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April 27, 2013 |
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Performances and Films |
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Film Series: In Tokyo
Saturday April 27, 2013
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Tokyo is the moral and geographic backdrop in this six-part film series exploring the city's surface beauty and dark underbelly. This film series complements the exhibition Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto and examines the complexity of modern life in Japan during the careers of these influential and divergent artists.
Tokyo Drifter (1966, Seijun Suzuki, 89 minutes, 35mm)
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Film Series: In Tokyo
Saturday April 27, 2013
7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Tokyo is the moral and geographic backdrop in this six-part film series exploring the city's surface beauty and dark underbelly. This film series complements the exhibition Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto and examines the complexity of modern life in Japan during the careers of these influential and divergent artists.
Street of Shame (1956, Kenji Mizoguchi, 87 minutes, 35mm)
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Art Circles
Saturday April 27, 2013
6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enrich your Saturday nights. Join an open-ended discussion in the galleries to heighten your appreciation and understanding of the visual arts by exploring one masterpiece with an educator. The chosen work of art changes every session, making each visit a new experience. Course fee $10 per session (includes a sandwich voucher; parking not included). Open to 26 participants. Meet at the Information Desk for course introduction.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Saturdays through June 29, 2013
2:30 pm, 3 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. Sign-up begins 30 minutes before the program at the Museum Information Desk.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Garden Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Getty Center
The gardens of the Getty are the focus of this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside
at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.
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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.
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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 the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibition Tour: Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future: 1940–1990
Daily through July 20, 2013
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Explore the rise of Los Angeles as an international locus of architecture in this special one-hour overview of the exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future: 1940–1990. Meet the educator at the Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display
Daily
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
From the time an object is made until the day it enters a museum's collection, it may be displayed, used, and perceived in different ways. The Life of Art takes selected objects from the Getty Museum's galleries and encourages visitors to sit down and spend time with them, offering the opportunity to examine them closely to understand how they were made and functioned, why they were collected, and how they have been displayed. Through careful looking, what may be learned about the maker and previous owners of a French gilt-bronze wall light, for example, or the transformation in England of a Chinese porcelain bowl? Close engagement reveals the full lives of these works and why they continue to be collected and cherished today.
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Untold Stories: Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts
Daily through May 12, 2013
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
For hundreds of years, manuscripts have been bought and sold, hidden and displayed, preserved and rearranged, loved and forgotten, cut into pieces, hung on the wall, and glued into albums. At times valued for their beauty, for their religious significance, or simply for the strength of their parchment pages, the manuscripts in this exhibition have been transformed again and again to suit the changing expectations of their various audiences and owners. Drawn from the Getty Museum's permanent collection and including several outside loans, the exhibition reveals the ways in which manuscripts have been refashioned both conceptually and physically and explores the long and eventful history of these books before their entry into the Museum.
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Looking East: Rubens's Encounter with Asia
Daily through June 9, 2013
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in seventeenth-century Europe. During his illustrious career as a court painter and diplomat, Rubens expressed a fascination with exotic costumes and headdresses. With his masterful handling of black chalk and touches of red, Rubens executed a compelling drawing that features a figure wearing Asian costume—a depiction that has recently been identified as Man in Korean Costume. Now in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, this drawing is the focal point of an exhibition that explores for the first time what the Flemish artist could have known about Asia in general and Korea in particular.
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Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
Daily through August 25, 2013
West Pavilion, Lower Level, Getty Center
This exhibition presents the work of two photographers whose careers spanned much of the twentieth century, or the Showa Era (1926–1989) as it is known in Japan. Hiroshi This exhibition presents the work of two photographers whose careers spanned much of the twentieth century, or the Showa Era (1926–1989) as it is known in Japan. Hiroshi Hamaya (1915–1999) and Kansuke Yamamoto (1914–1987) began as teenagers to experiment with various formal approaches and techniques in photography. As their work matured, however, they took very different paths. Through the display of works from Japanese as well as U.S. collections, the exhibition examines two important strains in Japanese photography: the documentary investigation of regional traditions and social issues, represented in the work of Hamaya; and the avant-garde movement that developed in the context of Western surrealism and advanced through the work of Yamamoto. These two trends not only reflect significant, though rarely shown, activity in the history of Japanese photography but also reveal the complexity of modern life in that nation since the Meiji Restoration.
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Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990
Daily through July 21, 2013
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
During the period 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one of the most populous and influential industrial, economic, and creative capitals in the world. This dynamic exhibition provides an engaging view of the region's diverse urban landscape, including its ambitious freeway network, sleek corporate towers, whimsical coffee shops, popular shopping malls, refined steel-and-glass residences, and eclectic cultural institutions. Drawings, photographs, models, films, animations, oral histories, and ephemera illustrate the complex dimensions of L.A.'s rich and often underappreciated built environment, revealing this metropolis's global impact as a vibrant laboratory for cutting-edge design.
Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
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In Focus: Ed Ruscha
Daily through September 29, 2013
West Pavilion, Lower Level, Getty Center
Photography has played a central role in Ed Ruscha's artistic practice, most notably in the photobooks he began publishing in 1963. Highlighting important recent acquisitions by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition features a selection of prints and materials related to Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). Also on view for the first time are contact sheets from his shoot of the Pacific Coast Highway (1974–75), one of the many streets he has documented extensively since 1965. The exhibition offers a concentrated look at Ruscha's engagement with vernacular architecture, the urban landscape, and car culture. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
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April 27, 2013 |
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Saturdays through July 27, 2013
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Enjoy a fun-filled 30 minute journey through the galleries. For children (ages 5 and up) with adults. Space is limited. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the program at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Daily
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the architecture of the Getty Villa and learn more about daily life in the ancient world in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Garden Tour
Saturdays
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Discover the rich mythological and cultural connections of ancient gardens in this 40-minute tour of the Getty Villa's four Roman gardens. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Tea by the Sea
Saturdays through December 26, 2015
1 pm - 3 pm
Getty Villa
Enjoy Tea by the Sea, a special dining experience inspired by the Mediterranean herbs, vegetables, and fruits that grow at the Villa. Feast on a Mediterranean-inspired menu of sweet and savory sandwiches and pastries, along with fruits, cheeses, and a varied selection of teas. After tea, you can tour the Villa's authentically re-created first-century Roman gardens with knowledgeable docents, then spend the rest of the afternoon savoring the Villa's exhibitions and permanent collection. $36 per person.
Please reserve in advance. Call (800)369-3059 or email us at BonAppetitReservations@getty.edu.
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Exhibition Highlights Tour: Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome
Weekends through August 18, 2013
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Join an educator for a one hour tour of this exhibition, which presents masterpieces of ancient art from Sicily, the island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. Innovations
in art, architecture, theater, poetry, philosophy, and science flourished here, leaving an enduring stamp on mainland Greece and later on Rome. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the tour at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Restaurant Events |
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Tea by the Sea
Saturdays through December 26, 2015
1 pm - 3 pm
Getty Villa
Enjoy Tea by the Sea, a special dining experience inspired by the Mediterranean herbs, vegetables, and fruits that grow at the Villa. Feast on a Mediterranean-inspired menu of sweet and savory sandwiches and pastries, along with fruits, cheeses, and a varied selection of teas. After tea, you can tour the Villa's authentically re-created first-century Roman gardens with knowledgeable docents, then spend the rest of the afternoon savoring the Villa's exhibitions and permanent collection. $36 per person.
Please reserve in advance. Call (800)369-3059 or email us at BonAppetitReservations@getty.edu.
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Exhibitions |
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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.
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Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome
Daily through August 19, 2013
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome presents masterpieces of ancient art from the crossroads of the Mediterranean. On the island dear to Demeter and blessed with agricultural abundance, former Greek colonies emerged as powerful kingdoms during the fifth to third centuries B.C. Innovations in art, architecture, theater, poetry, philosophy, and science flourished, leaving an enduring stamp on mainland Greece and later on Rome. Over 150 objects bear witness to the athletic and military victories, religious rituals, opulent lifestyles, and intellectual attainments that shaped Classical culture at its peak.
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Lion Attacking a Horse from the Capitoline Museums, Rome
Daily through May 6, 2013
Museum, Floor 1, Getty Villa
Among the most storied works of art to survive from antiquity, the spectacular Lion Attacking a Horse was created in the era of Alexander the Great. A trophy of war in imperial Rome, then a symbol of justice in the medieval city, this image of savage animal combat was admired by Michelangelo and inspired generations of artists. On the Capitoline Hill, its presence heralded the Renaissance spirit, laying the foundation for the worldÕs first public art collection. The extraordinary loan of this recently conserved marble group, presented in a special installation at the Getty Villa, signals a new partnership between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the civic museums of Rome.
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Relief with Antiochos and Herakles
Daily through May 4, 2015
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
On loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, a stele honoring Prokleides, a military officer in the Athenian army, is on view at the Getty Villa in a gallery (208) devoted to Religious Offerings. Carved in relief above a public decree are figures of Antiochos, the mythical founder of the tribe Antiochis, and his father, the Greek hero Herakles.
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