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July 27, 2008 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Maria Sibylla Merian: A New Documentary Film
Sunday July 27, 2008
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Peek behind the scenes of a new documentary film being made about Maria Sibylla Merian. Jo Francis and John Fuegi, who have made documentaries about Virginia Woolf and Hildegard von Bingen, will discuss their current work-in-progress focusing on Merian as well as show excerpts from the film. Complements the exhibition Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artist-at-Work Demonstration: Botanical Art
Thursdays and Sundays through July 31, 2008
1 pm - 3 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
Visit with botanical artists in the Central Garden as they demonstrate materials and techniques for rendering plants and flowers. Complements the exhibition Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science.
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Family Activities |
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Art Adventures for Families
Weekends through August 31, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Our one-hour tour for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together features a fun, activity-filled visit to the galleries. Ofrecida en español. Space is limited. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Family Art Lab
Thursdays - Sundays through August 31, 2008
11 am - 3:30 pm
Family Room Patio, Getty Center
Join your children in an outdoor, drop-in workshop designed to exercise the imagination. Visit the galleries and then make your own work of art inspired by what you see! Ofrecida en español.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science Exhibition Tour
Daily through August 17, 2008
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Special one-hour exhibition overview of Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2009
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 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 30, 2009
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, 2009
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: Sculpture Discovery Walk
Sundays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's collection of sculpture by exploring works from European history and the recent past. 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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Imagining Christ
Daily through July 27, 2008
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Over a period of almost 2,000 years, the image of Christ has changed and evolved, often in response to political forces or social changes. This exhibition of manuscripts from the Getty Museum's collection covers the years from around 1000 to 1500, and explores how medieval Christians pictured Christ as both divine judge and human son of God, and even used Christ's image to express such complex religious concepts as the Trinity. The exhibition examines the role Christ played in the imaginative life of medieval and renaissance viewers, demonstrating how in focusing on certain aspects of Christ—most notably his suffering—viewers gained access to their own piety.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
Daily through September 14, 2008
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Bernd and Hilla Becher began investigating basic forms of industrial architecture in Western Europe and the United States in 1959. Their collaboration has resulted in a body of work that is immediately recognizable for its spare and systematic style, an approach that is directly indebted to August Sander's categorization of basic social types by profession and class. Many of the Bechers' early images were taken in the Siegen district, where Sander's subjects had lived or worked half a century before.
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Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science
Daily through August 31, 2008
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647–1717) was a pioneering woman of art, science, and business. She was an accomplished painter of flowers and insects and an entomologist from an early age. In her 50s, she traveled to Suriname, then a Dutch colony in South America, to study extraordinary insects first hand. Working with her two daughters, Merian made and produced one of the greatest illustrated natural history books of all time, The Insects of Suriname. This exhibition introduces Maria Sibylla Merian to American audiences and focuses on natural history illustration. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum Het Rembrandthuis.
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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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The Marvel and Measure of Peru: Three Centuries of Visual History, 1550–1880
Daily through October 19, 2008
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
This exhibition features Martín de Murúa's (Spanish, active late 16th and early 17th centuries) Historia general del Piru held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, a recently rediscovered and related manuscript chronicle by Murúa in a private collection in Ireland, textiles from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Universtiy of California, Santa Barbara, two early books from the Huntington Library, and books, prints, maps, watercolors and photographs from the special collections of the Research Library of the Getty Research Institute.
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August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
Daily through September 14, 2008
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
This exhibition presents August Sander's collective portrait of the German people during the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with farmers, skilled tradesmen and professionals, women and artists, and ending with the disabled and disenfranchised, Sander arranged his portraits in groupings that examined his sitters according to their classes and professions, as well as their association with the country or the city. Neither snapshots nor conventional studio portraits, Sander's images have an appeal that is timeless and universal.
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July 27, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Painting in the Ancient World
Sunday July 27, 2008
10 am - 5 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Learn Romano-Egyptian painting techniques in this daylong workshop led by artist Sylvana Barrett. Make your own paint and prepare a surface using authentic materials to create a tempera portrait. Course fee $75; $60 students. Open to 15 participants.
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Family Activities |
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ArtQuest
Weekends through September 7, 2008
11 am - 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Come by anytime between 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. for a unique art experience for families designed to inspire artists of all ages. Learn about ancient goddesses and warriors, and create your own shield and helmet or headdress!
Museum galleries and Outer Peristyle Garden
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through December 29, 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. Ofrecida en español. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
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 Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 30, 2009
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 Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
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 Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk
Weekends through July 31, 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 the Lansdowne Herakles, a Roman sculpture from around 120 A.D. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Animals in the Ancient World Focus Tour
Sunday July 27, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
From the ferocious felines of the gladiators to snakes used to ward off evil, explore the world of animals through the art of the ancient Greeks and Romans. This tour will discuss their symbolism, use in myth, and daily life. Space is limited. Tour topic subject to change. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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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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