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/ About This Issue Getty Research Journal, No. 21 (2026)

Number 21 • 2026

The Getty Research Journal presents peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods. Topics often relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture.

  • Doris Chon, Executive Editor

  • Lauren Gendler, Managing Editor

Getty Research Journal Editorial Advisory Committee
Maristella Casciato, Jens Daehner, Leonard Folgarait, Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Stavroula Golfomitsou, Mazie Harris, Kristin Juarez, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, and Emily Pugh

  • Lauren Gendler, Manuscript Editor

  • Ariel Waitkuweit, Editorial Assistant

  • Jenny Park, Production

  • Dani Grossman, Cover design

  • Greg Albers, Digital Manager

  • Erin Cecele Dunigan and Alba Menéndez Pereda, Digital Assistants

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DOI: https:​/​/​doi​.org​/10​.59491​/DFOV1921

Revision History

Any revisions or corrections made to this publication after the first edition date will be listed here and in the project repository at github.com/thegetty/grj-21, where a more detailed version history is available. The revisions branch of the project repository, when present, will show any changes currently under consideration but not yet published here.

September 21, 2026

  • First edition

Information for Scholars

The manuscripts in this issue were peer reviewed through a double-masked process in which the identities of the authors and reviewers remained anonymous. “The Getty Peacock Fresco: Unraveling Its History Through Technical and Historical Investigations” by Kenneth Lapatin, Marie Svoboda, Sierra Schiano, Monica Ganio, and Karen Trentelman, and “Becoming Simone Forti: California, 1970–72” by Megan Metcalf received single-anonymous review. “‘This Show Is So Metal’: The Curators of Lumen: The Art and Science of Light in Conversation” received editorial review.

To submit a manuscript, please visit
grj.scholasticahq.com.
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Cover

David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican, 1896–1974). América tropical oprimida y destrozada por los imperialismos (Tropical America oppressed and destroyed by imperialism) (detail), 1932, fresco applied with Arium on cement, 5.5 × 25 m. Los Angeles, Italian Hall, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Art © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City. Photograph courtesy Thomas Hartman, IQ Magic; photo composite: James Jackson.

Getty Research Journal

ISSN: 1944-8740
E-ISSN: 2329-1249