Getty Voices: Looking East, Looking West
“Looking East” established a platform for international dialogue around art, history, and cultural exchange.
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exhibitions
Explore “Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.” on Newly Launched Website
Browse around L.A. faster than freeway travel (as if freeway travel is ever speedy). “Pacific Standard Time Presents” website sets new sights on how our city was made Modern.
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Write the Opening Line to Vermeer’s “Lady in Blue”
What do you think the first line of this letter might say? Share your ideas.
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Whispers and Shadows: Ray K. Metzker and “Street Noir”
“I imagine the people in Metzker’s photographs as supporting characters in a film noir—captured on an average day, precisely at the loneliest moment before the cruel twist of fate takes hold.”
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A Call to Arms! Heraldry in Renaissance Florence (And a Mystery You Can Help Solve)
A horse, a salmon, lizards, and the cross of Calvary—learn to decipher coats of arms!
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Church Pews and iPads? Designing “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance”
How did the designer and curators create the exhibition “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance”?
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An Ancient Curse Revealed
A curse tablet excavated from Morgantina, Sicily, bears some vengeful words.
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How Do You Sing The Renaissance? Lionheart Does a Roaring Good Job
This vocal group brings to life a partially lost 14th-century hymn book.
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Actor Peter Weller Discusses Renaissance Florence (and Answers Your Questions!)
Robocop an art historian? Yes! Peter Weller answers questions about Italian Renaissance art.
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From the Black Death to Black Friday
Florentians feverishly bought art from hot brands of the day—Giotto and Pacino.
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Simultaneous Viewing and Ray Metzker’s Composites
An exhibition of Metzker’s photographs offers “assembled related moments presented for simultaneous viewing.”
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Curators Talk Mapplethorpe at the Getty and LACMA
Curators Martineau and Salvesen discuss Mapplethorpe and his 2012 exhibitions.
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