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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 22, 2008
Getty Center closed.
December 22, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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Reconstructing Identity
Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden
Daily through June 1, 2009

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


This exhibition examines the restoration history of a Roman statue from the Dresden State Art Collections. Since its discovery in the 1600s, the figure has been successively restored as Alexander the Great, Bacchus, and Antinous in the guise of the wine god. Damaged in World War II, the sculpture was recently reassembled by Getty and Dresden conservators.

The Getty Commodus
The Getty Commodus: Roman Portraits and Modern Copies
Daily through June 1, 2009

Getty Villa


The Getty's marble bust of the Roman emperor Commodus was acquired in 1992 as an Italian work of the 1500s, but specialists later proposed that it may be from the second century A.D. Putting the object in context with Roman portraits and modern copies from the Mannerist and Neoclassical periods, this exhibition shows how curators and conservators have determined the sculpture's date.

Fragment to Vase
Fragment to Vase: Approaches to Ceramic Restoration
Daily through June 1, 2009

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


Exploring contemporary issues in vase restoration, this exhibition provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Getty conservators assemble ancient pottery fragments into understandable forms. It illustrates how technical innovations, scholarly contributions, and aesthetic choices combine to reveal the original design and iconography of ceramic masterpieces.