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June 14, 2008 |
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Performances and Films |
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August Sander: People of the 20th Century
Weekends through June 15, 2008
12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 4:30 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Reiner Holzemer's documentary interweaves historical footage, photographs, and interviews with a former assistant of the artist, museum curators, and his daughter and grandson to elucidate Sander's distinctive approach to portraiture during the Weimar Republic. Paired with tours of the exhibition by Museum educators, this program complements the exhibition August Sander: People of the 20th Century.
Film Screenings at 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., and 4:30 p.m.
Gallery Tours at 1:30 p.m and 3:30 p.m.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Experiencing the Getty Collection: Curator's Choice: Paintings
Saturday June 14, 2008
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Novice and seasoned museumgoers are invited to join in this unique experience of the J. Paul Getty MuseumÕs collection. A selection of recent acquisitions by the Department of Paintings is presented by Mary Morton, associate curator of paintings, in an illustrated lecture. Guided viewing and discussion of master paintings in the galleries is lead by a Museum educator. Course fee $15. Open to 40 participants.
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Family Activities |
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Art Adventures for Families
Weekends through August 31, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Our one-hour tour for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together features a fun, activity-filled visit to the galleries. Ofrecida en español. Space is limited. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Family Art Lab
Thursdays - Sundays through July 13, 2008
11 am - 3:30 pm
Lower Terrace Garden, Getty Center
Join your children in an outdoor, drop-in workshop designed to exercise the imagination. Visit an artwork and then make your own work of art inspired by what you see! Ofrecida en español.
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Family Drawing Hour: Drawing from Nature
Saturday June 14, 2008
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Join us for a close-up look at drawings of exotic plants and animals by artists/explorers Maria Sibylla Merian and daughters; then try your hand at drawing from nature in the Central Garden. The one-hour guided drawing workshop is fun for the whole family. Space is limited. Sign-up begins at 3:00 p.m. at the Museum Information Desk.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Exhibition Tour: August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
Daily through July 13, 2008
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 28, 2008
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Getty Center architecture tours are offered daily by docents. Tours last 30–45 minutes. Meet outside in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
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, 2009
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Central Garden, Getty Center
Garden Tours are offered daily by docents. They focus on the Central Garden and landscaping of the Getty Center site. Tours last 45–60 minutes. Meet in front of the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on modern and contemporary works at the Getty museum by exploring the art and culture of the late 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-centuries. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art
Daily through December 31, 2009
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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Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
Daily through January 11, 2009
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.
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Imagining Christ
Daily through July 27, 2008
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Over a period of almost 2,000 years, the image of Christ has changed and evolved, often in response to political forces or social changes. This exhibition of manuscripts from the Getty Museum's collection covers the years from around 1000 to 1500, and explores how medieval Christians pictured Christ as both divine judge and human son of God, and even used Christ's image to express such complex religious concepts as the Trinity. The exhibition examines the role Christ played in the imaginative life of medieval and renaissance viewers, demonstrating how in focusing on certain aspects of Christ—most notably his suffering—viewers gained access to their own piety.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
Daily through September 14, 2008
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Bernd and Hilla Becher began investigating basic forms of industrial architecture in Western Europe and the United States in 1959. Their collaboration has resulted in a body of work that is immediately recognizable for its spare and systematic style, an approach that is directly indebted to August Sander's categorization of basic social types by profession and class. Many of the Bechers' early images were taken in the Siegen district, where Sander's subjects had lived or worked half a century before.
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Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science
Daily through August 31, 2008
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647–1717) was a pioneering woman of art, science, and business. She was an accomplished painter of flowers and insects and an entomologist from an early age. In her 50s, she traveled to Suriname, then a Dutch colony in South America, to study extraordinary insects first hand. Working with her two daughters, Merian made and produced one of the greatest illustrated natural history books of all time, The Insects of Suriname. This exhibition introduces Maria Sibylla Merian to American audiences and focuses on natural history illustration. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum Het Rembrandthuis.
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Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera
Daily through August 10, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
This exhibition of notable acquisitions that have entered the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in the past ten years brings together two complementary aspects of the medium of photography: a "painterly" approach used by many artists to set their work apart from that of practitioners of a more documentary style, and the apparatus integral to the resulting pictures. Whether the connection to painting is in the form of traditional subject matter (portraits, landscapes), one-of-a-kind prints, or the translation of a painterly vocabulary into a photograph, artists are always drawn to new materials. The pictures and the equipment presented here provide insight into photography as a unique marriage of art and technology.
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August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
Daily through September 14, 2008
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
This exhibition presents August Sander's collective portrait of the German people during the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with farmers, skilled tradesmen and professionals, women and artists, and ending with the disabled and disenfranchised, Sander arranged his portraits in groupings that examined his sitters according to their classes and professions, as well as their association with the country or the city. Neither snapshots nor conventional studio portraits, Sander's images have an appeal that is timeless and universal.
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June 14, 2008 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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"True" versus "Colored" Sculpture: A Nineteenth-Century Debate about the Renaissance
Saturday June 14, 2008
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Color was used extensively in sculpture, from antiquity through the Renaissance. But the leading art historian of the 19th century, Jakob Burckhardt, despised color in sculpture and the excessive realism it created. "True" sculpture, he argued, was colorless. Bruce Boucher, curator of European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores this debate and further explains Burckhardt's antipathy towards polychromed sculpture.
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Family Activities |
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ArtQuest
Weekends through September 7, 2008
11 am - 3:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Come by anytime between 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. for a unique art experience for families designed to inspire artists of all ages. Learn how ancient artists worked and try your own hand at making a masterpiece!
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through December 29, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 45-minute journey through the galleries features a fun, activity-filled visit for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together. Space is limited. Ofrecida en español. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 15 minutes prior to the start of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, focusing on its architecture and educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 30, 2009
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 a.m.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2009
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 Store.
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Spotlight Talk
Weekends through June 30, 2008
1:30 pm
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 featured object is a Roman mosaic floor featuring a boxing scene. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 15 minutes before the talk.
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The Color Of Life Exhibition Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 21, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this one-hour tour, explore the Villa's current exhibition The Color of Life, which presents an alternative history of sculpture and reveals the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia. Learn about the history of color in sculpture and its place in western taste. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present
Daily through June 23, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Focusing on representations of the human figure, this exhibition explores the role of color in sculpture and its place in Western taste. Ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance statues were regularly painted, but Neoclassical collecting interests and aesthetic concerns have privileged monochrome marble and bronze. Following recent research on ancient pigments, The Color of Life includes a variety of masterpieces that reveal the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia.
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The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History
Daily through September 8, 2008
Museum, Getty Villa
A Roman marble statue of Hygieia, ancient goddess of health, was found at Ostia in 1797 and restored shortly thereafter. The sculpture was first acquired by the British interior designer Thomas Hope and was later owned by American newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The figure's 19th-century restorations were removed in the 1970s, but these historical additions were recently reintegrated at the Getty Villa. On loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hope Hygieia exemplifies evolving attitudes toward the restoration and display of classical sculpture on the part of collectors, curators, and conservators.
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