Art & Architecture

Stories about our collections, exhibitions, and the creative process

Featured Stories

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

A Forgotten Modernist Reclaimed: Leopold Fischer’s California Legacy

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

Unconventional Animals Lurking in the Getty Collection

Tigers, lions, and camels galore!

Latest

  1. Who Was the Original Master of Gore?

    A black and white photograph of a man with slicked back hair, wearing a suit and smoking, with a large bat shadow behind him

    This Spanish painter’s later works were extremely dark

    Oct 15, 2025

  2. Fotógrafos latinoamericanos

    A black and white photograph of a barefooted boy carrying bags as he walk past a store front window

    De las calles de Ciudad de México a las pampas argentinas, estas fotografías detienen en el tiempo lugares, vidas, generaciones y oficios que no se pueden replicar

    Oct 14, 2025

  3. Latin-American Photographers

    A black and white photograph of a barefooted boy carrying bags as he walk past a store front window

    From the streets of Mexico City to the Argentine Pampas, these photographs capture moments in lives, generations, and professions that cannot be replicated

    Oct 14, 2025

  4. A Seat at the Table

    A white-bordered color photograph of four people eating under a fringed pool cabana, with three looking at the camera while one holds out a bell.

    In their photograph series Being There, artists Lee Shulman and Omar Victor Diop wanted to give viewers “moments to dream, to question, to project their own stories”

    Oct 14, 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. He's the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Middle Ages

    A close up of an illuminated manuscript page with an inset illustration of a giant monster with two people in its mouth, and a nude man begging an angel to its left.

    A medieval Halloween carol

    Oct 8, 2025

  7. Celebrating the Breadth of Black Art in Brazil

    A person in a small office flips through art books while seated at a desk

    How one art historian is expanding the narrative of art history

    Oct 7, 2025

  8. 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

  9. Honoring India’s Modern Heritage

    A woman in a red and black dress and yellow head scarf carrying a broom out in the distance under a colossus concrete stadium with stairs on the right side.

    How modernist architecture in India is being preserved for posterity

    Oct 6, 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