Listening to Edward Hopper’s Silence
How do you make a movie about Edward Hopper? The artist—famous for his haunting and enigmatic paintings such as Nighthawks and New York Movie—was conspicuously taciturn, speaking little about his work,...
View ArticleStudy and Play for Visiting Scholars at the Getty Research Institute
Getty Research Institute visiting scholars on the GRI's West Terrace Each year, the Getty Research Institute invites scholars and artists to work on projects that go hand in hand with a chosen theme....
View ArticleA New Look at Chinese Art
Autobiography (detail), Huai Su, Tang Dynasty. Handscroll, ink on paper, 28.3 x 755 cm. Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan For 25 years the Getty Research Institute has been...
View ArticleThe Getty Research Journal: Diverse, Collaborative, International
The third issue of the Getty Research Journal has just been published. Each year, the Journal presents new research on the Getty’s broad holdings and highlights the diverse interests of our staff and...
View ArticleThe Museum as Classroom: Q&A with Guest Scholar George Hein
George Hein, a leading authority on museum education whom the Museum’s Education Department invited as a guest scholar this spring, says that museums are inherently educational. The professor emeritus...
View ArticleA Visit to Thomas Demand’s Studio
During my work as a Multicultural Undergraduate Intern at the Getty this summer, I was invited to join colleagues from the Getty Research Institute on a visit to artist Thomas Demand’s studio in...
View ArticleCreating an Online Collaboration Tool for Scholars
Last month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an online collaboration tool for scholars that several of us in the...
View ArticleConnecting Seas: The Getty Research Institute in Manila
A gathering of scholars in the Philippines is an important step in the Research Institute’s goal to expand the horizons of art history Detail of the Philippine Islands as seen through a magnifying...
View ArticleThirty-Eight Scholars Will Visit the Getty to Study the Materials of Art and...
Now in its 30th year, the Getty Scholars Program announces 2015–16 scholars and fellows from the U.S., Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, and beyond 2014–15 scholars Monica Juneja, Matthew Robb, and Larry A....
View ArticleListening to Edward Hopper’s Silence
How do you make a movie about Edward Hopper? The artist—famous for his haunting and enigmatic paintings such as Nighthawks and New York Movie—was conspicuously taciturn, speaking little about his work,...
View ArticleInnovating Art History from Brazil to L.A. and Back
Last week the Getty Research Institute hosted a visitor from Brazil, Eliana de Azevedo Marques. She is chief librarian at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. We...
View ArticleStudy and Play for Visiting Scholars at the Getty Research Institute
Each year, the Getty Research Institute invites scholars and artists to work on projects that go hand in hand with a chosen theme. This year’s theme is The Display of Art, a broad, deep topic examining...
View ArticleA New Look at Chinese Art
For 25 years the Getty Research Institute has been inviting scholars from around the world to visit, do research, and ask provocative questions. During his recent stay, Zhu Qingsheng (LaoZhu), director...
View ArticleThe Getty Research Journal: Diverse, Collaborative, International
The third issue of the Getty Research Journal has just been published. Each year, the Journal presents new research on the Getty’s broad holdings and highlights the diverse interests of our staff and...
View ArticleArtist-in-Residence Analia Saban Investigates Art and Materiality
Analia Saban, the 2015–16 Getty Research Institute artist in residence, never stops exploring. An industrial laser cutter, a darkroom, and a sledgehammer are only a few of the tools in her Santa Monica...
View ArticleGamifying an Ancient Sea: Gods, Promises, and Digital Humanities
Can digital techniques—brought to bear on images, texts, and inscriptions—help us enter the lives and the minds of those who sailed an ancient sea? We’d like to think so! For the past two years, I’ve...
View ArticleArtist-in-Residence Fiona Tan Uses Getty Collections to Develop Her Next...
Fiona Tan—photographer, video artist, writer, and director—is the 2016-17 Getty Research Institute artist in residence. Her time at the Getty coincides with the Scholars Program research theme Art and...
View ArticleThree Points of View on Pursuing Research with the Getty’s Conservation...
Each year the Getty offers grants to support short-term research using collections and resources in our library and archives. In 2018 these grants were expanded for the first time to provide...
View ArticleCreating a Digital Museum to Memorialize America’s Slave Past
Scholar James Young once posed this provocative question: How does a nation memorialize a past it might rather forget? Art historian Renée Ater is exploring this question by researching 25 monuments to...
View ArticlePaper People: Reflections from Emerging Curators of Prints and Drawings
Prints and drawings often make up large portions of museum collections. These works on paper help curators understand an artist’s process, or provide clues to new connections among artists and their...
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