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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

Color photo of dome-shaped Cineramadome movie theater, with a red car parked out front
Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard photographed by Ed Ruscha in 2007. Streets of Los Angeles Archive. The Getty Research Institute, 2012.M.1. © Ed Ruscha

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  1. Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk

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    A pencil drawing of a museum display depicts nine rows of 615 Mayan artifacts in gold, jade green, and dark brown
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  2. Blackness Is in the Making: Materials of the 18th-Century Artist

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    Colorful sketches of eight heads, three with dark skin tones, three with elaborate hats
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  3. Imaginaries of LA: Umar Rashid and Sandy Rodriguez

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    Beige map with a green coil of snakes in a triangle. Surrounding it are various figures including a merman with trident, a moai from Rapa Nui, and the country of Austrialia labeled "Dreamland"
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  1. New Getty Podcast Asks: Why Is Cultural Heritage Worth Preserving?

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    Series considers what is gained by keeping the past present

    Jul 18, 2024

  2. 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

    Jun 26, 2024

  3. 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

    Jul 17, 2024

  4. Breast Dressed

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    Restoring one of Getty’s most unique treasures

    Jun 25, 2024

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