Meet the Artist Who Helped Launch the Renaissance in Florence
Pacino di Bonaguida? Little known today, he was a key figure in Renaissance Florence.
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Getty Publications
New titles, book excerpts, and digital developments from the Getty’s book publisher.
Walking through the Getty Research Portal
Today the Getty Research Institute launches the Getty Research PortalTM, an unprecedented resource that will provide broad, free access to digitized texts in the... Read More
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark and Filmmaker Martin Bell Go to Prom
What will I wear? Who will be my date? Should we rent a limo? With prom season approaching, these are questions going through American... Read More
Online Scholarly Catalogues: Where Are We Now?
How does the museum collections catalogue, traditionally made for print, fit into today’s world of apps, e-books, and iPhones? It turns out that going... Read More
Illuminating the End of Time
2012 was the year proclaimed as the end of time by Mayan hieroglyphs, extra-terrestrial communicators, and bad disaster movies. The Getty Apocalypse, a medieval... Read More
Unlocking the Secrets of an Ancient Fountain
Do you picture archaeological sites as dry, dusty piles of stones? Meet Peirene, an ancient Greek ruin so tantalizing that archaeologists have literally died... Read More
“The Photographer with the Soul of an Architect”: Lucien Hervé
Bridging the visions of Le Corbusier and Lucien Hervé.
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Painterly Urban Planning: Nikolaus Pevsner’s “Visual Planning and the Picturesque”
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of the 20th century’s foremost historians of British architecture. Even today, tourists wander through the historic squares of England... Read More
Museum Store Reopens with a New Design
It’s back! The Museum Store at the Getty Center has just reopened after a month-long renovation. The space hasn’t grown, but it feels bigger... Read More
Abstract Films from the 1920s: Making Rhythm Visible
Visual phenomena intersect with concepts applied to music in films.
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Becoming Man Ray: Art, Life, and Paris
The mythology of artistic greatness tends to privilege the spark of creative genius over hard work, sacrifice, and experimentation. Traditionally, the biographies of famous... Read More
Werner Herzog, Jean Clottes, and the Origins of Art
I’ve long admired the films of Werner Herzog, so I was delighted to discover that his new film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, made in... Read More