PODCAST: True Grit – The American City in Early 20th-Century Prints
How American printmakers expressed modern life in the city in black and white.
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American art
The California Dream, In Photographs
A foil to Julius Shulman’s B&W glamour, Maynard Parker captured middle-class modernism.
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What Ansel Adams Taught Me
The photographer was nothing like this young artist imagined.
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Letting Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” Speak for Itself
“It was time to do something.” Jackson Pollock’s Mural, conserved.
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Simultaneous Viewing and Ray Metzker’s Composites
An exhibition of Metzker’s photographs offers “assembled related moments presented for simultaneous viewing.”
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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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Curators Talk Mapplethorpe at the Getty and LACMA
Curators Martineau and Salvesen discuss Mapplethorpe and his 2012 exhibitions.
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A New Look at Ray K. Metzker
A new exhibition spotlights Metzker, one of the great photographers of the last half century.
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It Takes a Village: Understanding Spanish American Colonial Art from the Ground Up
International scholars investigate the materials used in Spanish American colonial art.
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Getty to Conserve Jackson Pollock’s Watershed Work “Mural”
It’s official—abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s seminal work Mural (1943) will be undergoing technical study and conservation at the Getty Center as part of... Read More
The Sky Gets a Chance—Gordon Matta-Clark’s Office Baroque
A glimpse inside the process of Matta-Clark’s cutouts.
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Question of the Week: Is It Still a Man’s World?
In 1964, while a student in UCLA’s graduate program in painting and sculpture, artist Judy Chicago enrolled in auto-body school—the only woman in a... Read More
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