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September 6, 2007 |
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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
Daily through June 29, 2008
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 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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Curator's Gallery Talk
Thursday September 6, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Christine Sciacca, assistant curator, department of manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition Music for the Masses: Illuminated Choir Books. Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Focus Tour: Romanticism to Realism
Thursdays through June 26, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour exploring two contradictory movements in art that developed in the 19th century, when new ideas about the psychological nature of visual art and a social awareness stirred the imaginations of artists working in Europe. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through September 9, 2007
4 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This 15-minute gallery talk offers an in-depth look at one object. This week the featured work of art is A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet. 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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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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Performances and Films |
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Tug of War (Opening Night)
Thursday September 6, 2007
8 pm
The Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa
After a mighty storm wreaks havoc on a small coastal village, an old man searches for his lost daughter, two women of questionable reputation look for a better situation, and two impudent and resourceful slaves manage the whole affair. A comedy where everyone wants what they can't have, Tug of War is adapted and directed by Meryl Friedman from an original translation by Amy Richlin from Plautus' Rudens. Music and lyrics by Meryl Friedman. Tickets $35; $30 students/seniors.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-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.
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Spotlight Talk: Lansdowne Herakles
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through September 28, 2007
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 work of art is the Lansdowne Herakles, a Roman marble sculpture from AD 125. 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, 2008
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 Main Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
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 Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:45 p.m.
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Focus Tour: Entertainment in the Ancient World
Thursday September 6, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this one-hour tour, explore two major sources of entertainment for the ancient Greeks and Romans: the theater and athletic games. Through exploration of objects in the collection, discover cross-cultural trends in theatrical performance and the relationship between the Greek Olympics and Roman athletics. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 2:45 p.m.
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Exhibitions |
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The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology
Daily through November 5, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Discovered around 1710, two life-size Roman marble statues of draped women—the so-called Large and Small Herculaneum Women—became famous as the first finds from the site of Herculaneum, the ancient city that was buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. This exhibition explores the circumstances of their discovery, their original display in the Roman theater of Herculaneum, and their prominent role in the development of archaeology. Traveling abroad for the first time from the Dresden State Museums, the statues are complemented by more than a dozen items from the Getty Research Institute collections, including sketchbooks, prints, and rare books. The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Following the exhibition, the two Herculaneum Women are then installed in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) through October 13, 2008.
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