Getty’s Emergency Planning Specialist Les Borsay arrived at the Getty Villa in Malibu. “This was not normally a day I would ...

The catastrophic blazes are expected to become the costliest wildfires ever in terms of insured losses, leading to concerns ...

The survival of the Getty Villa during the Palisades Fire was a bright spot for many in southern California, and now, those ...

oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from art experts ...

“There is no need to evacuate the art or archives because they are already in the safest place possible,” the article reads. The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of ...

The Center, which houses a sprawling collection of art in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a “marvel of anti-fire engineering.” The Villa, which focuses on ancient ...

Is the Getty Villa safe from the fires? The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving ...

The art galleries are located about 200 meters ... how to respond as the Pacific Palisades fire threatened the Getty Villa, a re-creation of a Roman villa on the Malibu coast.

It also houses Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity—some of which is partially held at its second campus, the Getty Villa. Days before the threat of fire reached ...

the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van G ...

"Getty staff, the art collections and buildings remain safe ... The fire threatened the separate Getty Villa, which also has special flame-resistant protections, earlier in the week.