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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 ...
The Getty Villa is set to reopen Friday for the first time since January's devastating Palisades Fire. And after nearly six ...
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 ...
The Getty Villa has reopened almost six months after the Palisades Fire damaged trees and vegetation on its property.
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).
In 1974, oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, ... The best of Los Angeles straight to your inbox. We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities.
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 ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum houses Vincent van Gogh’s “Irises” and many other priceless masterpieces in buildings that were dangerously close to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
Arts organizations in Los Angeles, led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, have set up a $12 million relief fund for artists affected by the wildfires.
What’s now called the Getty Villa served as the decades-long home for the J. Paul Getty Trust’s extensive art collection. But in 1997, the Getty Center opened.
The J. Paul Getty Museum has received a gift of 38 rare manuscript pages by Italian artists spanning the 12th to 17th centuries, marking the largest donation of artwork to the museum in decades ...
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).