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  1. What to Wear: The Art Museum Edition

    Woman wearing bright green top with long sleeves and large round fan-like embellishment on the front, also wearing sunglasses on her head and holding one hand up to her head

    We asked fashionable visitors at the Getty Center about their outfit inspiration

  2. Photography in the Time of Covid

    A house entryway with wide plank bleached wood floors, white walls, white doors, and two giant fake-looking planted plants that touch the ceiling on either side of the area where the entry opens out.

    Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic started, a rotation of photographs at the Getty Museum reflects on a time when the world shut down, but new ways of seeing emerged

  3. An Enlightened Approach to Preserving the Past

    Illustration of people in lab coats working with a machine, computer, and a painting

    See how the microfading tester helps conserve color in heritage objects

  4. And Now for the Female Gaze

    A close up, black and white, and softly lit photo of two girls kissing

    Cynthia MacAdams’s photographs show us what a freer future looks like

  5. The Colorful Geometry of Franklin D. Israel’s LA

    A cubic house of bold yellow, gray and brown colors with a low wooden fence sits on a curved street

    In the 1980s and ’90s, a small group of architects, including Franklin D. Israel, left a vibrant, playful mark on Los Angeles

  6. Reopening the Getty Villa Museum after the Palisades Fire

    People in an outdoor courtyard use sponges to clean dirt off an intricate mural painting

    Peek into the five-month cleanup and the effort to create an even more fire-resistant site

  7. The Little-Known History of a Lost Earthwork

    A bird’s-eye view of the oculus window surrounded by concentric circles of travertine and sitting at the center of the Getty Research Institute building.

    Andy Goldsworthy’s sculpture in the Getty Library was created to catch the light of the solstice—but then the unexpected struck

  8. Makers' Marks

    A signature painted in the corner of a painting hung with an ornate frame is camouflaged by the subject matter

    Getty curators explore the meaning behind artists’ signatures—those flamboyant, modest, or provocatively hidden final flourishes

  9. Can You Crack These Medieval Codes?

    Manuscript page with a grid showing the completed ffi letter, with owls wearing hats, tree branches, and purple drapes on both sides.

    Uncover the meanings behind symbols and signs found in medieval manuscripts

  10. In Search of the Stars (and Our Place in the Cosmos)

    person wearing brown coat standing overlooking green mountains, with text saying Season 4 Finale Inspired by PST Art: Art and Science Collide

    Becoming Artsy, Episode 405