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What Exactly Does a Registrar Do?
As senior registrar at the Getty Research Institute (GRI), Lora Chin Derrien keeps track of the “treasure trove” of archival collections that come through its doors
From Super-Nerd to Medievalist
Jump-started by her love of Renaissance faires and fantasy books, assistant curator of manuscripts Larisa Grollemond shares her passion for the Middle Ages with 21st-century audiences
The Art of Friendship
For over 50 years, photographer Sidney Felsen captured artists at work
Keep Calm and Care On
Conservators are learning to care for paintings damaged by disasters or conflicts through Getty training grants
Modern Architecture Needs Protecting Too
The next generation of conservators gathered in LA—an essentially 20th-century city—for a course in preserving newer gems of cultural heritage
Leave the Cracks, Patch the Hair, and Other Ways to Age Gracefully
Our staff photographer checks in on Getty’s project to restore Adam and Eve
But It’s Not That Old!
A Getty modern architecture conservation course has global reach
The Mysteries of Early Photography
Two 19th-century photographers beat the odds and kept their photographs from quickly fading or darkening—but how?
How to Merge with the Gods
Getty’s ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” manuscripts go on view for the first time
Shining a Light on Neon
The challenges of protecting neon art have plagued conservators for years. Getty aims to change that
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- 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
