“The Photographer with the Soul of an Architect”: Lucien Hervé
Bridging the visions of Le Corbusier and Lucien Hervé.
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Discovering Latin at the Getty Villa
If you visited the Getty Villa during the week of July 25 and thought you overheard people speaking Latin, you weren’t imagining things. That week, we at the Getty Villa were proud to invite a group of 14 high school...
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Chiurazzi Bronzes, from Pompeii to Malibu
The two bronze statues at the heart of the current Getty Villa exhibition Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze—set to close September 12—may look rather familiar if you’ve traveled to Pompeii or seen it in pictures. For as...
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Sam Francis and Mako Idemitsu
Inside the Sam Francis Papers at the Getty Research Institute.
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The First Modern Catalogue of an Art Collection: Q&A with Curator Louis Marchesano
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...
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Reimagining Euripides: A 21st-Century “Trojan Women” at the Getty Villa
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...
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Reflections on My First Days at the Getty—And What’s Next
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...
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The Medieval Clotheshorse: Roger Wieck on the Fashion Revolution of the Middle Ages
Fancy medieval clothes, in manuscripts and real life.
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Anticipating Mapplethorpe
Inside the Sam Wagstaff papers.
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Painterly Urban Planning: Nikolaus Pevsner’s “Visual Planning and the Picturesque”
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of the 20th century’s foremost historians of British architecture. Even today, tourists wander through the historic squares of England aided by Pevsner’s The Buildings of England guidebooks, which remain in print with Yale University...
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Walker Evans’s Havana, through an Architect’s Lens
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...
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A Gallery Fit for a Prince and Now the Public? The Düsseldorf Gallery and the Modern Museum
Most museum galleries have certain things in common. For one, the works are spaced a restful distance apart from one another on the wall. For another, they’re typically organized by school or theme. The focus might be, say, on...
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