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	Events for September 27, 2007 at the Getty
		Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts.
		Drawn primarily from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition surveys the variety of creative means by which artists have used traditional media to document performance-based art.
		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.
	www.getty.edu /visit/calendar (1120 words)

	Getty Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Getty Center, designed by architect Richard Meier, is the flagship museum of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
		The Getty Center is high enough that on a clear day, it is possible to see the snow at Big Bear as well as the Pacific Ocean and the entire Los Angeles basin.
		Paul Getty opened his first museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Getty_Center (452 words)

	AllRefer.com - Getty Center, Art Museum (Art Museums) - Encyclopedia
		Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
		The museum houses the Getty collections of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative arts as well as European and American and European photographs.
		The first Getty Museum was located at J. Paul Getty's home in Malibu, the second was a Roman-style villa in Malibu that opened in 1974 and is scheduled to reopen in 2001 to exhibit the Getty's outstanding collection of classical antiquities and serve as a center for comparative archaeology and cultures.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GettyCnt.html (256 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Getty Center, The, Los Angeles CA
		Getty Center visitors park in a 1,200-space structure and ascend the hill in an electric tram for the five-minute ride to the central plaza.
		Getty's death in 1976, the collection of ancient Greek and Roman art was one of the most important of its kind in the United States.
		Getty's death are the Victorious Athlete, a Greek bronze statue of the late fourth century BC, and a number of early Cycladic marble sculptures.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/vs/gl/90049-16.htm (4762 words)

	Modern elements in Getty Center
		Getty Center has a extraordinary structure, made of opposite elements, such as classical versus modern, solid and heavy versus light and transparent.
		The Getty Center was built over several years and opened in 1997, on the top of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles.
		In the Greek structures the scene was circular, and in the Getty Center it is rectangular.
	www.najmici.net /getty_ess.htm (2486 words)

	Getty Center to make its glitzy mega-debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Getty Center is so difficult to describe that in anticipation of its opening, the trust hired a communications specialist to rename its various entities to create a concise way of characterizing the center: "A museum, five institutes and a grant program."
		The Getty Center also is seen as a symbol of the city's cultural coming of age.
		Jean Paul Getty was a penny-pinching oil baron who conducted his out-of-town business from thrift-level hotel rooms and who carried his papers in a shabby briefcase tied together with string.
	chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/12/15/getty-bckgrd.0-0.html (1321 words)

	Encyclopedia: J. Paul Getty Center
		The Getty Center is high enough that on a clear day, it is possible to see the snow at Big Bear as well as the entire Los Angeles basin.
		Paul Getty opened his first museum in a re-creation of an ancient Roman country house on his property in Malibu, California.
		The Getty Center, designed by architect Richard Meier, is the flagship museum of the J.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/J.-Paul-Getty-Center (439 words)

	Getty Museum
		I was at the Getty at 11 am on a Saturday morning in March 1998 and folks who'd arrived by bus had to stand on line for about an hour before earning the right to stand on line for another 20 minutes before boarding the tram.
		Greenspun is in favor of the Getty's presentation and his text is a bit misleading as he does not really specifiy the actual thing he is endorsing.
		While the Getty Museum is an architectural landmark, there is no question in my mind that it does not have the finest art collection in the city.
	www.photo.net /ca/getty.html (2207 words)

	Art-chitecture
		The Getty Center's art collection is composed of the some of the best and most rare works in seven areas: paintings, antiquities, decorative arts, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, drawings and photographs.
		The Getty Center is also home to The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.
		The Getty Center is famous for its sophisticated system of manipulating natural light to illuminate paintings in a way that mimics the conditions under which the artist painted, using indirect daylight to bring out subtleties of color.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V139/N13/01-art.13d.html (999 words)

	Arch. of the Getty Center - Introduction
		To visit the Center at its transcendent hilltop location is to be lifted above the constraints of everyday life to experience architectural design at its finest, rethinking the best from the past in response to an exceptional challenge.
		It is not just that the architecture of the Getty Center is the most significant achievement in the career of a distinguished architect; in many ways it is also the culmination of twentieth century high design and a symbol of societal aspirations for the future.
		The Getty Center must be explored privately, discovered in moments of delight, studied and debated with ones friends and colleagues, and deeply absorbed over a period of time.
	academic.reed.edu /getty/getty_old/Introduction.html (687 words)

	Getty Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Getty Center is an administrative center, research center, and display center for the Getty art collection.
		The Getty Center sits on a hill in the Sepulveda Pass overlooking the greater Los Angeles area and right next to the 405 freeway, a main north/south artery.
		Pictured here is a portion of the central garden looking back toward the research center, a portion of the Getty Center where special materials from the collection are on display and there is a reading room for public research.
	tomsdomain.com /travel/short/getty.htm (634 words)

	Recent Times Coverage of the Getty Museum - Los Angeles Times
		Officials say they are tired of waiting for the museum to respond to their requests for the return of four allegedly looted artifacts.
		The J. Paul Getty Museum's former antiquities curator, Marion True, received a $400,000 personal loan from two wealthy art collectors just days after the museum closed a deal to acquire their collection, records and interviews show.
		ATHENS — The J. Paul Getty Museum, embroiled in a fight with the Italian government over allegedly looted antiquities, now faces demands by the Greek government for the return of four objects authorities say were illegally removed from their country.
	www.latimes.com /getty (512 words)

	The Getty Center
		The Getty Center, which is what this essay is about, relates to these personal assessments because it appears that with its arrival, I will be forced to change the entire metaphor of my imagined L.A. The Getty Center, taken as a whole, is one large entity.
		The Getty Center seems to be projecting and facilitating a model for the cooperative creation of opportunities about the understanding, experience, value and preservation of the world's artistic and cultural history.
		Its' historical origins were located at the geographical center of town and history added layer upon layer to the outer rings, while conserving architectural traces of every moment of the continuous evolution.
	artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles1297/ChangeInMetaphor.html (1593 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Getty Center -- December 15, 1997
		The Getty Center is without parallel in American cultural live--a billion dollar art establishment built without a dime of public money.
		JEFFREY KAYE: Fifteen years ago the Getty was a small museum in a Roman-style villa in Malibu, housing the collections of J. Paul Getty, the oil billionaire.
		Back at the center paintings are restored in a space with huge windows that evoke the lighting in studios where much of the artwork was created.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/getty_12-15.html (2190 words)

	The Getty Center
		Due for completion in 1997, the Getty Center is comprised of six principal buildings dedicated to uniting the various programs of the J.Paul Getty Trust for the benefit of the general public.
		The Center will be comprised of: the Getty Museum; the Getty Conservation Institute; the Getty Information Institute; the Getty Education Institute for the Arts; the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities; the Getty Trust offices; an Auditorium; and Food Services facilities.
		On the more private western ridge is located the Getty Research Institute for the History of Arts and the Humanities, comprising the library, reading rooms, study carrels and office space for scholars and staff.
	www.arcspace.com /calif/build/getty.htm (581 words)

	The Getty Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Other programs of the Getty Trust are: The Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Conservation Institute (in the East Building), Information Institute (in the North Building), Education Institute for the Arts (in the East Building), Leadership Institute for museum management, and the Grant program (in the East Building).
		Other methods of traveling to the Getty Center are by public transportation in the form of a taxi, private shuttle, or the city bus systems.
		The Getty Center is situated upon The Santa Monica mountain tops with panoramic views of the San Gabriel mountains to the east.
	www.nctimes.net /~hihorse/page248.htm (565 words)

	My First Impressions Of Getty Center
		Getty Center is a stunningly beautiful, new and unique cultural experience.
		One is a bit tempted to say that the Center appears to overwhelm it's collection, but that may change with time.
		I intend to be a regular visitor to Getty Center and will surely collect many more and better pictures.
	dadada.com /gc/gc.html (277 words)

	CNN - Getty Center encompasses much more than a museum - December 16, 1997
		LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- In all the excitement about the art and culture the Getty Center brings to Los Angeles, it's easy to miss that the museum is just one of seven offerings that the center encompasses.
		At the Getty Information Institute, the arts and humanities become interactive with digital imaging and databases for art and other information.
		And if that's not enough, there is the Getty Leadership Institute for Museum Management, which works to equip museum directors with business know-how for today's competitive times.
	www.cnn.com /TRAVEL/NEWS/9712/16/getty.opening/getty.institutes (274 words)

	Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
		The Getty Center is one of the most disinctive architectural achievements in Los Angeles and an excellent place to spend an afternoon when you are in town.
		The Getty Center was finished in 1997 and although I've been to LA a couple of times since, this was the first time it fit in my schedule.
		The Getty's art collection is not the most outstanding that I've seen (and I've read that the collection at LACMA is better) but the Getty is still worth visiting for the beautiful views over the area, the lovely Central Garden, the large section of decorative arts.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/California/Los_Angeles-753836/Things_To_Do-Los_Angeles-Getty_Museum-BR-1.html (1473 words)

	Images of Getty Center, by Richard Meier
		The Getty Center, sometimes referred to as a campus, is comprised of six buildings: the Auditorium, North and East Buildings at the north and east sides, the Museum, Cafe and Research Institute on the south and western sides of the site.
		Meier is known for his high tech white buildings (see The Atheneum and Clifty Creek Elementary School) but not all of the buildings at the Getty Center are of white enamel panels; some are clad in a warm beige textured travertine quarried in Italy.
		The new Museum at the Getty Center replaces the Malibu J. Paul Getty Museum, a design based on a Roman villa, which is closed for remodeling.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/meiergetty/gettyindex.html (397 words)

	Getty Center museum brings culture to LA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Getty Center museum brings culture to LA Getty Center museum brings culture to LA LOS ANGELES (AP) - This city already has world-class earthquakes, riots and murder trials.
		The Getty Center, a $1 billion hilltop monument to art and architecture, is set to open Tuesday, although a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Saturday.
		The thousands of tons of travertine stone that grace the Getty are nothing compared to the weight of responsibility the center has in turning L.A.'s miserable arts image around.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/121797/la0564.htm (461 words)

	Getty Center on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		GETTY CENTER [Getty Center] art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust.
		L.A.'s Getty Center is breathtakingly big; Above Los Angeles did J. Paul Getty a stately museum complex decree.
		Getty Images Getty Images 04-10-2003 ATLANTA, GA - APRIL 10: Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention holdsSyndrome (SARS).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/GettyC1nt.asp (915 words)

	J. Paul Getty Museum
		The Getty Center is located in Los Angeles, California near the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) and the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10).
		Getty Museum, designed by architect Richard Meier, occupies 750 acres of land in the Santa Monica Mountains foothills.
		The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum on display in the galleries includes examples of pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs.
	www.insecula.com /us/musee/M0238.html (255 words)

	The Getty Center - Los Angeles
		The Getty Center is a superb experience for the visitor, both for its architecture and for its collections.
		The Getty Center opened its new 110 acre campus on December 16, 1997 and attracted one million visitors during its first six months.
		The architect for the new center is Richard Meier, an American master of the modernist style.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/GettyCenter.htm (523 words)

	Getty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Getty Center - Current home of the J. Paul Getty Trust Museum and institute located in Los Angeles, California
		Getty Oil - The oil company founded by J. Paul Getty
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Getty (112 words)

	Tour Getty Center Los Angeles Vacation Adventure - California Travel Guide - Museum Library Tourism - Getty Center Los ...
		From its perch overlooking I-405 and the Sepulveda Pass, the Getty Center was one of the biggest art institutions in the world.
		The Getty Center houses a massive collection of pre-20th century art, European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts and photographs.
		Getty Center - One of the world's largest art institutions is located in the Sepulveda Pass.
	www.maintour.com /socal/lacgetty.htm (711 words)

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		Parking is only $5.00 at the Center, but if you park in the overflow lot on Constitution, there is no charge for parking and there is a free shuttle that takes you up to the museum.
		The Getty has hands on area for the child or the child in you to experience.Lastly the food at the museum is excellant also so, save time for a lunch or ?.
		Getty was never known for having an eye on interesting or thought provoking work, this is just stuff he picked up and had hanging around his house.
	losangeles.citysearch.com /review/85399/editorial?... (751 words)

	California: Los Angeles, Going to the Getty.
		The redesigned Family Room focuses on a greater range of the Getty's holdings, with each of the five coves concentrating on one area of the Museum’s collection: paintings, drawings and manuscripts, decorative arts, sculpture, and photographs.
		The two interactive games at the virtual Getty Museum are designed to be fun as well as educational, a hallmark of the Getty’s work with children over the years.
		The Getty Trust and the Getty programs are located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
	www.thefamilytravelfiles.com /ezine/articles/113.asp (1594 words)

	Museum of the Millennium / Los Angeles' gigantic Getty Center gearing up for December opening
		Although the Getty has no plans to build a contemporary art collection, Walsh foresees that ``various public spaces in the center might evolve into a kind of landscape of commissioned artworks,'' not unlike the campus of the University of California at San Diego, which Walsh admires and which has a large outdoor piece by Smith.
		Robert Irwin's garden is a sprawling network of trees, water course and pathways that spills down the hillside behind the Getty Center, culminating in a red azalea maze surrounded by a pool.
		It is exceptional in being situated in a part of the Getty Center not normally accessible to the general public, on the bottom level of the cylindrical Research Institute building.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/11/16/PK59600.DTL (1135 words)

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