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November 11, 2005 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Works in Progress - What Was Contemporary Art?
Friday November 11, 2005
2 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Art historian Richard Meyer addresses the historical emergence of the idea of contemporary art at key moments in twentieth-century art, pedagogy, and curatorial practice. This lecture is part of a broader project that considers the problems and implications of "contemporary art history." Richard Meyer is associate professor of modern and contemporary art and chair of the Literary, Visual, and Material Culture Initiative at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2004), which was awarded the Charles Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian, and editor of Representing the Passions: Histories, Bodies, Visions published in 2003 by the Getty Research Institute. Miwon Kwon, an associate professor of art history, University of California, Los Angeles will respond.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Daily through November 20, 2005
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the architecture and Richard Meier's design of the Getty Center. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through November 20, 2005
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 Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Garden Tour
Daily through November 20, 2005
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the Getty gardens, including Robert Irwin's Central Garden. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Painted Prayers Exhibition Tour
Tuesdays - Fridays through January 6, 2006
1:30 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Impressionist Art
Fridays through September 1, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
In this one-hour tour, learn about the social and artistic forces that led up to Impressionism and discover how art made between 1860 through 1886 impacted later art. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through November 13, 2005
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This 15-minute gallery talk offers an in-depth look at one object. This week the featured work of art is Antibes by Claude Monet. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Point-of-View (Gallery Talk)
Friday November 11, 2005
4:30 pm, 6 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Mary Heebner, an artist who uses various media including painting, writing, photography and artists' books to create a sense of place and a connection between the contemporary and the archaic, leads a gallery discussion on the exhibition Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 3:00 p.m. the day of the program.
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Current Exhibitions |
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Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library
Daily through January 8, 2006
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
This Premiere Presentation features fifty-eight of The Pierpont Morgan Library's finest manuscripts and printed books made in France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Included are such masterpieces as the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, the Hours of Henry VIII, and the Farnese Hours. This exhibition was organized by the Morgan Library, New York, which is closed for a major expansion and renovation project, enabling these works to be shown for the first time in Los Angeles. The exhibition was previously at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
 Learn more about this exhibition
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A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII
Daily through January 8, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The Hours of Louis XII was one of the greatest French manuscripts of its time, painted by Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457–1521) for the king of France in 1498/99, probably in honor of his coronation. By the end of the seventeenth century, the manuscript was completely dismembered. Within the past few decades, sixteen of the lost miniatures and parts of the text have been discovered. For the first time in more than three hundred years, this exhibition, co-organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, reunites the text and fifteen miniatures from the book.
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Paper Art: Collecting Drawings in Holland, 1600–1800
Daily through November 20, 2005
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
As the Dutch art market expanded in the early 1600s, artists began to make drawings as works of art in their own right, often signed and dated. Amateurs collected them in large numbers, calling them papierkunst or "paper art." Finished drawings formed a substantial part of the output of many famous artists of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Jan van Goyen, Pieter Molijn, and Adriaen van Ostade. The vogue for finished drawings became even stronger in 18th-century Holland. This exhibition examines the technique, subject matter, and style of these finished drawings, and also takes a look at their wider cultural context including the art market, collectors, and display.
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Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee
Daily through January 22, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Comprising approximately seventy photographs from the Getty Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition surveys the news photography of Arthur Fellig (American, born Austria, 1899–1968), who became known in the 1930s as Weegee the Famous. Weegee (after the Ouija board game) seemed to materialize wherever news was happening, covering all aspects of Manhattan nightlife and vividly documenting the police beat. Spanning two decades of Weegee's freelance career, the exhibition is introduced with pictures by pioneering Los Angeles news photographer George Watson and his nephew Coy Watson, Jr.
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Pictures for the Press
Daily through January 22, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Focusing on pictures made to document newsworthy events from the 1940s to the 1970s, this exhibition presents images of war, politics, and civil rights by well-known press photographers like Larry Burrows, Robert Capa, and W. Eugene Smith as well as lesser-known and, in some cases, unidentified makers. The show includes iconic images of the atomic explosion over Nagasaki, the D-Day invasion of Omaha Beach during World War II, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, and the evacuation of Saigon.
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Titian and the Commander: A Renaissance Artist and His Patron
Daily through February 5, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This focus exhibition features the Getty's recently acquired painting by Titian (Italian, about 1487–1576), Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis of Vasto, in Armor with a Page. Titian dominated Venetian painting during the years of its greatest achievement and, along with Raphael, set the standard for European court portraiture. The Getty's Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, painted in 1533, is one of Titian's most influential portraits. The exhibition presents a close look at this exceptional work and includes Titian's Penitent Magdalene, also from the Getty's collection, as well as an historical portrait by Titian of the same sitter, The Allocution of Alfonso d'Avalos, on loan for the first time in the United States from the Museo del Prado in Madrid. In addition, the exhibition includes several contemporary illustrated books drawn from the Getty Research Institute's vast collections.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2006
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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November 11, 2005 |
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The Getty Villa will open on January 28, 2006. The first available tickets are for February 23, 2006.
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