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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 21, 2008
Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Center
Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 29, 2008
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 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.

Neoclassicism
Focus Tour: Neoclassical and Romantic Art
Thursdays through June 30, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on neoclassicism and romanticism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive movements of the 18th- and 19th-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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Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love
Daily through May 4, 2008

West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


This small, focused exhibition assembles a group of paintings, drawings, and prints—for the first time—to examine the late allegories of love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). This project comes out of research based on the Getty Museum's painting, The Fountain of Love, which was acquired in 1999. The exhibition concentrates on the extraordinary, and still little-known, later works of Fragonard, in which he embarked on a series of dramatic reflections on the subject of romantic love, adopting a newly-restrained palette and allegorical vocabulary, while retaining his famously fluid and effortless handling.

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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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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 ago.

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Rare Finds: Ten Years of Collecting Manuscripts
Daily through April 20, 2008

North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Getty Center, the Manuscripts Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum is mounting an exhibition of selected acquisitions of the past ten years. The display includes some of the collection's illuminated treasures including the 12th-century Stammheim Missal, a masterpiece of German medieval art; the Avranches psalter, one of the earliest examples of Gothic book painting in France; three miniature paintings from a famous 14th-century Florentine hymnal; the unique copy of a racy epistolary novel written by the future Pope Pius II; and the portrait of King Louis XII of France from his book of hours. The selection includes a strong representation of manuscripts and miniatures ranging from the 13th to the 16th centuries from Italy along with examples of illumination from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Ethiopia.

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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 21, 2008
Tours and Gallery Talks
Elgin Throne Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through February 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 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.

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.

Lansdowne Herakles
Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


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 Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:45 p.m.

Conservator's Gallery Talk: The Conservation of Metal Objects
Thursday February 21, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


In this 30-minute gallery talk, learn how the Antiquities Conservation department approaches the treatment of metal objects in the Getty's collection through study of ancient technology. Learn about ancient bronze casting techniques and methods for conserving bronze objects. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.

Exhibitions
The Magnificent Piranesi
Daily through March 10, 2008

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


Architect, archaeologist, polemicist, and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778) was a lifelong champion of Rome. He published more than a thousand etchings of the 18th-century city and ancient Roman monuments. These prints reveal the innovative and visionary side of Piranesi, who readily exaggerated features of the sites and objects he documented. Unusual in scale, his images were often so magnificent that tourists who had seen them before visiting Rome were sometimes left disappointed by the actual city. Featuring impressive examples of Piranesi's books and prints in the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition presents an overview of his extraordinary range of activities: from penning polemics and recording archaeological data to sketching dramatic views, imagining prisons, and creating stylish advertisements for his wares.

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