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December 19, 2009 |
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 23, 2010
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Get up close and personal with a work of art during this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared towards families with children ages 5 and up. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.
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Family Drawing Hour: Exploring Color!
Saturday December 19, 2009
3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
In this one-hour guided workshop, we'll draw from sculpture and paintings in the collection and discover how artists across time have expressed their creativity with color! The program is geared for families with children ages 7 and up, but anyone can participate. Space is limited. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.
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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
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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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through December 20, 2009
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 carved and gilt paneling by Jacques Gaultier after designs by Armand-Claude Mollet. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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¡Bienvenidos al Getty!
Weekends
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Disfruten de una breve y divertida introducción al Museo y sus colecciones. Las familias son bienvenidas. Los esperamos en la sala de entrada del Museo bajo la escalera.
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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
Getty Center architecture tours are offered daily by docents. Tours last 30-45 minutes. 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
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Rembrandt and His Times Tour
Daily through December 20, 2009
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Survey the Museum's collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century—focusing on Rembrandt and his contemporaries—in this special, one-hour tour. Meet the gallery teacher at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on modern and contemporary works at the Getty Museum by exploring the art and culture of the late 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Meet the gallery teacher at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
Daily
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Luisa Roldán (Spanish, 1650–1704), affectionately known as La Roldana, was one of the most celebrated and prolific sculptors of the Baroque period. This intimate exhibition introduces visitors to La Roldana, whose artistic superiority catapulted her to fame at the royal court in an otherwise male-dominated profession. She ran a workshop, worked for the king, raised a family, and was a celebrity in her own day. With her polychrome sculpture of Saint Ginés de la Jara from the Getty Museum's collection as a focal point, this exhibition explores the artist's life, artistic achievement, and the multifaceted process used to create masterfully lifelike polychrome sculpture.
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Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Get a rare look at how bronze sculpture is born in Foundry to Finish. Visitors explore a process called direct lost-wax casting—a method that yields a single, unique bronze cast of an artist's original clay-and-wax model. Thirteen step-by-step models illustrate the sculpting and casting process. Through X-radiographs, visitors can even get a glimpse inside an original sculpture to see firsthand evidence of how the bronze was cast. The installation complements Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, an international touring exhibition also on view.
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Irving Penn: Small Trades
Daily through January 10, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Working in Paris, London, and New York in the early 1950s, photographer Irving Penn (American, born 1917) created masterful representations of skilled tradespeople dressed in work clothes and carrying the tools of their trade. A neutral backdrop and natural light provided a stage on which his subjects could present themselves with dignity and pride. Penn revisited his Small Trades series over many decades, producing evermore-exacting prints, including platinum enlargements. In 2008 the Getty acquired the most comprehensive group of these images, carefully selected by the photographer—155 gelatin silver prints and 97 platinum prints—which will be exhibited in their entirety for the first time.
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In Focus: The Worker
Daily through March 21, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The invention of photography was announced in 1839, when the Industrial Revolution was transforming patterns of daily life in the Western world. Workers of all types were central to these changes and the camera was used—more than any other artistic medium—to depict them. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's collection, this exhibition brings together more than 40 photographs that demonstrate shifting attitudes towards the worker over much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition
Daily through February 28, 2010
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the 1600s, citizens of the Netherlands witnessed increasing political freedom, religious tolerance, and economic prosperity that resulted in a boom of artistic patronage and art production. Dutch artists began to portray their native land with its bustling cities, rustic countryside, and placid waterways. These landscapes were complemented by scenes of everyday life in which peasants frolicked, merchants ice skated, and cows rested in fields. This exhibition of Dutch drawings from the Getty's collection traces the invention of these new genres and examines the persistence of these genres in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Daily through February 28, 2010
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Distilling over 30 years of scholarly research, this major international loan exhibition presents a singular opportunity to explore the differences between Rembrandt's drawings and those of more than 14 pupils and followers. In carefully selected pairings of celebrated drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils, the exhibition outlines these artistic differences and sheds light on the art of drawing in Rembrandt's circle and the vibrant creative life within the master's studio.
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The Medieval Scriptorium
Daily through February 14, 2010
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Organized with children in mind, this exhibition presents medieval manuscripts from the Getty's collection and focuses on the working method of medieval artists. Before technology made it possible to print many copies of a book, scribes and artists made each manuscript by hand. Scriptorium is a Latin word that means "place for writing," and it was also a place where monks illustrated their books with images created with costly pigments and precious metals such as silver and gold. Children are invited to view medieval manuscripts and take part in a copying activity at the scriptorium table.
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Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Daily through April 18, 2010
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Highlights from this extraordinary collection of illustrated manuscripts on the history of science and ideas—exhibited together publicly for the first time—demonstrate the circulation of knowledge around the world and across cultures during the medieval and early modern periods. Medieval Muslim and Christian medicine, Chinese acupuncture, secret experiments in alchemical laboratories, codebooks for keeping secrets secret, and French and Persian visions of the cosmos that blend science with spirituality are among the treasures on display. These manuscripts were produced for caliphs, popes, merchants, and scientists. Copied and illustrated by hand, their contents—their ideas and visions—illustrate the human urge for knowledge and creative invention.
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December 19, 2009 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Glass-Handling Sessions
Saturdays through February 27, 2010
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Museum, Floor 1, Getty Villa
Enjoy an opportunity to handle original works of art made by contemporary glassmaking. Drop by the Reading Room adjacent to the exhibition to explore the enduring practice of ancient glassmaking techniques.
Thursdays, 1:30–3:30 p.m.
Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Sundays, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Enjoy a fun, activity-filled visit for children (ages 5 and up) and adults in this 45-minute journey through the galleries. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance beginning 15 minutes before the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Focus Tour: J. Paul Getty as Collector
Fridays and Saturdays through December 26, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this one-hour tour, learn about the collector J. Paul Getty's interest in art by exploring various objects in the collection. This tour complements the exhibition Collector's Choice: J. Paul Getty and His Antiquities. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Exhibition Spotlight Talk: The Chimaera of Arezzo
Weekends through January 31, 2010
10:30 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this 20-minute discussion, learn about the large-scale bronze masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture featured in the exhibition The Chimaera of Arezzo. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Orientation Tour
Daily
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
Learn about the Getty Villa's architecture and educational mission in this 40-minute introduction to the site. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the ancient Roman world through the Museum's archtecture and gardens in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk
Thursdays - Sundays through December 31, 2009
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Learn how to look at ancient art in this 20-minute gallery talk examining in depth one work in the collection. The featured object this month is the Landsdowne Herakles, a Roman marble sculpture from about A.D. 125. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Chimaera of Arezzo
Daily through February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Inaugurating a partnership with the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, this exhibition traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera over five centuries of classical art. Featured is a masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture known as the Chimaera of Arezzo: a large-scale bronze of the triple-headed, fire-breathing monster that was slain by the virtuous hero. From its ancient dedication to the supreme Etruscan deity in a sanctuary at Arezzo to its Renaissance display in the Medici collection, the Chimaera has endured as an emblem of the triumph of right over might.
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Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden
Daily through February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition examines the restoration history of a Roman statue from the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Since its discovery in the 1600s, the figure has been restored as Alexander the Great, Bacchus, and Antinous in the guise of the wine god. Damaged in World War II, the sculpture was recently reassembled by Getty and Dresden conservators.
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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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Collector's Choice: J. Paul Getty and His Antiquities
Daily through February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
With his first antiquities purchase in 1939, J. Paul Getty embarked on a lifelong pursuit of "true and lasting beauty." Celebrating seventy years of collecting, this exhibition presents seldom-seen works of art that captured the founder's eye and inspired the creation of a museum modeled on an ancient Roman villa. Favored objects and personal memorabilia illuminate Getty's taste, his engagement with noted connoisseurs, and his profound love of the classical Mediterranean world.
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Roman Ephebe from Naples
Daily
Getty Villa
Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.
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