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February 21, 2007 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Rembrandt's Paper Trail - Lecture by Gary Schwartz
Wednesday February 21, 2007
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
"Shakespeare's laundry bills" is the mocking term sometimes applied to archival research in the arts, as if dry documents can never add to our understanding of art. In the study of Dutch art, this attitude was overturned when hundreds of revealing documents were uncovered by Amsterdam archivists; when economic historians demonstrated patterns that could only be found in the archives; and when the inventory and auction records in the Getty Provenance Index became an indispensable resource. Distinguished art historian Gary Schwartz has been following and participating in these developments for many years. Schwartz examines the field with regard to Rembrandt research in this Third Annual Lecture of the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provanance (PSCP). The PSCP is an initiative of the Getty Research Institute and the University of Southern California's Program in the History of Collecting and Display. It supports the study of art collecting by broadening resource accessibility, creating institutional linkages globally, and hosting conferences, workshops and scholarly meetings. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Reservations required - standby entrance as space allows. Museum Lecture Hall.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2007
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
This is a 45-minute tour of the architecture and Richard Meier's design of the Getty Center. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance of the Museum.
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Hidden Compartments: A Revealing Look Inside French Furniture (Curator's Gallery Talk)
Wednesday February 21, 2007
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Charissa Bremer-David, associate curator of sculpture and decorative arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, opens doors and drawers to reveal the hidden interiors and secret compartments of French furniture in the Museum's galleries. Strictly limited to 15 participants. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 10:00 a.m. the day of the program.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through March 25, 2007
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.
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Garden Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, 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.
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Focus Tour: Neoclassical Art
Wednesdays through February 28, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on Neoclassical art made between 1750 and 1820, when Europeans on the Grand Tour encountered works from the ancient past that inspired a new artistic style. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Point-of-View: Artist Talk
Wednesday February 21, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Evangelos Zournatzis, icon painter and independent scholar, discusses the practice and history of icon painting in conjunction with the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 12:00 p.m. the day of the program.
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Icons from Sinai Exhibition Tour
Daily through March 4, 2007
3 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai. Space is limited. Line forms at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 2:30 p.m.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through February 25, 2007
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 Getty Epistles by the Master of the Getty Epistles. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection
Daily through February 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Since 1998 Los Angeles collectors Bruce and Nancy Berman have donated 467 recent American photographs to the Getty Museum. Featuring 168 prints drawn from their gifts, as well as a selection of loans, this exhibition highlights the diverse work of 24 important contemporary photographers from across many regions of the country. The result is a wide-ranging survey of time and place in the United States since the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of John Divola, Jim Dow, Doug Dubois, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Karen Halverson, Alex Harris, Sheron Rupp, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, George Tice, and the team of Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee, among others. Primarily using large formats and color, the photographers—with backgrounds in art, anthropology, psychology, and sociology—work in diverse styles yet share an interest in preserving late 20th-century America. This exhibition inaugurates the new Center for Photographs on the Terrace level (L2) of the West Pavilion.
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through August 5, 2007
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition traces the study of one Getty object to determine its date and place of manufacture. The cabinet, acquired in 1971, had since the 1980s been believed to be a pastiche if not an outright fake. However, documentary research and technical analysis undertaken by experts at the Getty revealed that the cabinet, rather than being a compromised object, is one of the most important pieces of French Renaissance furniture in the United States. This case study of the research into the authenticity of the cabinet presents the results of scientific and visual analyses of the object, studies of related materials, archival research, and other evidence. It is a story of how new information, careful research, and evolving analytic processes can alter our understanding of the art of the past.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2008
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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Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent
Daily through March 25, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This exhibition highlights the recent acquisition of a unique silver sculpture, La Machine d'Argent (1754), made by the French royal silversmith François-Thomas Germain (1726–1791). In the tradition of trophies of the hunt, the piece represents an assemblage of two game birds, a rabbit, and vegetables. The exhibition places the significance, beauty, and naturalistic virtuosity of La Machine d'Argent within the context of French mid-18th-century art, as illustrated through select loans of paintings and prints along with other works in silver and gilt bronze in the Getty Museum's collection.
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Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai
Daily through March 4, 2007
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt, is the oldest continuously operating Christian monastery in existence. The basilica and fortified walls were commissioned by the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the 6th century. This exhibition features a selection of artistic treasures from Saint Catherine's, which possesses one of the world's finest collections of Byzantine icons and manuscripts. Forty-three icons, five manuscripts, and several precious objects used in the celebration of the liturgy are on view. Icons from Sinai reveals the central role of icons in Byzantine spiritual practices and conveys their vital function in religious celebrations. It also shows how the monastery's geographic and historical position as a major pilgrimage destination engendered its astonishing collection of icons and books. The exhibition, accompanied by a major scholarly catalogue, features a film about the monastery and the site, including footage of Greek Orthodox Easter services.
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French Manuscript Illumination of the Middle Ages
Daily through April 15, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Throughout the Middle Ages manuscript illumination was a major art form in France, a favorite of French kings and high-ranking nobles. This exhibition of 25 manuscripts and leaves from the Getty Museum's collection highlights the achievement of French painting in books from the 800s to the 1500s. The exhibition traces manuscript production from its origins in early monastic centers, through its expansion into cities (with the advent of universities), and finally explores the relationship between painting on panel and manuscript painting in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. Book illumination is considered in the context of stained-glass paintings and panel paintings, also drawn from the Museum's collection.
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Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts
Daily through May 20, 2007
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Many of the greatest draftsmen of the Renaissance and Baroque eras made drawings for sculpture and the decorative arts. This exhibition comprises drawings for objects to be executed in a range of media, including metal, wood, glass, ceramics, and stone. It explores how artists translated two-dimensional designs into three-dimensional objects. Spanning the 1400s to the 1700s, the exhibition includes drawings from the Italian, German, French, Spanish, Netherlandish, and Flemish schools, all from the collection of the Getty Museum and an anonymous lender. It also presents new acquisitions, such as Design for a Quatrefoil (about 1475–90) by an artist in the circle of the Housebook Master and the Design for an Ewer (1629) by Stefano della Bella.
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From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden
Daily through April 29, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Emerging from a partnership between the Getty Museum and the Dresden State Museums, this exhibition presents a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister, one of the foremost collections of German art from 1800 to the present. Not a traditional survey, this exhibition instead presents 18 works by the two best-known painters from Dresden: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840), the key voice of German Romanticism, and Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932), the most significant German artist working today. The works by Friedrich include his 1809 masterwork, Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altarpiece), while Richter is represented by 12 Abstractions from 2005. Twelve other paintings by such artists as Carl Gustav Carus, Johann Christian Dahl, Otto Dix, and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff are interspersed throughout the Museum's permanent collection of paintings. These juxtapositions address diverse aspects of German art between 1800 and World War I, including Romanticism and the sublime and the interrelationships between Germany's artistic heritage and European culture at large. An illustrated catalogue, featuring an interview with Gerhard Richter, accompanies the exhibition.
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Sigmar Polke: Photographs, 1968–1972
Daily through May 20, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This presentation of 35 photographs by Sigmar Polke (German, b. 1941) includes still life compositions of objects that the artist has found in his studio or excerpted from popular culture, as well as multiple exposures and prints developed in a manner that emulates his predilection to layer unrelated subjects and techniques in his painting. Identified only by the name of the city in which they were made, these photographs demonstrate the range of Polke's early fascination with the photographic medium and his desire to explore its expressive potential. Acquired in 1984, this group of photographs constitutes an important component of the Getty Museum's holdings of work by painters who have turned to the camera.
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February 21, 2007 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date, except for the following event(s):
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Drawing from Antiquity
Wednesday February 21, 2007
2 pm - 5 pm
Education Studio, Getty Villa
Enjoy the Getty Villa on a day when it's closed to the public! Sharpen your drawing skills by looking closely at art objects in the galleries, as well as the architecture and gardens. Artist Michael Wiesmeier provides guidance; all experience levels welcome. Course fee $15. Open to 20 participants.
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