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December 4, 2006 |
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Getty Center closed.
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December 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: Cybele with a Portrait Head
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through December 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 Cybele with a Portrait Head from about A.D. 50. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 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. Offered in English and Spanish on weekends. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Focus Tour: Exploring the World of Greek Vase Painting
Monday December 4, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
With scenes drawn from mythology and ritual, theater and daily life, painted-vases are among the richest and most compelling documents of life in ancient Greece. In this one-hour tour, explore the ancient world as seen through the eyes of the vase-painter. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:45 p.m.
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Exhibitions |
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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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Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa; Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia
Daily through April 30, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Between the second and sixth centuries, thousands of elaborate mosaics were fashioned to decorate the floors of both public buildings and private houses in Roman North Africa. A selection of mosaics from Tunisia are on view in this exhibition, which is structured around four principal themes: nature, theater and spectacle, myths and gods, and technique. Also included is extensive material on the conservation of mosaics. The exhibition is co-organized by the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia, and is accompanied by a catalogue.
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