Getty Research Institute (GRI)

Conserving Architectural Models: Behind the Scenes in the Research Institute Conservation Lab

How are architectural models conserved?

Juliane Wattig | July 20, 2013

Since the 1890s, oil wells have tapped L.A.'s underground resource.

Cheryl Preston | July 16, 2013

A five-person team at the Research Institute has finished cataloging Harald Szeemann’s monumental Project Files.

Pietro Rigolo | June 26, 2013

A major new project traces the rise of the British art market in the late 1700s.

Eric Hormell | June 19, 2013

The GRI Gallery is expanding more than threefold, starting June 10.

“Runge’s prints represent far more than merely the times of day. The cycle of the day represents in fact the cycle of life.”

This remarkable four-print series depicts the coming and departing of light, which points to the cycles of life from conception to death.

As director of the Venice Biennale, curator Harald Szeemann created new ways of showing art—and new places to show it.

Melanie Tran | May 31, 2013

A fake Leonardo? The scandalous court case of art dealer Joseph Duveen.

Emmabeth Nanol | May 23, 2013

What special places tell the story of your L.A.?

Lyra Kilston | May 13, 2013

Incorporating Nazi-era sales catalogs into the Getty Provenance Index took a small team about two years. Here’s how they did the work.

The glamorous owner of the Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan was key to the careers of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, among many others.

Annette Leddy | March 28, 2013