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Getty Center CLOSED Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, 2011
Weekends through July 17, 2011
10 am - 9 pm
Getty Center
The Getty Center will be CLOSED to visitors on Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, 2011, due to a temporary closure of I-405 for a construction project. No tours or events will be held on either day, and all exhibitions will be closed. The Getty Center will reopen on Tuesday, July 19. (The Getty Villa will be open both days, but please expect traffic delays in west Los Angeles.)
Press release
Information about the freeway closure and bridge demolition (links to Metro's website)
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July 17, 2011 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Handling Sessions: Painting Portraits
Weekends through July 31, 2011
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Reading Room, Getty Villa
This drop-in program is a multisensory exploration of what it means to paint a likeness in ancient times. Discover the step-by-step process of creating mummy portraits in the Museum's collection by touching demonstration objects that reveal otherwise hidden techniques. Then handle the surprising tools and materials that artists used, which ranged from gold leaf and honey to rabbit-skin glue. Come to a Handling Session today and you'll never see a painting the same again!
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Handling Sessions: Painting Portraits
Weekends through July 31, 2011
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Reading Room, Getty Villa
This drop-in program is a multisensory exploration of what it means to paint a likeness in ancient times. Discover the step-by-step process of creating mummy portraits in the Museum's collection by touching demonstration objects that reveal otherwise hidden techniques. Then handle the surprising tools and materials that artists used, which ranged from gold leaf and honey to rabbit-skin glue. Come to a Handling Session today and you'll never see a painting the same again!
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Family Activities |
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ArtQuest!
Weekends through September 5, 2011
11 am - 3:30 pm
Outer Peristyle, Getty Villa
Bring your family to the Getty Villa this summer for our annual ArtQuest!, a drop-in program where you and your children can create and learn together. Discover ancient music, poetry, and make, decorate, and play your own musical instruments based on ancient designs.
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 45-minute journey through the galleries is a fun, activity-filled experience for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together. Space is limited. Ofrecida en español. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the tour at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Garden Tour
Daily
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Getty Villa
Discover the rich mythological and cultural connections of ancient gardens in this 40-minute tour of the Getty Villa's four Roman gardens. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Architecture Tour
Daily
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the architecture of the Getty Villa and learn more about daily life in the ancient world in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Ofrecida en español. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Spotlight Talk: Roman Fresco Fragments Featuring the God Dionysos
Daily through July 31, 2011
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Learn how to look at ancient art in this 20-minute gallery talk examining in depth one work in the Villa galleries. The featured object this month is a group of Roman fresco fragments, featuring Dionysos from about A.D. 1–79. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the talk at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Focus Tour: Life in a Roman Villa
Sunday July 17, 2011
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this hour-long tour, imagine the Museum as an ancient Roman Villa and discover works of arts that were essential to daily life in such opulent residences. Tour topic subject to change. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the tour at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Exhibitions |
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In 2003, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a collection of over 350 pieces of ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The works on view in Molten Color are remarkable for their high quality, their chronological breadth, and the glassmaking techniques illustrated by their manufacture. The vessels are accompanied by text and videos illustrating ancient glassmaking techniques.
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Roman Ephebe from Naples
Daily
Getty Villa
Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.
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Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze
Daily through September 12, 2011
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the Apollo Saettante (Apollo as an Archer) was unearthed in pieces between 1817 and 1818. Depicting the god in the act of shooting an arrow, the statue was one of the first major bronzes to be found at Pompeii. As part of the J. Paul Getty Museum's collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, the sculpture was brought to the Getty Villa for study and conservation treatment in 2009. This exhibition offers a behind-the-scenes look at that project, revealing how the statue was manufactured in antiquity as well as the methods and materials used to restore it in nineteenth-century Naples.
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In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in Nineteenth-century Photography
Daily through September 12, 2011
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In the 1800s travelers came to the eastern margins of the Mediterranean and encountered a landscape of belief, at once forbidding and monotonous. Propelled by a connection to the Old and New Testaments of the Bible and encouraged by texts recently discovered in Egypt and Assyria, explorers, excavators, and entrepreneurs came to photograph places hitherto only imagined. This exhibition presents images of the region known variously as Palestine, western Syria, the Transjordan Plateau, and the Holy Land. Subjects range from architectural sites and strata to evocative geography and scenes of pastoral life.
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