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October 28, 2007 |
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Lectures and Conferences |
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Making It in Renaissance Rome
Sunday October 28, 2007
4 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
What did it take to become a successful artist in Renaissance Rome? How did painters learn their trade and what separated the superstars from the "B-list"? Through Taddeo Zuccaro's rags-to-riches tale, Julian Brooks, associate curator of drawings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, looks at the reality of artistic life on the cutthroat streets of Renaissance Rome. Complements the exhibition Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome.
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Color Theory Workshop
Sunday October 28, 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 21, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
Part Two: October 28, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
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Family Activities |
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Family Art Stops
Weekends through June 1, 2008
2 pm, 2:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Get up close and personal with a single work of art at this half-hour, hands-on gallery experience geared for families with children ages 5 and up. Ofrecida en español a 2:30pm. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning 30 minutes before the program.
Every Saturday and Sunday. Special schedule in effect during the spring, summer, and holidays.
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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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Exhibition Tour
Daily through November 11, 2007
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour exhibition overview of Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Focus Tour: Renaissance Art
Sundays through December 31, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour looking at European art made in the 1400s and 1500s, when artists began focusing on the individual and renewed their interest in the ancient world. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through October 28, 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 Taddeo in the House of Giovanni Piero Calabrese by Federico Zuccaro. 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 28, 2007 |
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Courses and Demonstrations |
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Artist-at-Work Demonstration: Glassmaking Techniques
Daily through November 5, 2007
10 am - 5 pm
Education Court, Getty Villa
Drop by as glassmakers from The Corning Museum of Glass demonstrate ancient and modern glassmaking techniques. Complements the exhibition Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome.
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Family Activities |
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Art Odyssey for Families
Weekends through June 30, 2008
2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This 45-minute journey through the galleries features a fun, activity-filled visit for children (ages 5 and up) and adults to enjoy together. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium beginning 15 minutes before the program.
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Tours and Gallery Talks |
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Orientation Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm
Getty Villa
This 40-minute site tour offers an overview of the Getty Villa, its history, renovation, and new educational mission. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance.
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Collection Highlights Tour
Weekends through June 29, 2008
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 10:45 a.m.
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Getty Villa Architecture and Gardens Tour
Daily through June 30, 2008
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 Main Entrance.
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Spotlight Talk: Victorious Youth
Weekends through October 28, 2007
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 Victorious Youth, a Greek bronze sculpture dating from 300–100 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.
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Reflecting Antiquity Exhibition Tour
Sunday October 28, 2007
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Villa
In this one-hour tour, explore the Villa's current exhibition, organized by the Getty and the Corning Museum of Glass, featuring ancient Roman glass objects and the 18th- and 19th-century works of art they inspired. Learn about modern reproductions of ancient glass pieces along with trends in glassmaking, derived from source material discovered through archaeological excavations. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Auditorium 15 minutes before the talk.
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Exhibitions |
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The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology
Daily through November 5, 2007
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
Discovered around 1710, two life-size Roman marble statues of draped women—the so-called Large and Small Herculaneum Women—became famous as the first finds from the site of Herculaneum, the ancient city that was buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. This exhibition explores the circumstances of their discovery, their original display in the Roman theater of Herculaneum, and their prominent role in the development of archaeology. Traveling abroad for the first time from the Dresden State Museums, the statues are complemented by more than a dozen items from the Getty Research Institute collections, including sketchbooks, prints, and rare books. The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology has been co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Following the exhibition, the two Herculaneum Women are then installed in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) through October 13, 2008.
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Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome
Daily through January 14, 2008
Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, archaeological excavations at sites such as Pompeii and Herculaneum resulted in the rediscovery of Roman glass. The designs and production techniques of ancient glass vessels were a revelation to modern artisans, who sought to emulate them in their own work. This exhibition includes some of the original Roman objects that inspired modern glassmakers as well as their reproductions of these ancient pieces. Reflecting Antiquity is organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass.
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