“Black is the most essential color”: Odilon Redon’s Noirs
A fascination with darkness, insomnia, and dreams
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Explorations in Darkness and Light: Odilon Redon
My job as research assistant to Marcia Reed, chief curator at the Getty Research Institute, and Louis Marchesano, curator of prints & drawings, might be described as “research becomes eclectic.” In addition to investigating a wide array of potential...
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The Birth of Pastel
When is a drawing not a drawing?
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Early Rembrandt Drawing Shows the Artist’s Interest in Humanity
The artwork is one of 39 Dutch drawings to join Getty's collection.
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PODCAST: Lee Hendrix on Noir
Material, metaphor, and the color black in 19th-century France.
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Orgies of Color: Degas’s Russian Dancers
These exuberant dancers contrast strongly with Degas’s earlier ethereal ballerinas
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Designing the Art Book
Inside the design process, from parchment to page.
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Behind the Scenes of a Special Exhibition at the Getty
How Getty Museum curators, conservators, registrars, and exhibition coordinators came together and organized the exhibition "Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th Century French Drawings and Paintings."
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