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April 26, 2008 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945-75
Saturday April 26, 2008
8:30 am - 6 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Marking the Getty's installation of the Stark Collection, this two-day symposium explores the histories of American and British sculpture that are often told separately and highlights the importance of Anglo-American exchange to the postwar history of sculpture. Each day concludes with an evening reception. Symposium fee $10 per day; free for students. Each reception is $25.
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Performances and Films |
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Overflow
Saturday April 26, 2008
10 am - 8:30 pm
Getty Center
Overflow, by the LA Art Girls, is a reinvention of Allan Kaprow's 1967 happening Fluids. On April 26 a large rectangular structure of ice blocks will be built at the Lower Terrace Sculpture Garden at the Getty Center. The following day, it will be dismantled and the ice repurposed to various locations around the Center.
Overflow is part of a Los Angeles-wide initiative in which institutions and local artists will re-create a series of Kaprow's happenings throughout the city.
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The Lifted Hem: Seduction and Betrayal at the Court of Versailles—Start the Revolution Without Me
Saturday April 26, 2008
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In conjunction with the exhibition Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love, this film series is inspired by Fragonard's playful eroticism and reverence to women of the Court. The series is a co-presentation with UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 4:00 p.m.: Start the Revolution Without Me, (1970) U.S.
Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland are hilarious as two pairs of mismatched twins (the aristocratic Dukes de Sisi and their oafish peasant doubles Charles and Claude Coupé) who face off outrageously on opposite sides of the French Revolution.
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The Lifted Hem: Seduction and Betrayal at the Court of Versailles—DuBarry Was a Lady
Saturday April 26, 2008
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
In conjunction with the exhibition Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love, this film series is inspired by Fragonard's playful eroticism and reverence to women of the Court. The series is a co-presentation with UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 7:30 p.m.: DuBarry Was a Lady, (1943) U.S.
Shot in lavish Technicolor this film, which flows hilariously between a New York night club and affairs at the French Court, is so tremendously entertaining that it seems practically scandalous that it has not been recognized a classic.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 18, 2008
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. Ofrecida en español a 2:30pm. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.
Every Saturday and Sunday. Special schedule in effect during the spring, summer, and holidays.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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California Video Orientation Talk
Daily through June 8, 2008
12 pm, 1:30 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Join a Museum educator before or after your visit to the California Video exhibition to hear a brief overview and participate in a 15-minute question and answer session. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 28, 2008
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Getty Center architecture tours are offered daily by docents. Tours last 30–45 minutes. Meet outside in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through June 29, 2008
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 29, 2008
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
Garden Tours are offered daily by docents. They focus on the Central Garden and landscaping of the Getty Center site. Tours last 45–60 minutes. Meet in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays through June 30, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on modern and contemporary works at the Getty museum by exploring the art and culture of the late 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-centuries. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2009
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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Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
Daily through January 11, 2009
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.
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Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love
Daily through May 4, 2008
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This small, focused exhibition assembles a group of paintings, drawings, and prints—for the first time—to examine the late allegories of love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). This project comes out of research based on the Getty Museum's painting, The Fountain of Love, which was acquired in 1999. The exhibition concentrates on the extraordinary, and still little-known, later works of Fragonard, in which he embarked on a series of dramatic reflections on the subject of romantic love, adopting a newly-restrained palette and allegorical vocabulary, while retaining his famously fluid and effortless handling.
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Ten Years of Drawings: What, How, and Why
Daily through May 4, 2008
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Getty Center and the growth of the drawings collection during the decade. With an emphasis on showing how and why works are selected for acquisition, the exhibition provides a glimpse into the process by which works enter the collection, as well as a compelling survey of some of the drawings acquired. Highlights include an important transfer-drawing by Gauguin, 18th-century drawings by Guardi, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera, and the Tiepolos, and rare examples from the early German school, including works by an Upper Rhenish Master and a follower of the Housebook Master.
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
Daily through June 8, 2008
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Bernard Rudofsky (American, 1905–1988, born in Austria) was an architect, curator, critic, exhibition designer, and fashion designer whose entire oeuvre was influenced by his lifelong interest in people's concepts about the body. He is as well known for his controversial exhibitions and publications as he is for the design of the popular Bernardo sandals in the 1950s and 1960s. Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Architekturzentrum Wien, Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky illustrates Rudofsky's thought process through the diverse presentation of sketches, architectural models, travel notebooks, photographs, sculptures, fabrics, and footwear drawn heavily from the Rudofsky archive of the Research Library at the GRI. The exhibition premiered at the Architekturzentrum Wien in spring 2007 and travels to the Canadian Centre for Architecture before opening at the Getty in spring 2008.
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California Video
Daily through June 8, 2008
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
The first comprehensive survey of California video art from 1968 to the present, this exhibition includes important examples of single-channel video, video sculpture, and video installation. Featuring the work of 58 artists, duos, and collectives, California Video locates a distinctively West Coast aesthetic within the broader history of video art while highlighting the Getty's major commitment to the preservation and exhibition of a young but vital artistic medium. This exhibition is co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera
Daily through August 10, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
This exhibition of notable acquisitions that have entered the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in the past ten years brings together two complementary aspects of the medium of photography: a "painterly" approach used by many artists to set their work apart from that of practitioners of a more documentary style, and the apparatus integral to the resulting pictures. Whether the connection to painting is in the form of traditional subject matter (portraits, landscapes), one-of-a-kind prints, or the translation of a painterly vocabulary into a photograph, artists are always drawn to new materials. The pictures and the equipment presented here provide insight into photography as a unique marriage of art and technology.
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April 26, 2008 |
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2008
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 outside the Museum Store beginning 15 minutes before the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Sarcophagus from Clazomenae Spotlight Talk
Weekends through April 27, 2008
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 object is a Sarcophagus from Clazomenae (present-day Turkey) dating from 480–470 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store beginning at 1:15 p.m.
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on its architecture and educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 29, 2008
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 a.m.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour explores the architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa and their historical prototypes. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store.
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The Color Of Life Exhibition Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 21, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this one-hour tour, explore the Villa's current exhibition The Color of Life, which presents an alternative history of sculpture and reveals the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia. Learn about the history of color in sculpture and its place in western taste. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present
Daily through June 23, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Focusing on representations of the human figure, this exhibition explores the role of color in sculpture and its place in Western taste. Ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance statues were regularly painted, but Neoclassical collecting interests and aesthetic concerns have privileged monochrome marble and bronze. Following recent research on ancient pigments, The Color of Life includes a variety of masterpieces that reveal the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia.
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The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History
Daily through September 8, 2008
Museum, Getty Villa
A Roman marble statue of Hygieia, ancient goddess of health, was found at Ostia in 1797 and restored shortly thereafter. The sculpture was first acquired by the British interior designer Thomas Hope and was later owned by American newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The figure's 19th-century restorations were removed in the 1970s, but these historical additions were recently reintegrated at the Getty Villa. On loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hope Hygieia exemplifies evolving attitudes toward the restoration and display of classical sculpture on the part of collectors, curators, and conservators.
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