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The Art of Search and Rescue

Sally McKay and Tracey Schuster | February 6, 2014

Rare documents and photographs in the Research Institute’s collections tell the real-life story of key Monuments Men (and Women).

Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Nancy Perloff

Arpad Kovacs and Anne Martens | February 5, 2014

“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.”

Struck by Lightning at the Louvre

James Cuno | February 4, 2014

Sometimes the best way to discover your life’s work is by simple good luck.

The Museum That Proudly Defies Understanding

Sarah Zabrodski | January 30, 2014

If the wall label says it, it must be true. Right?

Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Anne Woollett

Arpad Kovacs and Anne Martens | January 29, 2014

The deep appeal of the imagined landscape.

Art and Experience in Canterbury and L.A.

Kristen Collins | January 28, 2014

A medieval prayer book was a personal liturgical space. Small and portable, one needed only to open the book to enter.

Ancient Myth, Contemporary Politics

Alexandria Sivak | January 27, 2014

Jacques-Louis David made Greco-Roman myths directly relevant to the contemporary public, as this sly drawing shows.

Lifted Cellulose Nitrate: Conserving an Early Robert Mapplethorpe Object

Juliane Wattig | January 24, 2014

A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Paul Young

Arpad Kovacs and Anne Martens | January 22, 2014

“I think he sees Hearsay of the Soul as a poem, and doesn’t want to make a documentary—that was a very deliberate choice. It feels very personal, and that’s what makes it interesting.”

New Virtual Library Offers over 250 Art Books for Free Download

James Cuno | January 21, 2014

From Egypt to the 1960s, our Virtual Library offers art titles for free.

New Audio Tour Celebrates the Getty Villa’s 40th Anniversary

Nina Diamond | January 16, 2014

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.