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The Getty Center

A crowned figure sits inside a transparent vessel submerged underwater among sea creatures, while two men lean over the side of a boat floating above.

The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement

"Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend together in a mix of some fact informed by historical fiction, and elaborated for medieval imagination."
By Jordan Riefe
A conservator Ulrich Birkmaier stands beside Artemisia Gentileschi’s large damaged painting Hercules and Omphale mounted on a wheeled easel in a conservation studio holding a detached paint fragment.

Ulrich Birkmaier On What Goes Into Restoring a Masterpiece

“When you cannot see the conservator’s hand, that's the best compliment you can get.”
By Jordan Riefe
A portrait of Glenn Phillips, a white man with short gray hair and a beard, wearing a navy suit and light pink shirt, standing outside in front of trees and sunlight. Context:

Punk Preservation: Getty’s Glenn Phillips On Securing Raymond Pettibon’s Archive

The Getty recently acquired Pettibon’s archive, deepening the Research Institute’s contemporary art holdings.
By Dan Duray
A painting by Gustave Caillebotte, The Bezique Game, depicts five men seated around a green card table in an elegant interior, their expressions focused as they play, while another man reclines on a couch in the background.

Masculinity, Impressionism and the Third Republic: The Getty Center Unpacks Gustave Caillebotte’s World

By Jordan Riefe
Frieze LA

Beyond Frieze: An Insider’s Guide to What’s On in the Los Angeles Art Scene

By Cynthia Greenwald
A nature scene drawn on blue paper

One Fine Show: ‘Drawing on Blue’ at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

By Dan Duray

The Whitney Museum Lobby Catches Fire

By Helen Holmes

Looking Back at the Images of Poverty that Sparked a Firestorm in the 1960s

By Jordan Riefe
"San Girolamo," Caravaggio.

Fendi Partners With Galleria Borghese to Bring Caravaggio to the Getty

By Alina Cohen
Opening of The Met Breuer, Madison Avenue and 75th Street, New York City, March 2016. (The Met Breuer. Photo: Courtesy of Wiki Commons)

10 Museum Exhibitions You’ll Be Talking About This Winter

By Ryan Steadman
An aerial view of The Getty Center. (Photo: blogs.getty.edu/iris/)

As the California Drought Persists, LA Museums Get Creative With Water Conservation

By Alanna Martinez
'Triumph of the Eucharist over Idolatry, Peter Paul Rubens' (1625-6) by Rubens. (Courtesy the Prado)

Getty Grants $390,000 to Prado for Rubens Panel Conservation

By Andrew Russeth

Dallas Museum of Art Nabs Conservator Mark Leonard

By Rozalia Jovanovic

Getting to the Getty Center, L.A.’s Latest Monument to Traffic

By Jeffrey Hogrefe

An Architectural Peep Show: Buy It for the Centerfolds!

By Alastair Gordon
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