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Peter Plagens Answers Your Questions [VIDEO]

Annelisa Stephan | May 23, 2012

More 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...

Conservation Comes Outdoors for Henry Moore’s “Bronze Form”

Katrina Posner | May 22, 2012

What’s inside this tent? Henry Moore’s monumental sculpture Bronze Form 5/6—normally the first artwork visitors see when arriving at the Getty Center—is undergoing a conservation treatment behind a rather mysterious-looking safety screen. My colleagues and I will be working...

Sleeping with Aphrodite

David Saunders | May 17, 2012

One of the most enjoyable aspects of curating an exhibition is serendipity. Not to say these projects aren’t carefully planned (far from it), but sometimes the physical relationship of two artworks will coincide in an unexpectedly fortuitous way, or...

Fragonard’s “Les Beignets”: How Much Sweeter Can Life Be?

Edouard Kopp | May 14, 2012

In this time of uncertainty, art can bring pleasure to the eye, nourishment to the mind, and also solace to the heart. A work that does just this is Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Making Fritters (Les Beignets), an enchanting drawing from...

Art Education Isn’t Just for Kids

Paula Rucker | May 10, 2012

I’ve always appreciated art, but creating art never seemed like something I could do. Creating a drawing or painting was what talented people did, not me. Professionally, I first became involved in art 10 years ago when I left...

Preserving the Photographic Heritage of the Middle East

Tram Vo and Anna Zagorski | May 7, 2012

We treasure our family photos because they are reminders of meaningful memories. The same can be said of the photographic collections held by institutions, for they represent who we are and where we have been. When photographs become damaged...

Explorations in Darkness and Light: Odilon Redon

Courtney Wilder | May 3, 2012

My job as research assistant to Marcia Reed, chief curator at the Getty Research Institute, and Louis Marchesano, curator of prints & drawings, might be described as “research becomes eclectic.” In addition to investigating a wide array of potential...

The Scent of Love: Ancient Perfumes

Erin Branham | May 1, 2012

Make your own sexy scents inspired by the recipes of the ancients.

A Big Lift for América Tropical

Melissa Abraham | April 26, 2012

Construction for the shelter, viewing platform, and interpretive center that will surround América Tropical, the only surviving public mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros in the United States still in its original location, is moving forward. The mural, located on...

Herb Ritts’s Revolutionary Props

Jessica Portner | April 20, 2012

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,...

Camera-Ready: Hooper Elementary Students on a Digital Scavenger Hunt

Alexandria Sivak | April 16, 2012

The Getty Center is one of the most-photographed landmarks in Los Angeles, with visitors snapping images of its art, architecture, gardens, and breathtaking views. In March, the Getty Museum’s education department chose to up the ante with a “Digital...