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Architectural Record2y
The Getty Commits $3.1 Million to Conserve Modern Architecture by Black Designers
the Getty’s Conserving Black Modernism program will identify sites designated as Black modern architecture in the built environment and beyond, from museums to landscapes. “For more than a century, ...
archpaper1y
The Getty launches “first-of-its-kind” architecture course for preserving modern buildings in Los Angeles
The Eames House by Ray and Charles Eames (Evan Guston/Courtesy Getty) The Getty’s International Course on the Conservation of Modern Heritage is a component of the institution’s Conserving ...
Commentary: Fire could have destroyed the Getty's irreplaceable art. Should the museum move?
On the morning of Jan. 7, I was writing at my desk and just into paragraph 4 of a museum exhibition ... jokingly describe the ...
Getty Villa Museum to reopen in June following closure due to Palisades Fire
The Getty Villa Museum will reopen to the public on Friday, June 27, following a months-long closure due to the Palisades ...
The Globe and Mail4mon
Strategy and architecture helped L.A.’s storied Getty Museum survive the wildfires
As flames whip the Pacific Palisades, the storied Getty Villa museum has withstood the Los Angeles wildfires, preserving its 44,000-plus items thanks to strategy and architecture designed for ...
The New York Times4mon
Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection
Perched on a hilltop, the Getty Center is a popular ... the Westside neighborhood that houses the museum, for afternoons filled with European art, modern architecture and stunning views of the ...
AOL2mon
We asked if the Getty should move. Here's how readers responded
And let’s be honest, a large percentage of Getty visitors go to the two museums for the overall ambience of the architecture, the gardens, the reflecting pools and the view. The Hahn complex ...
Time Out2mon
Getty Center
pack a picnic and lay out a blanket on the museum’s sloping, south-facing lawn. Hilltop sunset views and rising bands combine to make this Getty tradition a worthy destination for Angelenos on ...
The Independent4mon
How the Getty Museum survived LA wildfires as the super-rich take note
The Getty Villa, separate from the main museum in Brentwood, was designed by Robert E Langdon Jr and Ernest C Wilson Jr, opened in 1974 and has since been renovated. Although it wasn’t in the ...
The New York Times1y
A Beacon of Modern Architecture Lands in the Desert
So instead the house will stand, its interior partly visible from the outside, more as an educational tool: a prototype of modern architecture ... Art Museum.Credit...J. Paul Getty Trust/Getty ...
Wall Street Journal4mon
The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.
Los Angeles Times2mon
Fire could have destroyed the Getty’s irreplaceable art. Should the museum move?
As the world’s richest arts organization, the Getty has the resources ... Baroque and early Modern art — where would they go? High-profile art museums are absent from East Los Angeles and ...