How a vast Käthe Kollwitz collection ended up at the Getty
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How a vast Käthe Kollwitz collection ended up at the Getty
Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s
Getty plans sweeping $100m initiative to promote the world’s cultural heritage
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Getty plans sweeping $100m initiative to promote the world’s cultural heritage
Projects will range from exhibitions about the classical world to conservation and excavations and a book about “heritage and mass atrocities”
Getty acquires archive of Betye Saar
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Getty acquires archive of Betye Saar
Purchase is part of a new programme known as the African American Art History Initiative
A golden age in the Americas when even artists were 'spoils of war'
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A golden age in the Americas when even artists were 'spoils of war'
Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals