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November 11, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Figure Drawing: Quick Sketch
Tuesday November 11, 2008
1 pm - 4 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Working in a quick sketch format, participants will have the opportunity to work from the life model to enhance their drawing skills and practice capturing the underlying structure of the human body. Artist Peter Zokosky provides general guidance on approaching the figure and capturing the essential gesture. All levels welcome. All you need to bring are sketch pads and dry media. Course fee $25. Open to 25 participants.
Course repeats Thursday, December 4, 2008.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through November 16, 2008
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 Wall Clock (pendule d'alcove) by Charles Voisin. 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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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.
 Learn more about this exhibition
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In Focus: The Landscape
Daily through January 11, 2009
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Like painters and draftsmen before them, photographers turned to the landscape as a source of inspiration after the invention of the medium was announced in 1839. Since then, changing artistic movements and continual technical advancements have provided opportunities for camera artists to approach the subject in diverse and imaginative ways. This exhibition, which is drawn exclusively from the Getty's collection, brings together the work of over 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre, including Gustave Le Gray, Alfred Stieglitz, and Robert Adams.
Learn more about this exhibition
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A Light Touch: Exploring Humor in Drawing
Daily through December 7, 2008
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
As a result of its immediacy, drawing has for centuries been used to lampoon human character, ridicule physical characteristics, and satirize behavior. While some drawings were intimate objects viewed by individuals or small groups of people, others were transferred into prints with a wider agenda. Different drawing media (watercolor, pen and ink, etc.) often highlight diverse aims and effects. This exhibition will include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Urs Graf, Giambattista Tiepolo, Francisco de Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, and Pierre Bonnard, and will explore brands of humor, from wicked caricatures to wry observations of social injustice.
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Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California
Daily through March 1, 2009
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Dialogue among Giants presents the photographs of Carleton Watkins (American, 1829–1916) in the context of the birth and evolution of photography in California. The exhibition considers the social, political, economic, and artistic developments in California between the time of statehood in 1850 and the mid-1880s. It includes approximately 150 works, from daguerreotypes by unknown makers to mammoth-plate photographs by Watkins and his contemporaries.
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Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800
Daily through March 8, 2009
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the late 1700s and early 1800s European artists made a formal practice of working outdoors in the clear, pure light of the Italian countryside, transcribing the atmosphere and depth of picturesque landscape views. Originally intended as studies for more formal, idealized studio paintings, the sketches they created are today considered highly satisfying works of art in their own right. This concise survey exhibition features recent acquisitions by artists such as Jean-Victor Bertin, Jean-Joseph Xavier Bidauld, Camille Corot, Simon Denis, and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, supplemented by loans from local collections.
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November 11, 2008 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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