Royal Library of Belgium—Coin Cabinet
The designer of the Sicily exhibition at the Getty Villa reveals the challenges of displaying small, double-sided, intricate objects—coins. More»
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Posted in Antiquities, Architecture and Design, Exhibitions and Installations, Getty Villa, J. Paul Getty Museum
Ancient Sicilian Coins: Miniature Masterpieces, Full-Scale Challenges
Also tagged ancient Sicily, coins, display, exhibition design, J. Paul Getty Museum, numismatics, Sicily
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions and Installations, J. Paul Getty Museum, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Voices
Getty Voices: Looking Closely
As the designer of The Life of Art, my job was to get you to look—really look. More»
Also tagged exhibition design, furniture, porcelain, technology, The Life of Art
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Posted in Architecture and Design, Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions and Installations, J. Paul Getty Museum
Church Pews and iPads? Designing “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance”
Installation view of Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance showing the design treatment for a gateway object, Giotto's Peruzzi Altarpiece from about 1309–15. (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, GL.60.17.7). At left, The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul, about 1330, Bernardo Daddi. The J. Paul Getty Museum. At right, the Carmina regia manuscript, about 1335–40, Pacino di Bonaguida. The British Library
When we first started planning for the design of Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance in the fall of 2011, we faced a major challenge: how to deliver the wealth of information we wanted to convey about the artworks…. More»
Posted in Art, Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions and Installations, J. Paul Getty Museum, Sculpture and Decorative Arts
See the Decorative Arts from a New Angle
Do artworks have an inner life? You might think so when you visit a new exhibition opening today at the Getty Center. The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display presents the life stories of four objects made to serve… More»
Also tagged exhibition design, French art, furniture, interactive features, iPad, porcelain
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Posted in Architecture and Design, Behind the Scenes, Exhibitions and Installations, J. Paul Getty Museum
Creating a Canvas for “Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents”
As you move through Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A.: Painting and Sculpture, closing this Sunday, the colors of the walls or the unusual angles of the wall panels might not be the first thing you notice. But Museum designers… More»
Also tagged color, Crosscurrents, exhibition design, interior design, Pacific Standard Time, PST, PSTinLA
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Posted in Art, Behind the Scenes, J. Paul Getty Museum, Paintings
Labeling Turner
Writing the gallery label for a painting can sometimes feel like an art form in itself, a kind of circumscribed descriptive poetry not unrelated to haiku. How, in fewer than 100 words, do you capture the essence of an object,… More»
