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The Princess Is Back

Annelisa Stephan | November 18, 2011

In March, one of the most elegant women at the Museum was forcibly escorted out of the galleries. I was there and saw the whole thing. Princess Leonilla, who’d been on constant view since the Getty Center opened in...

Come Eye to Wild Eye with the Bronze Sculptures in the Getty Villa Gardens

Annelisa Stephan | November 14, 2011

The statues at the Getty Villa mirror the display at the Villa dei Papyri.

Ancient Art through Modern Eyes

Annelisa Stephan | November 3, 2011

Have you ever come across a piece of ancient art that looked suspiciously…modern? It’s hard to believe that Cycladic figures, with their sleek minimalist outlines, were made more than 4,000 years before sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Henry Moore came...

To Walter with Love: Ed Kienholz’s “Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps”

Lucena Valle | October 27, 2011

Sometimes, only a friend will tell you what they really think. Take the case of artist Ed Kienholz and curator Walter Hopps. Kienholz’s over-life-size assemblage portrait of his friend, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps—the inspiration for our collage meet-up this...

Ancient Art in Context: Celebrate National Archaeology Day at the Getty Villa with Us

Cynthia Colburn | October 17, 2011

This Saturday, October 22, the Getty Museum is teaming up with the Archaeological Institute of America to celebrate National Archaeology Day. The Villa, with its Roman-inspired architecture and gardens and collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, is a...

Unraveling the Narrative: A Conversation with Photographer Eileen Cowin

Jessica Portner | October 10, 2011

In the exhibition Narrative Interventions in Photography, opening October 25, contemporary photographers Eileen Cowin, Carrie Mae Weems, and Simryn Gill present works that explore the subjectivity of storytelling and the slipperiness of truth. Cowin’s large, color photographs pair images—including...

A Walk through “Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents,” Opening This Weekend

Amy Hood | September 30, 2011

In the ocean, a crosscurrent runs across the main flow, stirring things up. Similarly, you can see different artistic movements, crossing each other from a variety of directions, in the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture,...

New Online: The Ernest A. Long Outdoor Mural Image Archive

Ramille Baguio | September 28, 2011

A new image archive of L.A. murals has just been made available online. As a Multicultural Undergraduate Intern working at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) this summer, I worked with colleagues in Field Projects and the Information Center on...

Marilyn Manson, Luminous Poetry, and British Watercolors

Julian Brooks | September 23, 2011

I never expected to witness an evening combining British artists Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Girtin, goth-rocker Marilyn Manson, Ugly Betty, six contemporary American poets, Stonehenge, improvisational bassist Roberto Miranda, William Blake, and the exhumed body of a Pre-Raphaelite model....

Seeing Art’s Bones: X-Raying Plant Fiber Objects at the Getty Villa

Dawn Lohnas | September 21, 2011

We’re all familiar with the X-rays used to take images of people’s bones and teeth at medical and dental facilities. But did you know this same technology can also be used to examine the internal structures of museum objects?...