The Scent of Love: Ancient Perfumes
Make your own sexy scents inspired by the recipes of the ancients.
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Herb Ritts’s Revolutionary Props
Chains. Pedestals. Balloons. Sea creatures. Those are just some of the props that photographer Herb Ritts employed to set a scene, adorn his models, and capture the viewer. The exhibition Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, on view through August 26,...
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Culture for Your iPad: Wallpapers from the Getty Research Institute’s Print Collection
iPad, iPhone, and Android wallpapers drawn from prints.
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Imagine a Teenager’s Museum
I have the pleasure of running the Getty Villa Teen Apprentice Program (ViTA). Each year our goal is to open the museum from top to bottom to young people interested in the arts and introduce them to the variety...
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Photographer Mary Ellen Mark and Filmmaker Martin Bell Go to Prom
What will I wear? Who will be my date? Should we rent a limo? With prom season approaching, these are questions going through American teenagers’ minds. This all-American experience of going to prom marks the end of high school...
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The Italian Comedians Go on View in Elegant Company
The Getty Museum’s most recent painting acquisition, Jean-Antoine Watteau’s The Italian Comedians, is now on view at the Getty Center. It’s installed in Gallery S202 with an array of other 18th-century paintings in the collection, including one by Nicolas...
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Getty Museum Contributes 3,325 Artworks to Google Art Project
Van Gogh’s Irises is now available for your personal art collection, along with Turner’s Modern Rome, Rembrandt’s The Abduction of Europa, and over 3,000 more artworks from the J. Paul Getty Museum. We’re excited to join 134 other museums,...
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Vitaly Komar: Exploring the Lines Between Us
Komar and Melamid created canvases to represent the most wanted (and unwanted) visual imagery for different countries. The results were telling, and hilarious.
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Illuminating the End of Time
2012 was the year proclaimed as the end of time by Mayan hieroglyphs, extra-terrestrial communicators, and bad disaster movies. The Getty Apocalypse, a medieval manuscript of the biblical Book of Revelation recently published as a facsimile by Getty Publications,...
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Just Desserts – Gourmet Gothic Sweets
When you hear the word “Gothic,” what comes to mind? Black-lipstick-wearing teens? Cathedrals with flying buttresses? What about lavender pudding or torta bonissima? Students at the Getty learned what tickled the Gothic sweet tooth at a culinary course that...
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What Is 砂金石? The Art & Architecture Thesaurus Publishes Chinese Terms
The big news in the Getty Vocabulary Program is that around 3,150 records in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus with one or more Chinese-language equivalent terms, plus descriptive notes and bibliographic citations in Chinese, are now published online. The...
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The Sky Gets a Chance—Gordon Matta-Clark’s Office Baroque
A glimpse inside the process of Matta-Clark’s cutouts.
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