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Actor Peter Weller Discusses Renaissance Florence (and Answers Your Questions!)

Alexandria Sivak | November 28, 2012

Robocop an art historian? Yes! Peter Weller answers questions about Italian Renaissance art.

We Answer Your Questions for Ask-a-Curator Day

Annelisa Stephan | September 19, 2012

Questions answered on social media!

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...

The Italian Comedians Go on View in Elegant Company

Amy Hood | April 4, 2012

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...

Marilyn Manson, Luminous Poetry, and British Watercolors

Julian Brooks | September 23, 2011

I never expected to witness an evening combining British artists Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Girtin, goth-rocker Marilyn Manson, Ugly Betty, six contemporary American poets, Stonehenge, improvisational bassist Roberto Miranda, William Blake, and the exhumed body of a Pre-Raphaelite model....

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...

Question of the Week: Do Americans See the World through a Distorted Lens?

Jennifer S. Li | July 22, 2011

Initially designating himself an “ignorant American,” photographer Alex Harris went to Cuba in 1998, camera in tow, without preconceived notions. He simply wondered what photography could tell him about this neighboring country that he, along with so many other...

Walker Evans’s Havana, through an Architect’s Lens

Jessica Portner | July 18, 2011

Julio César Pérez Hernández, architect and author of Inside Cuba, visits the Getty Center this Thursday to talk about Cuban architecture in conjunction with the exhibition A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now. Evans’s photographs of Cuba...