Getty Villa’s survival offers wildfire tips for other museums
The Getty Villa’s survival during the Palisades Fire was a bright spot for many in Southern California, and now those who played key roles in saving the historic property are sharing what works—and ...
Fort Worth police confirm seizure of Sally Mann photos from museum, a move rarely seen
The four photos, by artist Sally Mann, were taken down from the show Diaries of Home weeks ago. But neither police nor museum ...
Portland Art Museum’s renovated space will unveil a brand new gallery dedicated to Black art
When the expanded Portland Art Museum opens later this year, this statement will no longer be true. The remodeled space will feature a complete restructuring of the museum’s galleries — including a ...
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Michelangelo’s Drawings for the Sistine Chapel Visit the U.S. for the First Time
Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...
New Exhibition at the Gibbes Museum of Art Traces The Similarities Between Art and Fashion — From the 1770s to the 2020s
Giving a fresh jolt to the blending of fashion and art, the Gibbes Museum of Art has unveiled “Statement Pieces: Contemporary ...
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17 employees helped save the Getty Villa from the fires. They're telling other museums how it was done
For the next 28 hours, Borsay and 16 other staffers organized themselves to supplement fire department efforts and along the way contributed to helping keep the Getty Villa and its priceless art ...
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Top 10 Museums in Los Angeles
The second-largest city in the United States is more than just sunny beaches, movie sets, and highways. Los Angeles is full ...
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Workers fight Getty fires
On Jan. 7, the day the Palisades Fire began, more than a dozen Getty staffers used emergency preparation tactics to help save the Getty Villa from going up in flames. Now, other museums want to know ...
National Portrait Gallery’s first female director: ‘Seeing what it means to young women is humbling’
Victoria Siddall, now in one of art’s most prestigious jobs, talks balancing family, work and the environmental impact of ...
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Imagining the Mona Lisa’s New Room
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic ...
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Alonzo Davis, Artist and Pioneering Gallerist Who Championed Black Art, Has Died
Alonzo Davis, the artist and educator who cofounded Los Angeles's storied African American stronghold the Brockman Gallery, ...
‘Galleries want comfortable social realism’: Why British art has a class problem
The ‘objectification’ of working-class life by outsiders has led to a century of ‘misrepresentation’. It’s time for a radical ...