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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Lights, Camera, Fashion

    A person in a stylish suit looks at a book of photographs.

    As a curator of photographs at the Getty Museum, Paul Martineau often explores his passion for fashion photography

  4. What to Wear: The Art Museum Edition

    Woman wearing bright green top with long sleeves and large round fan-like embellishment on the front, also wearing sunglasses on her head and holding one hand up to her head

    We asked fashionable visitors at the Getty Center about their outfit inspiration

  5. Photography in the Time of Covid

    A house entryway with wide plank bleached wood floors, white walls, white doors, and two giant fake-looking planted plants that touch the ceiling on either side of the area where the entry opens out.

    Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic started, a rotation of photographs at the Getty Museum reflects on a time when the world shut down, but new ways of seeing emerged

  6. An Enlightened Approach to Preserving the Past

    Illustration of people in lab coats working with a machine, computer, and a painting

    See how the microfading tester helps conserve color in heritage objects

  7. And Now for the Female Gaze

    A close up, black and white, and softly lit photo of two girls kissing

    Cynthia MacAdams’s photographs show us what a freer future looks like

  8. The Colorful Geometry of Franklin D. Israel’s LA

    A cubic house of bold yellow, gray and brown colors with a low wooden fence sits on a curved street

    In the 1980s and ’90s, a small group of architects, including Franklin D. Israel, left a vibrant, playful mark on Los Angeles

  9. Reopening the Getty Villa Museum after the Palisades Fire

    People in an outdoor courtyard use sponges to clean dirt off an intricate mural painting

    Peek into the five-month cleanup and the effort to create an even more fire-resistant site

  10. The Little-Known History of a Lost Earthwork

    A bird’s-eye view of the oculus window surrounded by concentric circles of travertine and sitting at the center of the Getty Research Institute building.

    Andy Goldsworthy’s sculpture in the Getty Library was created to catch the light of the solstice—but then the unexpected struck