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Art with an On-Off Switch: Restoring Stephan von Huene’s Tap Dancer

Julie Wolfe | May 30, 2012

Art with an On-Off Switch: Restoring Stephan von Huene's Tap Dancer

Getty Center Open Fridays till 9 This Summer

Julie Jaskol | May 29, 2012

Starting this Friday, June 1, the Getty Center will be open until 9:00 p.m. on Fridays as well as Saturdays. That’s two evenings a week to enjoy Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, which continues through most of the summer, plus...

Luigi Salerno and the Art of Attribution

Insley Julier | May 25, 2012

Inside the mind of art historian Luigi Salerno.

Peter Plagens Answers Your Questions [VIDEO]

Annelisa Stephan | May 23, 2012

More videos: • Has Los Angeles’s ecology of evil improved? • Are Huffington Post bloggers “volunteer slaves”? • What do you think about the dismantling of the Barnes Foundation? On Monday we put out a call on Facebook and...

Conservation Comes Outdoors for Henry Moore’s “Bronze Form”

Katrina Posner | May 22, 2012

What’s inside this tent? Henry Moore’s monumental sculpture Bronze Form 5/6—normally the first artwork visitors see when arriving at the Getty Center—is undergoing a conservation treatment behind a rather mysterious-looking safety screen. My colleagues and I will be working...

Sleeping with Aphrodite

David Saunders | May 17, 2012

One of the most enjoyable aspects of curating an exhibition is serendipity. Not to say these projects aren’t carefully planned (far from it), but sometimes the physical relationship of two artworks will coincide in an unexpectedly fortuitous way, or...

All Shook Up! Protecting Art in an Earthquake

Maria L. Gilbert | May 15, 2012

When you look at sculpture in the Getty Museum’s galleries, you wouldn’t guess that some of the pedestals are somewhat unusual. Under their polished veneer, they’re engineered to protect art from the movements caused by earthquakes. Many museums in...

Fragonard’s “Les Beignets”: How Much Sweeter Can Life Be?

Edouard Kopp | May 14, 2012

In this time of uncertainty, art can bring pleasure to the eye, nourishment to the mind, and also solace to the heart. A work that does just this is Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Making Fritters (Les Beignets), an enchanting drawing from...

Art Education Isn’t Just for Kids

Paula Rucker | May 10, 2012

I’ve always appreciated art, but creating art never seemed like something I could do. Creating a drawing or painting was what talented people did, not me. Professionally, I first became involved in art 10 years ago when I left...

Pacific Standard Time Takes Berlin

Andrew Perchuk, Rani Singh, and John Tain | May 9, 2012

Pacific Standard Time officially ended in Los Angeles on March 31, but it continues nearly 6,000 miles away in Berlin. Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Los Angeles 1950–1980 opened at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin on March 15th. With double...

Preserving the Photographic Heritage of the Middle East

Tram Vo and Anna Zagorski | May 7, 2012

We treasure our family photos because they are reminders of meaningful memories. The same can be said of the photographic collections held by institutions, for they represent who we are and where we have been. When photographs become damaged...

Explorations in Darkness and Light: Odilon Redon

Courtney Wilder | May 3, 2012

My job as research assistant to Marcia Reed, chief curator at the Getty Research Institute, and Louis Marchesano, curator of prints & drawings, might be described as “research becomes eclectic.” In addition to investigating a wide array of potential...

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