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…
J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby’s for a 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 of the great…
The Getty Museum opens Captured Emotions ~ Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575-1725
Los Angeles, CA – Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619) and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino (1557–1602) and Annibale (1560–1609) Carracci, together brought about a revolution in the study and practice of painting that fore…
Getty Museum Explores the Tradition of Socially Concerned Reportage
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the decades following World War II, an independently minded and critically engaged form of photography began to gather momentum. Situated between journalism and art, its practitioners created extended photographic essays that delve…
Getty Museum Puts Monumental Greek Red-Figure Krater on View
LOS
ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty
Museum announced the installation
of the Gela Krater in the permanent collection galleries at the J. Paul
Getty
Museum at the Getty Villa. The loan of this celebrated object is part of
a
long-ter…