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From dusty bedroom to the Getty Museum: Long-lost de Kooning painting is back on exhibit
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShortly after 9 a.m. on Tuesday, a worker at the J. Paul Getty Museum put the finishing touches in...
Scarlet fever: exploring our fascination with blood
Plus via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn medieval Europe, blood was a fascination; frightening, powerful, mysterious. Centuries later, the bright red liquid pulsing through our bodies...
Getty Museum in LA to return illegally exported art to Italy
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is returning ancient sculptures and other works of art that...
Fact check: False claim that thousands of children are being held beneath the Getty Museum
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe claim: Thousands of children are being held under the Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Museum in southern California is renowned for its design and art collections, but a claim circulating ...
European court upholds Italy's right to seize prized Greek bronze from Getty Museum, rejects appeal
Associated Press via AOL· 2 months agoA European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul...
See gorgeous ancient Egyptian 'mummy portraits' from nearly 2 millennia ago
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis portrait, painted between A.D. 150 and 200 on wood, shows a young woman with brown doe eyes, a...
European court affirms Italy's right to seize ancient bronze statue from LA's Getty Museum
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe statue, a life-sized bronze believed to date from 300-100 B.C., was purchased by the Getty in...
US, UK galleries buy masterpiece 'Portrait of Mai' for $62M
AP Finance via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoOne of the earliest portraits of a person of color by a British artist will remain on public display...
Review: A striking Danish art show at the Getty unpacks what it means to be a nation in turmoil
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAlmost five years ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a very beautiful, very strange painting by a 19th century Danish artist not widely known outside Northern Europe. The museum’s recently ...
Getty to return illegally excavated Orpheus sculptures, some great antiquities, to Italy
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a culturally significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens,” some of the ...