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. 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.

    How a postwar group of artists and engineers tried to invent the future

    Sep 09, 2024

  2. 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 02, 2024

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. The Art of Friendship

    Article

    A man and two young girls are fishing.

    For over 50 years, photographer Sidney Felsen captured artists at work

    Feb 19, 2024

  6. Mid-Century Mod, Venezuelan Style

    Article

    A photo of a courtyard filled with rocking chairs, tables, and chelves.

    In his island home, art historian Alfredo Boulton blended old and new

    Nov 22, 2023

  7. Dream of Darkness

    Article

    Screenshot from video game that depicts a dark and shadowy image of an Aztec city, with soldiers coming down from the sky and a woman treating a god's injuries

    A new video game looks to a 16th-century manuscript as source material

    Nov 01, 2023

  8. What Is a Codex?

    Article

    An opened book showing text on both sides with illustrations of fish

    Basically, a big book

    Oct 26, 2023

  9. What It's Like to Read Artists’ Letters

    Article

    An envelope with an address written on it, and a blue and red striped border.

    Old letters let you peek into artists’ private lives in a new Getty podcast

    Sep 21, 2023

  10. Inside Senga Nengudi’s Dance with Pantyhose

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    Black and white photograph of artist Senga Nengudi pulling nylon taut as part of her installation of pantyhose stretched across the wall and weighted down with lumps of sand

    How the artist’s R.S.V.P. project conveys the human experience

    Sep 12, 2023