Join a Getty-led coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists providing emergency relief for artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have lost residences, studios, archives, ...

Originally promulgated in 2000 by ICOMOS China with bilingual versions published in 2002 and 2004, the Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China were the first set of national ...

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This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information ...

Travel to Palmyra by Europeans began with the historic 1691 expedition undertaken by British merchants based in Aleppo who, upon hearing stories about this vast ruin, made the dangerous journey across ...

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Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Thomas Howard was made during the artist’s first visit to London and marked the beginning of van Dyck’s brilliant international career. Thomas Howard, a prominent member ...

When Cassas visited Palmyra in 1785, and Vignes nearly 80 years later, they experienced an ancient site that still stirred emotions more than a dozen centuries after its downfall. Positioned at a ...

Poster promoting the Tenth Anniversary Benefit for The Kitchen, Robert Longo, 1981. The Kitchen Archive, ca. 1971–1999. The Getty Research Institute, 2014.M.6 The archive of New York City's leading ...

Outdoor painted sculptures are exposed to harsh and uncontrolled environments and thus are highly prone to rapid deterioration and a wide range of paint coat failures. Treating these objects ...

Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721–circa 1793) emerges today as one of the more fascinating and influential architects of the French Enlightenment. Much admired by his contemporaries for his large ...

Founded in 300 BC, Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Greek East, and it became one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire ...