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The Body on the Page

For iconic movement artist Simone Forti, the notebook was a private stage for a radical exploration of self that fueled a creative breakthrough

A woman wearing all white runs alongside another person in white crawling on the floor.
Simone Forti performs Planet, 1976. © Barbara Moore/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2019.M.23). Photo: Peter Moore

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  1. Más allá de la luz

    A pen and watercolor drawing of a winter scene of a village with trees and homes covered in snow, and people surrounding an icy canal.

    El blanco en el arte nunca es simplemente un lienzo vacío

  2. El arte postal se apodera del mundo

    A grid of postage stamps from Argentina with photographs of mouths open wide, showing their teeth.

    Cómo las latinas y los latinos lideraron una revolución por correo

  3. La Villa inspira

    Photograph of a bearded person wearing a fedora laughing while playing drums on dimly lit stage.

    Poncho Sánchez, ícono del jazz latino, quedó cautivado por las refinadas vasijas de cerámica, la arquitectura y el ambiente sosegado del peristilo exterior de la Villa

Art & Architecture

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  1. Following the Paper Trail

    A drawing of people dancing viewed under a handheld magnifying glass.

    How curators solved mysteries in a 100-year-old prints and drawings collection

  2. Take a Walking Tour of Downtown Los Angeles’s Iconic Architecture

    A brown building with a tiled sun detailing at its highest point in the middle of high rise buildings

    How many of these landmarks have you seen?

  3. The Ancient Women Who Ruled Their Kingdoms

    A bracelet embedded with colorful, geometric glass pieces around a central figure with wings and wearing a large headdress.

    Long before modern conversations about gender and power, Nubia offered a unique model

Inside Getty

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  1. Celebrate Earth Month at Getty

    Rows of purple flowers bloom in a large garden, behind them a maze of green

    Getty invites visitors to honor Mother Earth through poetry in the garden, mindful gallery tours, collage workshops and more

  2. Getty’s Annual ”College Night” Returns to the Getty Center

    People wander through the courtyard of a large, modern building, taking photos and laughing.

    Students can explore art after dark through guided tours, interactive art stations, music and a full lineup of free activities

  3. Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Hammer Museum, and Hauser & Wirth Announce Collective Commitment to Climate Action

    A person in a storage area filled with shelves holds up a small device that reads the air temperature and humidity.

    This marks the first time Los Angeles art institutions have jointly committed to such efforts

Becoming Artsy

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  1. What Do Bird Feathers Have to Do with Art?

    A brunette woman holding a magnifying glass smiles at a watercolor painting of a colorful bird.

    Find out on Becoming Artsy, Season Five, Episode Three

  2. Jessie Learns to Upcycle with Peder Cho

    A man in a black t-shirt and bucket hat poses with a small backpack between two travertine walls. Large text reads "Fashion made from What?" in capital letters.

    Becoming Artsy, Episode 502

  3. How to Make a Medieval Pocket

    A woman with an excited expression points to a pouch with a floral pattern that is attached to her belt loop, while the text "How to Make a Medieval Pocket" is laid on top of a blue background

    Becoming Artsy, Season Five, Episode One

In the Headlines

  1. How the Getty is preserving L.A.’s Black heritage amid Trump’s DEI rollbacks

    The Getty has ramped up initiatives aimed at preserving Black arts and cultural heritage in Los Angeles

  2. Katherine Fleming and Los Angeles's Getty Center: A fortress of culture amid political turmoil

    The president of the renowned arts institution on the West Coast seeks to further open the museum to the public

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