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Snapshots: High School Students Photograph the Getty with Eileen Cowin

By Alexandria Sivak on November 4, 2011 under Behind the Scenes, Education, Exhibitions, Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Photography

On October 25, students from Torres High School in Los Angeles flashed their photographic skills at the Getty Center with guidance by acclaimed photographer Eileen Cowin. The visit was part of Community Photoworks, an annual project offered by the Getty Museum’s education department in collaboration with 826LA and L.A. high schools. The project uses the [...]

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To Walter with Love: Ed Kienholz’s “Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps”

By Lucena Valle on October 27, 2011 under Education, Events, Exhibitions, Sculpture

Sometimes, only a friend will tell you what they really think. Take the case of artist Ed Kienholz and curator Walter Hopps. Kienholz’s over-life-size assemblage portrait of his friend, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps—the inspiration for our collage meet-up this Saturday—is both homage and sly critique. Created from a modified Bardahl motor oil store display, Hopps [...]

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Five Tips for Sketching at the Museum

By William Zaluski on October 24, 2011 under Drawings, Education, Events, Family Fun, J. Paul Getty Museum

Did you know that visitors to the Getty Museum are allowed—in fact, encouraged—to draw from the artworks in the galleries and on the grounds? Whether drawing to express yourself, to discover rich patterns or details in art, or to create lasting memories of being with an object or view, drawing trains the hand, eye, and [...]

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Invitation of the Week: Collage Meet-Up on October 29

By Annelisa Stephan on October 20, 2011 under Education, Events, J. Paul Getty Museum

Update! See our Flickr set from the meet-up here! We’re doing something different for our Question of the Week series on the Iris this month: an invitation of the week. Join us at the Getty Center on Saturday, October 29, for a Masterpiece of the Week talk followed by informal collage-making in the Museum Courtyard. [...]

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Question of the Week: Where Is the Line between Private and Public?

By Alice Cisternino on September 29, 2011 under Collections, Education, Events, J. Paul Getty Museum, Paintings

Where is the line between private and public? Each situation has a different answer—and sometimes many different possible answers. As an example, take this painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec portrays a woman seen from above and behind as she sits in a chair. Her left arm and breast are bared. She gazes into the [...]

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“Art Together” Program Ignites Students’ Enthusiasm for Museums

By Kelly Williams on September 27, 2011 under Behind the Scenes, Education, Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum

As a new school year begins, we’re excited to launch the third season of Art Together, which invites local students and teachers to visit the Getty Center three times over the course of the year. Following last year’s program, when we welcomed twice as many students as in our first year, we’re preparing for an [...]

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Exploring 18th-Century Fashion, Garment by Garment

By Cathy Carpenter on September 12, 2011 under Decorative Arts, Design, Education, Events, J. Paul Getty Museum

Did you know that artists used pig bladders to carry paint before tubes were invented, that the gold leaf used to gild paintings and manuscripts was made by pounding a coin into thin sheets, or that 18th-century fashion designers used dolls to transmit the latest styles across national borders? If you’ve ever wondered how the [...]

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Discovering Latin at the Getty Villa

By Eric Bruehl on September 2, 2011 under Behind the Scenes, Education, Events, Getty Villa, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

If you visited the Getty Villa during the week of July 25 and thought you overheard people speaking Latin, you weren’t imagining things. That week, we at the Getty Villa were proud to invite a group of 14 high school students to the Museum for our first-ever week-long, semi-immersion Latin course, the Academia Aestiva Latina (Summer [...]

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Question of the Week: Can Love Last Forever?

By Nancy Real on August 18, 2011 under Collections, Education, J. Paul Getty Museum, Sculpture

Can love outlast death? Love and desire sizzle in this sculpture showcasing Venus and Adonis. Venus is desperately in love with Adonis, a handsome mortal. However, fate has it that goddess of love will not hold onto her man. Preferring the hunt, Adonis is injured by a wild boar and dies—take that, Adonis, for leaving [...]

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Experience Art Off the Beaten Path with New Summer Tours

By Clare Kunny on August 9, 2011 under Education, Events, Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum

See the Museum’s collection from an insider’s point of view with three new tours at the Getty Center offered just for summer. Why special tours for summer? We have more visitors in July and August—and we find that you’re often feeling more adventurous during the warmer months. In response, we in the education department decided to [...]

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Posts Categorized "Education"

Snapshots: High School Students Photograph the Getty with Eileen Cowin

To Walter with Love: Ed Kienholz’s “Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps”

Five Tips for Sketching at the Museum

Invitation of the Week: Collage Meet-Up on October 29

Question of the Week: Where Is the Line between Private and Public?

“Art Together” Program Ignites Students’ Enthusiasm for Museums

Exploring 18th-Century Fashion, Garment by Garment

Discovering Latin at the Getty Villa

Question of the Week: Can Love Last Forever?

Experience Art Off the Beaten Path with New Summer Tours

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