Anya Ventura

Bio

Anya is a content producer for web and new media at the Getty Research Institute.

Content and Digital Strategy, Getty Research Institute Content Producer

Stories

  1. How to Preserve Gunpowder

    Article

    Color photograph of young man standing in front of a large gray and gold abstract painting made from gunpowder

    Inside the decade-long study of Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive artworks

    Jul 9, 2025

  2. The Fragment and the Whole

    Article

    Double page spread of canon tables lavishly painted in tempera colors and gold paint.

    In the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, one medieval manuscript’s extraordinary journey

    May 27, 2025

  3. My Heart Will Go On

    Article

    A person leans forward, peering into the glass side of a dark, metallic box filled with moving, neon red powder.

    A piece of vintage tech art gets a new operating system

    Nov 21, 2024

  4. Place Names

    Article

    A person sits at a table writing in a notebook in front of a projection of a map

    Behind the effort to decolonize data

    Oct 22, 2024

  5. Finding Féral Benga

    Article

    A person sits at a cluttered desk in a small office and looks at sheets of paper with drawings of people on them

    Inside an art historian’s search for the Senegalese muse of early 20th-century Paris

    Oct 15, 2024

  6. River of Life

    Article

    An image divided into three triangle shapes. The right and left show a lush green landscape from above. The middle shows a white embroidered cloth of a helicopter over a town and people

    Carolina Caycedo collaborates with communities across the Americas to envision a fossil fuel–free future

    Sep 25, 2024

  7. Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

    Article

    A white geometric and domed building has fog emanating from it while a group of onlookers stand outside.

    Getty's PST ART exhibition Sensing the Future explores how a postwar group of artists and engineers tried to invent the future

    Sep 9, 2024

  8. Motherhood Is Hard Work

    Article

    A black and white photograph featuring a set of hands rinsing a diaper in a sink

    In the ‘70s, artist Mary Kelly meticulously documented the early years of her son’s life

    Apr 2, 2024

  9. Going Viral in the Renaissance

    Article

    Four different variations of a figure with curly hair and wings with one arm raised and looking down to the right.

    One art historian’s quest to discover how popular images traveled the Spanish empire

    Mar 21, 2024

  10. Capturing the Artist’s Perspective

    Article

    Brightly colored fuzzy video still of Ulysses Jenkins wearing head wrap in close up with a purple background

    How Getty’s African American Art History Initiative is making history

    Feb 21, 2024