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Infinite Tenderness, Expressed in Stoneware
Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Child by Alexandre Charpentier joins the Getty collection
Turning a Vision of Getty's Future into Reality
Executive vice president of Finance and Operations Pierre Ouillet shares a glimpse of his past as an aerospace engineer and a peek into the future of Getty
¿Cómo era la vida de los niños en la Edad Media?
Nuestros medievalistas responden a las preguntas que nos hicieron nuestros seguidores en las redes sociales
Can You Tell Right from Wrong in These Drawings?
17th-century Dutch and Flemish artists took the call to instruct—and amuse—seriously
The Art of Therapy
The healing power of art is well documented, but what about the work made during therapy? The answer could change how we think about art
How the Getty Logo Started and Where It’s Going
As Getty’s new digital-friendly logo and first-ever tagline debut, we also look back to the 1980s, when typographer Larry Brady created Getty’s initial commissioned logo and typeface
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
What Was Life Like for Kids in the Middle Ages?
Your biggest questions, answered by our medievalists
How to Merge with the Gods
Getty’s ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” manuscripts go on view
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- Winter 2026 (PDF)Creation stories; Albert Frey's Palm Springs; growing up in Johnson Publishing Company
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- Winter 2025 (PDF)How we stayed safe in the fires; Caillebotte show opens; stand in a rainbow; LA has a DNA
- Fall 2024 (PDF)Only in the '60s; don't-miss PST art events; a visit to Van Gogh's psychiatric clinic
- Summer 2024 (PDF)Art and science collide; meet our head of sustainability; a weird world of dreams
- Spring 2024 (PDF)The Getty Villa turns 50; the mysteries of ancient mummy portraits; women in ancient Rome
- Winter 2024 (PDF)The Florentine Codex inspires a video game; LA's modern architecture gems; Sidney Felsen
- Fall 2023 (PDF)The Book of the Dead; Black Modernism; artists' intimate letters
- Summer 2023 (PDF)Alfredo Boulton's extraordinary life; shining a light on neon; new Entrance Hall artwork
- Spring 2023 (PDF)How visitors stay creative; the link between mental illness and creativity; Felipe Baeza
- Winter 2023 (PDF)Earthen architecture; Xerox art; Keisha Gu profile; Ancient Nubia in LA today
- Fall 2022 (PDF)Egyptomania; Getty's new CEO; the art of exhibition design; conserving Black modernism
- Summer 2022 (PDF)Highlights from the last 25 years; Getty Center timeline; looking forward to 2024
- Spring 2022 (PDF)Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World; ImagineRio; the Johnson Publishing Archive
- Winter 2022 (PDF)Destination Crenshaw; creating an inclusive photography collection; earthen architecture
- 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
- Winter 2021 (PDF)Getty’s internship program; how to save rock art; Palmyra exhibition; Dutch drawings
- Fall 2020 (PDF)Preserving 20th-century architecture; Mesopotamia; Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Blvd.
- 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
- Fall 2019 (PDF)2019 Getty Medal Winners; scholars research art & ecology; two Manet muses
- 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
- Summer 2018 (PDF)Dedicated docents; the future of panel paintings; open-source community protects heritage
- 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
