Podcasts
Bringing you inside the world of art and cultural heritage
Featured Episodes
If Objects Could Talk
Artifacts from the museum’s collection join us in the recording studio
Art + Ideas
Hear artists, writers, curators, and scholars talk about their work
Audio : Reading Ancient Scrolls with Modern Technology
How CT scans and AI will let scientists and historians look inside carbonized papyri
Audio : Beyond the Nile
Egypt and the Classical World
A tour of artistic exchange in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Audio : The Legacies of Pliny the Elder and Younger
Understanding ancient Rome through the lives and words of two remarkable writers
Recording Artists
Artists in their own words from the Getty Research Institute archives
Audio : Radical Women: Eva Hesse
Oh, More Absurdity
The young artist reflects on the meaning of art as she nears the end of her short life
Audio : Intimate Addresses: Marcel Duchamp
Write Me Often, Just a Line or Two
The artist who broke modern art writes to a dear friend after escaping from Nazi-occupied France
Audio : Experiments in Art and Technology: Billy Klüver
Better Than Another Golf Course
What motivated this Bell Labs engineer to bring artists, engineers, and corporate sponsors together?
ReCurrent
A podcast about what we gain by keeping the past, present
Audio : The Recipe of Us
Food, Family, and Memory
Exploring how food in Los Angeles connects generations and preserves cultural heritage through food and family stories
Audio : América Tropical
Art, Activism, and Los Angeles’s Hidden Story
Exploring how public murals in Los Angeles, like América Tropical, connect generations and preserve cultural narratives