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Mapplethorpe Boosts Getty Attendance to 2+ Million
Self-portrait. 1988, Robert Mapplethorpe, platinum print. Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; parti…
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Weird Day in Restitutionville
An Armenian church wants the Getty to return seven T'oros Roslin bible pages, claiming they were stolen. ( TMZ had it before the L.A. Times , a…
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The Summer of Michelangelo and Velazquez
New York's Metropolitan Museum has just announced that this Velazquez is authentic — again. It was thought to be autograph, and a self-portrait …
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The Man Who Invented Postmodernism
The Getty's Paul Outerbridge show makes an unintentional(?) case for its subject as the man who invented everything postmodern, and did it in bla…
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Free Parking at the Getty
The Getty website is announcing a new policy of free parking Saturday nights after 5 PM at the Getty Center. It starts July 1, when the normal parki…
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U.K. Bars Export of Getty's $10 Million Rubens
Britain has placed a temporary export bar on a Rubens drawing the Getty wants to buy. Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban , a 1609 oil sketch on…
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Getty Scores Venus and Faun
Th e Los Angeles Times is reporting that the Getty has just bought two life-size bronze casts of the Medici Venus and Dancing Faun , created in 17…
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Getty Acquires a Quentin Metsys
The Getty Museum has acquired a newly discovered Quentin Metsys, Christ as the Man of Sorrows (1520s). The painting, long in a German collection, h…
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Getty Raises Parking to $15
Effective July 1, both Getty Museum sites are raising their parking fees from $10 to $15, for reasons not hard to fathom. As the Los Angeles Times n…
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"Golden Kingdoms" at the Getty
Burial Mask in jade, copper, gilded copper, shell, and violet stone, 525-550. Moche. Museo de Sitio Chan Chan, Huanchaco, Peru. Photo: Christopher B.…
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UK Greenlights Getty Acquisition: "Two Boys With a Bladder"
Britain has granted an export license for Joseph Wright of Derby's Two Boys with a Bladder , a painting sought by the Getty Museum since early …
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Another Matched Set for the Getty
The Getty Museum has acquired an 18th-century desk organizer — originally made to sit atop a small, ornate desk long in the museum's collection. …
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A Symbolist "Sinner" at the Getty
The Getty Museum is showing Maurice Denis' The Sinner (1894), a loan from an unnamed private collection. Only the haloed figure at far left betr…
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Meléndez Paints Oranges and Entropy
The Getty Museum has put on view Luis Meléndez's Oranges, Nuts, Spices, Boxes of Sweetmeats, a Jug, and a Cask on a Table (1760s), a loan from …
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Mapplethorpe Boosts Getty Attendance to 2+ Million
Self-portrait. 1988, Robert Mapplethorpe, platinum print. Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; parti…
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Getty Plans Show on Rubens & Antiquity
Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian Boar Hunt , 1611-12 The Getty is planning an exhibition on Peter Paul Rubens' engagement with the Classical pas…
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The Getty's Big Buy
The Getty Museum has purchased 16 major European drawings and a Watteau painting ( The Surprise ) from an unnamed and clearly discerning British coll…
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J. Paul Getty, the Playboy Philosopher
From 1961 through 1965, J. Paul Getty wrote a column for Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine. Getty (and/or his ghostwriter) had almost nothing to sa…
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Getty Adds a Vilhelm Hammershøi
The Getty Museum has acquired Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with an Easel , Bredgade 25 (1912), a painting that was auctioned at C…
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Getty Buys a Veit Stoss; Seeks a Wright of Derby
The Getty Museum has acquired a 13-inch Corpus Christi (1490s) by Late Gothic German sculptor Veit Stoss. It sold for £1.14 million at Sotheby'…
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