NewsGerman art
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
NewsConservation & Preservation
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”
NewsAcquisitions
Getty acquires archive of Betye Saar
Purchase is part of a new programme known as the African American Art History Initiative
PreviewExhibitions
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
ArchiveRestitution
Getty Institute publishes Nazi auction data
Rise in restitution claims expected after launch of online German auction catalogues for 1930-45
ArchiveCalifornia
California and New Mexico murals go digital with the Getty
Painstakingly documented by Ernest Long, this archive may be all that is left of many
ArchiveMark Rothko
Books: Less opportunism and more rigour in study of Rothko, please
The 10 essays of Seeing Rothko are distinctly varied in quality