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For the Record
By fostering collaboration between art conservation and archival science—two historically distinct fields—practitioners can better protect cultural heritage
Seeing the Light
White in art is never just a blank slate
Mail Art Takes On the World
How Latinx and Latin American women led a revolution by mail
Building a Collection
Who chooses the artworks hanging in Getty's galleries? And why those?
An Artist, Histories, and Community: Coming Together Around Kerry James Marshall
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A Getty-led report brings the climate impact of exhibitions into focus
How Libraries Pave the Way for Future Scholars of African Art
Scholars’ collections help cultivate the next generation of researchers
Art World, Roxane Gay Is Ready to Discuss Your Grade
We asked acclaimed author and cultural critic Roxane Gay for her thoughts on the Guerrilla Girls—an anonymous art collective with a 40-year history—and how art activism can push museums, and the wider world, toward equity for all
Get Crafty with These Roman-Inspired Holiday DIYs
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- Fall 2024 (PDF)Only in the '60s; don't-miss PST art events; a visit to Van Gogh's psychiatric clinic
- Summer 2024 (PDF)Art and science collide; meet our head of sustainability; a weird world of dreams
- Spring 2024 (PDF)The Getty Villa turns 50; the mysteries of ancient mummy portraits; women in ancient Rome
- Winter 2024 (PDF)The Florentine Codex inspires a video game; LA's modern architecture gems; Sidney Felsen
- Fall 2023 (PDF)The Book of the Dead; Black Modernism; artists' intimate letters
- Summer 2023 (PDF)Alfredo Boulton's extraordinary life; shining a light on neon; new Entrance Hall artwork
- Spring 2023 (PDF)How visitors stay creative; the link between mental illness and creativity; Felipe Baeza
- Winter 2023 (PDF)Earthen architecture; Xerox art; Keisha Gu profile; Ancient Nubia in LA today
- Fall 2022 (PDF)Egyptomania; Getty's new CEO; the art of exhibition design; conserving Black modernism
- Summer 2022 (PDF)Highlights from the last 25 years; Getty Center timeline; looking forward to 2024
- Spring 2022 (PDF)Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World; ImagineRio; the Johnson Publishing Archive
- Winter 2022 (PDF)Destination Crenshaw; creating an inclusive photography collection; earthen architecture
- Fall 2021 (PDF)Dancer Blondell Cummings; the seductive art of Hans Holbein the Younger; plastic buildings
- Summer 2021 (PDF)The Fluxus archive of Jean Brown; a look back at Artemisia Gentileschi; a gem of a mystery
- Spring 2021 (PDF)Art and science at Pacific Standard Time; Paul Williams; protecting 20th-century sites
- Winter 2021 (PDF)Getty’s internship program; how to save rock art; Palmyra exhibition; Dutch drawings
- Fall 2020 (PDF)Preserving 20th-century architecture; Mesopotamia; Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Blvd.
- Summer 2020 (PDF)Help for artists during the pandemic; the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World
- Spring 2020 (PDF)Emmett Williams, Fluxus and concrete poetry pioneer; making plastic in the Getty lab
- Winter 2020 (PDF)Urbanization in Southeast Asia; the Mexican antiquities trade; Conserving Canvas grants
- Fall 2019 (PDF)2019 Getty Medal Winners; scholars research art & ecology; two Manet muses
- Summer 2019 (PDF)Feminist art; buried treasure from the Villa dei Papiri; protecting collections
- Spring 2019 (PDF)Celebrating the Bauhaus school; conserving the Eames House; the medieval bestiary
- Winter 2019 (PDF)Tutankhamen’s tomb; a Renaissance masterpiece; African American Art History Initiative
- Fall 2018 (PDF)Secrets of mummy portraits; prints and drawings curation, then and now; listening to wood
- Summer 2018 (PDF)Dedicated docents; the future of panel paintings; open-source community protects heritage
- Spring 2018 (PDF)Big changes at the Getty Villa; Q & A with Jeff Koons; protecting Herculaneum
- Winter 2018 (PDF)Getty Center at 20; the future of plastics; new acquisitions by Michelangelo, Rubens
