Art & Architecture

Stories about our collections, exhibitions, and the creative process

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  1. Recipe for Success

    Three people pull a plastic sheet away from an unstretched canvas painting laid on a table.

    Scientists and conservators are using a Getty grant to reinvent a crucial art conservation material

  2. Inside the Guerrilla Girls

    A group of ten people wearing gorilla masks, posing against and climbing up a city fence.

    A new Getty show celebrates 40 years of an anonymous collective’s activism against inequity in the art world

  3. When Seashells, Ferns, and Seaweed Went Viral

    Two cyanotype photographic prints featuring ferns and algae.

    Why Victorian women like photographer Anna Atkins obsessed over natural collectibles

  4. Who Was the Original Master of Gore?

    A black and white photograph of a man with slicked back hair, wearing a suit and smoking, with a large bat shadow behind him

    This Spanish painter’s later works were extremely dark

  5. Fotógrafos latinoamericanos

    A black and white photograph of a barefooted boy carrying bags as he walk past a store front window

    De las calles de Ciudad de México a las pampas argentinas, estas fotografías detienen en el tiempo lugares, vidas, generaciones y oficios que no se pueden replicar

  6. Latin-American Photographers

    A black and white photograph of a barefooted boy carrying bags as he walk past a store front window

    From the streets of Mexico City to the Argentine Pampas, these photographs capture moments in lives, generations, and professions that cannot be replicated

  7. A Seat at the Table

    A white-bordered color photograph of four people eating under a fringed pool cabana, with three looking at the camera while one holds out a bell.

    In their photograph series Being There, artists Lee Shulman and Omar Victor Diop wanted to give viewers “moments to dream, to question, to project their own stories”

  8. Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

    Purple flowers with bright green leaves and stems.

    For journalists, a frequently updated list with press contacts for current and upcoming exhibitions at the Getty Center and Getty Villa Museum

  9. He's the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Middle Ages

    A close up of an illuminated manuscript page with an inset illustration of a giant monster with two people in its mouth, and a nude man begging an angel to its left.

    A medieval Halloween carol

  10. Celebrating the Breadth of Black Art in Brazil

    A person in a small office flips through art books while seated at a desk

    How one art historian is expanding the narrative of art history