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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 25, 2008
Getty Center closed.
February 25, 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.

Focus Tour: Herculaneum Women
Monday February 25, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


In this one-hour tour, explore marble sculptures from the Villa's recent Herculaneum Women exhibition now installed in the Women and Children in Antiquity gallery. Enjoy learning about these sculptures with the behind-the-scenes perspective of a Getty curator. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 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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