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Discovering Latin at the Getty Villa

Eric Bruehl | September 2, 2011

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...

Sam Francis and Mako Idemitsu

Annette Leddy | August 26, 2011

Inside the Sam Francis Papers at the Getty Research Institute.

Have You Seen an Illuminated Manuscript Lately?

Bryan C. Keene | August 23, 2011

The Getty Center is one of few places in the United States where you can see medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts year-round. With three or four exhibitions per year drawn almost exclusively from the permanent collection, in addition to major...

The First Modern Catalogue of an Art Collection: Q&A with Curator Louis Marchesano

Jessica Portner | August 17, 2011

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...

Reimagining Euripides: A 21st-Century “Trojan Women” at the Getty Villa

Desiree Zenowich | August 15, 2011

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...

Reflections on My First Days at the Getty—And What’s Next

James Cuno | August 11, 2011

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...

Conserving Lichtenstein’s “Three Brushstrokes”

Melissa Abraham | August 8, 2011

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...

Clocks and Globes – How Prosperous Parisians in the 18th Century Navigated Their Day (with Bonus Ringtone)

Jessica Portner | August 3, 2011

Enter Paris: Life & Luxury, closing this Sunday, and you’ll hear chimes pinging through the galleries from extravagant clocks that French aristocrats used to mark time more than two centuries ago. Download (MP3 file, 5 MB) | Length: 5:24...

Forensic Techniques Illuminate a New Acquisition

David Saunders and Marie Svoboda | August 1, 2011

The recently acquired white-ground lekythos on display in Women and Children in Antiquity (Gallery 207) at the Getty Villa is a handsome addition to the Museum’s antiquities collection. With its narrow neck and cylindrical body, this popular type of...