VIDEO: Streets of Los Angeles by Artist Ed Ruscha, Recipient of the 2019 Getty Medal
Inside Ruscha's 50-year archive of L.A. streets, now housed at the Getty.
Read MoreInside Ruscha's 50-year archive of L.A. streets, now housed at the Getty.
Read MoreInside the unusual museum of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
Read MoreLet us marvel at this low-tech wonder from the past.
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Read MoreTeacher programs specialist at LACMA Jennifer Reid reflects on her career beginnings.
Read MoreThe luxuriant locks sported by this medieval figure might seem to say more “Marilyn Monroe” than “Saint John.” Both he and the movie star sport hairstyles from the glamorous ‘40s—in the saint’s case, the 1340s. In the Middle Ages,...
Read MoreThe Getty Museum acquires 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts.
Read MoreThe Harald Szeemann Archive and Library, one of the most important private research collections for modern and contemporary art in the world, is coming to the Getty Research Institute—and we couldn’t be more excited. Szeemann was the most influential...
Read MoreIn 2007 the Getty Security department was approached by the VA (Veterans Affairs) to see if we could arrange a visit to the Getty Center for some of the veterans at their facility off Sepulveda Boulevard at Constitution Avenue....
Read MoreCenturies ago, a marble sculpture known as the Agrigento Youth took a violent fall, losing his nose and parts of his arms and legs. The cause? Likely an earthquake. The statue, loaned to us by the Museo Archeologico Regionale...
Read MoreThough his name has become synonymous with the 19th century’s canonical movement of Impressionism, and though his masterpieces hang proudly in the halls of the world’s finest museums, Claude Monet has long been—for me—a confounding artist. He was one...
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