Sitting in Style
What an 18th-century chair says about its owner
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Art snapshots, exhibitions and events news, curator’s essays, and more from the Getty Museum.
An 18th-Century Armchair in Focus
Three Getty graduate interns share their contributions to planning a special exhibition
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What’s in a Frame?
A Getty conservator reveals how paintings get their frames
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PODCAST: New Narratives by LA Photographers of All Ages
Inside the exhibition Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA and Getty Unshuttered
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Why Are There So Many Naked Ancient Greek Statues?
Getty Villa experts try to answer a popular visitor question
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Meet the Portrait Mummy of Herakleides
An online exhibition explores the identity of a 2000-year-old mummified man
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Getty Museum Acquires Pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
The work speaks to emerging views of motherhood and familial bonds
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If You Know, You Know
A celebration of Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics
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Video: A Rare Opportunity to Study Van Gogh’s Irises
What did we learn about the painting while the Museum was closed?
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Meet the Mesopotamian Demons
How ancient people fought their greatest fears
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Bugs in Boxes and Other Ways to Draw Nature
How Maria Sibylla Merian learned about the tiny living things around her
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How to Be King in Mesopotamia
(Hint: it’s not easy)
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