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April 24, 2007 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Beyond Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: The Next Generation of Media Arts in Japan
Tuesday April 24, 2007
3 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Tomoe Moriyama, media arts curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, discusses the current state of Japanese new media art, animation, comics, and game works—from international festivals to museums. She considers the influence of avant-garde art in postwar Japan on media artists today, and the change in their perceptions and future images during this period of post-bubble-economy. The primary question Moriyama addresses is, how did the Japanese get interested in avant-garde art in postwar Japan, why are we attracted to it, and what kinds of expressions are presented by young contemporary artists in Japan now? This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Photogravure (Studio Course)
Tuesday April 24, 2007
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Join Luther Gerlach, nationally recognized photographer specializing in 19th-century techniques, and learn a simplified method of making photogravure prints in this two-session workshop. Participants will take a negative to final print while exploring vintage cameras and lenses, as well as printmaking and photographic processes. Complements the exhibition The Old Order and the New: P.H. Emerson and Photography, 1885-1895. Course fee $65; $50 students. Open to 25 participants.
Part One: April 17, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Part Two: April 24, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2007
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 May 25, 2007
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 Museum Information Desk.
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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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Exhibition Tour
Daily through May 6, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Baroque Art
Tuesdays through May 1, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour exploring the drama and splendor of Baroque art and furniture made in the 1600s and early 1700s for the royalty as well as the business class and the Catholic church of Europe. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through April 29, 2007
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 Gathering Water Lilies by Peter Henry Emerson. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through August 5, 2007
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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Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970
Daily through June 3, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
At the end of World War II, Japan was left in ruins and in a relative cultural void. Numerous anti-establishment artistic collaboratives emerged during this period, notably Jikken Kōbō/Experimental Workshop, Gutai, Group Ongaku, Tokyo Fluxus, Neo Dada, Hi Red Center, Vivo, Provoke, and Bikyōtō. These collectives eschewed traditional commercial art practice in favor of radical work that provoked its audience conceptually, politically, and socially. In experimenting with new materials and processes of art making and disruption of conventional art forms, the work of these artists reflected the dramatic changes and disjunctive character of everyday life in Japan over the course of two decades following the war. Drawn exclusively from Research Library holdings, the works presented in Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art range from musical scores and photo essays to performance documentation and interactive art kits.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2008
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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Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts
Daily through May 20, 2007
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Many of the greatest draftsmen of the Renaissance and Baroque eras made drawings for sculpture and the decorative arts. This exhibition comprises drawings for objects to be executed in a range of media, including metal, wood, glass, ceramics, and stone. It explores how artists translated two-dimensional designs into three-dimensional objects. Spanning the 1400s to the 1700s, the exhibition includes drawings from the Italian, German, French, Spanish, Netherlandish, and Flemish schools, all from the collection of the Getty Museum and an anonymous lender. It also presents new acquisitions, such as Design for a Quatrefoil (about 1475–90) by an artist in the circle of the Housebook Master and the Design for an Ewer (1629) by Stefano della Bella.
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The Old Order and the New: P.H. Emerson and Photography 1885-1895
Daily through July 8, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936) photographed the isolated region of East Anglia in England during the late 19th century, a time when traditional life and work along the Norfolk Broads were increasingly threatened by advances in modern technology. This exhibition explores Emerson's passion for recording customs that were unaffected by the Industrial Revolution and places his photographs in the context of paintings and etchings of the period. Organized by the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television in Bradford, England, the exhibition features more than 150 works of art, including a number of rare photographically illustrated books from the Getty Museum's collection. A new publication discussing Emerson's work accompanies the exhibition.
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From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden
Daily through April 29, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Emerging from a partnership between the Getty Museum and the Dresden State Museums, this exhibition presents a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister, one of the foremost collections of German art from 1800 to the present. Not a traditional survey, this exhibition instead presents 18 works by the two best-known painters from Dresden: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), the key voice of German Romanticism, and Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932), the most significant German artist working today. The works by Friedrich include his 1809 masterwork, Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altarpiece), while Richter is represented by 12 Abstractions from 2005. Twelve other paintings by such artists as Carl Gustav Carus, Johann Christian Dahl, Otto Dix, and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff are interspersed throughout the Museum's permanent collection of paintings. These juxtapositions address diverse aspects of German art between 1800 and World War I, including Romanticism and the sublime and the interrelationships between Germany's artistic heritage and European culture at large. An illustrated catalogue, featuring an interview with Gerhard Richter, accompanies the exhibition.
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Sigmar Polke: Photographs, 1968–1972
Daily through May 20, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This presentation of 35 photographs by Sigmar Polke (German, b. 1941) includes still life compositions of objects that the artist has found in his studio or excerpted from popular culture, as well as multiple exposures and prints developed in a manner that emulates his predilection to layer unrelated subjects and techniques in his painting. Identified only by the name of the city in which they were made, these photographs demonstrate the range of Polke's early fascination with the photographic medium and his desire to explore its expressive potential. Acquired in 1984, this group of photographs constitutes an important component of the Getty Museum's holdings of work by painters who have turned to the camera.
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Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
To inaugurate a series of artists' projects at the Getty Museum, internationally recognized Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson (American, b. 1960) has created four new works for first-time display. Zoopsia offers playful, alternative perspectives on the natural world. Concurrently, Überorgan, described by Hawkinson as a massive, self-playing, walk-in organ of balloons and horns, will be installed in the Museum Entrance Hall for its Los Angeles debut. Previously exhibited in Massachusetts and New York, Überorgan changes with each installation in response to the site. Typically incorporating household and industrial materials, and often mechanized to emit sound, evoke breath, or record the passage of time, Hawkinson's extraordinary art links form, process, and meaning to create unique and provocative viewing experiences.
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A Place in the Sun: Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble
Daily through July 8, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
John Humble (American, b. 1944) has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for 30 years. During this time he has created a strong body of photographs inspired by architecture and its surrounding natural environment, often focusing on the incongruities and ironic juxtapositions of the Southern Californian landscape. This two-gallery exhibition features approximately 35 color photographs, many of which were acquired by the Getty Museum in January 2006, with the generous assistance of the Getty Museum Photographs Council, which also underwrote the accompanying publication. Both the exhibition and book celebrate Humble's distinct view of Los Angeles. From the concrete channels of the Los Angeles River to brightly colored commercial buildings, his photographs of the built environment capture that which is instantly recognizable yet very often overlooked.
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Radiant Darkness: The Art of Nocturnal Light
Daily through July 22, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition explores the representation of light in darkness by artists from the 15th to the 17th century. In addition to examining the technical means and visual strategies implemented by artists to portray nocturnal light, the exhibition investigates the myriad symbolic, religious, and political implications of the imagery. Radiant Darkness features 21 objects in a variety of media and draws upon the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, and the Huntington Art Collections.
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April 24, 2007 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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