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The Getty Center Los Angeles
October 1, 2006
Family Activities
Family Storytelling
Sunday October 1, 2006
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Join us for a journey up, over, around, and through sculpture with storyteller and Kora musician Asha's Baba as he weaves a tale inspired by Martin Puryear's sculpture That Profile. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk the day of the program.

Family Art Stops
Weekends through June 24, 2007
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. The 2:30 p.m. session is also offered in Spanish. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes prior to the start of the program.

Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Center
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.

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.

Focus Tour: Renaissance Art
Sundays through November 19, 2006
3 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.

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
October 1, 2006
Family Activities
Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2007
11:30 am
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 11:00 a.m. Ofrecida igualmente en español.

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.

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.

Spotlight Talk: Mummy of Herakleides
Weekends through October 29, 2006
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 Mummy of Herakleides from about A.D. 150. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:00 p.m.

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: "Lights, Camera, Action!" Actors and the Theater in Antiquity
Sunday October 1, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Discover the importance of theater in the ancient world in this one-hour tour. Explore the role of the playwright, actor, traveling storyteller, and producer through ancient works of art. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m.

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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