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September 16, 2008 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Portraiture in Three Dimensions
Tuesdays through September 23, 2008
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Explore sculpting a portrait head in this three-session workshop with artist Jonathan Bickhart. Working in oil-based clay from a model, participants will study basic anatomy and proportion as well as how to capture expression to create a "speaking likeness." Complements the exhibitions Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture and Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture. Course fee $115; $85 students. Open to 25 participants.
Tuesdays, September 9, 16, and 23, 1:00–5:00 p.m. Workshop repeats Sundays, October 5, 12, and 19, 2008.
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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 21, 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 Portrait of Pope Clement X Altieri by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 30, 2009
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 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: Medieval and Renaissance Art
Tuesdays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's medieval and Renaissance collections by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive historic periods. 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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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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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 16, 2008 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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