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September 19, 2008 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Against Reason: John Lautner and Postwar Architecture
Friday September 19, 2008
3 pm - 6 pm
UCLA Hammer Museum
Commencing with a curator led tour of the exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, this two-day symposium includes a series of panels and presentations in which architects, engineers, and architectural historians explore the distinctive work of Los Angeles architect John Lautner. Participants include Stanford Anderson, Alan Hess, Sylvia Lavin, Neil Denari, Hernán Díaz Alonso, Marc Treib, and Sandy Isenstadt. The related conversation and presentation Engaging Lautner's Built Legacy in the 21st Century follows at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater, the Hammer Museum. Separate reservations are required. Presented by the Getty Research Institute and the Hammer Museum.
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Engaging Lautner's Built Legacy in the 21st Century
Friday September 19, 2008
7:30 pm
UCLA Hammer Museum
Designing beside a legend can be one of the most inspiring commissions for an architect. This conversation challenges each member of a panel of avant-garde architects to create an addition to one of Lautner's residential structures, thereby actively engaging his built legacy. Their innovative solutions to this theoretical design challenge, potentially both sacrilegious and revelatory, will be unveiled at this event. Envisioned as both a design charette and provocative discussion, this program will be moderated by Christopher James Alexander, associate curator of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute. Participants include Hernan Diaz Alonzo, principal, Xefirotarch; Neil M. Denari, principal, Neil M. Denari Architects; Winka Dubbeldam, principal, Archi-Tectonics; and Frank Escher, principal, Escher GuneWardena Architecture. This program is presented by the Getty Research Institute and the Hammer Museum.
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Performances and Films |
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Friday Nights at the Getty: Fur Dixon & Steve Werner
Friday September 19, 2008
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Hailing from Van Nuys, California, but equally at home anywhere under the western sky, well-traveled folk festival favorites Fur and Steve will take you on a rollicking musical joyride through the back roads and highways of the West. Their dazzling two-part harmonies, spectacular yodeling, awesome guitar picking, and wise-cracking humor framed by their old- and new-timey traveling songs, folk songs, and singalongs will delight oldsters and youngsters alike.
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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
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: Realist and Impressionist Art
Fridays through June 30, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on realism and impressionism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive 19th-century movements. 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 19, 2008 |
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Performances and Films |
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Agamemnon
Friday September 19, 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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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Facing the Ages: Portraiture in Europe from Antiquity to the Baroque
Friday September 19, 2008
12 pm - 2 pm
Meeting Rooms, Getty Villa
Educators and curators address the question, "What is a portrait in the western traditions of European art?" Examining painted and sculpted portraits from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Baroque periods, this three-part course explores the Museum's collection and complements the exhibitions Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture and Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture. Course fee $35; $25 students. Open to 40 participants.
Part 1: Friday September 19, 12:00–2:00 p.m., Getty Villa, Meeting Rooms and Galleries;
Part 2: Friday, September 26, 12:00–2:00 p.m., Getty Center, Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall;
Part 3: Friday, October 3, 12:00–2:00 p.m., Getty Center, Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall and Galleries.
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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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Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through September 29, 2008
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 Getty Kouros, an ancient marble sculpture, or a modern forgery. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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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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Spotlight Talk
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through September 28, 2008
1:30 pm
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 Getty Kouros, an ancient marble sculpture, or a modern forgery. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays through June 29, 2009
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the tour.
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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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