The Independent17d
How the Getty Museum survived LA wildfires as the super-rich take note
The Getty Villa, separate from the main museum in Brentwood, was designed by Robert E Langdon Jr and Ernest C Wilson Jr, opened in 1974 and has since been renovated. Although it wasn’t in the ...
Reuters17d
Fact Check: Video does not show Getty Villa ablaze during California wildfires
Some posts sharing the video of Villa Leon in flames include a resurfaced narrative about the existence of tunnels used for child trafficking beneath the Getty sites. Other posts include a Google ...
The Washington Post17d
Inside the Getty museums’ defense against the L.A. wildfires
Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts. Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, coming within six feet of its walls. Days later, ominous red clouds were ...
Artnet17d
How the Getty Museum Survived L.A.’s Fires
It also houses Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity—some of which is partially held at its second campus, the Getty Villa. Days before the threat of fire reached ...
The Australian17d
How the Getty Museum is surviving an inferno
They look for embers. The Getty’s ongoing survival against daunting odds – the flames made it to within 1.8m of the villa’s eastern walls on January 7 – has come to represent one of the ...
The Star17d
Spared from the flames: Getty art centre survives Los Angeles wildfires
The fire threatened the separate Getty Villa, which also has special flame resistant protections, last week. Trees and vegetation around the coastal villa were burned, but the structure and collec ...
USA Today18d
Dangerous Pacific Palisades fire threatens famous Getty Villa Museum
The Getty Villa Museum, which is home to a large collection of artifacts and antiquities from Rome and Greece, is located directly off the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades area of ...
Mansion Global18d
The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
They look for embers. The Getty’s ongoing survival against daunting odds—the flames made it to within 6 feet of the villa’s eastern walls on Jan. 7—has come to represent one of the ...
The Art Newspaper18d
Getty and other arts organisations launch $12m relief fund for victims of Los Angeles wildfires
This time, the funding announcement came only eight days after the Getty Villa had to deploy its irrigation systems and smoke barriers to help protect the grounds and collection from the fast ...
The Globe and Mail18d
Strategy and architecture helped L.A.’s storied Getty Museum survive the wildfires
As flames whip the Pacific Palisades, the storied Getty Villa museum has withstood the Los Angeles wildfires, preserving its 44,000-plus items thanks to strategy and architecture designed for ...
Wall Street Journal18d
The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van G ...