Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.

In 1974, 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 ...

Update, January 15, 2025: The Getty Villa remains safe, but will be closed indefinitely. “We remain acutely aware of our affected staff, our Getty neighbors, and the whole Los Angeles region ...

The Getty Museum has acquired its first A.I. photograph, generated by queer Costa Rican artist Matias Sauter Morera.

Would cowboy culture have embraced latex?” said artist Matias Sauter Morera “These speculative questions are at the core of ...

For years, legal wrangling has seen Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles battle over the ownership of an ancient Greek statue. Now, one of Italy’s leading cultural officials is ...

gave the false impression that that museum itself was on fire. That, fortunately, was not the case. As J. Paul Getty Trust President and Chief Executive Katherine E. Fleming told the Los Angeles Times ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...