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Tours and Talks
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Courses and Demonstrations
Exhibitions
Readings and Book Signings
Autry National Center
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Hammer Museum
Huntington Library
Japanese American National Museum
LACMA
Los Angeles Public Library
MAK Center for Art & Architecture
MoCA
Museum of Latin American Art
Natural History Museum
Norton Simon Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Skirball Cultural Center
Fowler Museum at UCLA
February 27, 2010
Performances and Films
Saturday Nights at the Getty: Money Mark and Emily Wells
Saturday February 27, 2010
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center


Violinist and singer Emily Wells loves rap music and Vivaldi. Money Mark (Mark Ramos-Nishita) is a musician and producer who transformed the sound of the Beastie Boys. From these unique perspectives, the two artists come together for a special collaborative performance, where classical roots meld with hip-hop rhythms, looped violin melodies, funk, folk, and Afro-Cuban- and Latin-inspired jams.

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Courses and Demonstrations
Experiencing the Getty Collection: Food in Art (Part 1)
Saturday February 27, 2010
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center


From early court banquets to the daily meals of today, learn about the role of food as represented in art throughout the centuries in this three-part course. Examine decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, and photographs in the Getty's collection with Museum educator Lilit Sadoyan, exploring the symbolism, function, and etiquette of food in art. Course fee $15 per session. Open to 30 participants.

Part 1: Saturday, February 27, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Feasting and Banquets
Part 2: Saturday, March 27, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Metaphorical Meals
Part 3: Saturday, April 24, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Tasteful Pictures

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Art Circles
Saturday February 27, 2010
6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Enrich your Saturday night! Join an open-ended discussion in the Museum galleries to heighten your appreciation and understanding of the visual arts. Study and explore one masterpiece of the collection with a museum educator. The chosen work of art changes every session, making each visit a new experience. Course fee $20 per session (includes a sandwich voucher). Open to 25 participants. Meet at the Museum Information Desk for course introduction.

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Family Activities
Family Art Stops
Weekends through May 23, 2010
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Get up close and personal with a work of art during this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared towards families with children ages 5 and up. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.

Special spring break schedule: Tuesdays–Sundays, March 30–April 11, 2:00 and 2:30 p.m.

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Tours and Gallery Talks
Garden Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Getty Center


This is a 45-minute tour of the Getty gardens, including Robert Irwin's Central Garden. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.

Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through February 28, 2010
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 a drawing by Rembrandt from the exhibition Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

¡Bienvenidos al Getty!
Weekends
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Disfruten de una breve y divertida introducción al Museo y sus colecciones. Las familias son bienvenidas. Los esperamos en la sala de entrada del Museo bajo la escalera.

Getty Center
Architecture Tour
Daily
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center


Discover more about Richard Meier's architecture and the design of the Getty Center site in this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.

Halberdier / Pontormo
Collection Highlights Tour
Daily
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Rembrandt and His Times Tour
Daily through February 28, 2010
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Survey the Museum's collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century—focusing on Rembrandt and his contemporaries—in this special, one-hour tour. Meet the Museum educator at the Museum Information Desk.

Rembrandt and His Times Tour
Daily through February 28, 2010
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center


Survey the Museum's collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century—focusing on Rembrandt and his contemporaries—in this special, one-hour tour. Meet the Museum educator at the Museum Information Desk.

Exhibitions
La Roldana's Saint Gines
La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
Daily

South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


Luisa Roldán (Spanish, 1650–1704), affectionately known as La Roldana, was one of the most celebrated and prolific sculptors of the Baroque period. This intimate exhibition introduces visitors to La Roldana, whose artistic superiority catapulted her to fame at the royal court in an otherwise male-dominated profession. She ran a workshop, worked for the king, raised a family, and was a celebrity in her own day. With her polychrome sculpture of Saint Ginés de la Jara from the Getty Museum's collection as a focal point, this exhibition explores the artist's life, artistic achievement, and the multifaceted process used to create masterfully lifelike polychrome sculpture.

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Foundry to Finish
Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily

North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


Get a rare look at how bronze sculpture is born in Foundry to Finish. Visitors explore a process called direct lost-wax casting—a method that yields a single, unique bronze cast of an artist's original clay-and-wax model. Thirteen step-by-step models illustrate the sculpting and casting process. Through X-radiographs, visitors can even get a glimpse inside an original sculpture to see firsthand evidence of how the bronze was cast. The installation complements Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, an international touring exhibition also on view.

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In Focus: The Worker
In Focus: The Worker
Daily through March 21, 2010

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


The invention of photography was announced in 1839, when the Industrial Revolution was transforming patterns of daily life in the Western world. Workers of all types were central to these changes and the camera was used—more than any other artistic medium—to depict them. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's collection, this exhibition brings together more than 40 photographs that demonstrate shifting attitudes towards the worker over much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition
Drawing Life: The Dutch Visual Tradition
Daily through February 28, 2010

West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center


During the 1600s, citizens of the Netherlands witnessed increasing political freedom, religious tolerance, and economic prosperity that resulted in a boom of artistic patronage and art production. Dutch artists began to portray their native land with its bustling cities, rustic countryside, and placid waterways. These landscapes were complemented by scenes of everyday life in which peasants frolicked, merchants ice skated, and cows rested in fields. This exhibition of Dutch drawings from the Getty's collection traces the invention of these new genres and examines the persistence of these genres in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Daily through February 28, 2010

Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center


Distilling over 30 years of scholarly research, this major international loan exhibition presents a singular opportunity to explore the differences between Rembrandt's drawings and those of more than 14 pupils and followers. In carefully selected pairings of celebrated drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils, the exhibition outlines these artistic differences and sheds light on the art of drawing in Rembrandt's circle and the vibrant creative life within the master's studio.

A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick  H. Evans
A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans
Daily through June 6, 2010

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


Frederick H. Evans (English, 1853–1943) began pursuing photography in the mid-1880s. Focusing on architecture, he paid particular attention to medieval cathedrals in England and France. His images of York Minster and Ely Cathedral are among the most renowned architectural renderings in the history of photography. He attempted to capture what he called "a record of an emotion," by invoking the potent symbolism of these awe-inspiring spaces. These photographs and other cathedral subjects are displayed alongside rarely seen landscapes of the English countryside and intimate portraits of the artist's family and friends, including writer George Bernard Shaw and artist Aubrey Beardsley.

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Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim
Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim
Daily through June 6, 2010

West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center


Highlighting images by three contemporary photographers—each of whom implements a panoramic viewpoint to examine a specific urban environment—this exhibition explores the essential rhythms of three cities while showing the range of technologies used by photographic artists today. Catherine Opie (American, born 1961) created inkjet prints from scans of 7x17-inch negatives of the mini-malls that characterize Los Angeles's automobile culture. Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwanese, born 1977) digitally combined color film negatives into seamless inkjet prints for his Habitat 7 project, which traces the route of the New York subway from Queens to Manhattan. By layering hand-cut chromogenic prints made in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, during the summer solstice, Soo Kim (American, born South Korea, 1969) achieved the three-dimensional effect of a semitransparent city.

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Migrations of the Mind
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Daily through April 18, 2010

Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center


Highlights from this extraordinary collection of illustrated manuscripts on the history of science and ideas—exhibited together publicly for the first time—demonstrate the circulation of knowledge around the world and across cultures during the medieval and early modern periods. Medieval Muslim and Christian medicine, Chinese acupuncture, secret experiments in alchemical laboratories, codebooks for keeping secrets secret, and French and Persian visions of the cosmos that blend science with spirituality are among the treasures on display. These manuscripts were produced for caliphs, popes, merchants, and scientists. Copied and illustrated by hand, their contents—their ideas and visions—illustrate the human urge for knowledge and creative invention.

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February 27, 2010
Courses and Demonstrations
Drawing from Antiquity
Saturdays through February 27, 2010
9:30 am
Meeting Rooms, Getty Villa


Join fellow novice and professional artists in Drawing from Antiquity, featuring a different theme every month. Artist Peter Zokosky guides a lesson and critique on the first and fourth Saturdays; participants work independently on remaining Saturdays. Course fee $65.

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Glass-Handling Sessions
Saturdays through April 24, 2010
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Museum, Floor 1, Getty Villa


Enjoy an opportunity to handle original works of art made by contemporary glassmakers. Drop by the Reading Room adjacent to the exhibition Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity to explore the enduring practice of ancient glassmaking techniques.

Thursdays, 1:30–3:30 p.m.
Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Sundays, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Family Activities
Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Enjoy a fun, activity-filled visit for children (ages 5 and up) and adults in this 45-minute journey through the galleries. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance beginning 15 minutes before the program.

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Tours and Gallery Talks
Spotlight Talk
Thursdays - Sundays through February 28, 2010
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Learn how to look at ancient art in this 20-minute gallery talk examining in-depth one work in the collection. The featured object this month is a Vessel with Leda and the Swan from about 330 B.C. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.

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


Learn about the Getty Villa's architecture and educational mission in this 40-minute introduction to the site. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.

Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends
11 am
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.

Getty Villa Outer Peristyle
Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa


Explore the ancient Roman world through the Museum's architecture and gardens in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.

Focus Tour: Learning to Look Closer
Saturday February 27, 2010
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Museum visitors spend about 30 seconds or less viewing a work of art. Learn how to take time to look closer. This interactive tour presents techniques for engaging with the MuseumÕs collection, including comparing objects, sketching, and discussion. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.

Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


In 2003, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a collection of over 350 pieces of ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The works on view in Molten Color are remarkable for their high quality, their chronological breadth, and the glassmaking techniques illustrated by their manufacture. The vessels are accompanied by text and videos illustrating ancient glassmaking techniques.

Roman Ephebe from Naples
Daily

Getty Villa


Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.