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Echo Park in 1895: Snow-capped peaks in the distance and rolling countryside all around
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Artists Reinventing the Museum, A Google Art Talk with Sam Durant
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Getty Voices: What #isamuseum?
“The project emerged through extended dialogue with members of the Getty Museum’s Education Department, and it was certainly a collaboration.” More»
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The Monuments Men and the Race to Save Masterpieces, A Q&A with Robert Edsel
Robert Edsel
“What makes a man risk his life to save someone else’s life, much less a work of art?” More»
Tagged art history, events, free events, history, lectures, Nazis, Q&A, World War II
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The Civil War in Pictures
Portrait of a Confederate Soldier, about 1862, unknown photographer. Hand-colored ambrotype, 2 9/16 x 2 1/16 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XT.818.16
The Civil War captured in early photographs, from young New Yorkers headed to the battlefield to Robert E. Lee one week after the surrender. More»
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Getty Voices: Researching the Renaissance
Florence, del Sarto, and I.
“It’s amazing to be immersed in Andrea del Sarto’s home city, his drawings, paintings, frescoes, and his life, normally all so far away when I’m in L.A.” More»
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Getty Voices: Be a Photograph Sleuth
Miriam looks through her handy magnifying glass and light to try to determine the photographic process of this image.
I spend as much of my time looking through a magnifying glass as a classic detective does—solving the mysteries of the Getty’s Department of Photographs. More»
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Getty Voices: Attic Pots and Atomic Particles
How did the ancient Greeks make their characteristic red-and-black pottery? Modern science may finally yield the answer. More»
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Neon Hitmen
Tokyo Drifter, screening this weekend, “smacks you in the face with a bucket of WTF paint.” More»
Tagged cinema, film series, free events, Japan, Japanese art, movies, Saturday programs
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Ancient Sicilian Coins: Miniature Masterpieces, Full-Scale Challenges
Royal Library of Belgium—Coin Cabinet
The designer of the Sicily exhibition at the Getty Villa reveals the challenges of displaying small, double-sided, intricate objects—coins. More»
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Getty Voices: Looking Closely
As the designer of The Life of Art, my job was to get you to look—really look. More»
