Art + Ideas

PODCAST: Architecture, Community, and War in Syria

How one architect’s experience during a civil war shaped her approach to understanding architecture and urban space.

Reflections: Zanna Gilbert on Ed Ruscha

Listen to a curator consider photographs of LA's empty streets.

PODCAST: The Lives of Rubens

Understanding the cosmopolitan career of a master 17th-century artist through the writings of his contemporaries.

Reflections: Stephanie Schrader on Cornelius Saftleven

Hear a curator on monkeys, owls, and our upside-down world.

Reflections: Beth Morrison on Simon Bening

Listen to a curator consider how our pets link us to the Middle Ages.

PODCAST: The Lives of Caravaggio

Three biographies written shortly after the artist’s death shine light on his tragically short career.

Reflections: Mazie Harris on Walker Evans

Hear a curator discuss the unexpected poignancy of laundry drying.

PODCAST: Museum Directors on COVID-19 and Its Impact on Museums, Part 2

How the global pandemic is affecting art museums around the country and what their directors are doing in response.

PODCAST: Museum Directors on COVID-19 and Its Impact on Museums, Part 1

How the global pandemic is affecting art museums around the country and what their directors are doing in response.

PODCAST: Moving a Hundred-Year-Old Series Online: Getty’s Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

A canonical catalogue of ancient Greek vases reimagined for the digital age.

PODCAST: Sustainably Preserving Cultural Heritage with Larry Coben

From energy executive to archaeologist to preservationist, Larry Coben discusses his journey and how he’s helping to protect cultural heritage sites around the world.

PODCAST: African American Art History at the Getty Research Institute

How the Getty Research Institute will protect and promote the study of African American art histories.