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November 13, 2010 |
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Performances and Films |
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Gordon Getty Concert: Piffaro
Saturday November 13, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
World renowned as the pied pipers of early music, Piffaro delights audiences with elegant sounds of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Playing shawms, sackbuts, recorders, dulcian, and bagpipes, the alta capella ensemble recreates Flemish repetoire of the 15th and 16th centuries, from the music of official wind bands to lively, rustic arrangements of popular tunes and dances. Complements the exhibition Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. Tickets $20; $15 students.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Beyond Rembrandt: From Hoet to Boilly
Saturday November 13, 2010
2 pm - 5 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Art historian Barbara Gaehtgens and Anne Woollett, curator of Paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, lead a collaborative conversation on the development of Dutch history and genre painting and its influence on French painting from the late 17th through the early 19th century. Course fee $30 (includes tea). Open to 30 participants.
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Art Circles
Saturday November 13, 2010
6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enrich your Saturday nights. Join an open-ended discussion in the galleries to heighten your appreciation and understanding of the visual arts by exploring one masterpiece with a Museum educator. The chosen work of art changes every session, making each visit a new experience. Course fee $20 per session (includes a sandwich voucher). Open to 50 participants. Meet at the Museum Information Desk for course introduction.
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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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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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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through November 14, 2010
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Should a ruler be loved or feared? Find out in this 15-minute gallery talk featuring Bartolomeo Cavaceppi's Bust of Emperor Caracalla. 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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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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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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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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November 13, 2010 |
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Performances and Films |
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The Trojan War
Saturday November 13, 2010
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Daniel Morden, one of Britain's most acclaimed and recorded master storytellers, performs epic tales for a family audience. A critic for the Times of London wrote of Morden, "I saw banquets and voyages, armies and oceans, battling heroes and ravening gods—all conjured out of thin air by a voice." Approximately one hour; Recommended for audiences over 8 years of age. Tickets $8; $5 children.
Learn more about Spoken Word at the Getty Villa
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Metamorphoses
Saturday November 13, 2010
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Celebrated bardic storyteller Daniel Morden, accompanied by cellist Sarah Moody, performs an evening program based on the first-century Roman poet Ovid's darkly humorous and moving stories of transformation, which are drawn from Greek mythology and the inspiration for countless works of art through the ages. Tickets $12. Recommended for adult and teen audiences.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Drawing from Antiquity
Saturdays through November 27, 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. November's theme is drawing women and children. Course fee $65.
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Family Activities |
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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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Garden Tour
Daily
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Getty Villa
Learn about domestic Roman grounds in this 40-minute tour of the Getty Villa's four gardens. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Architecture Tour
Daily
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore daily life in an ancient Roman villa through the Museum's architecture in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Handling Sessions: Mummy Portraits
Saturdays through November 13, 2010
3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Discover the step-by-step process of painting mummy portraits in the Museum's collection. Handle objects that reveal otherwise hidden techniques as well as the surprising tools and materials that artists used, which ranged from gold leaf and honey to rabbit-skin glue.
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Spotlight Talk: Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Life of Achilles
Daily through November 28, 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 Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Life of Achilles, from about A.D. 180–220. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the talk at the Tour Meeting Place.
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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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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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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 Agrigento Youth
Daily through April 19, 2011
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
The Agrigento Youth, an important work from the Museo Archeologico Regional in Agrigento, Sicily, is on loan to the Getty Museum and will be on view through April 19, 2011.
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