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Interactive : 12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive
Now online—the artist's mostly-unseen visual record of the evolution of Los Angeles's iconic Sunset Boulevard since 1966
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New Getty Podcast Asks: Why Is Cultural Heritage Worth Preserving?
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Series considers what is gained by keeping the past present
New Book Explores Secrecy and Production of Knowledge in the Byzantine Empire
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The author explores the medieval and Byzantine practices of secret keeping around religious objects, military history, and imperial ceremony
Getty Presents Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T)
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Exhibition bridges the gap between culture and technology
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