FeatureMuseums & Heritage
The show must go on: what American curators are up to in isolation
How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out
NewsJ. Paul Getty Museum
Bedevilled: multi-million Getty Gauguin is a fake
Museum probably paid at least $3m for the widely exhibited sculpture of a horned devil, but the misattributed work may have been made by a Polynesian artist for the European market
NewsObituaries
Stephen Garrett, inaugural director of the Getty and the Hammer, has died, aged 96
“Bon vivant” took over at museum villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976
PreviewExhibitions
Michelangelo drawings head (Mid)West for Cleveland show
The exhibition, which includes a preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, will also travel to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
NewsConservation & Preservation
Getty plans sweeping $100m initiative to promote the world’s cultural heritage
Projects will range from exhibitions about the classical world to conservation and excavations and a book about “heritage and mass atrocities”
NewsPacific Standard Time
Next edition of Pacific Standard time looks at the intersection of art and science
The Getty-led PST: Art x Science x LA is due to be held in 2024
NewsConservation & Preservation
Stolen in 1985, a recovered de Kooning will undergo conservation treatment
University of Arizona Museum of Art will send its painting, damaged by the thief, to the Getty
News
Italian court says Getty Museum must surrender prized bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth
The Los Angeles institution counters that it will keep on fighting to maintain the linchpin of its collection
NewsExhibitions
The Getty’s Renaissance Nude explores issues of power and sexuality—but don’t expect a #metoo reckoning
The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says
News
Antiquity gets a fresh twist at revamped Getty Villa
New displays draw out connections between Graeco-Roman world and ancient Middle East
PreviewExhibitions
A golden age in the Americas when even artists were 'spoils of war'
Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals
NewsConservation & Preservation
Pastels: the 18th century’s answer to Photoshop
Getty show explores the versatility of the medium
News
The Getty, the world’s richest museum, hunts for wealthy patrons
Some are concerned that new fundraising drive will lure donors from other Los Angeles institutions
Analysis
The top ten museum acquisitions of 2017
We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year
ArchiveRestitution
Turkey turns up the heat on foreign museums as list of antiquities demanded gets longer
More exhibitions are hit by the loans boycott as Turkey pushes for restitution
ArchiveGoudstikker
J.Paul Getty Museum vows to return piece from Goudstikker collection
However, the whereabouts of many works of art from the collection are still unknown
ArchiveRestitution
Armenian restitution claims grow
Getty case may be tip of the iceberg
ArchiveAmerican Museums
It is time major US museums stopped the illicit collecting of antiquities: the trials and the consequences
Following trials of Giacomo Medici, Robert Hecht, and Marion True
ArchiveIlluminated manuscripts
An exhibition at the Getty Museum and the V&A reveals how an illuminated manuscript mystery was solved
Scholars have reassembled the Hours of Louis XII
ArchiveBooks
Man Ray photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series
ArchiveBooks
Jane Bassett and Peggy Fogelman, Looking at European sculpture: a guide to technical terms
A useful guide to European sculpture terminology
ArchiveManuscripts
The Getty acquires “The fates of illustrious men and women” by the Boucicaut Master
Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable
ArchiveBooks
Updated Getty Museum illustrated catalogue
Charissa Bremer-David et al Decorative Arts: an illustrated summary catalogue of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum
CommentLeaders
Is contemporary art the kale of the art world?
The rise in popularity of the green vegetable mirrors that of contemporary art
George Goldner