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September 4, 2006 |
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Getty Center closed.
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September 4, 2006 |
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Tickets on the Web for this day are not yet available. Try calling (310) 440-7300.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute site tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, its history, renovation, and new educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk: Theater Chair
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through September 29, 2006
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 Greek marble theater seat dating from 400-300 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:30 a.m.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
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 Main Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2007
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Focus Tour: The Heroic Ideal
Monday September 4, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Throughout the ancient world, heroes pervaded history, religion, and imagination. In this one-hour tour, explore the cultural significance of heroes and their adventures in ancient Greek and Roman society. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the day of the tour.
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Exhibitions |
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The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
Daily through September 4, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This major loan exhibition at the Getty Villa brings together approximately 100 vases produced in Athens during the Archaic and Classical periods, exemplifying the use of special decorative techniques, a subject never before examined as a whole. It includes extraordinary painted pottery produced with familiar red-figure and black-figure decorations, as well as ceramics made with an array of other, often experimental techniques. These include outline drawing; the use of a lustrous coral-red gloss; polychromy; gilding; and vases made from molds or with molded elements. Displaying a combination of techniques and representing objects of the highest level of skill, inventiveness, and artistry, the exhibition provides visitors with an understanding of the range and variety of Greek vases. The exhibition includes analytical and technical information on the processes used by ancient potters and vase-painters, and is accompanied by a catalogue.
 Learn more about this exhibition
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Enduring Myth: The Tragedy of Hippolytos and Phaidra
Daily through December 4, 2006
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Co-organized by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition accompanies the inaugural performances of Euripides' Hippolytos in the Villa's Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. It assembles approximately 40 objects, dating from antiquity to the present, to illustrate the enduring allure of the myth of Phaidra's tragic love for Hippolytos. Enduring Myth includes a wide range of historical material, including an ancient vase, a medieval manuscript, rare books, early photographs, and modern film stills from collections around the world as well as the Getty's own holdings. The exhibition demonstrates how the ancient Greek play's themes of passion, mortality, and the frailties of human conviction were adapted and interpreted in different periods in art, stage, and film.
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