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The Getty Center Los Angeles
April 23, 2006
Lectures and Conferences
Gust of Wind / Courbet
Performing Nature: Courbet's Revolutionary Landscape Painting
Sunday April 23, 2006
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

Mary Morton, associate curator of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, focuses on Gustave Courbet's career during the electric decade of the 1860s in Paris. Courbet's radical innovations in technique and composition encouraged the ascendance of landscape as the avant-garde genre, thus initiating a powerful strain of Modernism. Complements the exhibition Courbet and the Modern Landscape.

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Courses and Demonstrations
Gustave Courbet and the Landscape (Studio Course)
Sunday April 23, 2006
1 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center

Join instructors Richard Houston and Jaime Ursic for this two-part painting workshop focusing on Courbet's approach to the landscape. Using water-soluble oil paints, participants will investigate Courbet's compositional strategies, paint application, and how his extraordinary innovations and technical virtuosity influenced future generations of French painters. Complements the exhibition Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Course fee $65; students $50. Open to 25 participants.
Part One: April 23, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Part Two: April 30, 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Family Activities
Storytelling
Sunday April 23, 2006
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center

Hear Angela Lloyd tell a unique story of luck and fortune inspired by Dosso Dossi's painting Allegory of Fortune. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk the day of the program.

Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 21, 2006
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center

Get up close and personal with a single work of art at this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared for families with children ages 5 and up. The 2:30 p.m. session is also offered in Spanish. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30-minutes prior to the start of the program.

Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Center
Architecture Tour
Daily through May 25, 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.

Halberdier / Pontormo
Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through May 25, 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.

Central Garden
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.

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.

Focus Tour: Renaissance Art
Sundays through July 1, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center

Enjoy a one-hour tour looking at European art made in the 1400s and 1500s, when artists began focusing on the individual and renewed their interest in the ancient world. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Mercury / van der Schardt
Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through April 23, 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 Mercury by Johann Gregor van der Schardt. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.

Current Exhibitions
Burning Oil Sludge / Adams
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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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
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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Heartfield
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
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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Figures Walking in a Parkland / Carmontelle
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
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 Getty Villa Malibu
April 23, 2006
Tickets on the Web are sold out for this day. Try calling (310) 440-7300.

Courses and Demonstrations
Artist-at-Work Demonstration
Sunday April 23, 2006
1 pm
West Belvedere, Getty Villa

Drop in as photographer Luther Gerlach demonstrates 19th-century photographic techniques using authentic cameras and developing equipment from the period. Complements the exhibition Antiquity & Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites.

Family Activities
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.

Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Villa Inner Peristyle
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.

Landsdowne Herakles
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.

Getty Villa Outer Peristyle
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.

Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens
Spotlight Talk: Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens
Weekends through April 30, 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 Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens, a 4th-century B.C. Greek terracotta sculptural group. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:00 p.m.

Focus Tour: The Art of Storytelling in Ancient Greece and Rome
Sunday April 23, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa

Stories teach us many things about history, culture, religion, and customs. In this one-hour tour, learn to look closely at art objects for clues that unlock the beauty, mystery, and excitement of these tales from antiquity. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Current Exhibitions
Reimagining the Getty Villa
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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Parthenon / Stillman
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
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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