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Obsidian Mirror-Travels Explores Myths and Truths about Ancient Mexico

The current exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology, challenges our ideas of how we understand the... Read More

Steve Saldivar | December 24, 2010

Question of the Week: Fake vs. Real—Does It Matter?

Question of the Week is a series inspired by our Masterpiece of the Week tours, offered daily at 4:00 p.m. Featuring an open and... Read More

Christine Spier | October 28, 2010

Video: Manoel Felciano on Playing Orestes in “Elektra”

Sophocles’ Elektra—which concludes its run at the Getty Villa this Saturday—is the story of a woman’s thirst for revenge: Elektra rages and plots against... Read More

Desiree Zenowich | September 28, 2010

Video: Pamela Reed on Working with Carey Perloff and Olympia Dukakis

Pamela Reed rips into the role of murderous queen Clytemnestra in Sophocles’ Elektra with gusto. She creates a character that reviewers have described as... Read More

Desiree Zenowich | September 27, 2010

Jean-Léon Gérôme, from “Gladiator” to “The Matrix”

“Gérôme forged narrative practices that would take the cinema decades to invent,” art historian Marc Gotlieb told a packed auditorium recently in a discussion... Read More

Lorena Patlán | September 7, 2010

Go Behind the Scenes with Our New Orientation Film

Many first-time visitors to the Getty Center disembark the tram at the top of the hill, take one look around, and wonder out loud,... Read More

Maureen McGlynn | July 19, 2010

Cabinet of Wonders

The Augsburg Display Cabinet—the Getty Museum’s 17th-century “cabinet of curiosities” on display starting tomorrow in our New Galleries for Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and... Read More

Anne Martens | May 17, 2010