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August 15, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Art Circles
Friday August 15, 2008
6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
In this Friday night series, participants have the opportunity for close study of selected masterpieces and informal discussions with educators in the galleries of the Museum. Course fee $15 per session. Dinner vouchers are provided. Open to 25 participants. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Getty Drawing Hour: Getty Garden
Friday August 15, 2008
6 pm - 8 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
Enjoy the tradition of plein air sketching and botanical drawing in the Getty Garden. An instructor provides general guidance; all you need to bring are drawing pads and pencils. All experience levels welcome. Free; limited to 35 participants. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 5 p.m. the day of the program.
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Family Activities |
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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! Recommended for families with children ages 5 and up. Ofrecida en español.
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Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through August 29, 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 2:30 p.m.. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program. Notes: Spanish Art Stops at 2:30 only. Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
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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
Fridays and Saturdays through June 30, 2009
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 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: Realist and Impressionist Art
Fridays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on realism and impressionism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive 19th-century movements. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Point-of-View: Artist Talks
Friday August 15, 2008
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Artist John Nava explores the approaches to and use of portraiture as presented in the exhibitions Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portraiture, Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture and August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 3 p.m. the day of the talks.
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Point-of-View: Artist Talks
Friday August 15, 2008
4:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Artist John Nava explores the approaches to and use of portraiture as presented in the exhibitions Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portraiture, Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture and August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century.
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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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Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Daily through October 26, 2008
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680) and his contemporaries in Rome transformed the portrait bust into a groundbreaking art form. With dazzling virtuosity, these artists were able to coax the living presence and personality of their sitters–creating a "speaking likeness"–from the intractable medium of stone. Celebrating Baroque sculpture, paintings, and drawings, this major international loan exhibition brings together nearly 60 works from both public and private collections, including objects not seen together in more than 300 years. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture is co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
Daily through September 14, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, 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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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
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, 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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Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture
Daily through October 26, 2008
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Portraiture in illuminated manuscripts developed from the highly stylized portrayals of the early Middle Ages to the late medieval emergence of recognizable portraits. This exhibition explores both historical portraits of people from the past—including religious figures, authors, and artists—and portraits of living individuals (usually the owners or donors of books). The goal of medieval portraiture was to present a person not at a particular moment in time, but as the subject wished to be remembered through the ages.
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August 15, 2008 |
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Thursdays and Fridays through August 29, 2008
12 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 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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Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through August 29, 2008
11 am
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 group of Roman fresco fragments, featuring the god Dionysos from around A.D. 1Ð79. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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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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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2009
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Curator's Gallery Talk
Friday August 15, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join Jens Daehner, assistant curator of Antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum, for a one-hour tour through the Villa's current exhibition The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium beginning 15 minutes before the tour.
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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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Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti
Daily through October 27, 2008
Getty Villa
The Society of Dilettanti was founded in 1734 in London as a dining club for British gentlemen who had made the Grand Tour. They sponsored archaeological expeditions to Greece and Asia Minor, and assembled celebrated antiquities collections. Notorious revelers and wits, this close-knit circle of aristocratic patrons, antiquarians, artists, and architects transformed the study of classical art from a matter of private delight into one of public consequence. This exhibition presents portraits, sculptures, drawings, and rare books that illuminate the Society's first 100 years.
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