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September 22, 2013 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Canterbury: 14 Centuries of Community and Creativity
Sunday September 22, 2013
3 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Today, over three hundred full-time staff experienced in traditional arts and crafts—such as stonemasons, carpenters, workers in stained glass, musicians, and more—are employed at the Cathedral in Canterbury, founded in 597 by St. Augustine. The Very Reverend Dr. Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury, tells the story of the origin and evolution of this extraordinary creative community.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artist at Work: Stone Carving
Sunday September 22, 2013
11 am - 3:30 pm
Museum Courtyard, Getty Center
See stone-carving materials and techniques that were used to create gargoyles and other stone features from the Canterbury Cathedral with Heather Newton, head of stone masonry and conservation at the cathedral. Newton demonstrates carving (11:00 a.m.–noon) and discusses methods used (1:30–2:30 p.m.), concluding with a handling session for visitors to explore tools and materials (2:30–3:30 p.m.). Complements the exhibition Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Garden Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Getty Center
The gardens of the Getty are the focus of this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside
at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.
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Spotlight of the Week
Daily through September 22, 2013
12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Who did you need to know to secure a top job in 18th-century France? Explore Hyacinthe Rigaud's portrait of Charles de Saint-Albin, Archbishop of Cambrai in this 15-minute talk. Meet the docent at the Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Daily
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Discover more about Richard Meier's architecture and the design of the Getty Center site in this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Era of Impressionism
Daily through September 29, 2013
12:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Explore the Getty's collection of 19th-century paintings by artists such as Millet, Monet, and Van Gogh in this one-hour tour. The talk may also include examples of sculpture, photographs, or drawings. Meet the docent at the Information Desk.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display
Daily
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
From the time an object is made until the day it enters a museum's collection, it may be displayed, used, and perceived in different ways. The Life of Art takes selected objects from the Getty Museum's galleries and encourages visitors to sit down and spend time with them, offering the opportunity to examine them closely to understand how they were made and functioned, why they were collected, and how they have been displayed. Through careful looking, what may be learned about the maker and previous owners of a French gilt-bronze wall light, for example, or the transformation in England of a Chinese porcelain bowl? Close engagement reveals the full lives of these works and why they continue to be collected and cherished today.
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In Focus: Ed Ruscha
Daily through September 29, 2013
West Pavilion, Lower Level, Getty Center
Photography has played a central role in Ed Ruscha's artistic practice, most notably in the photobooks he began publishing in 1963. Highlighting important recent acquisitions by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition features a selection of prints and materials related to Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). Also on view for the first time are contact sheets from his shoot of the Pacific Coast Highway (1974–75), one of the many streets he has documented extensively since 1965. The exhibition offers a concentrated look at Ruscha's engagement with vernacular architecture, the urban landscape, and car culture. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
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The Poetry of Paper
Daily through October 20, 2013
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The selection of drawings in this exhibition explores the concept of negative space—the unoccupied ground around drawn elements. It elucidates how artists such as Rembrandt, Boucher, and Seurat deliberately left areas of paper blank to create the illusion of light and form, using absence to evoke a sense of presence.
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Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister
Daily through February 2, 2014
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
This exhibition brings together masterpieces of medieval English art: panels of stained glass from Canterbury Cathedral and pages from the St. Albans Psalter, a splendidly illuminated book of psalms. Uniting monumental glass painting with the art of book illumination, this presentation reveals how specific texts, prayers, and environments shaped the medieval viewer's understanding of these pictures during the era of artistic renewal following the Norman Conquest of England.
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Werner Herzog: Hearsay of the Soul
Daily through January 19, 2014
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A new acquisition by the Getty Museum's Department of Photographs, Hearsay of the Soul (2012) is a five-channel video installation by celebrated German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It combines the early-seventeenth-century landscape etchings of Dutch artist Hercules Segers with recent scores and a performance by Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger, resulting in a richly layered work that is at once intimate and epic.
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Miracles and Martyrs: Saints in the Middle Ages
Daily through March 2, 2014
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Throughout the Middle Ages, Christians were fascinated by stories about saints, who led extraordinary lives full of mystical events and miraculous occurrences. Saints were depicted in manuscripts experiencing revelatory visions and performing wondrous feats such as healing the sick or raising the dead. Even when their tormentors were performing exceptionally brutal acts—shooting them repeatedly with arrows, for example, or violently beheading them—martyr saints were pictured remaining steadfast in their faith. This exhibition, drawn from the Getty Museum's permanent collection, presents manuscripts that allowed medieval viewers to witness these dramatic narratives and venerate the saints as models of piety.
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September 22, 2013 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Handling Session: Fresco Painting
Sundays through March 30, 2014
11 am - 12 pm
Reading Room, Getty Villa
How were ancient frescoes painted into wet plaster? Learn about the oldest-known painting medium in this multisensory handling session. Touch tools and materials used by ancient wall painters, including plaster, marble dust, sand, pigment, and trowels. This is a free, drop-in program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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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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Garden Tour
Sundays
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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Collection Spotlight Talk
Daily through September 30, 2013
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Discover the richness of ancient art in this 30-minute gallery talk that looks in depth at a major work in the Museum's collection. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the talk at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through September 30, 2013
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the tour at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Educator's Perspective
Daily through September 30, 2013
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join a Getty educator for an hour-long tour that explores a topic or theme related to the ancient Greek and Roman world through the lens of the Getty Villa's collection. 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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Relief with Antiochos and Herakles
Daily through May 4, 2015
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
On loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, a stele honoring Prokleides, a military officer in the Athenian army, is on view at the Getty Villa in a gallery (208) devoted to Religious Offerings. Carved in relief above a public decree are figures of Antiochos, the mythical founder of the tribe Antiochis, and his father, the Greek hero Herakles.
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