Update—videos of this event have been archived here.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 streaming live this weekend, from Friday March 11 through Sunday March 13. We invite you to join us online or on-site at the Getty Center on Friday and the Museum of [...]
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Tags: art history, contemporary art, Latin America, MOLAA, symposium, video
The exhibition Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia now on view at the Getty Center is a rare opportunity to experience first-hand the unique artistry of Khmer sculpture outside of Cambodia. At its height, the Khmer empire was the most powerful in southeast Asia, ruling present-day Cambodia as well as significant [...]
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Tags: Cambodia, Cambodian Bronzes, Conservation, Getty Foundation
The scholarly catalogue has long been a critical part of a museum’s mission, providing authoritative information about collection objects for scholars, students, and the general public. Richly illustrated and often based on years of painstaking research, print catalogues form one of the building blocks of art historical research. A few weeks ago, the Getty Foundation [...]
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Tags: catalogs, collaborations, National Gallery of Art, online access, online publishing, OSC, Robert Rauschenberg, scholarship, SFMOMA
In 1507, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer painted life-size figures of Adam and Eve, defining their forms with a fluid and continuous line. These spectacular oil-on-panel paintings, which have just undergone a lengthy conservation, went on display again last week at the Prado Museum in Spain for the first time in two years, and the [...]
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Tags: Albrecht Dürer, art restoration, conservation science, GCI, panel paintings, Prado
Bringing collections online in such a comprehensive way is a huge undertaking, encompassing not only cataloguing and technology but also photography, rights issues, and more.
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Tags: Autry National Center, basketry, cataloguing, Native American art, technology
Last week the Getty Research Institute hosted a visitor from Brazil, Eliana de Azevedo Marques. She is chief librarian at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. We gave her a tour of our architectural holdings, conservation studios, and digitization labs. She was fascinated by our rolled architectural plan storage [...]
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Tags: archives, Argentina, around the world, Brazil, international exchange, libraries, Research Library, Scholars Program
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Italy is full of extraordinary, breathtaking round-the-corner experiences. You round a corner in Rome and find the Pantheon. In Pisa it could be the Torre Pendente di Pisa, better known as the Leaning Tower. When you arrive at the Florence train station, you walk down Via Panzani, turn onto Via de’ Cerretani, and just around [...]
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Tags: duomo, Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence, grants, Italian art, Italy, Latin, Manuscripts, Margaret Haines
When I walked into the Getty ten weeks ago, I could never have expected all the amazing experiences that I’d have this summer as the intern in the Web Group. During my internship, I’ve done everything from interviewing Getty staff for the Iris, to building Web pages, to dancing the electric slide at Getty Underground. It’s [...]
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June 28th was an unusual Monday for me as an intern at the Getty Foundation. Instead of heading toward the Foundation offices as I would on a typical work day, I reported to the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center to check in for Arts Summit, a professional development day organized by the [...]
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Tags: careers, interns, Los Angeles, MUI, Multicultural Undergraduate Intern Program, nonprofits, visual arts
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