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From Green Umber to Azurite, Walnut Oil to Egyptian Sandstone, Reference...
The Getty Conservation Institute’s expansive Reference Collection of Artist Materials includes well over 15,000 samples of materials used in art and the art-making process, and is still growing. Art...
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A Big Lift for América Tropical
A canopy to protect the mural América Tropical, weighing 73,000 pounds and boasting an impressive 90-foot span, is lifted aloft by a construction crane and set into place. Construction for the shelter,...
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Mars Rover Technology Helps Unlock Art Mysteries
Giacomo Chiari, head of the science department at the Getty Conservation Institute, examines the painting on the west wall in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Photo: Lori Wong (c) J. Paul Getty Trust This...
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Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger Advises “Don’t Squeeze Out All the Fresh...
Goldberger Talks Contemporary Buildings in Historic Settings, Design Controls, and His Favorite Contemporary Architecture Ahead of a May 21 Symposium at the Getty Paul Goldberger Writer Paul Goldberger...
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The Eames House – Conserving a California Icon
Eames House, the iconic landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture built in 1949 by husband-and-wife design team Ray and Charles Eames. At the base of a coastal hill in Los Angeles, alongside a...
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Getty Conservation Institute Releases Critical New Resource for Conserving...
Based on a decade of research, a new digital publication offers science-based techniques to identify how photographs were made Alfred Stieglitz’s The Hand of Man (negative 1902, print about 1933), an...
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What’s in a Wood? How Science Helps to Reveal the Eames’ Vision
Eames House, the iconic landmark of mid-20th-century modern architecture built in 1949 by husband-and-wife design team Ray and Charles Eames. Photo: The Getty Conservation Institute Exciting things...
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Inside the Bulla Regia Model Field Project | Getty Voices
An ambitious project to preserve an entire ancient Roman structure reaches a major milestone From the first to the fifth centuries A.D., the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis—a portion of which is...
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Rings of Fire: Research at Synchrotron Facilities
Conservation scientists spend sleepless nights to gain insight It’s well after midnight, and Getty Conservation Institute scientists are still at work—not in Los Angeles, but at a synchrotron radiation...
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Letting Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” Speak for Itself
At the Getty Center: Installation of Jackson Pollock’s Mural, 1943. Oil and casein on canvas, 95 5/8 x 237 3/4 in. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6. Reproduced...
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Three Cameras, One Painting—Pollock’s “Mural” on Video
To tell the story of Jackson Pollock’s monumental work, filmmakers drew inspiration from the painting itself Behind the scenes during production of videos about Jackson Pollock’s Mural. Painted 1943,...
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Ksours and Kasbahs
A historic complex of earthen buildings in Morocco is the subject of a collaborative conservation project Home to a rich tradition of buildings constructed in earth, Southern Morocco is an important...
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A Hidden Rembrandt Has Been Digitally Reconstructed in Color
New study presents detailed view of the mysterious figure that lies beneath a Rembrandt masterpiece An Old Man in Military Costume, about 1630–31, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. Oil on panel, 25 7/8 x...
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Artist Grimanesa Amorós on the Value of Public Art
Public art isn’t just bronze sculpture any more. Take the site-specific installations of contemporary artist Grimanesa Amorós, found in public spaces from Tel Aviv to Mexico City. They combine...
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Artist William Pope.L on Humor, Race, and God
In advance of a conference on public art, keynote speaker Pope.L takes our questions about his practice and the future of his work Obi Sunt (Production Image from the making of Obi Sunt), 2015, William...
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Managing the Details: Coordinating Field-Based Conservation Projects
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Getty Conservation Institute, and we’re celebrating by looking back at some of the accomplishments, work, and events that have shaped us. Luann Manning...
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35,000-Year-Old Rock Art, Now in 3D
A talk with the producer of the new documentary film The Final Passage, screening December 4 at the Getty Center Drawing of lions and a bison in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave, France. Rup’Art Productions...
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