Event Calendar
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Performances and Films/Videos
Lectures and Conferences
Tours and Talks
Family Activities
Courses and Demonstrations
Exhibitions
Readings and Book Signings
Japanese American National Museum
Hammer Museum
Museum of Latin American Art
Autry National Center
Huntington Library
LACMA
Los Angeles Public Library
MAK Center for Art & Architecture
MoCA
Natural History Museum
Norton Simon Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Skirball Cultural Center
UCLA Fowler Museum
December 1, 2008
Getty Center closed.
December 1, 2008
Tours and Gallery Talks
Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through December 29, 2008
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 Roman sarcophagus featuring a Dionysian Vintage Festival from around A.D. 290–300. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.

Getty Villa Inner Peristyle
Orientation Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa


This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on its architecture and educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.

Day Without Art Spotlight Talk: Gravestone of Apollonia
Monday December 1, 2008
11:15 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This 20-minute gallery talk offered on Day Without Art explores the tradition of commemoration in antiquity by looking closely at an ancient Greek grave stele of a young girl. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
Getty Villa Outer Peristyle
Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
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 Entrance.

Day Without Art Talk: Ancient Herbs and Commemoration
Monday December 1, 2008
12 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This 20-minute talk offered in the Villa gardens on Day Without Art explores the tradition of commemoration in antiquity by examining ancient herbs and plants. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
Day Without Art Spotlight Talk: Sarcophagus Panel with the Myth of Endymion and Selene
Monday December 1, 2008
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This 20-minute gallery talk offered on Day Without Art explores the tradition of commemoration in antiquity by looking closely at a marble sarcophagus panel representing an ancient myth associated with eternal sleep and memory. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
Lansdowne Herakles
Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2009
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.

Day Without Art Talk: Ancient Herbs and Commemoration
Monday December 1, 2008
2:15 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This 20-minute talk in the Villa gardens offered on Day Without Art explores the tradition of commemoration in antiquity by examining ancient herbs and plants. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
Conservator's Focus Tour
Monday December 1, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Join a Getty conservator for a unique museum experience. Tours are offered on a variety of topics, including the restoration of ancient vases and the techniques used to conserve ancient stone and metal sculptures, glass vessels, fresco fragments, and wood panel paintings. Get an insider's perspective on how the Museum's collection has been restored, conserved, and prepared for the future. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.

Day Without Art Spotlight Talk: Mummy of Herakleides
Monday December 1, 2008
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This 20-minute gallery talk offered on Day Without Art explores the tradition of commemoration in antiquity by examining ancient burial traditions in Greco-Roman Egypt. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
Exhibitions
Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)
Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)
Daily through February 9, 2009

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


This exhibition presents new works and poetry by Jim Dine based on ancient Greek sculptures in the Museum's collection. The first contemporary art project at the Getty Villa, this installation illustrates the continuing influence of antiquity on living artists.

 Learn more about this exhibition