The collection includes many images of the region as seen through a European lens and the Western gaze.
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Millions of Images From Ebony and Jet Magazines Will Soon Be Accessible to All
Ownership of the vast archives of the historical magazines has been formally transferred to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute.
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Claes Oldenburg, Whose Sculptures Transformed the Everyday, Dies at 93
Oldenburg seduced viewers with his iconic, foam-filled “soft sculptures” and massive public artworks that made mundane objects suddenly magical.
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Getty Acquires LA Bookseller’s Vast Black Art Archive
Whitney and Lee Kaplan’s collection includes some 3,500 artist’s books, catalogs, magazines, zines, and rare ephemera.
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How Artists Have Explored and Understood the Human Body Through Time
The Getty is exhibiting exquisite anatomical illustrations from the 16th century to the present.
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The Making of the Modern Latin American Metropolis
A new book explores the impact of rapid growth and industrialization on six major Latin American cities.
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The Sky’s the Limit as 50 Museums Join to Stream Yoko Ono-inspired Cloud Gazing
“TV to See the Sky,” streaming for 24 hours, marks this year’s summer solstice.
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The Father of French Journalism Who Documented Paris’s Socialist Revolution
For two months in 1871, the people took over the city, and photos by Bruno Braquehais depict the drama — and destruction — of the period.
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Getty Research Institute Presents L.A. Graffiti Black Book: Artists in Conversation
Five remarkable graffiti artists discuss their individual and communal art practices in this event highlighting a multi-vocal “master-piece” artists’ book.
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Lessons on Propaganda: Visualizing Empire Counters the Colonial Archive
The Getty volume is replete with vital lessons on studying and historicizing imperial ephemera.
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The Getty Revisits Ancient Palmyra, but the Modern City Is Mostly Invisible
Life in Palmyra did not stop in the third century but has gone on more or less continuously at the site for the 1,700 years since.
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Drive Along Sunset Boulevard With Ed Ruscha
The Getty Research Institute launched a website that allows you to hop in a vintage car and travel along the boulevard between 1965 and 2007.