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Snake Charm on Your Arm

If Objects Could Talk

Illustration of a snake wrapped into a circlet over a lime green background.

An Egyptian snake bracelet spins a story

Intimate Addresses: Nam June Paik

Recording Artists

Paik holds a screen in front of his face, looking directly at the camera. The screen is filled with vertical characters.

Exploring the personal and electronic networks of a boundary-pushing artist

América Tropical

ReCurrent

Jaime Roque stands in front of a large, faded mural

Exploring how public murals in Los Angeles, like América Tropical, connect generations and preserve cultural narratives

If Objects Could Talk

Artifacts from the museum’s collection join us in the recording studio

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  1. Snake Charm on Your Arm

    Illustration of a snake wrapped into a circlet over a lime green background.

    An Egyptian snake bracelet spins a story

  2. All’s Fair in Love and Games

    Illustration of an astragalos (knucklebone) over a lime green background

    An ancient kind of dice tumbles into the studio

  3. A Very Brave Owl

    Illustration of a ancient coin featuring an owl over a lime green background.

    This little Athenian owl has a big job to do

Art + Ideas

Hear artists, writers, curators, and scholars talk about their work

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  1. Reading Ancient Scrolls with Modern Technology

    An array of CT images of scrolls. Top row are rolled up and bottom is unrolled.

    How CT scans and AI will let scientists and historians look inside carbonized papyri

  2. Beyond the Nile

    Egypt and the Classical World

    Portrait of a young man attached to a wrapped mummy made of red linen with a gilt leaf crown

    A tour of artistic exchange in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome

  3. The Legacies of Pliny the Elder and Younger

    Book cover for The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn. Text over a 19th century painting of Vesuvius erupting.

    Understanding ancient Rome through the lives and words of two remarkable writers

Recording Artists

Artists in their own words from the Getty Research Institute archives

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  1. Radical Women: Eva Hesse

    Oh, More Absurdity

    Eva stands under a slanted ceiling in a room full of tables that are covered in art supplies.

    The young artist reflects on the meaning of art as she nears the end of her short life

  2. Intimate Addresses: Marcel Duchamp

    Write Me Often, Just a Line or Two

    A woman wearing a hat and a fur coat poses for a photograph.

    The artist who broke modern art writes to a dear friend after escaping from Nazi-occupied France

  3. Experiments in Art and Technology: Billy Klüver

    Better Than Another Golf Course

    Two men inside a broadcast studio setting, tinkering with a large, conical speaker or horn mounted on a stand.

    What motivated this Bell Labs engineer to bring artists, engineers, and corporate sponsors together?

ReCurrent

A podcast about what we gain by keeping the past, present

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  1. The Recipe of Us

    Food, Family, and Memory

    A joyful woman making homemade flour tortillas. She is wearing a bright red sweater and white apron, smiling broadly at the camera. The kitchen features wood-colored cabinets and a black stove.

    Exploring how food in Los Angeles connects generations and preserves cultural heritage through food and family stories

  2. América Tropical

    Art, Activism, and Los Angeles’s Hidden Story

    Jaime Roque stands in front of a large, faded mural

    Exploring how public murals in Los Angeles, like América Tropical, connect generations and preserve cultural narratives