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  1. Odilon Redon’s Dark Humor and Darker Worlds

    Skeletons against a black background.

    How Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Darwin, and other 19th-century luminaries influenced French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon

  2. Finding the Sublime in Storage

    A surfboard with a painted figure on it surfing a large, abstract wave.

    How the most unwieldy object in Raymond Pettibon’s archive illuminates the artist’s career-long plunge into uncharted waters

  3. Made to Remember

    Two women sitting in front of an ofrenda look at each other smiling, a text overlay shows the Getty logo and the words "Ofelia and Rosanna Esparza: Made to Remember"

    For the Esparzas, the ofrenda is more than a cultural practice: it’s art

  4. What to Wear: The Concert Edition

    A person in a stylish green outfit poses for a photo in a lush courtyard.

    These Getty visitors brought their fashion A-game to Off the 405

  5. Art Worth the Risk

    An open triptych depicting the Last Judgment. In the central panel, Jesus sits on a golden orb within a rainbow. Below him figures are judged, moving towards heaven or hell depicted on the side panels

    Hans Memling’s masterpiece has survived centuries of theft and war. Now, conservators are using cutting-edge science to keep it safe (and in one place) for centuries to come

  6. “Unrolling” an 18th-Century Porcelain Vase

    A tall decorative vase made of porcelain and mounted in gilt bronze.

    Inside the photo shoot that turned a round object flat

  7. In LA, Eight Moments That Powered the Civil Rights Movement

    A book cover featuring Black protestors boycotting a store by marching and holding signs with book title “Marching West” in blue and yellow gradient letters.

    A new book looks at social justice through a westward lens

  8. The Little-Known History of a Lost Earthwork

    A bird’s-eye view of the oculus window surrounded by concentric circles of travertine and sitting at the center of the Getty Research Institute building.

    Andy Goldsworthy’s sculpture in the Getty Library was created to catch the light of the solstice—but then the unexpected struck

  9. West Hollywood Gets Its Close-Up

    Framed photo of a large, blue building looming behind a small, white house.

    Can a neighborhood so vivid and on the move be captured in a series of moments? We gave it some convincing shots

  10. The Afterlives of Artworks

    A drawing on brown paper of a nude male figure, seen from the back and cropped at the torso, surrounded by dark shadows. His head turns to the side and his left arm hangs over a ledge

    How a single ink spot—among other important clues—led to an international collaboration to identify a lost drawing hidden in Getty’s collections

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