“All space, all beings, and all creation is sacred—but we don’t walk through life seeing it that way. Art offers a transition, helping us leave behind the secular world and move into a sacred place.” More»
In a joint Yale-Getty program, conservators learn to harness physics to analyze art. More»
“There is so much to think over that I do not know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about.” More»
Make your own regal proclamation in rolled clay with these tips from artist Anna Mayer. More»
Support the arts in L.A. with a donation this #GivingTuesday. More»
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“There is so much to think over that I do not know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about.” More»
Visit the giant bug, create a scavenger hunt on the fly, and help yourself to the giant rolling lawn. More»
Los jardines, la vista, y las exposiciones son preciosas! (The gardens, the view, and the exhibits are beautiful!)
—Eliza commenting on visiting the Getty
Artists from North American, Caribbean, and South American backgrounds converge here, grouping off in sections with themes like craft, landscape, consumerism, violence, identity, and geometry.
Generating a title for a museum show involves curators, directors, publicists, and more. It can be grueling, it can be fun, and it sometimes takes years to find the right one.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is authorizing 3-D reproductions of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings.
A gleaming art gallery is breathing new life into a former coal mining town in northern France. One year since the Louvre opened a sister gallery in Lens, it has attracted 750,000 visitors.
A beautiful slideshow displays 15 drawings recently exhibited at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy, that brought together 52 works by the Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci.
How did the White House Cézannes escape the Nazi plunder that captured the bravura painting Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Bernardo Strozzi which was recently returned to its rightful owner?
Exhibitions and talks make up a small part of what a museum does. For example, institutions like the Getty Research Institute and others are busy digitizing their collections to bring them to the general public.
An inventor in Texas—the subject of a new documentary by the magicians Penn & Teller—may have solved the riddle of how Vermeer used a camera obscura to paint masterpieces.
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Circular plaque from a table, 1773, painted by Jacques-Francois Micaud. The J. Paul Getty Museum