if the museum suffers earthquake tremors, the pieces don’t risk toppling. For now, all the Getty’s art at both locations appears to be riding out the ongoing disaster in surreal silence.
As part of the Getty Trust, the museum features European paintings ... It also houses Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity—some of which is partially held at ...
The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage ... Besides, this way the Greek historian and former provost of New York University can more easily confer with the remnant ...
Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two ... The Villa, which focuses on ancient Greek and Roman art, also has a well-tuned anti-fire protocol that kept it intact amid the devastation ...
A Swiss art dealer sued the Getty Museum for $77 million, claiming that after it helped rehabilitate the museum’s bad reputation for buying looted art, the Getty iced it out of a deal it brokered to ...
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 ...
The fast-moving wildfire has so far burned vegetation at the Pacific Palisades museum but not the building.
It was called a “marvel of anti-fire engineering” – the Getty Centre ... including 44,000 works of art and Greek and Roman antiquities, remain safe and perfectly preserved.
“We have taken such care to make sure that the galleries themselves are actually pretty much the safest place for a work of art to be in the middle of a fire,” said Ms. Fleming. The museum’s ...