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March 3, 2006 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Works in Progress - Jeffrey Skoller
Friday March 3, 2006
2 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Filmmaker and writer Jeffrey Skoller discusses cinema as the art form most intimately linked to historic iconography of social and political revolution in the 20th century. In reviewing his own film Nicaragua: Hear-Say/See-Here (1986) and two more recent films, Leandro Katz's El Dia Que Me Quieras (1997) and Patricio Guzman's Chile: La Memoria Obstinada (1997), Skoller explores the legacy of images of revolutionary success when historical forces transform them into images of failure. Employing the Freudian notion of the "work of mourning" and the Deleuzian "virtual," he suggests that the process of filmmaking is a way to work through the trauma of a lost historical moment. For Skoller, filmmaking moves beyond the virtuality of social transformation in the present Ð it attempts to reclaim its lost image within a failed past.
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Performances and Films |
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Fridays off the 405
Friday March 3, 2006
6 pm
Cafeteria, Getty Center
A once-a-month, after-work event mixing art and entertainment where you can socialize, tour the galleries, and revel in the end of the workweek in a casual, spontaneous atmosphere. All Fridays Off the 405 feature live music and a cash bar. This month's event features Dreadstarr, the band that's making waves with its eclectic fusion of reggae, dance hall, Hip-Hop, and rock.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Getty Drawing Hour
Friday March 3, 2006
7 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy the tradition of sketching from original works of art. An art instructor provides general guidance; all you need to bring are drawing pads and pencils. All experience levels welcome. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 6:00 p.m. the day of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Daily through March 26, 2006
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 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
Daily through March 26, 2006
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 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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Courbet and the Modern Landscape Exhibition Tour
Daily through May 14, 2006
1:30 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Impressionism
Fridays through June 29, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour that introduces the social and artistic forces leading up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and the creation of a new visual language that greatly influenced later art. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through March 5, 2006
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 Basin with Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra, by unknown artist. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Point-of-View (Gallery Talk)
Friday March 3, 2006
4:30 pm, 6 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Pam Posey, a Los Angeles artist whose paintings draw from and reinterpret traditional ideas of landscape, discusses Courbet's influence on contemporary artists in a tour of the exhibition Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 3:00 p.m. the day of the program.
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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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Courbet and the Modern Landscape
Daily through May 14, 2006
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
This exhibition brings together 47 landscape paintings by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) to focus for the first time on his extraordinary innovation in this genre. Courbet's landscapes of the 1860s forced a break from the tradition of viewing painting as an experience of reading and interpreting to that of witnessing an original, vital performance-in-paint. His landscape planted the seeds of modernist painting and defined artistic issues that would concern the Impressionists, changing the course of painting for the next 100 years. The exhibition has been organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walters Art Museum, and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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The Medieval Bookshelf: From Romance to Astronomy
Daily through April 9, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A wide variety of secular books were illuminated throughout the Middle Ages, including law texts, philosophical works, historical chronicles, scientific treatises, and even romances. This exhibition of approximately 21 manuscripts and leaves offers a look at some of the most beautiful medieval secular manuscripts from the Museum's collection.
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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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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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March 3, 2006 |
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Admission to the Getty Villa is FREE. Advance, timed tickets are required for each individual and can be obtained by clicking the "Get Tickets" button below or by calling (310) 440-7300. Groups of nine or more must make reservations by phone.
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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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Spotlight Talk: Mosaic Floor with a Boxing Scene
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through March 31, 2006
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 work of art is Mosaic Floor with a Boxing Scene, a 2nd-century Roman mosaic. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:30 a.m.
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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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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2007
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Focus Tour: Where the Wild Things Are—Monsters in Ancient Art
Friday March 3, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Ancient myth is filled with a wide variety of monsters—giants; hybrid creatures such as centaurs, sphinxes, and griffins; and fantastic wild beasts such as the Nemean Lion and the winged-horse Pegasus. In this one-hour tour, learn about these creatures and the ways they interacted with human friends and foes. 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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The Getty Villa Reimagined
Daily through May 8, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition traces the renovation of the Getty Villa from the selection of architects Machado and Silvetti Associates through the master planning and realization of the project. Installed to look like an architect's studio, the display includes design competition sketchbooks, models and drawings, videos, and photographs.
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Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites
Daily through May 1, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
The Getty Villa's multidisciplinary approach to studying the ancient world is reflected in this exhibition, which examines how early photographs influenced and transformed thinking about antiquity. On view are over 100 images created between the 1840s and 1870s of celebrated ancient sites in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
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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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