturday, October 23, Furnishing Luxury Interiors
Part 3: Saturday, November 20, Portrait of a Collector
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Weekends
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 begins 30 minutes before the program at the Museum Information Desk.
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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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¡Bienvenidos al Getty!
Weekends
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Disfruten de una breve y divertida introducción al Museo y sus colecciones. Las familias son bienvenidas. Los esperamos en la sala de entrada del Museo bajo la escalera.
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Focus Tour: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays through December 14, 2015
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on modern and contemporary works at the Getty Museum by exploring the art and culture of the late 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through September 26, 2010
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Does mass transit solve the problems of large cities? This 15-minute gallery talk offers an in-depth look at Church Gate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay, India by Sebastião Salgado. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk..
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Lively Still Lifes Tour
Daily through November 28, 2010
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Explore the symbolic and sensuous pleasures of still life seen in paintings, sculpture, and photographs in this one-hour tour. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Daily
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Discover more about Richard Meier's architecture and the design of the Getty Center site in this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.
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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. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Point of View: Artist Talk
Saturday September 25, 2010
2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Larry Towell, an award-winning photographer, poet, and folk musician whose picture essays have been published in the New York Times, Life, Rolling Stone, and other magazines, explores the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties. Towell's striking photographs of the Mennonite community are featured in the exhibition. Sign-up begins at 1:00 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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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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Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily through January 2, 2011
North 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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Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties
Daily through November 14, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
In the decades following World War II, an independently minded and critically engaged form of photography began to gather momentum. Since then a host of photographers have combined their skills as reporters and artists, developing extended photographic essays that delve deeply into humanistic topics and present distinct personal visions of the world. Embracing the gray areas between objectivity and subjectivity, information and interpretation, journalism and art, they have created powerful visual reports that transcend the realm of traditional photojournalism. Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties looks in-depth at projects by photographers who have contributed to the development of this approach, including Leonard Freed, Lauren Greenfield, Philip Jones Griffiths, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, James Nachtwey, Sebastião Salgado, W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith, and Larry Towell.
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Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV
Daily through October 17, 2010
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Printing the Grand Manner explores the form, content, and function of late 17th-century reproductive engravings that, given their quality and impressive size, were meant to evoke the grandeur of Charles Le Brun's large-scale paintings and tapestry designs. Despite the fact that no other moment in the history of art witnessed such a concerted production of unusually grand reproductive prints, this visually compelling group of images has not drawn the attention of specialists or the public (in part, because the prints are difficult to handle and display). The exhibition examines the prints' rich vocabulary and illuminates the context of their production between the mid-1660s and 1690. It also calls out the relationship between Le Brun and his printmakers, while interpreting the prints and their inscriptions in light of debates regarding allegories, narratives, and the representation of Louis XIV.
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Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands
Daily through February 6, 2011
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the Middle Ages, the area occupied today by Belgium and the Netherlands flourished economically and artistically. By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the towns of Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Utrecht participated in one of the greatest flowerings of book illumination in Europe. This exhibition surveys the Getty Museum's holdings of medieval manuscripts from this region, including masterworks made for such influential patrons as the dukes of Burgundy—Philip the Good and Charles the Bold—and the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. After eleven weeks the books' pages will be turned to reveal further illuminated riches.
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From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice
Daily through October 10, 2010
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the Italian Renaissance, drawing came of age, transforming from a slavish part of the design process to an esteemed independent activity. According to the artist-biographer Giorgio Vasari, it became "the father of the arts." Strides of various kinds were made in different cities: in Florence and Rome the study of the human figure through life drawing was emphasized, while in Venice the search for tonal and coloristic effects led to the embrace of blue paper and the keen study of light and composition. Some of the Getty Museum's most spectacular drawings—by Fra Bartolommeo, Andrea Mantegna, Jacopo Pontormo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, and Titian—are on view in this exhibition.
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In Focus: Still Life
Daily through January 23, 2011
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The term still life was coined during the 1600s, when painted examples were popular throughout Europe, and artists created increasingly complex compositions, bringing together a broad variety of objects to convey allegorical meanings. Still life featured prominently in the early photographic experiments of Jacques Louis Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneers most widely recognized for inventing the medium during the late 1830s. Since then, it has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change. Drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's photographs collection, this one-gallery exhibition surveys some of the innovative ways artists have explored and refreshed this traditional genre.
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New Galleries for Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Daily
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A newly designed installation of medieval and Renaissance European sculpture and decorative arts is now on view in the J. Paul Getty Museum's North Pavilion at the Getty Center. Displayed with paintings, drawings, and illuminated manuscripts that enrich their context, the works of art are arranged by period and theme. The installation features innovative technologies, including interactive touch screens, that enhance the visitor's experience.
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September 25, 2010 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Artists and Actors: Iconography and Performance in Ancient Greece
Saturday September 25, 2010
9 am
Auditorium, Getty Villa
This symposium considers the artistic evidence for dramatic performance in ancient Athens as well as Greek and local settlements in southern Italy. Drawing on objects featured in the exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, distinguished international scholars investigate the historical context for theatrical performance and its relation to the creation of some of the most vivid art from the ancient world. Begins Friday, September 24. Registration fee: $15/day, $10/day students. Advance registration for each day required.
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Directing Elektra: Sophocles for the Contemporary Stage
Saturday September 25, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Director Carey Perloff and professor Helene Foly discuss the Getty Villa's staging of Elektra and the process of adapting Sophocles' tale of revenge for modern audiences with Mary Louise Hart, associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Performances and Films |
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Sophocles' Elektra
Thursdays - Saturdays through October 2, 2010
8 pm
The Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa
One of Sophocles' most elegant and haunting works, Elektra celebrates the human desire for justice and the costs exacted upon those who seek it. The witness of her father's murder, Elektra burns for revenge. The world premiere of this newly commissioned translation by celebrated playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is directed by Carey Perloff, artistic director of San Francisco's A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater). Tickets $42; $38 students/seniors.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Drawing from Antiquity
Saturdays through September 25, 2010
9:30 am
Meeting Rooms, Getty Villa
Join fellow novice and professional artists in Drawing from Antiquity, featuring a different theme every month. Artist Peter Zokosky guides a lesson and critique on the first and fourth Saturdays; participants work independently on remaining Saturdays. September's theme is drawing hands. Course fee $65. Open to 40 participants.
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Family Activities |
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Family Workshop: You Don't Look a Day over 1000!
Saturday September 25, 2010
10 am - 12 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
How do antiquities in museums look so good after thousands of years of wear and tear? Join educator Cynthia Querio to learn about the art of conservation—repairing and restoring ancient works of art. Explore objects in the galleries that have been restored, then try out fun hands-on activities that put you in the shoes of a conservator! Open to families with children ages 10–14. Space is limited. Free; tickets required.
Please call (310) 440-7300 to reserve tickets.
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 45-minute journey through the galleries is a fun, activity-filled experience for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together. Space is limited. Ofrecida en español. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Spotlight Talk: Statuette of a Harpist
Thursdays - Sundays through September 30, 2010
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Learn how to look at ancient art in this 20-minute gallery talk examining in-depth one work in the collection. The featured object this month is a Statuette of a Harpist from about 2500 B.C. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Handling Sessions: Mummy Portraits
Saturdays
11:30 am, 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Explore ancient techniques of painting on wood in this drop-in program by handling materials such as those used to create the mummy portrait of Herakleides. Discover how artists captured a likeness and the surprising materials they used, which ranged from gold leaf and honey to rabbit-skin glue.
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Exhibition Tour: The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Fridays and Saturdays through January 3, 2011
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
A special one-hour tour of the exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Orientation Tour
Daily
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
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Ofrecida en español. 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
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the ancient Roman world through the Museum's archtecture and gardens in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Exhibitions |
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In 2003, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a collection of over 350 pieces of ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The works on view in Molten Color are remarkable for their high quality, their chronological breadth, and the glassmaking techniques illustrated by their manufacture. The vessels are accompanied by text and videos illustrating ancient glassmaking techniques.
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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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The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Daily through January 3, 2011
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Theatrical performance emerged in ancient Athens from the worship of Dionysos, the god of wine and theater. From productions in the Theater of Dionysos, the tragedies and satyr plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as well as the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander spread throughout the Mediterranean, flourishing especially in southern Italy. There, in Magna Graecia, vase painters and sculptors created vivid depictions of dramatic scenes, representing sets, costumes, masks, choreography, and music. This major international loan exhibition is the first exploration in nearly sixty years of the many ways Greek plays and stagecraft inspired classical artists, whose works are often the only surviving evidence of the performing arts in antiquity. The exhibition coincides with the Villa's Outdoor Theater production of Sophocles' Elektra.
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The Gela Krater
Daily through October 18, 2010
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
The Gela Krater, one of the most important works from the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, is on loan to the Getty Museum and on view in gallery 110 (Stories of the Trojan War) at the Getty Villa, where it joins other works of art that illustrate two epics by Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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