Richard Rand

Bio

Richard Rand is associate director of collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Office of the Associate Director, Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum Associate Director of Collections

Stories

  1. Looking at the Real and Imagined Paintings of Bridgerton

    Article

    Still image from Bridgerton, featuring five women standing in an ornate room with painting hanging on the wall, watching an acrobat performing on the floor

    How the TV romance uses art to comment on race and gender

    Jan 7, 2021

  2. Did Getty’s Strangest Painting Inspire a Famous Novel about Hollywood?

    Article

    Colorful painting that depicts a crowd of people parading down a street carrying signs and banners. In the very back, Jesus Christ rides a donkey.

    On James Ensor, Nathanael West, and “The Burning of Los Angeles”

    Sep 17, 2020

  3. Rosso in Hollywood

    Article

    Painting of two woman, the older one in a gold skirt with a dead or unconscious boy at her feet, and the younger in a blue dress holding a naked boy. Two child angels hover behind them, with dark wings extended.

    What two pioneers of color movies saw in a 16th-century painting

    May 12, 2020