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Art + Ideas

Join Getty president Jim Cuno as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work.

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums
Gaeta (Fifty Photographs Plus One), 2015, Tacita Dean. 9 hand-printed gloss black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 11 hand-printed matte black and white fibre-based photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed matte color photographs mounted on paper, 12 hand-printed high-gloss color photographs mounted on dibond, 7 hand-printed Cibachromes, Dimensions vary between 18 x 27 cm / 7-1/16 x 10-5/8 in. and 105 x 157.5 cm / 41-5/16 x 62 in. Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris.

PODCAST: Artist Tacita Dean and Her Many Mediums

A wide-ranging conversation on the life and practice of a thoughtful and provocative contemporary artist.

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PODCAST: India & the World with Curator Naman Ahuja
Chinese dish, Yuan or Ming period, AD 1325–75, Made in Jingdezhen, China, found in Delhi, India. Porcelain, Diameter of foot: 27.7 cm, Diameter from lip to lip: 46.5 cm. Central Antiquity Collection, Purana Qila, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi, CAC/KFS/333

PODCAST: India & the World with Curator Naman Ahuja

Using objects to tell the long history of our “global village” from the Bronze Age to the present day.

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PODCAST: Cultural Exchange between Egypt and the Classical World
Bust of Julius Caesar, 100s B.C., Romano-Egyptian. Green basalt, 17 5/16 × 10 1/4 × 9 13/16 in. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung. Photo: bpk Bildagentur / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Art Resource, NY

PODCAST: Cultural Exchange between Egypt and the Classical World

Take a curator-led tour of this exhibition on cultural exchange and art in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

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