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Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflectiv...

Check out season two of ReCurrent, a Getty podcast about what we gain by keeping the past present. Hosted by Jaime Roque, this season explor...

Check out Getty’s first podcast for kids and their families, If Objects Could Talk! Listen as artifacts leave the museum vault and come aliv...

Discover Getty’s latest podcast, ReCurrent, a series about what we gain by keeping the past present. In the debut episode, host and producer...

Check out the newest season of Recording Artists, hosted by actor, artist, and futurist Ahmed Best. Explore the Getty archives and learn abo...

Enjoy this episode from season 2 of Getty's other podcast, Recording Artists. This series features materials from Getty's archives. This sea...

In Season 2 of Getty's podcast series Recording Artists, titled Intimate Addresses, each episode unpacks one letter from one artist, includi...

“I think you can see that from my work, that I try to put everything I know in there and everything I don’t know. I’m looking for stuff that...

“What I tell my students—and most of them are writers—is that the only way for them to get to a place where they’re making what they should...

“African American history is American history. You can’t tell it without talking about the contributions, the questions, the very heart of t...

“Culture isn’t just dead stones and statues; culture is life. Culture is, you know, all the ways in which we move and interact together as p...

“Protecting cultural heritage, like protecting civilians directly, had strategic import.” How does the presence of a cultural heritage site...

“The society we now live in has been, in large measure, accomplished by destroying the cultural heritage of previous generations at various...

"I know we call them art museums, but I think they’re really wellbeing centers, because people are coming in—maybe they don’t know that’s wh...

“The museums give us these just incredible opportunities to have some kind of an encounter with different ways of seeing the world, shining...

“Mindfulness, for me, enables me to experience an art museum as if I’m listening to music. To just listen, attend to how all these objects m...

“Whenever I take people in there, I say—and it’s not a very large room—I say, ‘You’re now in the presence of millions and millions and milli...

“I’m after the charm of tomatoes. I’m after the history of tomatoes. Just obviously, appeal and taste and all of that. But if I can tie it u...

“What it is that we do at Disneyland is tell stories. And the horticulture is a work of art helping to tell the story.” At Disneyland, elabo...

“I was there for the groundbreaking of the Getty Center. I was there for opening day of the Getty Center. I think for a lot of people, it sa...

“There was a lotta negativity because there was just pictures of Black people. That was one of the critiques, that we just photographed Blac...

"You know, everything is not just red, yellow, blue, and coming from a tube. It can be anything out there in the world. Grab it and use it."...

“The camera sort of teaches you to see in a really different way and to experience your environment in a different way, and to pay attention...

“The underworld, the afterlife, is fairly dank, dark, shadowy; quite frankly, it’s a bit boring. Somewhat like waiting at a bus depot.” Home...

“I had heard the tale and knew what to expect, but it was by far the most damaged painting I had seen. When it arrived, it came into the stu...

"There’s been an assumption that any person who stepped foot on French territory in the metropole went free. In fact, enslaved Turks did not...

“This interconnection between Greek tradition and science and mathematics, and the Babylonian traditions in astronomy and all these other ve...

“When Cunningham passed away, I think in part her reputation was based on her personality, the fact that she had lived so long, the fact tha...

"Berengario’s books show animated cadavers and skeletons set in a landscape, often so animated that they’re displaying their own dissecting...

"It’s why she started a museum, because people said, 'You’re crazy. You can’t do that. Nobody does that without a collection, without money....

"When I look at the law and also museum policy, it’s just so close to conceptual art making. You have a lot of material and you’re just tryi...

"One of the hopes of this exhibition was really to try to enlist visitors’ bodily experience in their understanding of these works of art th...

"You look at the thinking behind the creation of the building, but then also at the material needs. And you merge the two to really build an...

"The reason why African Americans began these places of leisure and relaxation in the outdoors was because they were excluded from going to...

“If anything, a sense of self, a sense of destiny, the fact that she belonged among the greats, was a defining mark of Artemisia’s personali...

“Lamb’s objective was essentially to do Kon-Tiki in the Chiapan Rainforest. And he needed a lost city as a selling point.” In 1950, American...

"I think it just shows very well how Rubens worked, how he got the inspiration from antiquity, but he transforms it into something completel...

“Bagan is actually a splendid site. You can imagine in only in this, like, fifty square kilometers, they have more than 3,000 monuments. And...

"Buck wanted to stand in every room from his house, turn his head, and see every view. Even the bathroom. And so that was kind of what inspi...

“Holbein was able to combine his ability to create a very believable likeness with these strong design sensibilities, and also an ingenuity,...

“She was not afraid. She wasn’t daunted. I think that’s one of the key differentiators about her and her career.” Sculptor Luisa Roldán (165...

“We hear the security guards talking to one another on the walkie-talkie, saying that there’s a man on the line saying that he has a stolen...

“The metropolis is not just the city; it’s the mother city. It has a fundamental role in defining the history of these countries that we dis...

"Everything was made of the most familiar objects. It could’ve been taken off a desk or a kitchen counter or something, and put into action....

“To really read into the fragment that you have in front of you and to imagine the rest of what was the whole text is really romantic and an...

“You could easily say ‘I can’t believe Rubens held such sway deep into the 18th century in Latin America as a touchpoint. Wow. That’s profou...

“When you pick an object up, not only do you begin to understand how it was made, it’s facture, the people who made it, but you can also, I...

“Photography, historically, has been used to pin people of color in a particular location to a particular identity or stereotype, and the ar...

“He often said is that this was a garden not for the visitors. He was happy if visitors enjoyed it; it was a garden for the people who worke...

"For Blake, visionary art is not mysterious or fuzzy or soft. Visionary art is something which actually very precise and crisp." Painter, po...

"It was really powerful to be on the road following her footsteps. It just gave me an incredibly profound respect for her grit." In the 1930...