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September 13, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Experiencing the Getty Collection: East West Connections: Exoticism, Orientalism, and the "Other" (Gallery Course)
Saturdays
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Sketching Gallery, Getty Center
Novice and seasoned museum-goers are invited to more fully experience the Getty collection with a look at exotic subjects and motifs in Western art from the 13th through 20th centuries. Join gallery teachers Bryan C. Keene and Jennifer Li for this four-part gallery course examining European fascination with people and art from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. This course explores paintings, sculpture, glass, and decorative objects, some of which were imported from outside of Europe. Artists covered include Gentile de Fabriano, Rembrandt, Jacques Joseph Tissot, Vincent van Gogh, and Isamu Noguchi. Offered monthly Saturday mornings July–October. Sign up individually or for all sessions. Course fee $15 per session. Open to 25 participants.
Session I: Saturday, July 19, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Sketching Gallery/Museum Galleries
Session II: Saturday, August 16, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Sketching Gallery/Museum Galleries
Session III: Saturday, September 13, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Sketching Gallery/Museum Galleries
Session IV: Saturday, October 11, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Sketching Gallery/Museum Galleries
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Art Circles
Saturday September 13, 2008
6 pm - 8 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
The Education Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum presents a series of interactive seminars for the general public who wish to further their knowledge and understanding of the visual arts. Participants have the opportunity for close study of selected masterpieces and informal discussions with educators in the galleries of the Museum. Course fee $15. Dinner vouchers are provided. Open to 25 participants. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops / Enfoque Artístico
Weekends through February 28, 2009
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. Ofrecida en español a 2:30 p.m. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk 30 minutes before the start of the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Exhibition Tour: Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Daily through October 26, 2008
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through September 14, 2008
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 Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid and a Putto by John Deare. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Fridays and Saturdays through June 30, 2009
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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Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Daily through October 26, 2008
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680) and his contemporaries in Rome transformed the portrait bust into a groundbreaking art form. With dazzling virtuosity, these artists were able to coax the living presence and personality of their sitters–creating a "speaking likeness"–from the intractable medium of stone. Celebrating Baroque sculpture, paintings, and drawings, this major international loan exhibition brings together nearly 60 works from both public and private collections, including objects not seen together in more than 300 years. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture is co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
Daily through September 14, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, 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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The Marvel and Measure of Peru: Three Centuries of Visual History, 1550–1880
Daily through October 19, 2008
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
This exhibition features Martín de Murúa's (Spanish, active late 16th and early 17th centuries) Historia general del Piru held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, a recently rediscovered and related manuscript chronicle by Murúa in a private collection in Ireland, textiles from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Universtiy of California, Santa Barbara, two early books from the Huntington Library, and books, prints, maps, watercolors and photographs from the special collections of the Research Library of the Getty Research Institute.
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August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
Daily through September 14, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, 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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Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture
Daily through October 26, 2008
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Portraiture in illuminated manuscripts developed from the highly stylized portrayals of the early Middle Ages to the late medieval emergence of recognizable portraits. This exhibition explores both historical portraits of people from the past—including religious figures, authors, and artists—and portraits of living individuals (usually the owners or donors of books). The goal of medieval portraiture was to present a person not at a particular moment in time, but as the subject wished to be remembered through the ages.
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In Focus: The Landscape
Daily through January 11, 2009
Center for Photographs, Getty Center
Like painters and draftsmen before them, photographers turned to the landscape as a source of inspiration after the invention of the medium was announced in 1839. Since then, changing artistic movements and continual technical advancements have provided opportunities for camera artists to approach the subject in diverse and imaginative ways. This exhibition, which is drawn exclusively from the Getty's collection, brings together the work of over 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre, including Gustave Le Gray, Alfred Stieglitz, and Robert Adams.
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September 13, 2008 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Ruins and Revelry: The Society of Dilettanti
Saturday September 13, 2008
3 pm
Auditorium, Getty Villa
Established 275 years ago, the Society of Dilettanti has played a pivotal role in the exploration of the ancient Mediterranean. Delighting in the arts of classical antiquity, they found imaginative ways to fulfill the club's motto, Seria ludo (serious matters in a playful vein). Charles Sebag-Montefiore, current joint secretary of the Society, blends history and anecdote in this insider's view of the club's exploits and personalities, from the heyday of classical archaeology in the 19th century up to the present.
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Performances and Films |
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Agamemnon
Saturday September 13, 2008
8 pm
The Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa
This open-air staging by acclaimed director Stephen Wadsworth resurrects Aeschylus' unsettling domestic drama of The House of Atreus, heard in a riveting translation by the late Robert Fagles. The victorious Agamemnon arrives home with his surviving troops after the bloody battle for Troy. As the drama unfolds, a returning soldier bears witness to unthinkable carnage, a city questions the wisdom of the decade-long war, and a family turns the violence of war in on itself. Tickets $38; $32 students/seniors.
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Family Activities |
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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 Entrance 15 minutes before 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 Entrance.
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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 Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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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 Entrance.
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Exhibitions |
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Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti
Daily through October 27, 2008
Getty Villa
The Society of Dilettanti was founded in 1734 in London as a dining club for British gentlemen who had made the Grand Tour. They sponsored archaeological expeditions to Greece and Asia Minor, and assembled celebrated antiquities collections. Notorious revelers and wits, this close-knit circle of aristocratic patrons, antiquarians, artists, and architects transformed the study of classical art from a matter of private delight into one of public consequence. This exhibition presents portraits, sculptures, drawings, and rare books that illuminate the Society's first 100 years.
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