The Getty Villa, separate from the main museum in Brentwood ... the climate crisis cannot be bribed, and wealth cannot always protect against it. Yet, as we saw this week, even amid the ...
the Getty — with its more than $8 billion endowment — has emerged as a beacon of fire preparedness as well as a symbol of the defenses that wealth can build. From its grounds to the museum’s ...
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 ...
It is the worst fire event in L.A.’s history and has taken 24 lives. As part of the Getty Trust, the museum features European paintings, including Van Gogh’s Irises, and works by Rembrandt ...
The Getty hosted a large cultural property protection conference last September. Some of the attendees reached out to Borsay, he said, to learn first about how he and the museum were doing.
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.
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 ...
Roughly 45 museum workers have been conscripted into revolving, round-the-clock shifts to fan out and patrol the dozens of hilltop acres surrounding the Getty’s two campuses: the older Getty ...
Besides the Getty, LACMA and the Museum of Contemporary Art ... dismissing the narrative that the seaside community consisted only of wealth and privilege. When Altadena erupted in flames hours ...