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Broadening the Idea of What American Art Is
LeRonn P. Brooks reflects on what Black curators preserve, and why it matters
An Investigation of a Self-Portrait by Edgar Degas
Why was the surface of Degas’s painting looking cloudy? Why did he use himself as a model, and what’s that red area along the lower edge of the work? Getty staff wanted answers
Preserving Lacquer One Paper-Thin Layer at a Time
How Getty conservators are working to protect an ancient craft
What Scholars of Antiquity and Ancient Myth Really Thought of The Odyssey
Did Christopher Nolan’s adaptation do the ancient tale justice?
A Totally Tubular Surfing Playlist
Songs to surf—or boogie—to
New Acquisitions on View: Paintings by Georges Lemmen and Peder Balke
These paintings are small—but powerful
Postales del Pacífico
Estas imágenes retrataron el auge de Malibú como destino internacional del surf
Postcards from the Pacific
These images captured Malibu as it crested into an international surfing destination
Harry Gesner’s Buildings “Surf” the California Hillsides
How a modernist architect linked the natural and built environments
Odilon Redon’s Dark Humor and Darker Worlds
How Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Darwin, and other 19th-century luminaries influenced French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon
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