Art & Architecture

Stories about our collections, exhibitions, and the creative process

Featured Stories

Bold Lines and Nude Sunbaths

A modernist white house with clean lines and a cement driveway sits on a cliff with mountains and a blue sky behind it.

When European modernism met a California health nut

A Forgotten Modernist Reclaimed: Leopold Fischer’s California Legacy

Discover the work of this little-known architect, whose oeuvre includes Weimar-era social housing and quietly influential domestic architecture in Los Angeles

Honoring India’s Modern Heritage

How modernist architecture in India is being preserved for posterity

Latest

  1. A Podcast-Inspired Tour for Families

    A person with four children walk through a large, painted outdoor corridor with columns, smiling and jumping.

    A new way for kids and parents to experience the Getty Villa

    Nov 6, 2025

  2. How to Make a Medieval Pocket

    A woman with an excited expression points to a pouch with a floral pattern that is attached to her belt loop, while the text "How to Make a Medieval Pocket" is laid on top of a blue background

    Becoming Artsy, Season Five, Episode One

    Nov 6, 2025

  3. Saving Lost Feminist Video Letters

    Back of a person facing a wall of video screens and other technological equipment

    A Getty conservator preserves rare pieces of guerrilla media

    Nov 4, 2025

  4. Husband-and-Wife Companion Portraits Join the Getty Collection

    painted portrait of a bearded man sitting on an armchair and next to it, a painted portrait of a woman with upswept hair sitting on an armchair

    Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin was renowned for his striking likenesses

    Oct 31, 2025

  5. The Personal Side of the Johnson Publishing Company

    Black and white photo of a large group of people posing in front of a building with the sign "Johnson Publishing Co. Inc"

    The “JPC,” publisher of Ebony, Jet, and other magazines celebrating the Black American community, took good care of its staff, too

    Oct 30, 2025

  6. Sixty-Five Feet Under

    Explore haunting photographs of Paris’s Catacombs

    Oct 29, 2025

  7. Why I Was Late to the Office

    A vintage photo postcard of a prairie fire in Dallas, South Dakota, with the text, "A midnight view of the Tripp Co, Prairie Fire. Dallas. S.D. Copyright by S. Downey."

    Photo postcards were the social media posts of the early 20th century

    Oct 28, 2025

  8. Getty Strengthens its Collection with New Acquisitions

    Silhouette of a child jumping off a structure with a light background.

    Recent additions bolster Getty’s holdings of antiquities, drawings, sculptures, and photographs

    Oct 27, 2025

  9. Inside the Guerrilla Girls’s Collective Practice

    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

    Oct 22, 2025

  10. 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

    Oct 22, 2025