From Getty Intern to Arts Professional: Art Historian Jessica Maxwell
An art history PhD candidate at Princeton reflects on her career beginnings at the Getty.
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Curator’s Diary: Installing “Messerschmidt and Modernity”
A curator gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse at installing an exhibition.
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What Did Ancient Music Sound Like?
Ancient Greek and Roman music through artwork and instruments descended from ancient ones.
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From Getty Intern to Arts Professional: Museum Curator Josh Yiu
Curator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum reflects on his career beginnings at the Getty.
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Rubens’s Masterful “Triumph of the Eucharist” Series to Be Conserved
The conversation of Rubens’ work is part of the Getty’s Panel Paintings Initiative.
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Expanding Identity: Reflections on the 2012 Getty Intern Arts Summit
This 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...
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In Search of the Berthouville Treasure
The 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...
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Backyard Archaeology at the Villa Ranch House
Students 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...
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Looking Under Judy Chicago’s Car Hood
Chicago was one of several California artists in the 1960’s who adopted techniques and materials from L.A.’s car culture.
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A Horse, Of Course! Curator Anne Woollett on Equine Painting
Horses 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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Luigi Salerno and the Art of Attribution
Inside the mind of art historian Luigi Salerno.
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Sleeping with Aphrodite
One of the most enjoyable aspects of curating an exhibition is serendipity. Not to say these projects aren’t carefully planned (far from it), but sometimes the physical relationship of two artworks will coincide in an unexpectedly fortuitous way, or...
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