Celebrate National Public Gardens Day with Us
A great excuse to get out there and enjoy our local green spaces!
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Natalie Merchant on Art, Poetry, and Music
On a rainy afternoon at the Getty Center, two dozen students and teachers anxiously awaited the arrival of Natalie Merchant. Stopping at the Getty on her national tour, the singer-songwriter had invited them to attend a workshop on the...
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Volcano Observer: Sir William Hamilton and Mount Vesuvius
Sir William Hamilton was known as “the modern Pliny.”
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Thespian Experimentation at the Villa, with Singing Frogs
A 2,400-year-old comedy. One week to work on it. Oh yeah—and it’s a musical. The Getty Villa is a hotbed of new ideas about very old theater. In the new Villa Play-Reading Series, translations and adaptations of classical plays...
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Elementary Teachers Share Lessons Inspired by the Getty’s Collection
Today’s school teachers have a wealth of pressures. Not only do they tackle the day-to-day challenges of balancing good teaching with classroom management, but they must also meet the demands of high-stakes standardized testing—and, more recently, face the threat...
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Visit Us at the L.A. Times Festival of Books
We’re looking forward to The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend on UCLA’s campus. The largest public literary festival in North America, the two-day free event is expected to draw more than 130,000 people. Anchored by bookseller booths...
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Seeing the Chaparral for Earth Day
Both the Getty Villa and the Getty Center have the good fortune of being adjacent to state parkland, and some of us make a point of getting out at lunch or after work to enjoy nearby hiking trails. We...
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“I Mean to Box with Love”—Classical Verse for National Poetry Month
Love, in all its glory and frustrations, its heady emotions and sheer physicality, comes alive in Classical Love Poetry, a refreshing dip into the verse of the past for National Poetry Month. Think classical poetry is stale and stuffy?...
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Picturing Food: A New Social Art?
In this era of documenting and sharing our food online, what do our photographs say about us?
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85 Years After John Singer Sargent
During the late 19th century, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the most fashionable portrait painter in England and the United States. An example of his iconic style, his Portrait of Thérése, countess Clary Aldringen (1896) is now on view...
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Welcoming Leonardo to L.A.
More than any other exhibition I’ve worked on, Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention feels historic. To stand there as the crate containing Leonardo’s painting of Saint Jerome from the Vatican was opened, to...
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Accelerated Aging Lab: The Scariest Place at the Getty?
For those of us over 21, the idea of premature aging is definitely not attractive. Every time I pass the Getty Conservation Institute’s Accelerated Aging Lab, I get somewhat apprehensive. But the lab is not intent on hastening wrinkles...
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