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December 13, 2005 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Beyond Virtuosity: Patterns of Creativity in Old Age
Tuesday December 13, 2005
4 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Not every great artist enjoys a long career or is always able to make significant artistic contributions late in life. But, as museum guest scholar David Travis observes, the exceptions are marvelous, from Michelangelo to Goya to Monet. Examining the inimitable character of the late works of photographers such as Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Josef Sudek, Travis aims in this lecture to increase our perception and appreciation of what he identifies as a special and often neglected period.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Manuscript Illumination (Studio Course)
Tuesday December 13, 2005
1 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Medieval and Renaissance artists illuminated sumptuous manuscripts with brilliant pigments and precious gold. Explore these traditional materials and techniques with artist Sylvana Barrett and create a small illuminated page in this two-session workshop. Complements the exhibitions Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library and A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII. Course fee $65; $50 students. Limited to 25 participants.
Part One: December 6, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Part Two: December 13, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Daily through December 18, 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 December 24, 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 December 18, 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 December 24, 2005
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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Curator's Gallery Talk
Tuesday December 13, 2005
2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Judith Keller, associate curator of photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee. Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Baroque Art
Tuesdays through August 29, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Join a one-hour tour exploring the drama and splendor of Baroque art, made in the 17th and 18th centuries. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through December 18, 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 The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St. John the Baptist by Fra Bartolommeo. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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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.
Learn more about this exhibition
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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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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through December 28, 2008
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition traces the study of one Getty object to determine its date and place of manufacture. The cabinet, acquired in 1971, had since the 1980s been believed to be a pastiche if not an outright fake. However, documentary research and technical analysis undertaken by experts at the Getty revealed that the cabinet, rather than being a compromised object, is one of the most important pieces of French Renaissance furniture in the United States. This case study of the research into the authenticity of the cabinet presents the results of scientific and visual analyses of the object, studies of related materials, archival research, and other evidence. It is a story of how new information, careful research, and evolving analytic processes can alter our understanding of the art of the past.
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Drawings from Leonardo to Titian: A North Italian Itinerary
Daily through February 26, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition introduces the extraordinary stylistic range and draftsmanship of artists across northern Italy in the sixteenth century, from Leonardo da Vinci in Milan to Titian in Venice. It examines different approaches to drawing and how artists influenced each other. The exhibition presents works from the Getty Museum's collection as an itinerary across northern Italy, focusing on the artistic centers of Lombardy (Milan, Cremona, and Mantua), Emilia-Romagna (Parma and Bologna), and the Veneto (Verona and Venice).
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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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December 13, 2005 |
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The Getty Villa will open on January 28, 2006.
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