Discovering “Daisies”
A film as beautiful as it is weird.
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Art snapshots, exhibitions and events news, curator’s essays, and more from the Getty Museum.
Édouard Manet’s Spring Joins the Getty Museum Galleries
For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.
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The Radical Artistic Vision of Manet’s Jeanne (Spring)
This beautiful painting contains the germ of modern art as we know it.
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Meet Jeffrey Spier, the Getty Museum’s New Antiquities Chief
What the Getty Museum’s new senior curator of antiquities has on his to-do list.
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How Should We Remember the Berlin Wall?
“We believe that celebrations and congratulatory moments must give way to more creative engagement.”
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Skeletons Carousing in Hell
Skeletons in our closet.
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The Ghost That Wasn’t There
What does an invisible ghost look like? Um, well, like this.
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Delightfully Horrifying Manuscript Illuminations
Selections from the collection for Halloween.
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See Authentic Medieval Hand-to-Hand Combat in New Video
A new video brings 15th-century fighting moves to life.
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Three Reasons to Love Marie-Antoinette
Before her ill-fated end, Marie-Antoinette was a peerless patron of the decorative arts.
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Barbara Kruger and L.A. Teenagers Team Up to Ask, “Whose Values?”
The contemporary artist worked with over 400 high schoolers to question, comment, and create.
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Peter Paul Rubens Unrolls in L.A.
See how Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous tapestries were installed at the Getty.
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