Lyra Kilston

Stories

  1. Back Aboard the Big Yellow School Bus

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    A group of children listen to a person pointing out artwork at a museum with intricate floors and large stone sculptures.

    Field trips return to the Getty Villa Museum

  2. Getty à la mode

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    A medieval illumination of lords and ladies in a hall. The women wear tall pointed princess hats.

    ¿Qué estilos han quedado plasmados en las colecciones de Getty? Cinco curadoras eligen sus piezas favoritas, desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XVIII

  3. Getty à la Mode

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    A medieval illumination of lords and ladies in a hall. The women wear tall pointed princess hats.

    What fashion trends are captured in Getty’s collections? Five curators choose favorites from antiquity through the 18th century

  4. Chasing Rainbows

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    Charles Ross has created solar spectra around the world for six decades; now Getty Center visitors can experience—or even bathe themselves in—his giant spills of rainbow

  5. PST ART at Getty

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    A boombox set diagonally with a gradient overlay shading from orange to green.

    New Getty shows will explore the wonders of light, medieval astrology, the microscopic, and what happens when you put artists and engineers in a room together

  6. What If Picasso Had Been Born a Girl?

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    Painting of a stylish woman in a blue dress and extravagant hat holding a painting palette in front of a canvas, two other women behind her

    Three stories that show how women have created throughout history

  7. How to Merge with the Gods

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    A man opens a case that holds an ancient scroll.

    Getty’s ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” manuscripts go on view for the first time

  8. Living Languages

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    A group of high school students listens to a guide giving a tour in a sculpture gallery

    How Getty works to sustain and revitalize languages, through translation, education, documentation, and even a summer camp

  9. Ancient Nubia in Today’s L.A.

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    A gray wall is covered with paintings of colorful eyes in a grid.

    How works by contemporary artists express the traditions, objects, and materials of the Nile Valley’s ancient cultures

  10. The Department of Photographs Goes Global

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    Interior of museum gallery for photography, with photos on walls and one dark gray wall with text that says Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties

    By 2010 the Getty Museum’s Department of Photographs had increased its focus on contemporary global imagery and was welcoming works by underrepresented artists