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Digital Success, Interactive Reading, and Other Open Questions about OSCI and...
This morning Anne Helmreich of the Getty Foundation, who manages the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI), led a Google+ Hangout on Air with three OSCI participants on the front lines of museum...
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Connecting Seas: The Getty Research Institute in Manila
A gathering of scholars in the Philippines is an important step in the Research Institute’s goal to expand the horizons of art history Detail of the Philippine Islands as seen through a magnifying...
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Unlocking Archives through Digital Tech
New tools will help scholars reveal the yet-untold stories contained in art dealers’ records at the Getty Research Institute In the Special Collections Reading Room, workshop participants look inside...
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A Quest to Uncover History Through Handwriting
Discover how scholars learn to decode the strokes, jots, tittles, and marks of historical penmanship The 2014 class of the Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography at the Getty Center at sunset...
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Thirty-Eight Scholars Will Visit the Getty to Study the Materials of Art and...
Now in its 30th year, the Getty Scholars Program announces 2015–16 scholars and fellows from the U.S., Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, and beyond 2014–15 scholars Monica Juneja, Matthew Robb, and Larry A....
View ArticleLooking With New Eyes at Scholarly Art Catalogues
The scholarly catalogue has long been a critical part of a museum’s mission, providing authoritative information about collection objects for scholars, students, and the general public. Richly...
View ArticleStudy and Play for Visiting Scholars at the Getty Research Institute
Each year, the Getty Research Institute invites scholars and artists to work on projects that go hand in hand with a chosen theme. This year’s theme is The Display of Art, a broad, deep topic examining...
View ArticleThe Getty Research Journal: Diverse, Collaborative, International
The third issue of the Getty Research Journal has just been published. Each year, the Journal presents new research on the Getty’s broad holdings and highlights the diverse interests of our staff and...
View ArticleThe Museum as Classroom: Q&A with Guest Scholar George Hein
George Hein, a leading authority on museum education whom the Museum’s Education Department invited as a guest scholar this spring, says that museums are inherently educational. The professor emeritus...
View ArticleCreating an Online Collaboration Tool for Scholars
Last month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an online collaboration tool for scholars that several of us in the...
View ArticleResearch Institute Launches New Search Interfaces for Library Catalog and...
We’ve just made it easier to find research resources in the collection of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, one of the world’s largest art libraries. Last week, we launched a...
View ArticleIt Takes a Village: Understanding Spanish American Colonial Art from the...
International scholars investigate the materials used in Spanish American colonial art.
View ArticleIt’s Time to Rethink and Expand Art History for the Digital Age
We need a 21st-century rethink of art history, one that takes us beyond academia to include artistic creation and the reception of artworks by the public.
View ArticleCreating “Getty Scholars’ Workspace”: Lessons from the Digital Humanities...
Getty Scholars’ Workspace, an online collaborative working environment, is taking shape at the Getty Research Institute. Lessons from the pilot project.
View ArticleThe Travel Ban Is Just Wrong
The recent executive order barring entry into the United States from citizens of seven nations is antithetical to the values of the Getty, and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Curiosity,...
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Visiting Scholar Revising Long-Held Myths about Early Medieval Manuscripts
Lawrence Nees is currently a visiting scholar in the Getty Museum’s Manuscripts Department, conducting research for a forthcoming book on Frankish manuscripts of the seventh to tenth centuries to be...
View ArticleScholars Respond to an Exhibition about Medieval Prejudice
Last year we invited you to join a conversation about how we can use a museum collection—made up of artworks created primarily for the wealthiest classes—to peel back layers of history and reveal a...
View ArticleCreating a Digital Museum to Memorialize America’s Slave Past
Scholar James Young once posed this provocative question: How does a nation memorialize a past it might rather forget? Art historian Renée Ater is exploring this question by researching 25 monuments to...
View ArticleHalf a Million Records on Early 20th-Century German Art Market Added to Getty...
After four years of work, the Getty Provenance Index® has greatly expanded its database of German art sales catalogs, adding nearly 570,000 records of artwork sales for the years 1900 to 1929. This...
View ArticleA Year of Freedom for Scholars Yields New Knowledge in Art History
The primary job of art historians is to research and interpret the world’s artistic legacy. To do that, they might need to travel to remote cultural heritage sites, spend days digging through old...
View ArticleResearch to Shed Light on 20th-Century Trade in Mexican Antiquities
For three decades Los Angeles businessman Earl Stendahl was one of the world’s most influential dealers in pre-Hispanic art, using his genius for marketing to help shape museum and private collections...
View ArticlePaper People: Reflections from Emerging Curators of Prints and Drawings
Prints and drawings often make up large portions of museum collections. These works on paper help curators understand an artist’s process, or provide clues to new connections among artists and their...
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