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November 2006 |
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GettyGames
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Come play with us! Our fun new site, GettyGames, will get you and your kids revved up about art.
Be a detail detective, match the Monets, and puzzle together Van Gogh's Irises and other favorites from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Play GettyGames now!
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E X H I B I T I O N S |
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Current Exhibitions
Future Exhibitions
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My Grandmother, Doug Dubois, negative 1990, print 2001. Lent by Nancy and Bruce Berman. © Doug Dubois
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Find unexpected moments of beauty in ballparks and barbershops, diners and dance halls, farm fields and coal towns in this photographic survey of time and place in the United States since the 1960s.
The exhibition inaugurates the 7,000-square-foot Center for Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, a new and more versatile home for the museum's growing photographs collection.
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Learn more about this exhibition.
See all events related to this exhibition.
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Meet gods, actors, exotic animals, and other creatures from Roman life and myth in this exhibition of exquisite pavements that graced the homes and public buildings of Tunisia some 1,500 years ago.
Learn how ancient artisans crafted these intricate works, what they reveal about life in Roman Africa, and how conservators are now preserving Tunisia's mosaics in their original settings.
Advance, timed tickets are required to visit the Getty Villa. Call (310) 440-7300 to check ticket availability, or visit our Web site for same-day and short-notice tickets.
Learn more about this exhibition.
See all events related to this exhibition.
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Medusa (detail), Roman, A.D. 200–300. Sfax Museum. République Tunisienne, Ministère de la Culture, Institut National du Patrimoine. Photography by Bruce M. White, 2005
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The Gospels in Medieval Manuscript Illumination (October 31, 2006–January 7, 2007)
A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists (through January 7, 2007)
Guercino: Mind to Paper (through January 21, 2007)
Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions (through February 4, 2007)
Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent (through March 25, 2007)
From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden (through April 29, 2007)
A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered (through August 5, 2007)
Opening This Month
Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (November 14, 2006–March 4, 2007)
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Enduring Myth: The Tragedy of Hippolytos and Phaidra (through December 4, 2006)
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Information, Tickets, and Reservations: (310) 440-7300
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Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect (1975) commented on urban gentrification in Paris © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Gordon Matta-Clark carved and sawed art into the architectural detritus of modern civilization, from a rotting pier to a picked-clean office tower headed for the wrecking ball.
Watch the artist's films, discuss them with Matta-Clark's widow Jane Crawford and cinematographer Bob Fiore, then move outside to watch Matta-Clark carve a spiral into two Parisian town houses in the 1975 video Conical Intersect.
Free; reservations required.
Learn more and make reservations.
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It took them 14,000 hours, but a team of Canadian underwater archaeologists salvaged a sunken 16th-century Spanish whaling ship from the freezing waters off the Labrador coast. Learn how they did it—and why they resubmerged the ship afterwards—from project leader Robert Grenier, who has spent 40 years studying cultural treasures in the deep.
Free; reservations required.
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A Parks Canada marine archaeologist takes a detailed picture of the bottom of the San Juan
Photo courtesy of Parks Canada
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The church at the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine during the liturgy
Photo: Robert S. Nelson
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The saints' portraits and liturgical treasures in the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (opening November 14) are more than works of art. They are instruments of the living religion practiced at Saint Catherine's in Sinai, the world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery.
Journey inside the monastery walls with exhibition co-curator Robert S. Nelson, one of the world's leading authorities on Byzantine art, to learn more about the meaning of these spectacular icons.
Learn more and make reservations.
Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at this exhibition.
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Genre-defying singer, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist Aloe Blacc turns the Getty Center into an outdoor club with his radiant, uplifting indie soul. Hang with friends, sip a Getty-tini, and stroll through the galleries to explore photographs and Futurism, gospels and Guercino.
Free; no reservations required.
Learn more about this event.
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"Sometimes you gotta let your soul shine": Aloe Blacc
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Tips for Families
Family Room
See All Family Events
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Asha's Baba draws on West African storytelling traditions to create a unique blend of word and song
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Get to know artworks in the Getty Museum's collection through lively tales told by two master storytellers this month.
Hear Asha's Baba spin fanciful fables inspired by That Profile on the Tram Arrival Plaza on November 12, or travel with heroes and artists as Antonio Sacre introduces an intricate 17th-century cabinet on November 19.
Learn more and see the full storytelling schedule.
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