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The Woman Who Shaped a Generation of American Ads

Photographer Barbara DuMetz reflects on over 40 years of championing diversity in commercial photography
Getty Awards $1.8M to Increase Access to Black Visual Arts Archives

Critical support for eight new projects will activate essential documents of the history of Black art in the U.S.
Why Were These Two Women Nearly Written Out of Art History?

Meet Michaelina Wautier and Anne Vallayer-Coster, expert painters who are only now getting their due
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

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

Conserving buildings central to African American history—including the safe havens listed in a guidebook for Black travelers—tells a fuller, more honest American story
Inside the Frame

By pointing the camera at his friends, Jerry McMillan produced a portrait of the Los Angeles art scene as essential as any painting
Infinite Tenderness, Expressed in Stoneware

Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Child by Alexandre Charpentier joins the Getty collection
¿Cómo era la vida de los niños en la Edad Media?

Nuestros medievalistas responden a las preguntas que nos hicieron nuestros seguidores en las redes sociales
Can You Tell Right from Wrong in These Drawings?

17th-century Dutch and Flemish artists took the call to instruct—and amuse—seriously
The Art of Therapy

The healing power of art is well documented, but what about the work made during therapy? The answer could change how we think about art

