News

Fire could have destroyed the Getty’s irreplaceable art. Should the museum move?
In the wake of the Palisades fire, should Malibu's Getty Villa and the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood evacuate — for good?
ArtNews on MSN6d
The Getty Trust Is Selling $500 Million in Bonds for Increased Protection Against Natural Disasters
Following the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in California earlier this year, the Getty Trust has decided to sell $500 million ...
The Economist8h
Would you turn your home into a museum?
Opening these rooms and installing a few new galleries on the ground floor has yielded 30% more gallery space with just a 10% ...
Artnet News8d
The Getty Trust Will Sell $500 Million in Bonds to Beef Up Museum’s Fire Protections
The Getty Trust, which manages the Getty Villa and Getty Center in California, will sell $500 million in bonds to bolster ...
The Art Newspaper13d
Los Angeles wildfires put museum-lender relationships in spotlight
As fires approached the Getty and Norton Simon Museum campuses in early January, those museums’ leaders called far-away ...
Letters to the Editor: Relocating priceless Getty collections to downtown would not necessarily ensure their safety
Before encouraging the Getty Center and Getty Villa to move holdings to the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles, it would be wise to remember the fire that hit the Central ...
This Lagos museum is challenging the traditional ‘Eurocentric’ model
The John Randle Centre for Yoruba History and Culture is a bold and colorful challenge to traditional ideas of a what a ...
The Jewelry Lover’s Guide to Washington, DC
The nation’s capital is a surprisingly treasure-filled jewelry town. If you know where to look. Several years ago, when ...
Art Institute Of Chicago Returned A Sculpture To Nepal But Obscured Its Connection To A Wealthy Donor
The museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley, but it failed ...