An Enduring Friendship and the Legacy of a Pioneering Artist
A new Getty photograph acquisition reveals early digital art by Tadao Takano.
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Art snapshots, exhibitions and events news, curator’s essays, and more from the Getty Museum.
Reflections: Beth Morrison on Simon Bening
Listen to a curator consider how our pets link us to the Middle Ages.
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The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the Miraculous Survival of Millet’s Man with a Hoe
Why the fate of this painting gripped the nation
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Reflections: Mazie Harris on Walker Evans
Hear a curator discuss the unexpected poignancy of laundry drying.
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Museum Directors on How COVID-19 Has Affected Their Institutions
Museums around the country are grappling with the crisis and envisioning a new role in the future.
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PODCAST: Moving a Hundred-Year-Old Series Online: Getty’s Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
A canonical catalogue of ancient Greek vases reimagined for the digital age.
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What a Portrait of a British Family Reveals about 18th-Century England and Tea
Exploring tea time in the portrait of John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and His Family
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Why Did Michelangelo Use Red Chalk?
The artist used the medium to shape the human form.
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How to Build an Art Museum in Animal Crossing
Up your game with art.
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Last-Minute Michelangelo
Peek inside the closed galleries with the curator on video.
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Capturing a Killer: True Crime and Photography
Why are photographers drawn to crime scenes?
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A Mind-Opening Journey Through African Histories
Learning from the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Gus Casely-Hayford.
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