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Featured Exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold

Vivid photographs, watercolors, and installations trace the cultural and personal impacts of forced migration and labor.

Side-by-side photographs in black surrounds of a woman painted with white brushstrokes leans back with a floral linen head wrapping. In her left arm she holds up long-stemmed white flowers.
The Calling (detail), 2003, María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Diptych of Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs. Collection of Jonathan and Barbara Lee. Courtesy of and © María Magdalena Campos-Pons

Highlights

  1. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida's Pepilla and her Daughter

    A light-skinned mother dressed in black smiles at a young child, who is turned away from view, holding her mother's hand. Behind them, a large oil painting of mother and child hangs on a gallery wall

    Recent conservation work has breathed new life into this compelling life-sized painting of a Romani mother and daughter

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  2. Close Looking: Edgar Degas' Après le bain (Femme s’essuyant)

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    Conservator Michelle Sullivan looks closely at Edgar Degas' pastel to show how the artist created it and how it might best be conserved

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Exhibitions

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  1. Van Gogh's Shelter: The Hospital Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy

    Talk

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    Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10pm

  2. Breaking Barriers: Sophie Fremiet and the Rise of Women Artists in Europe

    Talk

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    Sun, May 4, 2025, 10pm

  3. Rainbow Vision: Family Workshop | Visión arcoíris: taller familiar

    Family

    A person smiles and looks up as they walk through a large room with travertine walls and rainbows filter over the area

  4. Selected Shorts: Lost and Found

    Performance

    Gridded graphic of 10 actor head shots, five on top and five on the bottom framing the phrase "Selected Shorts Let Us Tell You a Story"
    Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 3am

Our Collection

Discover art from ancient Greece and Italy, Europe from the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, and global photography from its invention to now

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  1. Fighting Fire at the Getty Villa Museum

    Article

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    “I knew that we needed to hold down the fort”

    Jan 27, 2025

  2. How “Green” Are Getty’s Exhibitions?

    Article

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    For the first time, we’re going to find out

    Jan 7, 2025

  3. Cheese or Seawater in Your Wine?

    Article

    A marble relief depicting a wine festival with many cherubic nude children celebrating around a trough of grapes

    Ancient wine expert Emlyn Dodd reveals the things ancient Greeks slipped into their goblets, the games they played at drinking parties, and other surprising practices inspired by fine oinos

    Jan 21, 2025

Departments and Resources

  1. Curatorial

    Our curatorial teams shape our collections, produce exhibitions, and perform critical research into the history of art made across millennia

  2. Education

    Inspiring audiences to engage with our collection and exhibitions through programs and resources at the Center and Villa

  3. Conservation

    Our conservation teams research artists’ methods and materials to treat our collections and innovate in the preventive care of art

  4. Research

    Projects undertaken by Museum staff, colleagues, and collaborators

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