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October 25, 2006 |
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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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Hidden Compartments: A Revealing Look Inside French Furniture (Curator's Gallery Talk)
Wednesday October 25, 2006
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Charissa Bremer-David, associate curator of sculpture and decorative arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, opens doors and drawers to reveal the hidden interiors and secret compartments of select pieces of French furniture in the Museum's galleries. Discussion covers the locking mechanisms, construction methods, and materials used by French furniture makers during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Strictly limited to 15 participants. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 10:00 a.m. the day of the program.
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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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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.
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Focus Tour: Neoclassical Art
Wednesdays through November 15, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on Neoclassical art made between 1750 and 1820, when Europeans on the Grand Tour encountered works from the ancient past that inspired a new artistic style. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through October 29, 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 Head with Horns by Paul Gauguin. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection
Daily through February 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Since 1998 Los Angeles collectors Bruce and Nancy Berman have donated 467 recent American photographs to the Getty Museum. Featuring 168 prints drawn from their gifts, as well as a selection of loans, this exhibition highlights the diverse work of 24 important contemporary photographers from across many regions of the country. The result is a wide-ranging survey of time and place in the United States since the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of John Divola, Jim Dow, Doug Dubois, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Karen Halverson, Alex Harris, Sheron Rupp, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, George Tice, and the team of Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee, among others. Primarily using large formats and color, the photographers—with backgrounds in art, anthropology, psychology, and sociology—work in diverse styles yet share an interest in preserving late 20th-century America. This exhibition inaugurates the new Center for Photographs on the Terrace level (L2) of the West Pavilion.
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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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Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions
Daily through February 4, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Recently acquired work by four midcareer American photographers is presented in this exhibition, with an emphasis on images made from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Incorporating elements of portraiture, social documentation, and street photography, the work of these photographers demonstrates a commitment to observing the people and places that define community. The exhibition features excerpts from Donald Blumberg's series In Front of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan; Bill Owens's Suburbia in the East Bay suburbs of San Francisco; Anthony Hernandez's Public Transit Areas in Los Angeles; and Mary Ellen Mark's Streetwise in Seattle.
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Guercino: Mind to Paper
Daily through January 21, 2007
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Called "the Rembrandt of the South," Guercino (Italian, 1591–1666) was one of the most accomplished Italian draftsmen of the 17th century. This exhibition highlights his extraordinary draftsmanship, wide-ranging inventiveness, unusual working method, and ability to capture drama and movement. Guercino's use of different media to convey texture, shadow, light, and space in his drawings, and the sense of humanity he brought to his genre subjects, are also demonstrated through an appealing selection of drawings. The exhibition consists of more than 30 drawings by Guercino, a majority from London's Courtauld Institute of Art, with other loans as well as works from the Getty Museum's collection.
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From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden
Daily through April 29, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Emerging from a partnership between the Getty Museum and the Dresden State Museums, this exhibition presents a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister, one of the foremost collections of German art from 1800 to the present. Not a traditional survey, this exhibition instead presents 18 works by the two best-known painters from Dresden: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), the key voice of German Romanticism, and Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932), the most significant German artist working today. The works by Friedrich include his 1809 masterwork, Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altarpiece), while Richter is represented by 12 Abstractions from 2005. Twelve other paintings by such artists as Carl Gustav Carus, Johann Christian Dahl, Otto Dix, and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff are interspersed throughout the Museum's permanent collection of paintings. These juxtapositions address diverse aspects of German art between 1800 and World War I, including Romanticism and the sublime and the interrelationships between Germany's artistic heritage and European culture at large. An illustrated catalogue, featuring an interview with Gerhard Richter, accompanies the exhibition.
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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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October 25, 2006 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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