I was an intern in the Web Group at the Getty Trust in the summer of 2010. My focus was on writing blog posts for the Getty Iris, but I also assisted with other projects in the department. This fall I’ll be starting my senior year at Williams College, where I’m an art history major with an interest in classical Greek vase-painting and sculpture. Although I spend most of the year at school, Los Angeles is my favorite place to be. I try to spend as much time as I can exploring all the things this beautiful city has to offer.
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What is your job at the Getty? I work as a gallery teacher at the Getty Villa. Gallery teachers lead tours in the museum and get to talk with visitors about art all day long. In the Museum we are surrounded by so much incredible art—and we get to share our enthusiasm about it with [...]
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What do you do at the Getty? I’m an objects conservator at the Getty Research Institute. The GRI houses a vast research library, with all sort of material relating to art history. Our special collections contain photographs, prints and drawings, designs, artist’s books and sketch books, three-dimensional objects, and much more. This variety of materials [...]
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What do you do at the Getty? I work on a variety of Web and new media projects that allow me to collaborate with my colleagues within the Web Group as well as other departments across the Getty. I’m a Web content administrator, but I think that’s kind of a boring title for all the [...]
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“Gérôme forged narrative practices that would take the cinema decades to invent,” art historian Marc Gotlieb told a packed auditorium recently in a discussion of The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, which closes this Sunday. Really? How could a 19th-century academic painter like Gérôme—a man adamantly opposed to modernism—have contributed to cinema, the quintessential modern [...]
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Picture this: You’re in the 18th century taking a Grand Tour across Europe, making all the “in” stops such as France and Italy. Before heading back home, you have one final task: buying souvenirs! You’ve taken fencing lessons in Paris, seen the historic ruins in Rome, and navigated the Alps, so what do you bring [...]
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When I walked into the Getty ten weeks ago, I could never have expected all the amazing experiences that I’d have this summer as the intern in the Web Group. During my internship, I’ve done everything from interviewing Getty staff for the Iris, to building Web pages, to dancing the electric slide at Getty Underground. It’s [...]
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What do you do at the Getty? I manage the Getty Vocabulary Program. You probably want to know what that is! We compile databases of terminology that allow people to catalog art and to retrieve information about it. I’ve worked on vocabularies for the Getty since 1985. What databases are in the Vocabulary Program? We [...]
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What is your job at the Getty? I’m an education specialist for family programs. Since I came to the Getty Villa in 2008, I’ve been building programs that appeal to parents and kids. There’s also a healthy new education section our Web site that I’ve been helping develop. What is your background? I’m old school—I [...]
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What do you do at the Getty? I’m a designer. My work includes graphics, or 2-D design, as well as 3-D design-such as furniture, interiors, and architectural drawing. Our department, Design, is unique for a cultural institution because we create 2-D and 3-D in one department. What are some of the 2-D and the 3-D [...]
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During a tour of the new exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, curator Mary Morton stopped in front of Gérôme’s Snake Charmer and asked the audience, “What do you see?” Murmurs spread through the crowd. One brave little girl raised her hand and said, “There’s a boy, and he’s naked.” This statement might not [...]
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