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  1. Your Next Dress Could Be Made from Orange Peels or Maple Leaves

    A blonde person wearing a spotlit red leather dress with a skirt made of scale-like cutouts walks down a darkened runway

    French American creative director and Vegan Fashion Week founder Emmanuelle Rienda shares her thoughts on ethical dressing, the future of fashion, and what luxury means today

  2. When an Artist Becomes a Scientist

    Tom Learner leans on a marble countertop in a large, clean laboratory

    At school, Tom Learner had to choose between art and science; now, as head of science at the Getty Conservation Institute, there’s no need

  3. María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Extreme Weather

    A watercolor painting of blue, geometric patterns shows a large blue seal swimming underwater, surrounded by small human figures and fish.

    A Getty graduate intern visits the galleries to reflect on the connections between identity, displacement, and climate

  4. Jewelry That Makes the Past Present

    Round gold brooch with image of a lion's face in the center, made out of tiny glass beads.

    How revival jewelry keeps ancient fashions alive

  5. How to Preserve Gunpowder

    Color photograph of young man standing in front of a large gray and gold abstract painting made from gunpowder

    Inside the decade-long study of Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive artworks

  6. Designing for Humanity in a Car-Centric City

    A woman stands in the center of a pedestrian bridge with a building behind her with a cement base and a circular glass form rising from it.

    Architect Ana Lasala shares what has worked (and almost worked) in six LA urban design projects

  7. Lights, Camera, Fashion

    A person in a stylish suit looks at a book of photographs.

    As a curator of photographs at the Getty Museum, Paul Martineau often explores his passion for fashion photography

  8. What to Wear: The Art Museum Edition

    Woman wearing bright green top with long sleeves and large round fan-like embellishment on the front, also wearing sunglasses on her head and holding one hand up to her head

    We asked fashionable visitors at the Getty Center about their outfit inspiration

  9. Photography in the Time of Covid

    A house entryway with wide plank bleached wood floors, white walls, white doors, and two giant fake-looking planted plants that touch the ceiling on either side of the area where the entry opens out.

    Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic started, a rotation of photographs at the Getty Museum reflects on a time when the world shut down, but new ways of seeing emerged

  10. An Enlightened Approach to Preserving the Past

    Illustration of people in lab coats working with a machine, computer, and a painting

    See how the microfading tester helps conserve color in heritage objects