Which Artist Would You Recommend to a Space Alien?
A beginner’s guide to the human mind and heart.
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Five Artworks Rescued from the Nazis
Looted by the Nazis, these five treasures were returned to their owners after World War II and now make their home in Los Angeles.
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The Art of Search and Rescue
Rare documents and photographs in the Research Institute’s collections tell the real-life story of key Monuments Men (and Women).
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Nancy Perloff
“The end is a kind of apotheosis. Maybe that sounds too romantic or spiritual. But the single most remarkable thing is that you lose all sense of time.”
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Struck by Lightning at the Louvre
Sometimes the best way to discover your life’s work is by simple good luck.
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The Museum That Proudly Defies Understanding
If the wall label says it, it must be true. Right?
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Anne Woollett
The deep appeal of the imagined landscape.
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Art and Experience in Canterbury and L.A.
A medieval prayer book was a personal liturgical space. Small and portable, one needed only to open the book to enter.
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Ancient Myth, Contemporary Politics
Jacques-Louis David made Greco-Roman myths directly relevant to the contemporary public, as this sly drawing shows.
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Lifted Cellulose Nitrate: Conserving an Early Robert Mapplethorpe Object
A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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In This Unusual Exhibition, Sculpture Is Best Viewed by Car
Art best viewed from behind the wheel? In Century City, cast bronzes of SoCal fauna create an outdoor, drive-by art gallery. A tour.
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New Audio Tour Celebrates the Getty Villa’s 40th Anniversary
Did you know Romans kept eels as pets and bought them…jewelry? Come stroll the grounds of this 40-year-young institution to hear that story and a few others besides.
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