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October 9, 2007 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Delayed Gratification: Withholding the Erotic in American Photography
Tuesday October 9, 2007
3 pm
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Michael Kammen of Cornell University will discuss his recent book Visual Shock. After explaining how he came to write a book on art controversies, Kammen will give special attention to American photographs involing images of nudity that had to be delayed in exhibition or kept concealed for a long time because of the controversy likely to be aroused.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Color Theory Workshop
Tuesday October 9, 2007
1 pm - 5 pm
Museum Studios, Getty Center
Explore basic color theory with artist Richard Houston in this two-part studio course. Working with water-based oils, participants explore the color wheel, color mixing, color properties, and color harmony and study the historical application of color theory with reference to artists and masterworks in the Museum's collection. Course fee $65; $50 students. Open to 25 participants.
Part One: October 2, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Part Two: October 9, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Architecture Tour
Tuesdays - Thursdays and Sundays through June 29, 2008
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 29, 2008
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 29, 2008
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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Edward Weston Exhibition Tour
Daily through October 14, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Edward Weston: Enduring Vision. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Baroque Art
Tuesdays through June 24, 2008
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour exploring the drama and splendor of Baroque art and furniture made in the 1600s and early 1700s for the royalty as well as the business class and the Catholic church of Europe. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through October 14, 2007
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 Charis Nude by Edward Weston. 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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Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye
Daily through November 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The Getty Museum presents the first West Coast exhibition featuring the work of Luc Delahaye (French, b. 1962), including 10 photographs depicting recent world events. Inspired by a documentary approach to photography, his large-scale color works urge reflection about the relationships among art, information, and history. The direct nature of the photographs, the detachment and the rich details that emerge from them contradict but also enhance their dramatic intensity and narrative power.
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Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome
Daily through January 6, 2008
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
One of the first illustrated "starving artist" tales, a series of 20 drawings by the late-Renaissance painter and theorist Federico Zuccaro (Italian, c.1541-1609) shows the early life of his famous brother Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566). The series documents in a charming fashion Taddeo's troubled search for an apprenticeship and his dedication to learning to draw. This major exhibition comprises around 85 objects—principally drawings—and includes loans from a number of European and U.S. collections. It celebrates the Early Life of Taddeo series and also illuminates Taddeo's later career through some of his greatest drawings, as well as studying his working relationship with his younger brother. Further, taking up a consistent theme from the Early Life of Taddeo series, insight is gained into how young artists learned to draw in Renaissance Rome by making copies of works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Polidoro, and the antique. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
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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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Music for the Masses: Illuminated Choir Books
Daily through October 28, 2007
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Some of the largest and most beautiful manuscripts that survive from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are books containing the music of Christian church ceremonies. This exhibition of over 40 manuscripts and leaves from the Getty Museum's collection explores a variety of themes including: the types of medieval books that contained music; the evolving forms of musical notation; the individuals who used these books in their worship and the famous artists who painted the illuminations; and especially, the scenes from the Old Testament and from the lives of Christ and the saints that decorate the hymns. Accompanying the exhibition are recorded versions of selected chants from the manuscripts on display.
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Edward Weston: Enduring Vision
Daily through November 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958) began his long career in Southern California. The Getty Museum's collection of Weston prints is among the most significant of any art museum, spanning four decades of the artist's work. This exhibition traces the breadth of Weston's accomplishments in California, Mexico, and across the United States, employing a selection of prints drawn from the Museum's holdings alongside a smaller number of complementary loans. One gallery of the exhibition is devoted to the work of Weston's colleagues and students.
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In Focus: The Nude
Daily through February 24, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The unclothed human figure became a camera subject shortly after the discovery of photography was announced in 1839. From that point forward, artists have been challenged to use a variety of photographic materials and processes to find new ways of picturing the nude. This exhibition, which is drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's collection of photographs, brings together the work of over 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre.
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October 9, 2007 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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