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November 3, 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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Exhibition Tour: Irving Penn: Small Trades
Daily through December 13, 2009
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
A special one-hour overview of the exhibition Irving Penn: Small Trades. Meet the gallery teacher at the Museum Information Desk.
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Masterpiece of the Week Talk
Daily through November 8, 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 Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Roelandt Savery. 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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Focus Tour: Medieval and Renaissance Art
Tuesdays
3 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on the Getty's Medieval and Renaissance collections by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive historic periods. Meet 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
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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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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In Focus: The Worker
Daily through March 21, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The invention of photography was announced in 1839, when the Industrial Revolution was transforming patterns of daily life in the Western world. Workers of all types were central to these changes and the camera was used—more than any other artistic medium—to depict them. Drawn exclusively from the Museum's collection, this exhibition brings together more than 40 photographs that demonstrate shifting attitudes towards the worker over much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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November 3, 2009 |
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The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.
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