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December 29, 2008 |
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Getty Center closed.
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December 29, 2008 |
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through December 29, 2008
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 a Roman sarcophagus featuring a Dionysian Vintage Festival from around A.D. 290–300. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Orientation Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on its architecture and educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
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 Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2009
2 pm
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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An Introduction to Jim Dine: Poet Singing Tour
Monday December 29, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join a Museum educator for a brief introduction to the exhibition Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets). This exhibition presents new work and poetry by Jim Dine based on ancient Greek sculptures in the Museum's collection. The first contemporary art project at the Getty Villa, this installation illustrates the continuing influence of antiquity on living artists. Space is limited. 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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Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)
Daily through February 9, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition presents new works and poetry by Jim Dine based on ancient Greek sculptures in the Museum's collection. The first contemporary art project at the Getty Villa, this installation illustrates the continuing influence of antiquity on living artists.
 Learn more about this exhibition
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Reconstructing Identity: A Statue of a God from Dresden
Daily through June 1, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
This exhibition examines the restoration history of a Roman statue from the Dresden State Art Collections. Since its discovery in the 1600s, the figure has been successively 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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The Getty Commodus: Roman Portraits and Modern Copies
Daily through June 1, 2009
Getty Villa
The Getty's marble bust of the Roman emperor Commodus was acquired in 1992 as an Italian work of the 1500s, but specialists later proposed that it may be from the second century A.D. Putting the object in context with Roman portraits and modern copies from the Mannerist and Neoclassical periods, this exhibition shows how curators and conservators have determined the sculpture's date.
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Fragment to Vase: Approaches to Ceramic Restoration
Daily through June 1, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Exploring contemporary issues in vase restoration, this exhibition provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Getty conservators assemble ancient pottery fragments into understandable forms. It illustrates how technical innovations, scholarly contributions, and aesthetic choices combine to reveal the original design and iconography of ceramic masterpieces.
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