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Mayan Codex, Americas’ Oldest Surviving Book, Goes on View in LA

by Rhea Nayyar October 24, 2022October 25, 2022

Dating to circa 1100 AD, the Mayan Codex is said to have been painted by a single artist, recording the movements of planet Venus over the course of 584 days.

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The Getty’s Five Most Popular Online Exhibitions Are Now Available in Spanish

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 19, 2021September 17, 2021

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, exhibitions on irises in art history, LGBTQ Pride, and more have been translated.

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A Resplendent Self-portrait by Tourmaline Enters Getty Collection

by Cassie Packard September 2, 2021September 2, 2021

In “Summer Azure,” Tourmaline rockets upward into a cloudy blue sky, holding an astronaut helmet to her head.

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Why Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s 1783 Portrait of a Mother Nursing Broke New Ground

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick June 27, 2021June 30, 2021

When Labille-Guiard exhibited the portrait at the Paris Salon, it was the only woman in the series. And she was breastfeeding.

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The Most Popular Art on the Getty Website in 2020

by Hakim Bishara December 7, 2020December 14, 2020

“Getty Wrapped 2020” — made in the style of Spotify’s “Wrapped” lists — offers insight into the most popular search terms for art lovers this year.

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Make the Getty’s Collection Your Own in Animal Crossing

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 21, 2020August 3, 2021

The Getty’s art generator is the latest tool to help players of the popular social simulation game create their own galleries and installations.

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The Internet Is Restaging Famous Paintings While Museums Are Closed

by Hakim Bishara March 30, 2020March 30, 2020

The Getty, Metropolitan Museum, and Rijksmuseum have challenged their followers to creatively recreate famous works in their collections.

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$3M Gauguin Sculpture Acquired by Getty Museum Deemed a Fake

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 28, 2020January 28, 2020

The museum, which purchased the work in 2002, has changed the attribution of the sculpture “Head with Horns” to “unknown.”

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A French History of Gold, Gilded, and Fancy Frames

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 23, 2015September 23, 2015

Walk into a gallery of 17th- or 18th-century French paintings and prepare to be blinded by the gilding that encircles each work like an overwrought halo.

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J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me

by Larissa Archer May 18, 2015May 21, 2015

LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”

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The Tale of Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Gentleman Daguerreotypist

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 23, 2015February 23, 2015

When the daguerreotype was introduced in 1839, some of the first to support this groundbreaking photographic process were the elite of Europe.

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Minor White’s Vulnerability

by Alicia Eler July 25, 2014July 25, 2014

LOS ANGELES — Minor White’s photographs offer a portrait of a life lived in collaboration with the natural world, other people, and the great beyond. This collection of crisp photographs make up the retrospective Manifestations of the Spirit.

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