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August 15, 2007 |
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Performances and Films |
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The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Wednesday August 15, 2007
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Prepare for an eclectic journey through The Old, Weird America. Rani Singh's new documentary film tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, from the initial compilation of 78s from rural Americana in the 1920s and '30s to its release on Folkways Records in 1952. Instrumental in helping inspire the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology continues to influence modern music. An incredible set of interviews with musicians including Elvis Costello, John Cohen, David Johansen, and Greil Marcus, reveals the lasting impact of the Anthology and the remarkable personality of Harry Smith.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Tuesdays - Fridays through August 31, 2007
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 and Sundays through June 29, 2008
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 and Sundays through September 2, 2007
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. The 11:00 a.m. tour is offered in English and Spanish on weekends. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Garden Tour
Daily through June 29, 2008
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 August 29, 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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Oudry's Painted Menagerie Exhibition Tour
Daily through September 2, 2007
3 pm
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Enjoy an introduction to exotic animals through a guided tour of the life size animal portraits created by Jean Baptiste Oudry, one of Louis XV's favorite court painters. 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, 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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Oudry's Painted Menagerie
Daily through September 2, 2007
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755) was the principal animal painter during the first half of Louis XV's reign. Commissioned to paint a portrait series of the animals in the king's royal menagerie at Versailles, Oudry employed his prodigious talents and illustrative power to produce life-size paintings of a lion, an antelope, a male and a female leopard, and several other exotic animals and fowl. Oudry's Painted Menagerie features twelve paintings, including a life-size portrait of a famous rhinoceros named Clara (the subject of a multiyear project of the Getty Museum's Paintings Conservation Department), and a group of Oudry's drawings. Meissen porcelain, clocks, paintings, prints, and drawings represent the sociocultural phenomenon of exotic animal celebrity in the 18th century. This exhibition has been organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Staatliches Museum Schwerin and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Defining Modernity: European Drawings, 1800–1900
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The development of new materials, the expansion of artistic themes to include subjects from modern life, and the increased demand for images created by new print mediums all invigorated the practice of drawing during the 1800s. This exhibition surveys the depth and variety of 19th-century draftsmanship with works from the Getty Museum's collection and loans from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. It features works by artists such as Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, who exploited the new subjects and materials of drawing and used traditional subjects and mediums in innovative ways. This exhibition inaugurates the new galleries for drawings on the Plaza Level of the West Pavilion.
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Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson
Daily through September 16, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
To inaugurate a series of artists' projects at the Getty Museum, internationally recognized Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson (American, b. 1960) has created four new works for first-time display. Zoopsia offers playful, alternative perspectives on the natural world. Concurrently, Überorgan, described by Hawkinson as a massive, self-playing, walk-in organ of balloons and horns, will be installed in the Museum Entrance Hall for its Los Angeles debut. Previously exhibited in Massachusetts and New York, Überorgan changes with each installation in response to the site. Typically incorporating household and industrial materials, and often mechanized to emit sound, evoke breath, or record the passage of time, Hawkinson's extraordinary art links form, process, and meaning to create unique and provocative viewing experiences.
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Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye
Daily through November 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The Getty Museum presents the first West Coast exhibition featuring the work of Luc Delahaye (French, b. 1962), including 10 photographs depicting recent world events. Inspired by a documentary approach to photography, his large-scale color works urge reflection about the relationships among art, information, and history. The direct nature of the photographs, the detachment and the rich details that emerge from them contradict but also enhance their dramatic intensity and narrative power.
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Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Daily through September 9, 2007
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
This focus exhibition highlights one of the great masterpieces of 19th-century French art, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, the 1882 Salon painting by Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883) on loan to the Getty from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. The exhibition runs concurrently with Defining Modernity: European Drawings, 1800-1900, which also features several Courtauld loans, and is accompanied by a detailed illustrated brochure providing the viewer with essential historical, social, and critical context.
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Evidence of Movement
Daily through October 7, 2007
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
In the collecting and display of art, performance has posed strong challenges to traditional notions of both the art collection and the archive. Unlike painting or sculpture, performance-based art lacks an original, fully-present and self-contained object. Because of this, archival material such as documentary photography, film and video, and artistsŐ notes and sketches are often studied, collected, and exhibited as works of art. Drawn primarily from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition surveys the variety of creative means by which artists have used traditional media to document performance-based art.
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Music for the Masses: Illuminated Choir Books
Daily through October 28, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Some of the largest and most beautiful manuscripts that survive from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are books containing the music of Christian church ceremonies. This exhibition of over 40 manuscripts and leaves from the Getty Museum's collection explores a variety of themes including: the types of medieval books that contained music; the evolving forms of musical notation; the individuals who used these books in their worship and the famous artists who painted the illuminations; and especially, the scenes from the Old Testament and from the lives of Christ and the saints that decorate the hymns. Accompanying the exhibition are recorded versions of selected chants from the manuscripts on display.
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Edward Weston: Enduring Vision
Daily through November 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958) began his long career in Southern California. The Getty Museum's collection of Weston prints is among the most significant of any art museum, spanning four decades of the artist's work. This exhibition traces the breadth of Weston's accomplishments in California, Mexico, and across the United States, employing a selection of prints drawn from the Museum's holdings alongside a smaller number of complementary loans. One gallery of the exhibition is devoted to the work of Weston's colleagues and students.
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August 15, 2007 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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