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December 5, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Nature as It Is, or as It Ought to Be: The Great French Tradition of Landscape Painting in the Getty Museum
Friday December 5, 2008
1 pm - 3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
In this course, Mary Morton, associate curator of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, highlights new acquisitions in her discussion of the creation of a new style of landscape painting and the ultimate revolt of painters against the grand tradition of the 17th through the 19th centuries. A guided gallery tour follows the lecture. The course is part of the Works in Dialogue series and complements the exhibition Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800. Course fee $15. Open to 100 participants.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through December 7, 2008
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 Chandelier by Gérard-Jean Galle. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 30, 2009
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Getty Center architecture tours are offered daily by docents. Tours last 30–45 minutes. Meet outside in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
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, 2009
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
Garden Tours are offered daily by docents. They focus on the Central Garden and landscaping of the Getty Center site. Tours last 45–60 minutes. Meet in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Exhibition Tour: Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California
Daily through December 21, 2008
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Realist and Impressionist Art
Fridays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on realism and impressionism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive 19th-century movements. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
Daily through January 11, 2009
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.
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Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
Daily through April 19, 2009
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Drawing principally from the Getty Research Institute's superb collection of Russian modernist books, Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917 brings into focus a brief, but tumultuous period when Russian visual artists and poets, including Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Alexei Kruchenykh, and Velimir Khlebnikov, challenged Symbolism and revolutionized book art. They fabricated pocket-sized, hand-lithographed books and juxtaposed primitive and abstract imagery with a transrational poetry they called zaum'("beyonsense"). The exhibition traces the avant-garde's use of the materials of their book art—imagery, language and its sounds, design, graphic technique—to convey humor, parody, and an intriguing ambivalence and apprehension about Russia's past, present, and future.
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In Focus: The Landscape
Daily through January 11, 2009
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Like painters and draftsmen before them, photographers turned to the landscape as a source of inspiration after the invention of the medium was announced in 1839. Since then, changing artistic movements and continual technical advancements have provided opportunities for camera artists to approach the subject in diverse and imaginative ways. This exhibition, which is drawn exclusively from the Getty's collection, brings together the work of over 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre, including Gustave Le Gray, Alfred Stieglitz, and Robert Adams.
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A Light Touch: Exploring Humor in Drawing
Daily through December 7, 2008
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
As a result of its immediacy, drawing has for centuries been used to lampoon human character, ridicule physical characteristics, and satirize behavior. While some drawings were intimate objects viewed by individuals or small groups of people, others were transferred into prints with a wider agenda. Different drawing media (watercolor, pen and ink, etc.) often highlight diverse aims and effects. This exhibition will include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Urs Graf, Giambattista Tiepolo, Francisco de Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, and Pierre Bonnard, and will explore brands of humor, from wicked caricatures to wry observations of social injustice.
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Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California
Daily through March 1, 2009
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Dialogue among Giants presents the photographs of Carleton Watkins (American, 1829–1916) in the context of the birth and evolution of photography in California. The exhibition considers the social, political, economic, and artistic developments in California between the time of statehood in 1850 and the mid-1880s. It includes approximately 150 works, from daguerreotypes by unknown makers to mammoth-plate photographs by Watkins and his contemporaries.
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The Belles Heures of the Duke of Berry
Daily through February 8, 2009
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
The Belles Heures of John, Duke of Berry is one of the most beloved books of the Middle Ages and one of the most sumptuous. Painted by the Limbourg brothers when the art of manuscript illumination in France reached new heights of elegance and sophistication, the book, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be presented with its individual leaves unbound. The resulting display offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the visitor to walk through the book to view all of its major miniatures, a unique gallery of paintings of sublime beauty.
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Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800
Daily through March 8, 2009
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the late 1700s and early 1800s European artists made a formal practice of working outdoors in the clear, pure light of the Italian countryside, transcribing the atmosphere and depth of picturesque landscape views. Originally intended as studies for more formal, idealized studio paintings, the sketches they created are today considered highly satisfying works of art in their own right. This concise survey exhibition features recent acquisitions by artists such as Jean-Victor Bertin, Jean-Joseph Xavier Bidauld, Camille Corot, Simon Denis, and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, supplemented by loans from local collections.
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December 5, 2008 |
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Curator's Gallery Talk
Friday December 5, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Rainer Mack, manager of education at the Getty Villa, leads a one-hour talk on the exhibition Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets). Space is limited. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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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.
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