“Who is this man named J. P. Getty?” M. Knoedler & Co. and Getty the Collector
J. Paul Getty, the mysterious art hunter.
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Read MoreHow simple drawings can foment political upheaval.
Read More179 boxes of books and journals are headed from Los Angeles to the Universidade Federal de Saõ Paolo.
Read MoreIt’s a jazz thing: Jackson Pollock’s Mural inspires a music playlist.
Read More“Despite their precise lines and construction, Hammersley’s work displays a personal touch, guided by his belief in intuition as an important principle for art making.”
Read MoreTraining a new generation of museum professionals.
Read MoreThe real ancient world of Greece and Rome was colorful, human, and messy.
Read MoreLetters and records reveal rare information about the art market during World War II.
Read MoreIn March, one of the most elegant women at the Museum was forcibly escorted out of the galleries. I was there and saw the whole thing. Princess Leonilla, who’d been on constant view since the Getty Center opened in...
Read MoreSometimes, only a friend will tell you what they really think. Take the case of artist Ed Kienholz and curator Walter Hopps. Kienholz’s over-life-size assemblage portrait of his friend, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps—the inspiration for our collage meet-up this...
Read MoreThe well-coiffed elite of the time relished a good card game.
Read More“Witnesses in Action,” the documentary film series I curated earlier this month, followed the lenses of brave and talented photographers who took their cameras to far-flung locales. We started in mile-long factories in China, travelled to bizarre beached shipwrecks...
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