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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Bold Lines and Nude Sunbaths

    A modernist white house with clean lines and a cement driveway sits on a cliff with mountains and a blue sky behind it.

    When European modernism met a California health nut

    Sep 24, 2025

  6. Performing the Archive

    Person in sunglasses and dark sweater leaning against painted cinderblock wall

    How one artist brought a ‘60s performance score to life in the Glendale mall

    Sep 24, 2025

  7. 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

    Sep 16, 2025

  8. Getty Presents Fourth Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration

    A turquoise background with the words "Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day" in orange, blue, and green with orange California poppies.

    Events at the Getty Center include music, dancing, poetry, and family activities

    Sep 16, 2025

  9. A Forgotten Modernist Reclaimed: Leopold Fischer’s California Legacy

    Exiled in L.A.: The Untold Story of Leopold Fischer's Domestic Architecture book cover

    Discover the work of this little-known architect, whose oeuvre includes Weimar-era social housing and quietly influential domestic architecture in Los Angeles

    Sep 5, 2025

  10. Print Matters Reimagines the Illustrated Magazine as a Modernist Powerhouse

    Book cover featuring a smiling woman in a light blue dress and hat holding a magazine titled "Bingo"

    This new volume explores how illustrated magazines shaped 20th century visual culture through the interplay of photography, text, and design

    Aug 20, 2025