Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles below.
Why we gave these prints a bath
Humans love a soothing soak, but water baths are also a well-established conservation method used to clean works of art on paper. Recently, conservators at the Getty Research Institute undertook a project to wash a selection of works larger than anything they had worked on before. Their mission: to treat prints by Antonio Cattani that depict three life-size figures, used by 18th-century medical students and artists to study the human form.
How Brazil's photographers used images to fuel propaganda
In 1839 a group of Europeans arrived in Rio de Janeiro with the first commercially successful photographic process—the daguerreotype. When the method was demonstrated before the teenaged emperor-in-waiting, Pedro II, in 1840, it was love at first sight, and Brazil’s dynamic relationship with the medium began. A new digital atlas supported by the Getty Foundation, imagineRio, helps users witness the development, displacement, and urbanization of Rio by mapping more than 3,000 digitized historical photographs.
Calling all art enthusiasts!
Want to learn about Getty’s collection at home on your own schedule, or bring the collection into your classroom? The Getty Museum’s Education department has partnered with SmartHistory, producer of high-quality art history content, to create a series of videos about art in the Getty collection. Each video—there are a total of six, on topics such as Van Gogh's Irises, the Ethiopian Gospel Book, and more—is an unscripted conversation between Getty curators and the co-founders of SmartHistory, and best of all it’s free.
Making art of interrogation
Getty artist in residence Gala Porras-Kim creates art that explores the relationship between historical objects and the institutions that collect and display them. In this episode of the Art + Ideas podcast, Porras-Kim muses about rummaging through museum archives, the rights of mummies, and potlucks in the Pink Palace.
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