Event Calendar
Search the Calendar
July 2006 Next Month
            1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31          
Select by Event Type
Lectures and Conferences
Performances and Films/Videos
Courses and Demonstrations
Family Activities
Tours and Gallery Talks
Readings and Book Signings
Exhibitions
Tickets to the Villa
The Getty Center Los Angeles
July 31, 2006
Getty Center closed.
The Getty Villa Malibu
July 31, 2006
Tickets on the Web for this day are not yet available. Try calling (310) 440-7300.

Tours and Gallery Talks
Getty Villa Inner Peristyle
Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa


This 45-minute site tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, its history, renovation, and new educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.

Spotlight Talk: Victorious Youth
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through July 31, 2006
11 am
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 the Victorious Youth, a Greek bronze sculpture dating from 300-100 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Getty Villa Outer Peristyle
Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2007
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa


This 45-minute tour explores the architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa and their historical prototypes. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.

Lansdowne Herakles
Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2007
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.

Focus Tour: "Boys Will Be Boys"
Monday July 31, 2006
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa


Explore what it meant to grow up as a male in ancient society in this one-hour tour. Learn about a boy's education, rites of passage, warfare, and social rituals. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the day of the tour.

Exhibitions
The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
Daily through September 4, 2006

Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa


This major loan exhibition at the Getty Villa brings together approximately 100 vases produced in Athens during the Archaic and Classical periods, exemplifying the use of special decorative techniques, a subject never before examined as a whole. It includes extraordinary painted pottery produced with familiar red-figure and black-figure decorations, as well as ceramics made with an array of other, often experimental techniques. These include outline drawing; the use of a lustrous coral-red gloss; polychromy; gilding; and vases made from molds or with molded elements. Displaying a combination of techniques and representing objects of the highest level of skill, inventiveness, and artistry, the exhibition provides visitors with an understanding of the range and variety of Greek vases. The exhibition includes analytical and technical information on the processes used by ancient potters and vase-painters, and is accompanied by a catalogue.

 Learn more about this exhibition
The Getty Center Los Angeles The Getty Villa Malibu