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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits
Few people may know the names of Shunk-Kender, but the pair of photographers behind that hyphenated moniker have captured many of the most famous images of post-war modern and contemporary art in Paris and New York and together they documented many ephemeral events that would’ve been lost to history if it were not for their work.
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LA Museum Drama: MOCA Goes Full Deitch, LACMA Lays Off Staff
LA MOCA has fired Paul Schimmel Paul Schimmel quits LA MOCA? (according to Jeffrey Deitch), LACMA is reducing its hours and cutting staff, and the Getty cut jobs last month. Pull yourself together, LA!
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Should Museum Acquisitions Come at the Expense of their Education Departments?
Earlier this month, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that it was cutting 34 jobs in its museum division. In and of itself, this wasn’t huge news; despite the absurdly booming art market, the national economy continues to sag, meaning museums have to contend with smaller endowments and less generous donors. But while museum cuts are nothing new, the Getty case is notable because of the fact that the cuts fall almost entirely on the institution’s education department.