In Focus: Still Life
Through January 23, 2011
The Getty Center
Our popular In Focus series continues with a look at still life, which has been a key subject in photography since the invention of the medium in the 1830s. Ranging from early daguerreotypes to 21st-century digital prints, this selection from the Getty Museum's collection explores how still lifes can be both conventional and experimental and surveys the ways in which artists have refreshed this traditional genre.

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Now on View
• The Art of Ancient Greek Theater tells the story of ancient plays and stagecraft through art.

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Closing This Month
• Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, presenting monumental prints by the most powerful French artist of the 1600s, closes October 17.

• From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice, featuring highlights of the Getty's collection of Old Master drawings, closes October 10.

• The Gela Krater, a masterpiece of ancient Greek vase-painting, ends its stay at the Getty Villa on October 18.

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Imagining the Past in France, 1250–1500
Opening November 16
The Getty Center
See the heroic tales of bygone eras come alive on the pages of lavish painted books. Bringing together masterpieces of manuscript illumination from more than 25 of the world's finest museums and libraries, this exhibition will feature beautiful portrayals of dramatic moral dilemmas, valiant battles, and chivalrous derring-do.

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Try your hand at interpreting history! Visit our Facebook forum to share your take on this intriguing image from a French chronicle.

The Getty supports arts initiatives around the world through the Getty Foundation, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Here are two programs currently underway:

Panel Paintings Initiative
Through leadership and funding, the Getty Foundation is helping to train specialists in the complex skills needed to care for paintings on wood supports, known as panel paintings. Grants are also enabling conservators to stabilize and treat masterpieces of panel painting around the world, including Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve in Spain, Hubert and Jan Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece in Belgium, and Giorgio Vasari's Last Supper in Italy.

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Getty Scholars Program
In October, two dozen scholars from China, Colombia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Sweden, and Switzerland arrive at the Getty to participate in the Getty Research Institute's 2010–2011 "Display of Art" theme year. Over the last 25 years, the Scholars Program has hosted more than 800 individuals from over 40 countries worldwide.

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Witnesses in Action
Saturday & Sunday, October 2 & 3
The Getty Center
This free documentary film series, complementing the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties, continues with three compelling views of war and its effects:

• Iraq in Fragments: Oct. 2, 4:00 p.m.
• Restrepo: Oct. 2, 7:00 p.m.
• War Photographer: Oct. 3, 3:00 p.m.

The series is free; a separate reservation is required for each film.

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World Music: Tzvetanka Varimezova, Ivan Varimezov, and Nevenka East European Folk Ensemble
Saturday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
Enjoy an evening of Bulgarian music with masters of traditional Slavic instruments and song: vocalist Tzvetanka Varimezova, gaida (bagpipe) player Ivan Varimezov, and the Nevenka East European Folk Ensemble. Free; reservations required.

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World Music: Mani Bolouri
Saturday, October 23, 7:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
Iranian musician Mani Bolouri is a composer and virtuoso player of the kamancheh (spiked fiddle) and gheychak (bowed fiddle). Best known for his work with Liän Ensemble, Bolouri presents a special program featuring traditional and original music drawing on his Armenian and Persian roots. Free; reservations required.

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Saturday Nights at the Getty
Stew and The Negro Problem
Saturday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
The Getty Center
The 2010–11 season of Saturday Nights at the Getty kicks off with a unique multimedia concert by Stew, the writer and rock artist behind the musical Passing Strange, with his longtime collaborator Heidi Rodewald and their ensemble, the Negro Problem. Free; reservations required. This event is almost sold out online, but we've set aside a limited number of reservations for e-Getty subscribers. Call (310) 440-7300 and mention keyword "e-Getty" to reserve.

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Getty Perspectives
A Hidden Inheritance: Objects, Memories, and Collections
Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
Explore the ascent and decline of a Jewish dynasty with curator and ceramicist Edmund de Waal, author of the new book The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss. Using examples from his family collections, de Waal examines how we can understand collecting as a family story. Free; reservations required.

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Modern Art in Los Angeles
A Conversation with Frederic Tuten and Steve Martin
Tuesday, October 12, 7:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
Novelist Frederic Tuten and actor and author Steve Martin join Andrew Perchuk, deputy director of the Getty Research Institute, for an evening of discussion on fiction and art. Free; reservations required. This event is sold out online, but we've set aside 50 reservations for e-Getty subscribers. Call (310) 440-7300 and mention keyword "e-Getty" to reserve.

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William Randolph Hearst and J. Paul Getty: Collectors of Antiquities
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 2:00 p.m.
The Getty Villa
Years before he became a collector of ancient art, J. Paul Getty visited William Randolph Hearst in San Simeon. Hearst Castle historian Victoria Kastner explores the relationship between these two iconic California collectors and the influence Hearst's antiquities collection may have exerted on Getty's taste. Free; a ticket is required.

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On Quality: The Master's Prototypes versus His Pupils' Variants
Wednesday, October 27, 7:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
Art historian and Rembrandt expert Ernst van de Wetering discusses how Rembrandt's students used his works as prototypes, and explains what we can learn from comparing works by master and students. Free; reservations required.

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Art and Performance in Classical Greece
Saturday, October 30, 2:00 p.m.
The Getty Villa
How is ancient Greek drama depicted in art? Mary Louise Hart, curator of the current exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, explores vivid depictions of actors and stagecraft both as art and as historical clue. Free; a ticket is required.

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Artists and Performance in Athens and Magna Graecia
Thursdays, October 14, 21, and 28, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
The Getty Villa
Join Mary Louise Hart, curator of the exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, for this three-week course examining the fascinating relationship between the visual and performing arts in ancient Greece. Focused visits to the exhibition are included in each session. Course fee $90. Open to 40 participants.

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Drawing from the Old Masters: Drapery, the Art of Hiding and Revealing
Wednesday, October 20, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
The Getty Center
How did Old Masters depict realistic and compelling fabric falling across the human form? Explore the ins and outs of drapery with artist and educator Zhenya Gershman in this course that combines a gallery visit with guided sketching exercises in the Museum Studio. Course fee $35 (includes materials). Open to 25 participants.

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Family Drawing Hour
Saturdays, October 16 and 23, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
The Getty Center
Have fun in the galleries with this free program featuring hands-on sketching for the whole family. Explore flowers, fruit, and more in the still lifes session on October 16. On October 23, join us for "Strike a Pose"!

Free; no reservations required. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 3:00 p.m. on the day of the program.

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C L O S I N G   T H I S   M O N T H
• From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice (October 10)
• Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV (October 17)

H O T   T I C K E T S
• Lecture: A Hidden Inheritance (October 5)
• Lecture: A Tale of Two Margarets (October 7)
• Music: Saturdays Off the 405 (October 9)
• Screening and Discussion: Pictures from a Revolution (October 15)
• World Music at the Getty (October 16 and 23)
• Lecture: On Quality (October 27)

C L O S I N G   T H I S   M O N T H
• The Gela Krater (October 18)

H O T   T I C K E T S
• Lecture: Excavating the Great Gardens of the Roman Empire (October 9)
• Lecture: William Randolph Hearst and J. Paul Getty (October 16)
• Lecture: Art and Performance in Classical Greece (October 30)

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