Art & Architecture

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Eight Endangered Buildings Designed by Black Architects Awarded Getty Funding

White building with light blue trim on a lawn, with trees surrounding it.

In partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the grants will support conservation planning, training, and storytelling for modern sites

Find Love, Adventure, and Extraordinary Worlds in Tiny Manuscript Spaces

Medieval illustration showing robed men gathered around tomb of man and two women, with a man in blue robe shown three times reading a book, talking to a priest, and writing at a desk

Explore a 15th-century epic through dazzling illustrations

Horse Power: Our Favorite Equine Art

An unbridled selection of horses in the Getty Museum’s collections

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  1. Getty Presents Lumen: The Art and Science of Light

    An illuminated page of a group of men looking up above at an angel.

    From astrolabes and armillary spheres to contemporary sculpture, the exhibition traces humanity’s enduring fascination with light

    Aug 07, 2024

  2. Witnessing Winter with Hendrick Avercamp, the ‘Mute from Kampen’

    Drawing of Dutch townspeople in 17th-century garb skating, playing games, and moving goods on ice.

    It’s time to re-frame assumptions about this ‘Little Ice Age’ painter

    Aug 06, 2024

  3. Decadent Dining at a Royal Coronation

    A painting of a man in a long curly wig with an ermine robe

    Inside a historic, extravagant 17th-century feast

    Jul 30, 2024

  4. Getty Presents Exhibition Lineup for PST ART: Art & Science Collide

    A donut-shaped form covered in many lines, both straight and undulating, sit on a plain background. The scene fades from a cyan blue at the top to a burnt orange at the bottom, and is covered in many

    Exhibitions at the Getty Center explore connections between art and science from medieval times to the present day

    Jul 30, 2024

  5. Dragonflies and Drought

    Drawing of three dragonflies, with all wings and body parts clearly visible, and handwriting along the bottom of the page

    A 17th-century drawing records the migration of a dragonfly swarm and the weather conditions that might have triggered it

    Jul 24, 2024

  6. Why Is It Winter in So Many Dutch Paintings?

    Groups of people cavort on a frozen winter canal. They appear small compared to the large cold landscape.

    Blame the Ice Age… no, not that one

    Jul 18, 2024

  7. Eight Endangered Buildings Designed by Black Architects Awarded Getty Funding

    White building with light blue trim on a lawn, with trees surrounding it.

    In partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the grants will support conservation planning, training, and storytelling for modern sites

    Jul 18, 2024

  8. New Getty Podcast Asks: Why Is Cultural Heritage Worth Preserving?

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    Series considers what is gained by keeping the past present

    Jul 18, 2024

  9. Find Love, Adventure, and Extraordinary Worlds in Tiny Manuscript Spaces

    Medieval illustration showing robed men gathered around tomb of man and two women, with a man in blue robe shown three times reading a book, talking to a priest, and writing at a desk

    Explore a 15th-century epic through dazzling illustrations

    Jul 17, 2024

  10. Getty Presents Paper and Light

    Skeletons against a black background.

    Exhibition showcases how artists tackled the challenge of capturing effects of light in drawings

    Jul 17, 2024