A Guide to Aeschylus’s “Persians”
A theater-goer's guide to the western world's oldest play.
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Music of a Megalopolis: A Playlist for “In Focus: Tokyo”
A music soundtrack for the exhibition “In Focus: Tokyo.”
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Whale Tales and Sea Monsters
What is worse than a shark? Oh, that’s right. A lot.
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Ksours and Kasbahs
One of Africa’s most important sites of earthen architecture is the focus of an international conservation project.
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An Intimate View of Tokyo
Four photographers capture an intimate view of the most populous cities in the world: Tokyo.
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Summer Camp for Art Historians
Three summer institutes convene art historians to push digital art history forward.
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Byzantine Los Angeles
A visit to the heart of L.A.’s Greek Orthodox community.
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Three Drawings from the Dutch Golden Age
Three Dutch drawings join the collection.
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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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Be a Part of “Fuzzy Grids II”
Be a part of an oversize living artwork at the Getty Center.
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