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July 17, 2007 |
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through August 31, 2007
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.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 29, 2008
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
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through September 2, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. The 11:00 a.m. tour is 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
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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Focus Tour: Baroque Art
Tuesdays through August 28, 2007
1:30 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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Oudry's Painted Menagerie Exhibition Tour
Daily through September 2, 2007
3 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Enjoy an introduction to exotic animals through a guided tour of the life size animal portraits created by Jean Baptiste Oudry, one of Louis XV's favorite court painters. 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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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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Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Daily through September 2, 2007
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) was the principal animal painter during the first half of Louis XV's reign. Commissioned to paint a portrait series of the animals in the king's royal menagerie at Versailles, Oudry employed his prodigious talents and illustrative power to produce life-size paintings of a lion, an antelope, a male and a female leopard, and several other exotic animals and fowl. Oudry's Painted Menagerie features twelve paintings, including a life-size portrait of a famous rhinoceros named Clara (the subject of a multiyear project of the Getty Museum's Paintings Conservation Department), and a group of Oudry's drawings. Meissen porcelain, clocks, paintings, prints, and drawings represent the sociocultural phenomenon of exotic animal celebrity in the 18th century. This exhibition has been organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Staatliches Museum Schwerin and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Medieval Beasts
Daily through July 29, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition focuses on the central role of beasts both in medieval art and the medieval conception of the world. Domesticated animals often appear in medieval images of daily life since they provided many basic provisions, such leather and dairy products. Animals could also serve a symbolic function: astronomical constellations, for example, were frequently represented by creatures formed of stars. In addition, there was a great delight in depicting fantastic animals, ranging from noble unicorns to fearsome dragons. The exhibition features manuscripts drawn from the Getty's collection, including the Getty's two popular bestiaries, as well as a lively manuscript of Aesop's fables. Medieval Beasts complements the Premiere Presentation Oudry's Painted Menagerie.
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Defining Modernity: European Drawings, 1800–1900
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The development of new materials, the expansion of artistic themes to include subjects from modern life, and the increased demand for images created by new print mediums all invigorated the practice of drawing during the 1800s. This exhibition surveys the depth and variety of 19th-century draftsmanship with works from the Getty Museum's collection and loans from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. It features works by artists such as Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, who exploited the new subjects and materials of drawing and used traditional subjects and mediums in innovative ways. This exhibition inaugurates the new galleries for drawings on the Plaza Level of the West Pavilion.
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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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Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This focus exhibition highlights one of the great masterpieces of 19th-century French art, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, the 1882 Salon painting by Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883) on loan to the Getty from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. The exhibition runs concurrently with Defining Modernity: European Drawings, 1800-1900, which also features several Courtauld loans, and is accompanied by a detailed illustrated brochure providing the viewer with essential historical, social, and critical context.
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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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Evidence of Movement
Daily through October 7, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
In the collecting and display of art, performance has posed strong challenges to traditional notions of both the art collection and the archive. Unlike painting or sculpture, performance-based art lacks an original, fully-present and self-contained object. Because of this, archival material such as documentary photography, film and video, and artistsŐ notes and sketches are often studied, collected, and exhibited as works of art. Drawn primarily from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition surveys the variety of creative means by which artists have used traditional media to document performance-based art.
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July 17, 2007 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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