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In Studio: Larry Bell

Cathy Carpenter and Alice Cisternino | February 8, 2012

Artist Larry Bell creates sculptures that play with optical effects, light, and perception. He opened his studio and shared creative insights into his creative process last January 22 as part of “In Studio,” a program we in the Museum’s...

Masterpiece of the Week: Andy Warhol’s Polaroid, a Self-Portrait for the Facebook Age

Jennifer S. Li | January 20, 2012

Perhaps a thousand pictures convey a true, multi-faceted identity.

Join Suzanne Lacy to Demand that #RapeEndsHere

Glenn Phillips | January 18, 2012

January 19 is the official launch of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. But it’s already unofficially begun, not only with pre-festival events last night at LAXART and tonight at the Getty Center, but also with...

Unlocking the Secrets of an Ancient Fountain

Annelisa Stephan | January 6, 2012

Do you picture archaeological sites as dry, dusty piles of stones? Meet Peirene, an ancient Greek ruin so tantalizing that archaeologists have literally died for it. Dry and dusty this place is not. The story of the alluring ruin...

How Do You Conserve a Dancing Sculpture? Magic.

Steve Saldivar | December 12, 2011

Recently, we needed a little magic to get a sculpture in working order. Stephan von Huene’s Tap Dancer—which springs to life every half hour in the first room of our Crosscurrents exhibit—hadn’t danced since 2003, when it was on...

Anatomy of a Horse Painting

Michael J. Ripps | November 28, 2011

In George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, which arrived at the Museum in October as a temporary anonymous loan, horses are sympathetically portrayed within the bucolic landscape of the English countryside. The overriding mood is idyllic, as a small...

Al’s Wall

Annelisa Stephan | November 1, 2011

Allen Ruppersberg is known for creating artworks that masquerade as ordinary objects, such as a diner, a hotel, a novel—and now, a wall. The artist spent a Thursday in September at the Getty Research Institute creating L.A. in the...

Ruscha Sees L.A.

Annelisa Stephan | October 6, 2011

The Getty has just acquired photographs by Ed Ruscha. Seventy-four prints, including depictions of gas stations from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City along Route 66, sidewalk views of buildings that were included in his self-published books Some Los Angeles Apartments...

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?...

Gray Column Rises

Melissa Abraham | September 13, 2011

One of the most influential sculptors active in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, De Wain Valentine is perhaps best known for his striking, semitransparent, and delicately colored large-scale polyester resin sculptures of simple geometric forms that interact...