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October 28, 2006 |
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Family Activities |
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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.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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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.
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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: Looking Toward Modern Art
Saturdays through November 18, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour that focuses on the origins of modern art in the late 1800s and explores how artists rejected traditional rules of representation to develop new forms of art. 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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Courses and Demonstrations |
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The Ancient Art of Mosaics
Saturday October 28, 2006
10 am - 4 pm
Education Studio, Getty Villa
Learn ancient mosaic-making techniques in this day-long workshop led by award-winning mosaicist Lillian Sizemore. The class begins in the galleries with an overview of the exhibition Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa; Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia, then moves into the studios where participants will create a take-away mosaic project. Course fee $65. Open to 15 participants.
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2007
2 pm
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 1:45 p.m. Ofrecida igualmente en español.
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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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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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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 1:15 p.m.
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Stories in Stone Exhibition Tour
Saturday October 28, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this one-hour tour, explore the exhibition Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa; Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia. Discuss the exhibition's themes of nature, theater and spectacle, myths and gods, and techniques, along with mosaic conservation practices. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:45 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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Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa; Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia
Daily through April 30, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Between the second and sixth centuries, thousands of elaborate mosaics were fashioned to decorate the floors of both public buildings and private houses in Roman North Africa. A selection of mosaics from Tunisia are on view in this exhibition, which is structured around four principal themes: nature, theater and spectacle, myths and gods, and technique. Also included is extensive material on the conservation of mosaics. The exhibition is co-organized by the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia, and is accompanied by a catalogue.
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