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April 5, 2006 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Caesar and Cleopatra: From Lucan to Las Vegas (Lecture)
Wednesday April 5, 2006
11 am
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Maria Wyke, chair of Latin at University College, London, lectures on the afterlife of Caesar's infamous stay from 48 to 47 B.C. in Alexandria, where he allegedly had an encounter with Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Although Caesar avoids reference to this intimate relationship in his own writings, other ancient sources such as Lucan's Bellum Civile denounce the emperor as having been corrupted by erotic distraction. Wyke looks at the dissemination of this story into 20th-century popular culture, taking as case studies the 1963 epic film Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and Caesars Palace hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the Getty Research Institute scholar year theme "Duration: Persistence of Antiquity."
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through April 7, 2006
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. The 2:30 p.m. session is also offered in Spanish. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30-minutes prior to the start of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays through April 6, 2006
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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Collection Highlights Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays through April 6, 2006
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Also offered in Spanish at 11:00 a.m. on the weekends. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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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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Courbet and the Modern Landscape Exhibition Tour
Daily through May 14, 2006
1:30 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Meet at the Information Desk in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Neoclassical Art
Wednesdays through June 27, 2007
3 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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Current Exhibitions |
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Robert Adams: Landscapes of Harmony and Dissonance
Daily through May 28, 2006
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Robert Adams (American, born 1937) has photographed the landscape of the American West for more than forty years, particularly in California, Colorado and Oregon. His vision is inspired on the one hand by his joy in its inherent natural beauty and on the other hand by his dismay at its exploitation and degradation. Adams uses photography to express his love for the landscape and to understand how urban and industrial growth have changed it, all the while insisting that beauty in the world has not been entirely eclipsed. He observes with unblinking but tender simplicity the whole geography, including recent development, and asks us through his photographs to consider where we live and how we relate to our environment. This exhibition features 68 photographs drawn from the Getty Museum's strong holding of more than one hundred prints by Adams, augmented by loans from other sources.
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Courbet and the Modern Landscape
Daily through May 14, 2006
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
This exhibition brings together 47 landscape paintings by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) to focus for the first time on his extraordinary innovation in this genre. Courbet's landscapes of the 1860s forced a break from the tradition of viewing painting as an experience of reading and interpreting to that of witnessing an original, vital performance-in-paint. His landscape planted the seeds of modernist painting and defined artistic issues that would concern the Impressionists, changing the course of painting for the next 100 years. The exhibition has been organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walters Art Museum, and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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The Medieval Bookshelf: From Romance to Astronomy
Daily through April 9, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A wide variety of secular books were illuminated throughout the Middle Ages, including law texts, philosophical works, historical chronicles, scientific treatises, and even romances. This exhibition of approximately 21 manuscripts and leaves offers a look at some of the most beautiful medieval secular manuscripts from the Museum's collection.
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A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered
Daily through December 28, 2008
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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Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938
Daily through June 25, 2006
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Drawing exclusively from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition concentrates on the diverse output of art history's most significant photomontage artist, the German originally named Helmut Herzfeld. Focusing on his success at creating a politically engaged visual rhetoric, the exhibition includes examples of German and American periodicals in which John Heartfield published his work, and shows how he transformed a procedure that once lay in the domain of advertising and avant-garde art into a broadly significant mode of mass communication. This exhibition concentrates on the interwar world of publishing in which Heartfield's images appeared, illustrated through examples of original press photographs from the Research Library's Stefan Lorant collection and correspondence such as that between Heartfield's widow and the renowned typographer Jan Tschichold.
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Degas at the Getty
Daily through June 11, 2006
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) is at once the most traditional and the most modern of 19th-century artists. Academically trained and steeped in the history of art, Degas used his immersion in work of past masters to bring an intellectual and formal rigor to the novel subjects of contemporary life, such as dancers and shop girls, with which he has become synonymous. Degas also pushed the boundaries of traditional subjects such as portraits and bathers, using the human form and face to present unusual viewpoints and penetrating psychology. On the occasion of the Getty Museum's recent acquisitions of the pastel drawing Miss Lala at the Fernando Circus and the painting The Milliners, this exhibition brings together works by this seminal artist from across the Museum's paintings, drawings and photographs collections. From the youthful Self-portrait to the late painting After the Bath, the Getty's collections span Degas's career, and the exhibition highlights three of his key subjects: portraits, popular entertainments and social life, and bathers.
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Carmontelle's Transparency: An 18th-Century Motion Picture
Daily through June 18, 2006
East Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Invented by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle (French, 1717-1806), the transparency, a transparent drawing that was rolled through a back-lit viewing box, was a forerunner of the modern motion picture. The Getty Museum's 12-foot-long transparency, Figures Walking in a Parkland, is the focus of this exhibition, and will be displayed with a facsimile of the transparency in a viewing box. Eighteenth-century drawings from the Museum's collection will also be on view to complement Carmontelle's invention.
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2006
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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April 5, 2006 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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