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Ann Philbin dedicated 25 years to building the Hammer Museum’s renowned exhibition program, institutional identity, and international reputation for scholarly excellence and cutting-edge programming. As a passionate advocate for the arts and a champion for the freedom of expression, Philbin has chosen NPR and its Los Angeles Member stations KCRW and LAist as the recipients of the $500,000 grant from Getty.
When an artist becomes a scientist
At school in England, Tom Learner had to choose between art and science; now, as head of science at the Getty Conservation Institute, there’s no need.
What’s a scientist doing at an art institution?
Jewelry that makes the past present
For the well-to-do 20-something traveling across Europe in the 19th century, a trip to Rome wasn’t complete without a stop at the Castellani jewelry shop. Castellani was a place to gather and be seen, and a guest book logged a visit the way a shared selfie might today.
How revival jewelry keeps ancient fashions alive
What happens to art when the weather gets hot?
With heat waves becoming more common, you might wonder: what would happen if works of art were exposed to those harsh conditions? We talked to experts around Getty to find out how high climate temperatures affect art, how Getty keeps art cool and comfortable even in the strongest heat wave, and which types of art are unfazed by sunny days.
How to protect art when temperatures rise
Getty à la mode
Before photography was invented, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and other mediums captured the stylistic trends of their eras. We asked five Getty Museum curators to tell us about objects in the collection that depict some particularly fascinating customs, fashions, and values of more foreign times. Plooikraags and hennins, anyone?
Check out the eye-popping styles
Turn up the fashion
Fashion and music are deeply intertwined, from the mod youth culture of the Swinging Sixties to the streetwear of hip-hop.
Here are a few fashion-inspired songs to strut to, whether on the catwalk or in your kitchen. Remember, in the words of drag queen and supermodel RuPaul—featured in the playlist and whose portrait is currently on display in the Getty Center exhibition Queer Lens: A History of Photography (which includes a number of delightful fashion moments)—you better work!
Dress code: Drag
While researching the Johnson Publishing Company archive (JPCA), Alex Jones, curatorial research assistant at the Getty Research Institute, was stunned to discover photos of Black drag queens from the 1940s through '60s.
As he started digging in to the JPCA (a one-of-a-kind collection of photographic, print, and ephemeral materials that constituted Ebony, Jet, and other major publications on African American life and culture), the surprises kept coming. "I was taken aback by the scale of queer visibility and pride that the JPCA photographs put into high relief," Jones writes.
What to wear to an art museum
For so many Getty visitors, a trip to peruse our galleries and gardens is also a chance to don some fabulous fashion. We stopped a few well-dressed folks strolling the Getty Center and asked them to share the inspiration behind their outfit and their approach to style.