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The Getty Center Los Angeles
September 29, 2006
Performances and Films
Angels of the East (Friday Nights at the Getty)
Friday September 29, 2006
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center


Singers Eleni Mandell and Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark are complementary opposites with angelic voices that are each hot and cold, dark and light, life-affirming and self-doubting. They've fine tuned their songs and styles in the bars, house parties, and clubs of Silverlake, Los Feliz, and Echo Park—neighborhoods that embrace artists who may be a little rough around the edges, yet passionate and full of surprises.

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Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Center
Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 30, 2007
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 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.

Halberdier / Pontormo
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.

Central Garden
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.

Casting Nature and the Decorative Arts Collection
Daily through October 29, 2006
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


A special one-hour exhibition overview of Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Exhibition Tour - A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists
Friday September 29, 2006
2 pm
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center


A one-hour tour of the exhibition A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists led by one or both of the exhibition curators, JoAnne Paradise and Annette Leddy, and by Katja Zelljadt, research associate, Getty Research Institute. Open to 25 participants. Meet in the Research Institute Exhibition Gallery. Repeats at 3:00 p.m.

Exhibition Tour - A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists
Friday September 29, 2006
3 pm
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center


A one-hour tour of the exhibition A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists led by one or both of the exhibition curators, JoAnne Paradise and Annette Leddy, and by Katja Zelljadt, research associate, Getty Research Institute. Open to 25 participants. Meet in the Research Institute Exhibition Gallery.

Focus Tour: Impressionism
Fridays through November 17, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Enjoy a one-hour tour that introduces the social and artistic forces leading up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and the creation of a new visual language that greatly influenced later art. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through October 1, 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 Grand Canal, Venice, with the Palazzo Bembo by Francesco Guardi. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Exhibitions
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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The Getty Villa Malibu
September 29, 2006
Performances and Films
Hippolytos
Friday September 29, 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 Paidra. Tickets $38; students/seniors $32.

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Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Villa Inner Peristyle
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.

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.

Getty Villa Outer Peristyle
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.

Lansdowne Herakles
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.

Focus Tour: Where the Wild Things Are—Monsters in Ancient Art
Friday September 29, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Ancient myth is filled with a wide variety of monsters—giants; hybrid creatures such as centaurs, sphinxes, and griffins; and fantastic wild beasts such as the Nemean Lion and the winged horse Pegasus. In this one-hour tour, learn about these creatures and the ways they interacted with human friends and foes. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the day of the tour.

Exhibitions
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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The Getty Center Los Angeles The Getty Villa Malibu