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Volunteer Chuck Panama: Pinned and Proud

Steve Saldivar | August 25, 2011

Chuck Panama wants you to know that the whole thing is an accident. “I’m not a pin collector,” Chuck, a seven-year volunteer at the Getty Center, told me. “I’m not one of these people who studies it. I’m sure...

SITI Company on “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” at the Getty Villa

Desiree Zenowich | August 22, 2011

SITI company premieres a newly commissioned adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan Women at the Getty Villa on September 8. “We’ve been working for 20 years to do this play,” says Leon Ingulsrud, who helped found the New York-based ensemble in 1991....

The First Modern Catalogue of an Art Collection: Q&A with Curator Louis Marchesano

Jessica Portner | August 17, 2011

In the 1700s, the seeds of a new style of presenting works of art—both on the wall and on the page—were planted by a German prince. I talked with Louis Marchesano, curator of prints and drawings at the Getty...

A New and Improved Resource Search Tool

Mike Clardy | August 16, 2011

If you’ve used the Getty’s website, you may be aware of the wealth of resources about the visual arts to be found across its pages. You may also have discovered several tools that make it possible to search specific repositories—from...

Reimagining Euripides: A 21st-Century “Trojan Women” at the Getty Villa

Desiree Zenowich | August 15, 2011

First performed over 2,400 years ago, Euripides’ Trojan Women is one of the most enduring and moving of classical dramas—and one of the greatest antiwar plays. Beginning September 8, renowned New York-based theater troupe SITI Company premieres a newly...

Tights, A Medieval Fashion Faux Pas, Return!

Bryan C. Keene | August 12, 2011

Tights are not pants--or are they?

Reflections on My First Days at the Getty—And What’s Next

James Cuno | August 11, 2011

The J. Paul Getty Trust is an extraordinary arts institution. That I knew before coming to work at the Getty this week as its president and CEO. What I didn’t know—couldn’t know until I became a full part of this...

The Photograph That Kicked Herb Ritts’s Career into High Gere

Desiree Zenowich | August 10, 2011

The Getty Museum acquires 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts.

Conserving Lichtenstein’s “Three Brushstrokes”

Melissa Abraham | August 8, 2011

A long lively stroke of deep brilliant blue, black, and white, a curved swipe of muted yellow, a short dab of red—perhaps you’ve seen artist Roy Lichtenstein’s colorful painted aluminum sculpture Three Brushstrokes on a visit to the Getty...

Clocks and Globes – How Prosperous Parisians in the 18th Century Navigated Their Day (with Bonus Ringtone)

Jessica Portner | August 3, 2011

Enter Paris: Life & Luxury, closing this Sunday, and you’ll hear chimes pinging through the galleries from extravagant clocks that French aristocrats used to mark time more than two centuries ago. Download (MP3 file, 5 MB) | Length: 5:24...

Forensic Techniques Illuminate a New Acquisition

David Saunders and Marie Svoboda | August 1, 2011

The recently acquired white-ground lekythos on display in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) at the Getty Villa is a handsome addition to the Museum’s antiquities collection. With its narrow neck and cylindrical body, this popular type of...