What Mask Do You Wear?
What is the Mobile Arts Platform and why should you tell us what mask you wear?
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Art Historical Books Bound for Brazil
179 boxes of books and journals are headed from Los Angeles to the Universidade Federal de Saõ Paolo.
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Planning for Utopia
The darker side of postwar suburban order.
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Searching for Murmurs of History
Frank Alvord Perret was a pioneering volcanologist who invented unique devices to measure geologic properties. One of these was a “geophone” that detected subterranean noises by amplifying the rumblings below the surface of the earth.
The photo below shows Perret listening to the whispers of volcanic activity in Campi Flegrei, a volcano located near Mount Vesuvius, which erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. The archaeological site of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum served as the architectural inspiration for the Getty Villa.
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Put a Ring On It
One ring and the two women who treasured it.
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A Vision of Possibilities
Every interaction is an opportunity. Thoughts on considering a career in the arts.
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What Did the Byzantine Empire Smell Like?
Visit medieval Constantinople through perfume you can make yourself.
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“Persians,” An Ancient Play Remade for the 21st Century
Director Anne Bogart on remaking the Western world’s oldest play for the 21st century.
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What Is a Page in the Digital Age?
A new crop of digital museum catalogues reinvents the page for the 21st century.
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A Medievalist’s Viewing Guide to “Game of Thrones,” Season 4
What a season it was. Let’s watch it again, manuscripts in hand.
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Designing Heaven And Earth
Behind the scenes with the design of an exhibition of Byzantine treasures.
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Alphabet Szoup
A look inside the artist files of legendary curator Harald Szeemann.
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