A Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs Goes on View at the Getty Center
Friendship and a shared interest in classical antiquity brought this painter and subject together.
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Visions of Paradise in a Global Middle Ages: Illuminated Manuscripts and Infinite Gems from India and Europe
A new exhibition explores depictions of paradise across Europe and Asia.
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100 Years Later: The Hope Collection from London to Los Angeles
Inside the storied history of a great antiquities collection.
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Drawing, the Art of Infinite Possibilities
A Renaissance drawing reexamined as a modern work of art.
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The Wars to Come: Game of Thrones and Medieval Art
A medievalist's-eye-view of Game of Thrones, season 5.
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My Lifelong Quest for Color
Writer Victoria Finlay devotes her life to uncovering the human stories behind colors
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Colorful Board Game Turns the French Colonies into Child’s Play
Educating French children to value colonialism.
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Lifted Cellulose Nitrate: Conserving an Early Robert Mapplethorpe Object
A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Proclamations in Clay
Make your own regal proclamation in rolled clay with these tips from artist Anna Mayer.
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The Moment of Alliums
It is the week of return—of the vernal equinox, and of the shooting stars—the blue blue-violet alliums in Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at the Getty Center. We’ve been waiting. In late-ish February, green shoots began rocketing from the rich...
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Inside the Getty Conservation Institute’s Modern and Contemporary Art Research Lab
I popped by the Getty Conservation Institute’s science labs this week to be met with a surprise: a large white Doug Wheeler painting (1964, Untitled, acrylic) alongside the beakers and other scientific equipment. Wheeler is best known for his...
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Meet the Controversial Cupid of Eighteenth-Century France
This Cupid once decorated a king’s love nest.
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