Getty Art + Ideas
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Getty Art + Ideas
Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflective and critical conversations about architecture, archaeology, art history, and museum exhibitions.
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Introducing If Objects Could Talk, a Podcast for Kids and Their Families
Check out Getty’s first podcast for kids and their families, If Objects Could Talk!
Listen as artifacts leave the museum vault and come a...
Recurrent: The Recipe of Us
Discover Getty’s latest podcast, ReCurrent, a series about what we gain by keeping the past present.
In the debut episode, host and producer Jai...
Recording Artists: Robert Rauschenberg
Check out the newest season of Recording Artists, hosted by actor, artist, and futurist Ahmed Best. Explore the Getty archives and learn about the inn...
Recording Artists: Frida Kahlo
Enjoy this episode from season 2 of Getty's other podcast, Recording Artists. This series features materials from Getty's archives. This season, title...
Trailer—Recording Artists Season 2
In Season 2 of Getty's podcast series Recording Artists, titled Intimate Addresses, each episode unpacks one letter from one artist, including Marcel...
Art and Poetry: Recording Everyday Life
“I think you can see that from my work, that I try to put everything I know in there and everything I don’t know. I’m looking for stuff that I don’t k...
Art and Poetry: How to Witness the World
“What I tell my students—and most of them are writers—is that the only way for them to get to a place where they’re making what they should be making,...
Art and Poetry: Connecting Stories at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
“African American history is American history. You can’t tell it without talking about the contributions, the questions, the very heart of the creativ...
Cultural Heritage Under Attack: The United Nations and Uyghur China
“Culture isn’t just dead stones and statues; culture is life. Culture is, you know, all the ways in which we move and interact together as peoples.”
Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Monuments and War Zones
“Protecting cultural heritage, like protecting civilians directly, had strategic import.”
How does the presence of a cultural heritage site on t...
Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Who Defines Heritage?
“The society we now live in has been, in large measure, accomplished by destroying the cultural heritage of previous generations at various moments.”<...
Mindfulness in the Museum: Art for Mental Wellbeing
"I know we call them art museums, but I think they’re really wellbeing centers, because people are coming in—maybe they don’t know that’s what’s about...
Mindfulness in the Museum: Healing through Mindfulness
“The museums give us these just incredible opportunities to have some kind of an encounter with different ways of seeing the world, shining a light on...
Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide
“Mindfulness, for me, enables me to experience an art museum as if I’m listening to music. To just listen, attend to how all these objects make me fee...
The Art of Gardening: California Native Plants
“Whenever I take people in there, I say—and it’s not a very large room—I say, ‘You’re now in the presence of millions and millions and millions of liv...
The Art of Gardening: Tomatomania!
“I’m after the charm of tomatoes. I’m after the history of tomatoes. Just obviously, appeal and taste and all of that. But if I can tie it up all in o...
The Art of Gardening: Storytelling with Plants at Disneyland
“What it is that we do at Disneyland is tell stories. And the horticulture is a work of art helping to tell the story.”
At Disneyland, elaborate...
Reflecting on 25 Years of the Getty Center
“I was there for the groundbreaking of the Getty Center. I was there for opening day of the Getty Center. I think for a lot of people, it said LA has...
Black Photographers Represent Their World
“There was a lotta negativity because there was just pictures of Black people. That was one of the critiques, that we just photographed Black people....
Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles
"You know, everything is not just red, yellow, blue, and coming from a tube. It can be anything out there in the world. Grab it and use it."
In...
Uta Barth’s Atmospheric Photographs
“The camera sort of teaches you to see in a really different way and to experience your environment in a different way, and to pay attention to the ac...
Imagining the Afterlife through Ancient Vases
“The underworld, the afterlife, is fairly dank, dark, shadowy; quite frankly, it’s a bit boring. Somewhat like waiting at a bus depot.”
Homer’s...
Damaged de Kooning on Display at Last
“I had heard the tale and knew what to expect, but it was by far the most damaged painting I had seen. When it arrived, it came into the studio and th...
Galley Slavery in 17th-Century France
"There’s been an assumption that any person who stepped foot on French territory in the metropole went free. In fact, enslaved Turks did not go free;...
Art, Luxury, and Power in Ancient Iran
“This interconnection between Greek tradition and science and mathematics, and the Babylonian traditions in astronomy and all these other very technic...
Photographer Imogen Cunningham Gets Her Due
“When Cunningham passed away, I think in part her reputation was based on her personality, the fact that she had lived so long, the fact that she was...
The Art of Anatomy from the 16th Century to Today
"Berengario’s books show animated cadavers and skeletons set in a landscape, often so animated that they’re displaying their own dissecting bodies to...
Reflecting on Feminist Curator Marcia Tucker’s Boundary-Breaking Career
"It’s why she started a museum, because people said, 'You’re crazy. You can’t do that. Nobody does that without a collection, without money. You can’t...
Gala Porras-Kim Makes Art of Interrogation
"When I look at the law and also museum policy, it’s just so close to conceptual art making. You have a lot of material and you’re just trying to defi...
Poussin and the Dance Shines New Light on French Painter
"One of the hopes of this exhibition was really to try to enlist visitors’ bodily experience in their understanding of these works of art that can som...
Protecting Modernist Architecture for Generations to Come
"You look at the thinking behind the creation of the building, but then also at the material needs. And you merge the two to really build an in-depth...
California Leisure Sites Pioneered by African Americans
"The reason why African Americans began these places of leisure and relaxation in the outdoors was because they were excluded from going to the white...
The Extraordinary Career of Artemisia Gentileschi
“If anything, a sense of self, a sense of destiny, the fact that she belonged among the greats, was a defining mark of Artemisia’s personality.”
...
The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Maya Carving
“Lamb’s objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. And he needed a lost city as a selling point.”
In 1950, American adv...
Peter Paul Rubens and the Arts of Antiquity
"I think it just shows very well how Rubens worked, how he got the inspiration from antiquity, but he transforms it into something completely new and...
Conserving Bagan in a Time of Uncertainty
“Bagan is actually a splendid site. You can imagine in only in this, like, fifty square kilometers, they have more than 3,000 monuments. And then all...
Inside LA’s Most Iconic Modernist Home, Case Study House #22
"Buck wanted to stand in every room from his house, turn his head, and see every view. Even the bathroom. And so that was kind of what inspired the de...
Hans Holbein the Younger’s Captivating Portraits
“Holbein was able to combine his ability to create a very believable likeness with these strong design sensibilities, and also an ingenuity, a clevern...
The Trailblazing Career of Spanish Baroque Sculptor Luisa Roldán
“She was not afraid. She wasn’t daunted. I think that’s one of the key differentiators about her and her career.”
Sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–17...
The Recovery and Conservation of a Stolen de Kooning
“We hear the security guards talking to one another on the walkie-talkie, saying that there’s a man on the line saying that he has a stolen painting....