Getty Research Institute (GRI)

A Gallery Fit for a Prince and Now the Public? The Düsseldorf Gallery and the Modern Museum

Most museum galleries have certain things in common. For one, the works are spaced a restful distance apart from one another on the wall.... Read More

Jessica Portner | July 8, 2011

Welcome to Alfred Schmela’s Art Gallery!

After several months of writing and archival processing, I’ve just finished my work on the archive of Galerie Schmela. The archive’s 172 boxes and 25 flat... Read More

Isabella Zuralski-Yeager | June 29, 2011

Abstract Films from the 1920s: Making Rhythm Visible

Visual phenomena intersect with concepts applied to music in films.

Preserving the Legacy of Harald Szeemann

The Harald Szeemann Archive and Library, one of the most important private research collections for modern and contemporary art in the world, is coming... Read More

Glenn Phillips and Marcia Reed | June 8, 2011

The Museum as Classroom: Q&A with Guest Scholar George Hein

George Hein, a leading authority on museum education whom the Museum’s Education Department invited as a guest scholar this spring, says that museums are... Read More

Jessica Portner | May 2, 2011

The Getty Research Journal: Diverse, Collaborative, International

The third issue of the Getty Research Journal has just been published. Each year, the Journal presents new research on the Getty’s broad holdings... Read More

Lucy Bradnock | April 18, 2011

Writing Verse for “Brush & Shutter”

Greeting you at the entrance to Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China is a duilian, two lines of Chinese poetry that situate the... Read More

Qingnian Tang | April 6, 2011

A New Look at Chinese Art

For 25 years the Getty Research Institute has been inviting scholars from around the world to visit, do research, and ask provocative questions. During... Read More

Annelisa Stephan | March 23, 2011

Symposium on Latin American Art: Live Online This Weekend

Update—videos of this event have been archived here. The three-day symposium Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century is... Read More

Donna Conwell | March 10, 2011

Brush and Shutter: When Chinese Painters Became Photographers

The new exhibition Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China uses photographs, along with a few paintings and other artistic media, to tell a... Read More

Jeff Cody | February 8, 2011

Reframing Robert Mapplethorpe

Frances Terpak, curator of photographs, talks about the new Robert Mapplethorpe Archive.

The Display of Art in Roman Palaces

At a time when we’re accustomed to viewing art in museums—and often in galleries that more or less resemble a white cube—it’s worth thinking... Read More

Gail Feigenbaum and Lisa Cherkerzian | January 25, 2011