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  1. Saving Lost Feminist Video Letters

    Back of a person facing a wall of video screens and other technological equipment

    A Getty conservator preserves rare pieces of guerrilla media

    Nov 4, 2025

  2. The Personal Side of the Johnson Publishing Company

    Black and white photo of a large group of people posing in front of a building with the sign "Johnson Publishing Co. Inc"

    The “JPC,” publisher of Ebony, Jet, and other magazines celebrating the Black American community, took good care of its staff, too

    Oct 30, 2025

  3. Why I Was Late to the Office

    A vintage photo postcard of a prairie fire in Dallas, South Dakota, with the text, "A midnight view of the Tripp Co, Prairie Fire. Dallas. S.D. Copyright by S. Downey."

    Photo postcards were the social media posts of the early 20th century

    Oct 28, 2025

  4. Inside the Guerrilla Girls’s Collective Practice

    A group of ten people wearing gorilla masks, posing against and climbing up a city fence.

    A new Getty show celebrates 40 years of an anonymous collective’s activism against inequity in the art world

    Oct 22, 2025

  5. Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

    Purple flowers with bright green leaves and stems.

    For journalists, a frequently updated list with press contacts for current and upcoming exhibitions at the Getty Center and Getty Villa Museum

    Oct 14, 2025

  6. Getty Names Joan Weinstein to Newly Created Role Overseeing Institution-Wide Program Planning

    Headshot of Joan Weinstein smiling into the camera

    Weinstein to continue as Getty Foundation director until a successor is appointed

    Oct 13, 2025

  7. What Goes on Inside Getty’s Vaults?

    A woman wearing blue rubber gloves lays a black and white photograph onto a table for it to be shot by a camera above.

    How a graduate intern helps save art, archives, and energy

    Oct 7, 2025

  8. How to Be a Guerrilla Girl

    Poster with a reclined nude person wearing a gorilla mask. Poster text: "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?..."

    An exhibition celebrating 40 years of art, activism, and anonymity

    Oct 6, 2025

  9. Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day

    A person in Indigenous regalia performs a dance for a crowd of onlookers in an outdoor stone courtyard area on a sunny day.

    Jana Schmieding on Native joy, building community, and the importance of Native women

    Oct 2, 2025

  10. An Albert Frey Tour of Palm Springs

    A low slung white building with a triangular roof pointing upwards about 30 degrees and outwards toward the curved street in front of it, while also surrounded by a low wall and manicured bushes.

    Experience the International Style, interpreted for the desert

    Sep 25, 2025