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Family Activities |
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Family Creation Station
Daily through September 3, 2006
11 am
Family Room Patio, Getty Center
Join your children in an outdoor, drop-in workshop designed to exercise the imagination. Create your own masterpiece, and don't miss seeing others in the galleries. Offered in English and Spanish.
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Art Adventures for Families
Weekends through September 3, 2006
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Our one-hour tours for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together feature a fun, activity-filled visit to the galleries. Offered in English and Spanish. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through September 2, 2006
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
Fridays and Saturdays through July 8, 2006
11 am, 1:30 pm, 4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Also offered in Spanish at 11:00 a.m. on the weekends. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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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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Focus Tour: Looking Toward Modern Art
Saturdays through June 30, 2007
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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Current Exhibitions |
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Robert Adams: Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance
Daily through May 28, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Robert Adams (American, born 1937) has photographed the landscape of the American West for more than forty years, particularly in California, Colorado and Oregon. His vision is inspired on the one hand by his joy in its inherent natural beauty and on the other hand by his dismay at its exploitation and degradation. Adams uses photography to express his love for the landscape and to understand how urban and industrial growth have changed it, all the while insisting that beauty in the world has not been entirely eclipsed. He observes with unblinking but tender simplicity the whole geography, including recent development, and asks us through his photographs to consider where we live and how we relate to our environment. This exhibition features 68 photographs drawn from the Getty Museum's strong holding of more than one hundred prints by Adams, augmented by loans from other sources.
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through December 28, 2008
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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Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938
Daily through June 25, 2006
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Drawing exclusively from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition concentrates on the diverse output of art history's most significant photomontage artist, the German originally named Helmut Herzfeld. Focusing on his success at creating a politically engaged visual rhetoric, the exhibition includes examples of German and American periodicals in which John Heartfield published his work, and shows how he transformed a procedure that once lay in the domain of advertising and avant-garde art into a broadly significant mode of mass communication. This exhibition concentrates on the interwar world of publishing in which Heartfield's images appeared, illustrated through examples of original press photographs from the Research Library's Stefan Lorant collection and correspondence such as that between Heartfield's widow and the renowned typographer Jan Tschichold.
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Degas at the Getty
Daily through June 11, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) is at once the most traditional and the most modern of 19th-century artists. Academically trained and steeped in the history of art, Degas used his immersion in work of past masters to bring an intellectual and formal rigor to the novel subjects of contemporary life, such as dancers and shop girls, with which he has become synonymous. Degas also pushed the boundaries of traditional subjects such as portraits and bathers, using the human form and face to present unusual viewpoints and penetrating psychology. On the occasion of the Getty Museum's recent acquisitions of the pastel drawing Miss Lala at the Fernando Circus and the painting The Milliners, this exhibition brings together works by this seminal artist from across the Museum's paintings, drawings and photographs collections. From the youthful Self-portrait to the late painting After the Bath, the Getty's collections span Degas's career, and the exhibition highlights three of his key subjects: portraits, popular entertainments and social life, and bathers.
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Carmontelle's Transparency: An 18th-Century Motion Picture
Daily through June 18, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Invented by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle (French, 1717-1806), the transparency, a transparent drawing that was rolled through a back-lit viewing box, was a forerunner of the modern motion picture. The Getty Museum's 12-foot-long transparency, Figures Walking in a Parkland, is the focus of this exhibition, and will be displayed with a facsimile of the transparency in a viewing box. Eighteenth-century drawings from the Museum's collection will also be on view to complement Carmontelle's invention.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2006
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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The Cult of Saints
Daily through July 16, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Devotion to saints was a central component of the spiritual and cultural life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and a central element in Roman Catholic spiritual practice. That devotion continued into the modern period and still has an impact today. This exhibition offers an overview of the pervasive role of the Cult of the Saints in medieval and Renaissance society through images created in its service.
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Ensor's Graphic Modernism
Daily through July 30, 2006
West Pavilion, Upper Level, Getty Center
James Ensor's (Belgian, 1860Ð1949) greatest painting, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888) in the Getty Museum's permanent collection, is united for the first time with a significant body of his related prints. Since the monumental painting cannot travel, the opportunity to situate it in the context of Ensor's achievements and ambitions as a print maker will give the public a deeper understanding of Ensor's multifaceted modernity and his mastery of painting and printmaking with very distinct technical demands.
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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 1:30 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 45-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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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 30, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Ofrecida en español. 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 45-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: Harp Player
Weekends through May 28, 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 work of art is the Harp Player, a Cycladic marble sculpture dating from 2700 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:00 p.m.
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Focus Tour: "Lights, Camera, Action!" Actors and the Theater in Antiquity
Saturday May 27, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Discover the importance of theater in the ancient world in this one-hour tour. Explore the role of the playwright, actor, traveling storyteller, and producer through ancient works of art. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m.
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Current Exhibitions |
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily through July 24, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition celebrates the acquisition of the Oppenländer collection of ancient glass, and will be among the first exhibitions to mark the opening of the Getty Villa. The Oppenländer collection is remarkable for its high quality and its chronological breadth, covering all periods of ancient glass production. The objects are arranged by their method of manufacture, from casting and core-forming to inflation, and in-gallery videos will illustrate ancient glassmaking techniques.
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