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October 14, 2010 |
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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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Focus Tour: Neoclassical and Romantic Art
Thursdays
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on Neoclassicism and Romanticism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Lively Still Lifes Tour
Daily through November 28, 2010
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Explore the symbolic and sensuous pleasures of still life seen in paintings, sculpture, and photographs in this one-hour tour. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through October 17, 2010
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 an Ivory Goblet by Balthasar Griessmann. Meet the educator 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
Discover more about Richard Meier's architecture and the design of the Getty Center site in this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to 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. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
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Exhibitions |
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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 through January 2, 2011
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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Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties
Daily through November 14, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
In the decades following World War II, an independently minded and critically engaged form of photography began to gather momentum. Since then a host of photographers have combined their skills as reporters and artists, developing extended photographic essays that delve deeply into humanistic topics and present distinct personal visions of the world. Embracing the gray areas between objectivity and subjectivity, information and interpretation, journalism and art, they have created powerful visual reports that transcend the realm of traditional photojournalism. Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties looks in-depth at projects by photographers who have contributed to the development of this approach, including Leonard Freed, Lauren Greenfield, Philip Jones Griffiths, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, James Nachtwey, Sebastião Salgado, W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith, and Larry Towell.
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Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV
Daily through October 17, 2010
Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
Printing the Grand Manner explores the form, content, and function of late 17th-century reproductive engravings that, given their quality and impressive size, were meant to evoke the grandeur of Charles Le Brun's large-scale paintings and tapestry designs. Despite the fact that no other moment in the history of art witnessed such a concerted production of unusually grand reproductive prints, this visually compelling group of images has not drawn the attention of specialists or the public (in part, because the prints are difficult to handle and display). The exhibition examines the prints' rich vocabulary and illuminates the context of their production between the mid-1660s and 1690. It also calls out the relationship between Le Brun and his printmakers, while interpreting the prints and their inscriptions in light of debates regarding allegories, narratives, and the representation of Louis XIV.
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Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands
Daily through February 6, 2011
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
During the Middle Ages, the area occupied today by Belgium and the Netherlands flourished economically and artistically. By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the towns of Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Utrecht participated in one of the greatest flowerings of book illumination in Europe. This exhibition surveys the Getty Museum's holdings of medieval manuscripts from this region, including masterworks made for such influential patrons as the dukes of Burgundy—Philip the Good and Charles the Bold—and the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. After eleven weeks the books' pages will be turned to reveal further illuminated riches.
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In Focus: Still Life
Daily through January 23, 2011
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The term still life was coined during the 1600s, when painted examples were popular throughout Europe, and artists created increasingly complex compositions, bringing together a broad variety of objects to convey allegorical meanings. Still life featured prominently in the early photographic experiments of Jacques Louis Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneers most widely recognized for inventing the medium during the late 1830s. Since then, it has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change. Drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's photographs collection, this one-gallery exhibition surveys some of the innovative ways artists have explored and refreshed this traditional genre.
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New Galleries for Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Daily
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A newly designed installation of medieval and Renaissance European sculpture and decorative arts is now on view in the J. Paul Getty Museum's North Pavilion at the Getty Center. Displayed with paintings, drawings, and illuminated manuscripts that enrich their context, the works of art are arranged by period and theme. The installation features innovative technologies, including interactive touch screens, that enhance the visitor's experience.
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October 14, 2010 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artists and Performance in Athens and Magna Graecia
Thursdays through October 28, 2010
1 pm - 4 pm
Meeting Rooms, Getty Villa
Join Mary Louise Hart, associate curator of antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum, for this three-week course examining the fascinating relationship between the visual and performing arts in ancient Greece. Focused visits to the exhibition The Art of Ancient Greek Theater are included in each session. Course fee $90. Open to 40 participants.
Thursday, October 14, 1:00–4:00 p.m.: Actors, Mask, and the Chorus
Thursday, October 21, 1:00–4:00 p.m.: Tragedy and Iconography
Thursday, October 28, 1:00–4:00 p.m.: Comic Parody, Artistic Ingenuity
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Handling Sessions: Mummy Portraits
Thursdays through October 28, 2010
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Explore ancient techniques of painting on wood in this drop-in program by handling materials such as those used to create the mummy portrait of Herakleides. Discover how artists captured a likeness and the surprising materials they used, which ranged from gold leaf and honey to rabbit-skin glue.
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Spotlight Talk: Statue of a Kouros
Thursdays - Sundays through October 31, 2010
1 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
Learn how to look at ancient art in this 20-minute gallery talk examining in-depth one work in the collection. The featured object this month is a Statue of a Kouros, which is either from around 530 B.C. or a modern forgery. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Entrance 15 minutes before the talk.
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Orientation Tour
Daily
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
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Museum, Getty Villa
Explore the ancient Roman world through the Museum's archtecture 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
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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Focus Tour: Animals in Ancient Art
Thursday October 14, 2010
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
From the snakes used to ward off evil to the ferocious felines fought by gladiators, animals abound in ancient art. This one-hour tour illuminates their mythology, symbolism, and role in daily life. Tour topic to change. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the tour at the Tour Meeting Place.
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Exhibitions |
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Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Daily
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In 2003, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a collection of over 350 pieces of ancient glass, formerly owned by Erwin Oppenländer. The works on view in Molten Color are remarkable for their high quality, their chronological breadth, and the glassmaking techniques illustrated by their manufacture. The vessels are accompanied by text and videos illustrating ancient glassmaking techniques.
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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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The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Daily through January 3, 2011
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Theatrical performance emerged in ancient Athens from the worship of Dionysos, the god of wine and theater. From productions in the Theater of Dionysos, the tragedies and satyr plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as well as the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander spread throughout the Mediterranean, flourishing especially in southern Italy. There, in Magna Graecia, vase painters and sculptors created vivid depictions of dramatic scenes, representing sets, costumes, masks, choreography, and music. This major international loan exhibition is the first exploration in nearly sixty years of the many ways Greek plays and stagecraft inspired classical artists, whose works are often the only surviving evidence of the performing arts in antiquity. The exhibition coincides with the Villa's Outdoor Theater production of Sophocles' Elektra.
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The Gela Krater
Daily through October 18, 2010
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
The Gela Krater, one of the most important works from the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, is on loan to the Getty Museum and on view in gallery 110 (Stories of the Trojan War) at the Getty Villa, where it joins other works of art that illustrate two epics by Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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