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Dream of Darkness

Screenshot from video game that depicts a dark and shadowy image of an Aztec city, with soldiers coming down from the sky and a woman treating a god's injuries

A new video game looks to a 16th-century manuscript as source material

A Rare 500-Year-Old Manuscript Gets a Second Life Online

Homepage for Digital Florentine Codex website, displaying a blue banner, white search bar, and an image of fishes from the original codex.

The Digital Florentine Codex unlocks a wealth of Mexica (Aztec) history and culture

Shining a Light on Neon

The challenges of protecting neon art have plagued conservators for years. Getty aims to change that

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  1. Getty’s PST ART Releases Largest-Ever Dataset on Climate Impact of Exhibition-Making

    Slanted photo of silhouettes of people looking at wall to wall screens of green and blue foliage.

    Arts organizations across Southern California measured exhibition emissions and waste for the nation’s largest art event

    Nov 18, 2025

  2. 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

  3. Dab a Little 3,000-Year-Old Greek Civilization on Your Wrist

    A man in glasses holds a scent strip near several floating bottles of perfume, appearing to evaluate the fragrances.

    Perfumer Michael Nordstrand distilled ancient Pylos into two scents for the Getty Villa Museum. One ingredient was originally raked from goats’ beards in Crete

    Oct 6, 2025

  4. Would You Survive a Medieval Road Trip?

    A game kiosk in front of a background that reads "Follow the Pilgrimage Road"

    Getty’s new computer game time-travels to the 14th century (and the 1980s)

    Sep 30, 2025

  5. New Documentary Art & Science Collide Premieres Friday, October 17 on PBS

    A gradient red, orange, and yellow rectangle with a teal shape of California in the middle, and a computer-generated face connected to a hand by strings, and text "Art & Science Collide" over it.

    The PBS SoCal film brings to life Getty’s iconic PST ART event, where artists and scientists unite to reimagine our world

    Sep 16, 2025

  6. The Woman Who Captured Nature in Blue: Anna Atkins and the Birth of Photographic Art

    Book cover featuring a drawing of a woman and leaves in blue color

    Using cyanotypes, Anna Atkins turned seaweed and sunlight into the world’s first photographically illustrated book

    Aug 18, 2025

  7. Conserving Art’s Sensory Experiences

    art installation that looks like a multicolored cave, with a tall opening and bits of colorful cloth woven around the outside

    Unraveling how we perceive multisensory artworks (like those at the Wired for Wonder exhibition) helps create more nuanced conservation strategies

    Aug 6, 2025

  8. In the Algorithm’s Eyes, “We Are Already Plants”

    A green plant sits under lamps, entwined with colorful balls of light handing from the ceiling

    Slovenian bio artist Špela Petrič explores the vegetal world with artificial intelligence (AI), speculating that humans have more in common with plants than we think

    Aug 5, 2025

  9. María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Extreme Weather

    A watercolor painting of blue, geometric patterns shows a large blue seal swimming underwater, surrounded by small human figures and fish.

    A Getty graduate intern visits the galleries to reflect on the connections between identity, displacement, and climate

    Jul 10, 2025

  10. New Volume Advances Granite Conservation for Historic Structures Worldwide

    Conservation of Granite in Cultural Heritage book cover

    Uniting research and fieldwork, Getty book provides practical tools for conserving granite in built heritage

    Jun 30, 2025