Herb Ritts, A New Documentary
Director Aion Velie reflects on how the film conveys Ritts’s spirit and working method.
Read MoreDirector Aion Velie reflects on how the film conveys Ritts’s spirit and working method.
Read MoreDo we love Gustav Klimt a little too much?
Read MoreCurator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
Read MoreThe conversation of Rubens’ work is part of the Getty’s Panel Paintings Initiative.
Read MoreConservator Julie Wolfe explains adhesive methods to repair to a Robert Graham piece.
Read MoreThis summer, I am working at the Getty Foundation as part of the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program. The program provides paid internships to diverse students at arts organizations all across L.A., including the Getty. The highlight of my first week was...
Read MoreThe present whereabouts of the Berthouville Treasure are not a mystery. In December 2011 this priceless hoard of ancient Roman artifacts discovered by chance in the French countryside over 180 years ago was temporarily transferred from its permanent home in...
Read MoreIt’s official—abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s seminal work Mural (1943) will be undergoing technical study and conservation at the Getty Center as part of a new collaboration between the Getty and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. The...
Read MoreIntimate relationships visualized: the work and love of Sylvia Sleigh and Lawrence Alloway.
Read MoreStudents in the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program recently dug up ancient wall paintings buried on the grounds of the Getty Villa. Not real ones, of course—it was all part of a classroom exercise for us conservators-in-training to better understand how...
Read MoreChicago was one of several California artists in the 1960’s who adopted techniques and materials from L.A.’s car culture.
Read MoreHorses have been the subject of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and other renderings for thousands of years. They have been depicted as companions of man, within picturesque landscapes, and in dynamic races, chases, and battles. Anne Woollett, curator of paintings...
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