Getty Magazine

In-depth stories and personal perspectives

Latest Magazine Stories

  1. Dress Code: Drag

    Black and white photograph of dark-skinned person with arms spread wide to reveal luxurious evening wear

    In the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, you’ll find photographs of 1950s drag performers striking a pose at grand balls

  2. Getty à la Mode

    A medieval illumination of lords and ladies in a hall. The women wear tall pointed princess hats.

    What fashion trends are captured in Getty’s collections? Five curators choose favorites from antiquity through the 18th century

  3. Turn Up the Fashion

    black and white photo of a woman wearing an off the shoulder evening gown, surrounded by dress forms that are as tall as her

    Strut down the catwalk or your kitchen with this fashion-inspired playlist

  4. Forever Fashion

    A crowd looks on as a woman puts on a pair of tights

    Getty conservators and scientists work to preserve plastic fashions from the 20th century to today

  5. When an Artist Becomes a Scientist

    Tom Learner leans on a marble countertop in a large, clean laboratory

    At school, Tom Learner had to choose between art and science; now, as head of science at the Getty Conservation Institute, there’s no need

  6. Your Next Dress Could Be Made from Orange Peels or Maple Leaves

    A blonde person wearing a spotlit red leather dress with a skirt made of scale-like cutouts walks down a darkened runway

    French American creative director and Vegan Fashion Week founder Emmanuelle Rienda shares her thoughts on ethical dressing, the future of fashion, and what luxury means today

  7. María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Extreme Weather

    A watercolor painting of blue, geometric patterns shows a large blue seal swimming underwater, surrounded by small human figures and fish.

    A Getty graduate intern visits the galleries to reflect on the connections between identity, displacement, and climate

  8. Jewelry That Makes the Past Present

    Round gold brooch with image of a lion's face in the center, made out of tiny glass beads.

    How revival jewelry keeps ancient fashions alive

  9. How to Preserve Gunpowder

    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

  10. Designing for Humanity in a Car-Centric City

    A woman stands in the center of a pedestrian bridge with a building behind her with a cement base and a circular glass form rising from it.

    Architect Ana Lasala shares what has worked (and almost worked) in six LA urban design projects