Getty Perspectives

Long Looks from Island to Island

Two paintings of lovers, decades and centuries apart.

Peter Plagens Answers Your Questions [VIDEO]

More videos: • Has Los Angeles’s ecology of evil improved? • Are Huffington Post bloggers “volunteer slaves”? • What do you think about the... Read More

Annelisa Stephan | May 23, 2012

Andrei Codrescu: The Art Lesson

Andrei Codrescu has some bad news for you. You, Web user, are running out of time. You may already suspect that you work for... Read More

Annelisa Stephan | March 9, 2011

Six Questions for Peter Greenaway

For our Getty Perspectives lecture series, filmmaker Peter Greenaway came to speak about his new work creating immersive environments inspired by masterpieces of European... Read More

Steve Saldivar | February 17, 2011

Peter Greenaway Speaks at the Getty on Cinema and Art History

Filmmaker Peter Greenaway speaks at the Getty Center tonight as part of our Getty Perspectives lecture series, which invites distinctive artists and scholars to... Read More

Peter Tokofsky | December 15, 2010

Objects and Memories: Edmund de Waal on Tracing a Family Collection

Renoir's portrait of Cahen d-Anvers and de Waal's netsuke