Artistic Techniques for Creating Light and Shadow
Behind the scenes on set.
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Behind the Scenes of a Special Exhibition at the Getty
How Getty Museum curators, conservators, registrars, and exhibition coordinators came together and organized the exhibition "Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th Century French Drawings and Paintings."
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Walk, Look, and Learn
A drawing unfolds a story about 18th-century fashion and manners.
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Grad Intern Diary: Laurel Garber
An eBay bidding war and over 800 pastels, a year in the life of a drawings intern
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Heinrich Geissler’s Groundbreaking Archive
A newly catalogued archive sheds light on how art history was written in Germany after the war.
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Watch the Oakes Brothers’ Drawing of the Getty Take Shape, Line by Line
See artist-brothers Ryan and Trevor Oakes live-sketch the Central Garden.
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Three Drawings from the Dutch Golden Age
Three Dutch drawings join the collection.
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Watteau’s Elegant Ladies, Reunited
Two sister Watteau drawings reunite in a new exhibition.
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Who Is George Seurat’s “Indian Man”?
Help us solve an art-historical mystery.
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The Human Predicament, in Pastel
An enigmatic pastel shows Degas’s talent for drawing human psychology.
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Hot Sauce, Be My Fiery Muse
How do you make art about Tapatío and Sriracha? First, eat many tacos…
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Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance Lefty
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings contain a little-known secret.
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