The Radical Artistic Vision of Manet’s Jeanne (Spring)
This beautiful painting contains the germ of modern art as we know it.
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19th-century art
Long Looks from Island to Island
Two paintings of lovers, decades and centuries apart.
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What Mask Do You Wear?
What is the Mobile Arts Platform and why should you tell us what mask you wear?
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Who Was James Ensor?
Belgium’s most eccentric, scandalous, and shocking painter is the focus of an exhibition at the Getty Center this summer.
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Boo! Don’t Look Now, But I See a Ghost
Mumler’s “spirit photographs” claimed to bring back spirits of the dearly departed.
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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... Read More
A “French ‘Mona Lisa’” Comes to L.A.: Manet’s “Portrait of Madame Brunet”
The Getty Museum's most recent addition to the paintings collection.
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Naked or Nude? Gérôme’s Provocative Bodies
During a tour of the new exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, curator Mary Morton stopped in front of Gérôme’s Snake Charmer and... Read More
85 Years After John Singer Sargent
During the late 19th century, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the most fashionable portrait painter in England and the United States. An example of... Read More
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