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August 19, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Portraiture in Three Dimensions
Tuesdays through August 19, 2008
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Explore sculpting a portrait head in this three-session workshop with artist Jonathan Bickhart. Working in oil-based clay from a model, participants will study basic anatomy and proportion as well as how to capture expression to create a "speaking likeness." Complements the exhibitions Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture and Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture. Course fee $115; $85 students. Open to 25 participants.
Tuesdays, August 5, 12, and 19, 1:00–5:00 p.m. Workshop repeats Tuesdays, September 9, 16, and 23, and Sundays, October 5, 12, and 19, 2008.
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Family Activities |
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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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Exhibition Tour: Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Daily through October 26, 2008
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. 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: Medieval and Renaissance Art
Tuesdays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's medieval and Renaissance collections by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive historic periods. 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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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 19, 2008 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date, except for the following event(s):
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Exhibitions |
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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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