When the Palisades fire swept through the Los Angeles area in January, flames came perilously close to the Getty Villa, the art museum founded by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in 1974. Fortunately, the ...

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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. Roughly 45 ...

LOS ANGELES — The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is returning ancient sculptures and other works of art that were illegally exported from Italy, the museum announced Thursday.

Andrew Getty, the 47-year-old grandson of J. Paul Getty and an heir to the family's oil fortune, died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, his parents confirmed.

A product of the largest known arts endowment in history, the J. Paul Getty Museum opened to the public in 1997. The museum sits atop a hill in Brentwood and on a clear day offers great views of ...

Established in 1954 by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, the museum opened in 1974 as a replica of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (located in what is now southern Italy).

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is returning ancient sculptures and other works of art that were illegally exported from Italy. Photo by FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Originally Published by: ...

The artwork in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is “considerably safer not being moved,” said museum spokeswoman Lisa Lapin, as thousands evacuated or lost power Monday because of ...

The Getty Villa opened in 1974 by Billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the ...

Los Angeles museum returns 'illegally excavated' Italian art to ministry The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning a trio of sculptures and 4 other items ...

After 2½ years of rigorous, sometimes hair-raising effort, the conservation studio at the J. Paul Getty Museum has completed work on one of the key treasures of European art in Los Angeles.