Getty continues its online-accessible series of exhibits and art exploration. Explore the range of online events, podcasts, and articles below.
Setting the stage in the Gilded Age
The art dealership known as Duveen Brothers gained international fame for selling European paintings, antique furnishings, and other objets d’art to American collectors, helping them gain entrance to "old" New York society. We sat down with Charlotte Vignon, who specializes in the field of art dealership, to talk about Duveen Brothers, how the firm relates to HBO's The Gilded Age, and her upcoming talk at the Getty Center.
"New" and "old" money, the "right" wine glasses, sleuthing servants...
Illuminating the invisible
Turn the corner in the exhibition Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy and you'll encounter what appears to be a skeleton floating in midair. Artist Tavares Strachan created this glass sculpture as a portrait of an important, and overlooked, figure in our history: Major Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first Black astronaut.
Online presentation: Luxury Silver of Ancient Persia
Throwing a "ritual banquet"—where wine flowed freely from ornate gold and silver vessels—was a popular practice among ancient Persian kings and aristocrats. In this special presentation on Google Arts & Culture, see several of these beautifully crafted drinking horns and learn about ancient Persian rituals and beliefs.
See Luxury Silver of Ancient Persia on Google Arts & Culture
Illustrating the human body through the ages
The exhibition Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy explores the long history of illustrating the body—for the benefit of doctors, artists in training, and the general public. In this podcast episode, independent curator Monique Kornell and the Getty Research Institute's Naoko Takahatake and Thisbe Gensler discuss this history, moving from 16th-century books by anatomist Andreas Vesalius to contemporary artworks by Robert Rauschenberg and Tavares Strachan.