Joan Aruz examines the history and endurance of the Palmyrene people in “Palmyra: Caravan City and Cultural Crossroads.” ...

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The Getty Museum's education department offers courses, lectures, conversations, tours, and talks, and other programs throughout the year at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa. We have a ...

Among their rigorous preparations for eternity, ancient Egyptians developed an intricate set of religious writings to help the deceased achieve a blessed afterlife in union with the solar god Re and ...

Renaissance artists transformed the course of western art history by making the nude central to their art. Drawing inspiration from classical sculpture and the study of the live model, these artists ...

Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in Harlem in 1976 when both were twenty-three years old. For more than 45 years, the two photographers have maintained a friendship and artistic dialogue that ...

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Vassily Kandinsky believed primary shapes corresponded with specific primary colors. He devised a survey to test the theory among his students. See if your answers align with the Bauhaus master’s.

Blue paper has been a popular artist material since the fifteenth century. Crafted from blue rags formed into sheets, this humble material that required expert knowledge to produce and had a profound ...

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For nearly 3,000 years a series of kingdoms flourished in ancient Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan). The region was rich in sought-after resources such as gold and ivory and its ...

This exhibition explores the Book of the Marvels of the World, an illuminated manuscript made in the 1460s that weaves together tales of places both near and far. Told from the perspective of a ...