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Recording in Progress
Historian and archivist Keith Rice preserves Los Angeles history through the stories of its minority communities
Is Drawing a Form of Self Care?
Becoming Artsy, Episode 504
How to Merge with the Gods
Getty’s ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” manuscripts go on view
What Was Life Like for Kids in the Middle Ages?
Your biggest questions, answered by our medievalists
One Artist Continues Where the Other Left Off
In this new Getty acquisition, Marguerite Gérard and her brother-in-law, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, collaborated on a scene of courtship
Nine Books to Read for Earth Month
A curated reading list brought to you by Getty’s own EcoReads book club
The Secrets to Displaying a 3,600-Year-Old Crown
How mountmakers prepared this delicate headpiece for its Getty Villa debut
Ray Kappe’s Monumental Fireplace, from House Feature to Historic Artwork
Artist Evan Curtis Charles Hall tells the story of the now-lost Erdley House and its innovative, midcentury fireplace and chimney—which survived the Palisades Fire
Rebuilding for Resilience
Drawing on lessons from historic Mediterranean sites, staff are planning a Getty Villa landscape that honors Roman models while adapting to Southern California’s changing environment
Seven Movie MacGuffins in Celebration of Provenance Research Day
In these films, an art object’s history is part of the plot
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- Fall 2022 (PDF)Egyptomania; Getty's new CEO; the art of exhibition design; conserving Black modernism
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- Spring 2022 (PDF)Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World; ImagineRio; the Johnson Publishing Archive
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- Fall 2021 (PDF)Dancer Blondell Cummings; the seductive art of Hans Holbein the Younger; plastic buildings
- Summer 2021 (PDF)The Fluxus archive of Jean Brown; a look back at Artemisia Gentileschi; a gem of a mystery
- Spring 2021 (PDF)Art and science at Pacific Standard Time; Paul Williams; protecting 20th-century sites
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- Summer 2020 (PDF)Help for artists during the pandemic; the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World
- Spring 2020 (PDF)Emmett Williams, Fluxus and concrete poetry pioneer; making plastic in the Getty lab
- Winter 2020 (PDF)Urbanization in Southeast Asia; the Mexican antiquities trade; Conserving Canvas grants
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- Summer 2019 (PDF)Feminist art; buried treasure from the Villa dei Papiri; protecting collections
- Spring 2019 (PDF)Celebrating the Bauhaus school; conserving the Eames House; the medieval bestiary
- Winter 2019 (PDF)Tutankhamen’s tomb; a Renaissance masterpiece; African American Art History Initiative
- Fall 2018 (PDF)Secrets of mummy portraits; prints and drawings curation, then and now; listening to wood
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- Spring 2018 (PDF)Big changes at the Getty Villa; Q & A with Jeff Koons; protecting Herculaneum
- Winter 2018 (PDF)Getty Center at 20; the future of plastics; new acquisitions by Michelangelo, Rubens
