Art & Architecture

Stories about our collections, exhibitions, and the creative process

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  1. El arte postal se apodera del mundo

    A grid of postage stamps from Argentina with photographs of mouths open wide, showing their teeth.

    Cómo las personas latinas lideraron una revolución por correo

  2. Seeing the Light

    A pen and watercolor drawing of a winter scene of a village with trees and homes covered in snow, and people surrounding an icy canal.

    White in art is never just a blank slate

  3. Mail Art Takes On the World

    A grid of postage stamps from Argentina with photographs of mouths open wide, showing their teeth.

    How Latinx and Latin American women led a revolution by mail

  4. Building a Collection

    A painting of a dense forest of green and brown trees.

    Who chooses the artworks hanging in Getty's galleries? And why those?

  5. An Artist, Histories, and Community: Coming Together Around Kerry James Marshall

    Photos of a symposium with speakers and a live audience.

    Marshall’s work reveals the resilience and complexity of the Black diaspora

  6. How Libraries Pave the Way for Future Scholars of African Art

    African Masks and Emotions: In Theory and in Practice book cover

    Scholars’ collections help cultivate the next generation of researchers

  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

  8. Art World, Roxane Gay Is Ready to Discuss Your Grade

    A seated woman rests her left hand on her face and smiles at the camera in a white room with a window to her left.

    We asked acclaimed author and cultural critic Roxane Gay for her thoughts on the Guerrilla Girls—an anonymous art collective with a 40-year history—and how art activism can push museums, and the wider world, toward equity for all

  9. Get Crafty with These Roman-Inspired Holiday DIYs

    A collection of DIY crafts sits on a wooden table in front of two children who use crayons to color while an adult watches over them

    Whether you’re feeling generous or just looking for something to do during your kids' winter break, we’ve got you covered

  10. Getty Presents Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages

    Manuscript illumination with Jesus and angels presiding over various scenes below.

    Exhibition spotlights humanity’s enduring fascination with how the world began through a display of medieval and contemporary works