“The Photographer with the Soul of an Architect”: Lucien Hervé
Bridging the visions of Le Corbusier and Lucien Hervé.
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See the Book That Was Kept in Storage for 800 Years
One of the most exciting aspects of curatorial work is the privilege of bringing you great works of art that were rarely seen before their acquisition by the museum. Case in point: the Stammheim Missal, one of the greatest...
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Faces of the Mexican Revolution
Famous and not-so-famous figures of the Mexican Revolution.
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A Project of Seismic Proportions
As Californians, we are well aware of the damage that results from earthquakes, even in new buildings constructed with modern materials. But what happens to historic buildings made of earthen materials such as adobe? These structures can be particularly...
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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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Countdown to Pacific Standard Time
This morning we launched a new website dedicated to Los Angeles art from 1945 to 1980. Here you can get acquainted with Pacific Standard Time, the region-wide collaborative project that will tell the story of the L.A. art scene...
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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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Volunteer Chuck Panama: Pinned and Proud
Chuck Panama wants you to know that the whole thing is an accident. “I’m not a pin collector,” Chuck, a seven-year volunteer at the Getty Center, told me. “I’m not one of these people who studies it. I’m sure...
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A New and Improved Resource Search Tool
If you’ve used the Getty’s website, you may be aware of the wealth of resources about the visual arts to be found across its pages. You may also have discovered several tools that make it possible to search specific repositories—from...
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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 Photograph That Kicked Herb Ritts’s Career into High Gere
The Getty Museum acquires 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts.
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Conserving Lichtenstein’s “Three Brushstrokes”
A long lively stroke of deep brilliant blue, black, and white, a curved swipe of muted yellow, a short dab of red—perhaps you’ve seen artist Roy Lichtenstein’s colorful painted aluminum sculpture Three Brushstrokes on a visit to the Getty...
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