News flashed around the British press and social media early Friday morning of an unusually clever fundraising gambit: the joint acquisition by London’s National Portrait Gallery and Los Angeles’ J.
The institutions will jointly acquire the painting, with plans to send the work back and forth between the U.S. and U.K. Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Omai on the move at Tate Britain. Photo: Matthew ...
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has made a major acquisition: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia (ca. 1627), a striking portrait of an ancient Roman noblewoman pictured moments before she stabs herself ...
Around 1340 or 1345, when he was painting the two multipanel private altarpieces now at the center of a captivating new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Paolo Veneziano — Paul the Venetian — ...
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The Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles are closed to visitors as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but art lovers can visit the museum’s collection virtually, in a way, through Animal ...
Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and ...
In an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià, a Princeton-educated antiquities dealer, the Manhattan district attorney’s office detailed what it described as decades of illicit transactions. By Colin ...