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September 26, 2008 |
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Performances and Films |
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Chirgilchin
Friday September 26, 2008
7:30 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Meaning "miracle" or "dance of air in the heat of day," master Tuvan "throat singers" Chirgilchin, play their vocal chords like instruments, making the notes resonate through the pipes and chambers of their noses and throats. This technique produces multiphonic harmonies that echo natural sounds—like harmonizing with waterfalls. Some call it Buddhist shaman music. No matter the name, simply put it is a stunning mix of magic and meditation. Part of the 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music, Los Angeles. Tickets $20; $15 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 26, 2008
12 pm - 2 pm
GRI Lecture Hall, Getty Center
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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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 28, 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 Carved Relief by Aubert-Henri-Joseph Parent. 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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A Light Touch: Exploring Humor in Drawing
Daily through December 7, 2008
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
As a result of its immediacy, drawing has for centuries been used to lampoon human character, ridicule physical characteristics, and satirize behavior. While some drawings were intimate objects viewed by individuals or small groups of people, others were transferred into prints with a wider agenda. Different drawing media (watercolor, pen and ink, etc.) often highlight diverse aims and effects. This exhibition will include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Urs Graf, Giambattista Tiepolo, Francisco de Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, and Pierre Bonnard, and will explore brands of humor, from wicked caricatures to wry observations of social injustice.
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Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800
Daily through March 8, 2009
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the late 1700s and early 1800s European artists made a formal practice of working outdoors in the clear, pure light of the Italian countryside, transcribing the atmosphere and depth of picturesque landscape views. Originally intended as studies for more formal, idealized studio paintings, the sketches they created are today considered highly satisfying works of art in their own right. This concise survey exhibition features recent acquisitions by artists such as Jean-Victor Bertin, Jean-Joseph Xavier Bidauld, Camille Corot, Simon Denis, and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, supplemented by loans from local collections.
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September 26, 2008 |
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Performances and Films |
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Agamemnon
Friday September 26, 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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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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