The Recovery and Conservation of a Stolen de Kooning
“We hear the security guards talking to one another on the walkie-talkie, saying that there’s a man on the line saying that he has a stolen painting. ...
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Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflective and critical conversations about architecture, archaeology, art history, and museum exhibitions.
A Century of Change for Latin American Metropolises, 1830–1930
“The metropolis is not just the city; it’s the mother city. It has a fundamental role in defining the history of these countries that we discussed in ...
Fluxus, Change, and the Nature of Art
"Everything was made of the most familiar objects. It could’ve been taken off a desk or a kitchen counter or something, and put into action. They were...
Japanese Calligraphy Albums as/and Fragments
“To really read into the fragment that you have in front of you and to imagine the rest of what was the whole text is really romantic and an enjoyment...
Riffing on Rubens in the Spanish Americas
“You could easily say ‘I can’t believe Rubens held such sway deep into the 18th century in Latin America as a touchpoint. Wow. That’s profound.’ But t...
Edmund de Waal’s Letters to Camondo
“When you pick an object up, not only do you begin to understand how it was made, it’s facture, the people who made it, but you can also, I think, beg...
New Narratives by LA Photographers of All Ages
“Photography, historically, has been used to pin people of color in a particular location to a particular identity or stereotype, and the artists in t...
A Walk in Robert Irwin’s Getty Garden
“He often said is that this was a garden not for the visitors. He was happy if visitors enjoyed it; it was a garden for the people who worked here, wh...
William Blake’s Eccentric Arts
“For Blake, visionary art is not mysterious or fuzzy or soft. Visionary art is something which actually very precise and crisp.” Painter, poet, drafts...
Photographer Dorothea Lange’s California, Then and Now
“It was really powerful to be on the road following her footsteps. It just gave me an incredibly profound respect for her grit.” In the 1930s and ‘40s...