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Read MoreConservators, mount makers, and preparators work to install a small group of statuettes.
Read MoreA curator gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse at installing an exhibition.
Read MoreDirector Aion Velie reflects on how the film conveys Ritts’s spirit and working method.
Read MoreCurator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
Read MoreIt’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...
Read MoreInside the Karl Schneider archive at the Getty Research Institute.
Read MoreArt with an On-Off Switch: Restoring Stephan von Huene's Tap Dancer
Read MoreInside the mind of art historian Luigi Salerno.
Read MoreMore videos: • Has Los Angeles’s ecology of evil improved? • Are Huffington Post bloggers “volunteer slaves”? • What do you think about the dismantling of the Barnes Foundation? On Monday we put out a call on Facebook and...
Read MoreFrom 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...
Read MoreI find auctions terrifying. Mesmerizing, but terrifying. When a major early Renaissance portrait drawing came up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York a month ago, my stomach was in my mouth. It was the sort of drawing one...
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