Three Drawings from the Dutch Golden Age
Three Dutch drawings join the collection.
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Art Historical Books Bound for Brazil
179 boxes of books and journals are headed from Los Angeles to the Universidade Federal de Saõ Paolo.
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Planning for Utopia
The darker side of postwar suburban order.
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Searching for Murmurs of History
Frank Alvord Perret was a pioneering volcanologist who invented unique devices to measure geologic properties. One of these was a “geophone” that detected subterranean noises by amplifying the rumblings below the surface of the earth.
The photo below shows Perret listening to the whispers of volcanic activity in Campi Flegrei, a volcano located near Mount Vesuvius, which erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. The archaeological site of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum served as the architectural inspiration for the Getty Villa.
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Curators’ Choice: Byzantine Treasures
Four treasures not to miss when you visit the Byzantine art exhibition at the Getty Villa.
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“L.A. Summer of Learning” Turns the City into an Open-Air Classroom
Make your own summer camp with this new citywide program.
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Theater for the Wonderfully Grotesque: A Playlist for James Ensor
Dark and obscure songs that mirror the grotesque sensibilities of James Ensor.
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Sculpting Gravity
Making visible the earth’s elegance, through art.
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Be a Part of “Fuzzy Grids II”
Be a part of an oversize living artwork at the Getty Center.
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A Taste of Byzantium
Food of the angels.
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Put a Ring On It
One ring and the two women who treasured it.
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New Digital Publication Zooms in on Claude Monet
New digital catalogue from the Art Institute of Chicago lets you get up close and personal with Monet’s brushstrokes.
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