Mummy Magic at the Getty Villa
Visitors explore the mummy of Herakleides and make their own model mummies.
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From Getty Intern to Arts Professional: Preservation Planner Edgar Garcia
A former intern reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
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Digital Display: Student Scavenger Hunt on View
John Divola’s collaborative Scavenger Hunt is featured in the Getty Museum Entrance Hall.
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From Getty Intern to Arts Professional: Art Historian Jessica Maxwell
An art history PhD candidate at Princeton reflects on her career beginnings at the Getty.
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From Getty Intern to Arts Professional: Museum Curator Josh Yiu
Curator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
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Expanding Identity: Reflections on the 2012 Getty Intern Arts Summit
This summer, I am working at the Getty Foundation as part of the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program. The program provides paid internships to diverse students at arts organizations all across L.A., including the Getty. The highlight of my first week was...
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Backyard Archaeology at the Villa Ranch House
Students in the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program recently dug up ancient wall paintings buried on the grounds of the Getty Villa. Not real ones, of course—it was all part of a classroom exercise for us conservators-in-training to better understand how...
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Luigi Salerno and the Art of Attribution
Inside the mind of art historian Luigi Salerno.
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Explorations in Darkness and Light: Odilon Redon
My job as research assistant to Marcia Reed, chief curator at the Getty Research Institute, and Louis Marchesano, curator of prints & drawings, might be described as “research becomes eclectic.” In addition to investigating a wide array of potential...
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Camera-Ready: Hooper Elementary Students on a Digital Scavenger Hunt
The Getty Center is one of the most-photographed landmarks in Los Angeles, with visitors snapping images of its art, architecture, gardens, and breathtaking views. In March, the Getty Museum’s education department chose to up the ante with a “Digital...
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World War Zinnemann
From Casablanca to Saving Private Ryan, the horrors and heroisms of World War II have provided decades of cinematic material. However, as director Fred Zinnemann masterfully demonstrated, meticulous exploration of the human experience—both immediately before the war (The Seventh...
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Imagine a Teenager’s Museum
I have the pleasure of running the Getty Villa Teen Apprentice Program (ViTA). Each year our goal is to open the museum from top to bottom to young people interested in the arts and introduce them to the variety...
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