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...
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Dressing for success.
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The well-coiffed elite of the time relished a good card game.
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Opening this week at the Getty Center is Paris: Life & Luxury, which traces the refined activities that took place inside a luxurious Parisian town house of the mid-1700s. On the streets outside such a house, however, occurred one...
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Picture this: You’re in the 18th century taking a Grand Tour across Europe, making all the “in” stops such as France and Italy. Before heading back home, you have one final task: buying souvenirs! You’ve taken fencing lessons in...
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Exploring the scenes of Hades’s kingdom on elaborate funerary pottery
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Objects tell the story of over one thousand years of Persian rule
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Getty exhibition combines 17th-century paintings with antiquities and contemporary dance
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The Getty grant program Keeping It Modern helps conserve architectural masterpieces around the world
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A historian documents obscured stories of Black life and leisure in early 20th-century California
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A story of the Maya cosmos, politics, and adventure told through a carved stone lintel from the first millennium CE
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Planning the future of a millennia-old heritage site in Myanmar
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