Art + Ideas

PODCAST: Michelangelo’s Drawings—Mind of the Master

Inside the mind and method of one of the most celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance.

A curator sees her own writing reflected in a manuscript from 1180.

The accidental discovery of an artist’s address book leads to fascinating insights into her life and the artistic world of twentieth-century France.

Hear a Getty staff member consider family dinners and the importance of home.

Museum directors from Shanghai and Berlin discuss the pandemic and their plans for the Ancient Worlds Now initiative.

A 15th century calendar page helps a curator make sense of the passing seasons.

Museum directors from Mumbai and Mexico City discuss the pandemic and their plans for the Ancient Worlds Now initiative.

Hear a curator travel to Brazil through the page of a book.

Listen as a curator explores the detailed story carved into an ancient gem.

Insights into the trade, migrations, and consolidations of power that transformed the premodern world.

A curator meditates on crafts, manuscripts, and the passage of time.

Hear what a curator learned from seeing two heroes playing games on an ancient vase.