ROME (AP).- A Rome judge declared an end Wednesday to the trial of a former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator accused of knowingly acquiring looted art from Italy, citing the expiration of the statute of limitations, defense lawyers said. The 6-…
Ex-Getty Curator Trafficking Trial Ends in Italy
ROME (AP).- A defense lawyer says a Rome judge has ended the trial of a former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator because the statute of limitations on charges against her have expired. Alessandro Vannucci said the eight-year-long limit against …
Getty Museum Head of Preparation Bruce Metro Retires Following 30-plus Year Career
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bruce Metro, Head of Preparation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will retire at the end of September following 31 years at the Getty. Metro joined the Getty Museum in 1979 and, over the course of his career, has been responsible for the …
Getty Museum Reopens Suite of Sculpture & Decorative Arts Galleries
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum today reopens its suite of sculpture and decorative arts galleries in the West Pavilion at the Getty Center with several recently acquired masterpieces featured prominently. These include Pietro Cipriani’s Med…
Getty Announces Cast for Outdoor Theater Production of Sophocles’ Elektra
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the cast for Elektra, the fifth annual outdoor theatrical production in the Getty Villa’s Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. One of Sophocles’ most elegantly structured and emot…
Getty Exhibition will Celebrate Pinnacle of Manuscript Illumination in France
LOS ANGELES, CA.- History played such an integral role in defining national identity in France throughout the high Middle Ages that some of the finest illumination of the period is located within the covers of history manuscripts. On view in the Exhibi…
Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice at the J. Paul Getty Museum
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Italian Renaissance drawings form the core of the Getty Museum’s celebrated drawings collection. On view from July 20–October 10, 2010, at the Getty Center, From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice brings to…
Getty Museum Announces Exhibition of Still Life Photography
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum
presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways
photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on
view at the
Getty Center in the Center for Photographs fro…
Getty Museum Announces Exhibition of Still Life Photography
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center for Photographs from September…
J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby’s for Record $45.10 Million
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum
announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W
Turner’s
masterpiece painting Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The auction took place
at
Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday, July 7. One…