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How the Getty Museum Is Surviving an Inferno
if the museum suffers earthquake tremors, the pieces don’t risk toppling. For now, all the Getty’s art at both locations appears to be riding out the ongoing disaster in surreal silence.
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Italian Cultural Chief Disputes Attribution of Famed Getty Bronze, Rankling Locals
One of Italy's top cultural officials is casting doubt over the attribution of Victorious Youth, aka the Getty Bronze, to ...
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How the Getty Museum Survived L.A.’s Fires
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 museum’s main venue over ...
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LA's Getty Center's Art Safeguarded as Palisades Fire Rages
LA's Getty Center's Art Safeguarded as Palisades Fire Rages By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The J. Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van ...
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Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection
The museum has also described itself as “the safest place for art during a fire,” detailing in a 2019 article the anti-fire engineering of the Getty Center, which opened in 1997. Late Saturday ...
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Braced with defenses against fire, Getty art center faces LA flames
Inside, the galleries can be closed off with a vaultlike double door that, museum officials say, is practically impenetrable. "Getty staff, the art collections and buildings remain safe from the ...
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The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
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.
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Inside the Getty museums’ defense against the L.A. wildfires
Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts ... The Center, which houses a sprawling collection of art in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a “marvel ...
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Getty Villa
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 art experts ...
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Los Angeles Getty Center’s priceless collection braces for wildfires as evacuation order expands to museum
The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of the wind-driven Palisades fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood (AFP via Getty Images) The campus’s travertine plazas ...
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LA's Getty Center's art safeguarded as Palisades fire rages
Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork ... at a safe distance from the Santa Monica Mountains' flammable chaparral. The art galleries are located about 200 meters (655 feet) away ...