This Saturday, October 22, the Getty Museum is teaming up with the Archaeological Institute of America to celebrate National Archaeology Day. The Villa, with its Roman-inspired architecture and gardens and collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, is a great place to explore the meaning and importance of archaeology—the study of past cultures through the [...]
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Tags: Archaeological Institute of America, archaeology, free events, National Archaeology Day, Roman art, Roman gardens, Saturday programs
This week, several of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of welcoming to the Getty Villa the Minister of Culture and Tourism for the Hellenic Republic, Pavlos Yeroulanos. The purpose of his visit was to join our President and CEO James Cuno in signing a landmark agreement that creates a long-term partnership between Greece [...]
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We’re all familiar with the X-rays used to take images of people’s bones and teeth at medical and dental facilities. But did you know this same technology can also be used to examine the internal structures of museum objects? At the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, a three-year master’s program with labs at the Getty Villa, we’ve [...]
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Tags: basketry, conservation science, Native American art, sandals, students, UCLA, X-radiography
Tonight at 8:00 p.m., the Getty Villa becomes a stage for the premiere of Trojan Women (after Euripides). It’s the culmination of years of work and refinement, both for SITI Company (presenting the play) and for the team at the Getty Villa that has helped shape the production. “Being here is remarkable because of the [...]
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Tags: Anne Bogart, Euripides, Jocelyn Clarke, Outdoor Classical Theater, SITI Company, Trojan Women, Trojan Women (after Euripides), video
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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Tags: Academia Aestiva Latina, high school students, Latin, Latin classes, summer programs
“People don’t understand why Trojan Women is such a great play, because they say nothing happens,” says director Anne Bogart, explaining why SITI Company chose to adapt the ancient drama for this year’s outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa. “In fact, a great deal happens.” In this video, the discussion of the new adaptation continues [...]
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Tags: Anne Bogart, Euripides, Jocelyn Clarke, Outdoor Classical Theater, SITI Company, Trojan Women (after Euripides), video
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SITI company premieres a newly commissioned adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan Women at the Getty Villa on September 8. “We’ve been working for 20 years to do this play,” says Leon Ingulsrud, who helped found the New York-based ensemble in 1991. In this video, director Anne Bogart, playwright Jocelyn Clarke, and cast members Ellen Lauren and Leon Ingulsrud discuss [...]
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Tags: Anne Bogart, Euripides, Jocelyn Clarke, Outdoor Classical Theater, SITI Company, Trojan Women (after Euripides), video
First performed over 2,400 years ago, Euripides’ Trojan Women is one of the most enduring and moving of classical dramas—and one of the greatest antiwar plays. Beginning September 8, renowned New York-based theater troupe SITI Company premieres a newly commissioned adaptation of the play at the Getty Villa. This production has a new title, a [...]
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Tags: Anne Bogart, classical plays, Euripides, experimental theater, Jocelyn Clarke, Norman Frisch, Outdoor Classical Theater, SITI Company, tragedy, Trojan Women, Trojan Women (after Euripides)
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On a recent midsummer’s evening, the Getty hosted a program called At the Roman Table: A Culinary Adventure at the Getty Villa. The event drew 160 guests on each of two balmy evenings to Malibu, where we enjoyed a banquet inspired by ancient Roman recipes. The evening began with an intellectual appetizer: A lecture by [...]
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Tags: Andrew Dalby, cooking, cuisine, food, food events, Roman cuisine, Sally Grainger
The recently acquired white-ground lekythos on display in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) at the Getty Villa is a handsome addition to the Museum’s antiquities collection. With its narrow neck and cylindrical body, this popular type of vase was perfectly designed to hold oil. It was produced in Athens during much of the [...]
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Tags: antiquities conservation, conservation science, Getty Museum collection, Greek art, pottery, vase-painting
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