Three Cameras, One Painting—Pollock’s “Mural” on Video
Midcentury painting inspires 21st-century video.
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Paintings
Five Artworks Rescued from the Nazis
Looted by the Nazis, these five treasures were returned to their owners after World War II and now make their home in Los Angeles.
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The Value of Record Keeping: Frederick Hammersley’s Painting Books
The artist’s remarkably detailed records offer a huge boon to conservation science.
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Frederick Hammersley Foundation Donates Archive to the Getty Research Institute
“Despite their precise lines and construction, Hammersley’s work displays a personal touch, guided by his belief in intuition as an important principle for art making.”
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Is That an Art Exhibition in Your Ear?
L.A.’s smallest gallery show is currently taking place inside a human ear.
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Laughing Out Loud! Rembrandt Self-Portrait Now on View at the Getty
A youthful, confident Rembrandt shakes things up in the paintings galleries.
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The Saints of Skid Row
Artist J Michael Walker finds a saint very much alive in downtown Los Angeles.
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Knoedler, Mellon, and an Unlikely Sale
From Leningrad to Washington D.C.: the complexities of an exceptional art sale
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Seven Works of Art that Make Me Think About Being an American
What work of art screams ‘America’ to you? This is a reflection on works of art that make you think about national identity.
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Life Before eBay: British Art Auctions at the End of the 18th Century
A major new project traces the rise of the British art market in the late 1700s.
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The Man of La Belle Ferronière
A fake Leonardo? The scandalous court case of art dealer Joseph Duveen.
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Dear “Woman in Blue,” Let Me Tell You Of…
“You will be forgotten. Your image, however, will be immortal. Through it, you will travel far—not by horse and cart, or merchant ship, but through the sky…”
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