Reclining and Dining (and Drinking) in Ancient Greece
History on the customs with a how-to video on playing the drinking game kottabos.
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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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Rubens’s Masterful “Triumph of the Eucharist” Series to Be Conserved
The conversation of Rubens’ work is part of the Getty’s Panel Paintings Initiative.
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Sound: Let There Be (Some) Light
See and hear the louvers in the galleries as they keep the light levels consistent.
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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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In Search of the Berthouville Treasure
The present whereabouts of the Berthouville Treasure are not a mystery. In December 2011 this priceless hoard of ancient Roman artifacts discovered by chance in the French countryside over 180 years ago was temporarily transferred from its permanent home in...
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Getty to Conserve Jackson Pollock’s Watershed Work “Mural”
It’s official—abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s seminal work Mural (1943) will be undergoing technical study and conservation at the Getty Center as part of a new collaboration between the Getty and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. The...
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Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway, Mutual Muses
Intimate relationships visualized: the work and love of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway.
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To Hell and Back: Dante’s Inferno in Art and Film
UPDATE: The screening of the 1911 film L’Inferno, scheduled for Saturday, June 23, at 3:00 p.m., has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. The other two films will screen as planned. The Museum’s Department of Manuscripts recently opened...
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Sears: Can an American Institution Return to Its Design Roots?
Inside the Karl Schneider archive at the Getty Research Institute.
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The Seven Plagues of the Ancient Roman City Dweller
Think city living is a struggle today? The ancient Romans had it just as tough, giving their poets plenty to complain about Roman poetry is filled with entertaining rants against urban evils, which I revisited with glee while preparing...
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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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