Decorative Arts

Mirror Selfies and Art History

Neoclassical selfies? Check.

Rodin’s Christ and Mary Magdalene has a new home at the Getty.

Marie-Antoinette’s armchair gets the royal treatment.

Philippe Halbert | January 6, 2015

Before her ill-fated end, Marie-Antoinette was a peerless patron of the decorative arts.

Philippe Halbert | October 16, 2014

See how Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous tapestries were installed at the Getty.

Sarah Waldorf | October 14, 2014

What is worse than a shark? Oh, that’s right. A lot.

Sarah Waldorf | August 10, 2014

Photographs of Italian monuments and European tapestries join the Open Content Program.

Tracey Schuster | April 22, 2014

In honor of Slow Art Day, six artworks that reward you for taking your sweet time.

Annelisa Stephan | April 11, 2014

Two pieces brought out from storage complete the story of the Judgment of Paris in a new installation at the Getty Center.

Anne-Lise Desmas | November 5, 2013

How, and why, we made an exhibition with only four objects.

Robert Checchi | March 11, 2013

For the clocks in the Getty Museum’s collection, time stands eternally still.

Annelisa Stephan | November 5, 2012

The quest for the perfect wax to buff and protect outdoor sculptures at the Getty.

Michelle Lim | September 4, 2012