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Performances and Films/Videos
Lectures and Conferences
Tours and Talks
Japanese American National Museum
Hammer Museum
Museum of Latin American Art
February 2, 2008
Courses and Demonstrations
From Louis XV to Le Corbusier: A History of the Chair (Gallery Course)
Saturday February 2, 2008
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center


Chairs bridge the gap between function and decoration. As objects they often embody the artistry, materials, and production technologies of their historical periods. Join Jeremy Glatstein and Mary Beth Carosello in an exploration of chairs, from the 18th century to present day. This course focuses on the Museum's collection and offers a rare opportunity to see designer chairs found throughout the site. Complements the exhibition Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen. Course fee $30; $20 students. Open to 30 participants.
Part 1: February 2, 10:30am–12:30pm; Museum Studios
Part 2: February 9, 10:30am–12:30pm; Museum Studios

Family Activities
Art Stops
Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 18, 2008
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Get up close and personal with a single work of art at this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared for families with children ages 5 and up. Ofrecida en español a 2:30pm. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.
Every Saturday and Sunday. Special schedule in effect during the spring, summer, and holidays.

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Tours and Gallery Talks
Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through February 3, 2008
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 Boy with a Dragon by Gianlorenzo Bernini. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Getty Center
Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 28, 2008
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 outside in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.

Halberdier / Pontormo
Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through June 29, 2008
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 Museum Information Desk.

Central Garden
Garden Tour
Daily through June 29, 2008
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center


Garden Tours are offered daily by docents. They focus on the Central Garden and landscaping of the Getty Center site. Tours last 45–60 minutes. Meet in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.

Modern art
Focus Tour: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays through June 30, 2008
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 at the Museum Information Desk.

Exhibitions
Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2009

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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Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
Daily through January 11, 2009

South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.

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Ten Years of Drawings: What, How, and Why
Daily through May 4, 2008

West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


This exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Getty Center and the growth of the drawings collection during the decade. With an emphasis on showing how and why works are selected for acquisition, the exhibition provides a glimpse into the process by which works enter the collection, as well as a compelling survey of some of the drawings acquired. Highlights include an important transfer-drawing by Gauguin, 18th-century drawings by Guardi, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera, and the Tiepolos, and rare examples from the early German school, including works by an Upper Rhenish Master and a follower of the Housebook Master.

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China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
Daily through February 10, 2008

Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center


Illustrated books, prints, and maps from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute tell the story of mutual interest and collaborative works produced by Chinese and Europeans from the late 16th to the early 19th century. Highlights include a rare series of prints of the European Pavilions of the Yuanmingyuan, called the Garden of Perfect Clarity, designed in the mid-18th century by the Milanese architect Giuseppe Castiglione for the Qianlong emperor.

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André Kertész: Seven Decades
Daily through April 13, 2008

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


Celebrating the quality and diversity of Kertész's long career in photography, this exhibition comprises approximately 55 prints drawn from the Getty's collection that the artist made in Hungary, France, and the United States, where he lived for 40 years. This exhibition is organized chronologically and geographically, beginning in Hungary, where Kertész was born in 1894 and made his first photograph in 1912, then moving to rare small prints made in Paris, where he emigrated in 1925. The final section presents photographs made in New York, where he lived and worked from 1936 until his death in 1985.

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The Goat's Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
Daily through April 13, 2008

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


The work of Mexico City photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942) is featured in a show of about 140 prints drawn from a combination of sources, including the Getty Museum's holdings, the collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the artist's own archives. Not strictly a retrospective of the photographer's career, this exhibition highlights Iturbide's work with surviving indigenous communities in southern Mexico (such as the Zapotec Indians of Juchitán and the Mixtec Indians of Huajuapan), outsider immigrant groups in East Los Angeles (like members of the White Fence and Maravilla gangs), and those struggling at La Frontera, the U.S./Mexico border. Concentrating on this international artist's North American pictures, it examines her more recent landscape studies from the American South as well as Mexico, and presents images from Iturbide's native city created almost 40 years.

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In Focus: The Nude
Daily through February 24, 2008

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


The unclothed human figure became a camera subject shortly after the discovery of photography was announced in 1839. From that point forward, artists have been challenged to use a variety of photographic materials and processes to find new ways of picturing the nude. This exhibition, which is drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's collection of photographs, brings together the work of over 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre.

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February 2, 2008
Performances and Films
Ellen McLaughlin
Villa Theater Lab: Penelope
Saturday February 2, 2008
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa


Award-winning actor and playwright Ellen McLaughlin brings her one-woman theatrical/musical piece Penelope to the Getty Villa's Theater Lab. A woman's husband appears at her door after an absence of 20 years, suffering from brain damage. A veteran of a modern war, he doesn't know who he is and she doesn't know who he's become. While they wait together for his return to himself, she reads him The Odyssey, and in the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband's memory and the terror and trauma of war.
McLaughlin combines her talents with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and the Eclipse Ensemble under the direction of director Lisa Rothe to present a modern adaptation of this ancient text that continues to resonate today. Tickets $7.

Ellen McLaughlin
Villa Theater Lab: Penelope
Saturday February 2, 2008
8 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa


Award-winning actor and playwright Ellen McLaughlin brings her one-woman theatrical/musical piece Penelope to the Getty Villa's Theater Lab. A woman's husband appears at her door after an absence of 20 years, suffering from brain damage. A veteran of a modern war, he doesn't know who he is and she doesn't know who he's become. While they wait together for his return to himself, she reads him The Odyssey, and in the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband's memory and the terror and trauma of war.
McLaughlin combines her talents with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and the Eclipse Ensemble under the direction of director Lisa Rothe to present a modern adaptation of this ancient text that continues to resonate today. Tickets $7.

Family Activities
Art Odyssey for Families
Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This 45-minute journey through the galleries features a fun, activity-filled visit for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium beginning 15 minutes before the program.

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Tours and Gallery Talks
Elgin Throne Spotlight Talk
Weekends through February 24, 2008
1:30 pm
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 talk features a chair from an ancient theater known as the Elgin Throne from 400–300 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 a.m.

Getty Villa Inner Peristyle
Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa


This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on the new architecture, the recent renovations, and the new educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.

Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 29, 2008
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 a.m.

Getty Villa Outer Peristyle
Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
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.

Spotlight Talk
Weekends through June 28, 2009
1:30 pm
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. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:15 p.m.

Exhibitions
The Magnificent Piranesi
Daily through March 10, 2008

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) was a student of antiquity, a polemicist and theorist, a cartographer, an architect, a designer of books and decorative arts, a printmaker, and a publisher. While his prolific prints and books provide exhaustive documentation on ancient and modern Rome, they also reveal the original and visionary sides of Piranesi, who readily exaggerated features of Rome's buildings and created views of fantastic architecture, ruins, and antique compositions. Drawing on the Getty Research Institute's strong collection of Piranesi's prints and books, the exhibition presents a synthetic portrait of the extraordinary range of his activities—from the polemics on ancient and modern art to the stylish "advertising" of his wares.

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