What Does the Acropolis Mean? A Conversation with Thomas Gallant
The Athenian monument as structure and symbol.
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Read MoreA curator’s take on Andrea del Sarto.
Read MoreWhat makes an artist? Questions for the great Czech photographer.
Read MoreVisitors common-sense (and sometimes hilarious) rules for 21st-century behavior.
Read MoreTwo paintings of lovers, decades and centuries apart.
Read MoreEvery interaction is an opportunity. Thoughts on considering a career in the arts.
Read MoreIt’s a jazz thing: Jackson Pollock’s Mural inspires a music playlist.
Read MoreIn the exhibition Narrative Interventions in Photography, opening October 25, contemporary photographers Eileen Cowin, Carrie Mae Weems, and Simryn Gill present works that explore the subjectivity of storytelling and the slipperiness of truth. Cowin’s large, color photographs pair images—including...
Read MoreArtist Mark Bradford recently visited one of Kristine Hatanaka’s art classes at Culver City High School to talk to students about works they’d created based on his art-making activity RE-RE-Process, available through Open Studio. Initiated by Mark as part...
Read MoreFor 25 years the Getty Research Institute has been inviting scholars from around the world to visit, do research, and ask provocative questions. During his recent stay, Zhu Qingsheng (LaoZhu), director of the Center of Visual Studies at Peking...
Read MoreEighteen months ago we at the Getty Research Institute decided to give our website a complete overhaul. A small group formed and spent the first three months looking through hundreds and hundreds of pages on our site. We talked,...
Read MoreOn Saturday, October 23, the Getty Research Institute participated in the 5th Annual Archives Bazaar. Organized by L.A. as Subject, a USC-hosted research alliance dedicated to improving the visibility, access, and preservation of primary sources of Los Angeles history,...
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