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The Getty Museum Just Acquired the Recently Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi Painting That Set a New Record at Auction

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has made a major acquisition: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia (ca. 1627), a striking portrait of an ancient Roman noblewoman pictured moments before she stabs herself ...
LAist

The Guerrilla Girls took on the art world in ape masks. Now they’re in a Getty exhibition

The anonymous feminist collective known for calling out museums for discrimination has an exhibition at the Getty. That doesn ...
Yahoo

What is the Getty Villa? What to know about famous museum threatened by Palisades Fire

One of Los Angeles' most prized gems is at risk from the raging Palisades Fire, with flames seen on the iconic Los Angeles property. Aerial footage and images showed the fast-growing fire approaching ...
Los Angeles Times

Getty loses in Italy’s Supreme Court. What does that really mean for the museum’s prized ‘Victorious Youth’?

Italy’s version of the Supreme Court has ruled that one of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s most prized antiquities — the 2,000-plus-year-old Greek artwork known as “Statue of a Victorious Youth,” or the ...
Artnet

The Getty Museum Closes Its Doors as Wildfires Rage in California, But Says the Art Is Safe Inside Its Fireproof Building

Threatened by wildfires just north of Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum has closed its doors to the public to make way for firefighters. The blaze, known as the Getty fire, ignited at about 1:30 a ...
Los Angeles Magazine

The Getty Unveils Guerrilla Girls Exhibition

Getty’s new exhibit honors 40 years of Guerrilla Girls activism with newly commissioned works and archival material.
LAist

Director of the Getty Museum steps down

The Getty Museum announced Thursday that its director is leaving the job at the end of this month. Four years into his five-year contract, Michael Brand has decided to resign from daily operations at ...
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Getty Trust Adds Glenn Lowry and Lionel Sauvage to Board of Trustees

The J. Paul Getty Trust has appointed Glenn D. Lowry, the former director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and Lionel M. Sauvage, a French philanthropist and collector, to its board of trustees.
Los Angeles Times

Getty museum closes because of fire, but ‘the safest place for the art is right here,’ spokesman says

The Getty Center has closed for the day because of wildfires burning across the 405 Freeway, but officials say the flames pose no immediate danger to the museum’s art. “The safest place for the art is ...
New York Post

Gauguin sculpture at Getty Museum revealed to be fake

The devil is in the details. A satanic statuette long thought to be made by post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin is a fake, it has been revealed. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which is ...
The New York Times

Italy Still Wants the Getty Bronze, and Perhaps More

ROME — Even as the Italian government and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles continue their decades-long legal battle over ownership of a prized bronze statue, the Italian culture ministry this ...