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September 25, 2009 |
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Garden Tour
Daily
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
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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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through September 27, 2009
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 Saint Bavo by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn on loan from the Göteborgs Konstmuseum in Sweden. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Architecture Tour
Daily
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 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
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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Exhibition Tour: Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Daily through September 27, 2009
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour overview of the exhibition Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution. Meet the gallery teacher at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Realist and Impressionist Art
Fridays
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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Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Daily through October 18, 2009
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
The city of Algiers, renowned for its white walls cascading to the Mediterranean, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529–1830), Algeria had been a semi-independent province of the empire. French rule (1830–1962) transformed Algeria. European norms and the French system of governance were imposed. The land was mapped, its peoples surveyed and classified, and dramatic interventions to urban fabrics enforced a new duality. In Algiers the "Arab" city on the hillside, known as the Casbah, was separated from the "French" or European city that spread out in districts below and around the Casbah. This division endured during the 132 years of French occupation leading to the War of Independence (1954–1962). More than a colonial capital, Algiers served as a testing ground for urban renewal with its walls extending metaphorically across the Mediterranean to take part in the search for modernity. Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City, examines the city's complex history by considering its places and peoples through diverse 19th- and 20th-century visual sources. The exhibition will trace, for example, an itinerary of the Casbah and the European quarters through vintage postcards, and juxtapose the long-tradition of staged Orientalist representations of "indigenous" people with photojournalist coverage from the Algerian War.
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La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
Daily
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Luisa Roldán (Spanish, 1650–1704), affectionately known as La Roldana, was one of the most celebrated and prolific sculptors of the Baroque period. This intimate exhibition introduces visitors to La Roldana, whose artistic superiority catapulted her to fame at the royal court in an otherwise male-dominated profession. She ran a workshop, worked for the king, raised a family, and was a celebrity in her own day. With her polychrome sculpture of Saint Ginés de la Jara from the Getty Museum's collection as a focal point, this exhibition explores the artist's life, artistic achievement, and the multifaceted process used to create masterfully lifelike polychrome sculpture.
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Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
Daily
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Get a rare look at how bronze sculpture is born in Foundry to Finish. Visitors explore a process called direct lost-wax casting—a method that yields a single, unique bronze cast of an artist's original clay-and-wax model. Thirteen step-by-step models illustrate the sculpting and casting process. Through X-radiographs, visitors can even get a glimpse inside an original sculpture to see firsthand evidence of how the bronze was cast. The installation complements Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, an international touring exhibition also on view.
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Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Daily through September 27, 2009
Exhibitions Pavilion, Getty Center
Taking advantage of the current resurgence of interest in sculpture and a widespread taste for Renaissance and Baroque art, this exhibition brings together a large number of spectacular bronzes that exemplify an art form that has been described as "among the most splendid manifestations of artistic genius in France." It is the first comprehensive exhibition on the art of French bronze sculpture from its beginnings during the Renaissance until the French Revolution of 1789. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Musée du Louvre, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition reflects the latest scholarship on the subject. At the same time, it provides a platform for the exploration of 16th- to 18th-century French culture on many levels. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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In Focus: Making a Scene
Daily through October 18, 2009
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Photography, despite its association with truth, has been used to create fiction throughout its history. Staged photographs—from casually directed scenes to elaborate tableaux vivants made with props, costumes, and posed actors—embody many styles, techniques, and subjects. Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and cinema, the photographs in this exhibition include early daguerreotypes, bromoil and platinum prints as well as contemporary Polaroids and chromogenic prints. Comprising more than twenty-five photographs from the GettyÕs collection, it features works by Henry Peach Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Man Ray, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucas Samaras, and Eileen Cowin.
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Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Daily through November 1, 2009
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Highlighting key moments of the French landscape tradition—from its emergence in the 1600s to its preeminence in the 1800s—this selection of drawings reveals the engrossing tension between the passion for the real and the quest for an ideal. Featuring a wide array of techniques, functions, and styles, the exhibition showcases the work of major exponents of the genre, including Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh.
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Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts
Daily through November 8, 2009
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Part of the genius of medieval art lies in its unique ability to combine serious and profound images with playful and witty ones. In illuminated manuscripts, a primary artistic medium of the Middle Ages, scenes in the margins of a page often comment on the paintings illustrating the text in the center. As often as they expand on the narrative, they poke fun at the lofty themes and, more broadly, at human foibles. Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts explores the margins of medieval books and explains its wealth of subject matter: children playing games, romantic pursuits, men battling fantastic creatures, and composite figures—half-human, half-beast—that wend their ways through the sinuous foliage of the painted borders.
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Irving Penn: Small Trades
Daily through January 10, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
Working in Paris, London, and New York in the early 1950s, photographer Irving Penn (American, born 1917) created masterful representations of skilled tradespeople dressed in work clothes and carrying the tools of their trade. A neutral backdrop and natural light provided a stage on which his subjects could present themselves with dignity and pride. Penn revisited his Small Trades series over many decades, producing evermore-exacting prints, including platinum enlargements. In 2008 the Getty acquired the most comprehensive group of these images, carefully selected by the photographer—155 gelatin silver prints and 97 platinum prints—which will be exhibited in their entirety for the first time.
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September 25, 2009 |
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Performances and Films |
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Aristophanes' Peace
Thursdays - Saturdays through October 3, 2009
8 pm
The Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater, Getty Villa
While ancient Athens is mired in war, a band of rustic patriots plot a daring mission to Mount Olympus to seek the goddess Peace. The comic heroes of Culture Clash and guest director Bill Rauch invoke the revolutionary spirit of Aristophanes in freely adapting his zany and visionary utopian escapade for the Getty Villa. Tickets $42; $36 students/seniors. Previews $20.
Please be advised that this play contains bawdy humor and is not suitable for children.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Spotlight Talk: The Chimaera of Arezzo
Thursdays and Fridays through October 30, 2009
11:30 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this 20-minute discussion, learn about the large-scale bronze masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture featured in this exhibition, which inaugurates a partnership with the National Archaeological Museum in Florence. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Orientation Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
Learn about the Getty Villa's architecture and educational mission in this 40-minute introduction to the site. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through December 31, 2009
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the ancient Roman world through the Museum's architecture and gardens in this 40-minute tour. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekdays through December 31, 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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Curator's Gallery Talk
Friday September 25, 2009
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
David Saunders, assistant curator of Antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a one-hour tour through the exhibition The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
Daily through October 5, 2009
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
The Georgian site of Vani lies in what was the ancient kingdom of Colchis, known in Greek myth as the destination of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. Colchis was renowned as a region rich in gold, and excavations at Vani have confirmed this reputation. The archaeological finds not only demonstrate the highly refined craftsmanship of local goldworkers but also testify to contacts with both the Greek world and the Persian Empire. This exhibition presents an array of precious objects from Vani, including four bronze lamps that were discovered in 2007 and are displayed together for the first time. The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, and the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi.
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The Chimaera of Arezzo
Daily through February 8, 2010
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Inaugurating a partnership with the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, this exhibition traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera over five centuries of classical art. Featured is a masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture known as the Chimaera of Arezzo: a large-scale bronze of the triple-headed, fire-breathing monster that was slain by the virtuous hero. From its ancient dedication to the supreme Etruscan deity in a sanctuary at Arezzo to its Renaissance display in the Medici collection, the Chimaera has endured as an emblem of the triumph of right over might.
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Roman Ephebe from Naples
Daily
Getty Villa
Youth as a Lamp Bearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa.
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