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The 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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Funerary Portraiture Helps Scholars Reconstruct the Social History of Ancient...

Archaeologist Rubina Raja is on a quest to find every ancient portrait from the city of Palmyra, Syria. Her Palmyra Portrait Project, founded in January 2012, is documenting all known Palmyrene...

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Using Open-Source Software to Protect English Heritage

The Getty Conservation Institute recently announced a new partnership with Historic England and the City of Lincoln to implement the Arches software platform, which will categorize, map, and describe...

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América Tropical’s Powerful Message

El Pueblo Historical Monument, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, is widely known for the color and energy of Olvera Street. The Mexican marketplace was launched on Easter Sunday in 1930 by...

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Preserving the Photographic Heritage of the Middle East, One Student at a Time

Before completing my master’s degree, I had no background in photograph conservation—there was no one specialized in this field in Egypt. I selected photograph conservation for my thesis and started to...

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Modern Architecture and the Olympic Spirit

Los Angeles is locked in a battle with Paris to host the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Paris is a tough competitor, but Los Angeles has been doing plenty to woo the International Olympic Committee...

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A Key to Preserving Our Architectural Past

Think “architectural conservation.” What comes to mind might be a craftsperson standing on a ladder, tool in hand, working to repair a deteriorating wall. That image does represent an important part of...

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Conserving Moscow’s Melnikov House

Over the past four years the Getty Foundation has supported research and planning grants for 45 modern buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative. These projects include eight architects’...

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Conserving the Wall Paintings in the Tomb of Tutankhamen

As a wall paintings conservator and project specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute, I am a member of the team working on the multi-year project for the conservation and management of the Tomb...

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Our Responsibility to Protect Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones

On February 26, 2001, the Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar called for the destruction of all statues and non-Islamic shrines in Afghanistan. “These statues have been and remain shrines of...

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Talk: The Responsibility to Protect Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones

What follows is the full text of talk delivered by Getty President Jim Cuno on February 16, 2018, at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University. He makes a case for the...

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How Safe Are Historic Earthen Sites? Earthquakes and Engineers Can Tell You.

Historic masonry and earthen buildings, with their near-universal material availability and low-cost construction, represent a significant portion of the world’s built cultural heritage. The...

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Second Getty Occasional Paper Focuses on the Link between Genocide and...

The link between mass slaughter of human beings and attacks on cultural heritage was made as early as 1821 by the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine when he wrote, “Where they have burned books, they...

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Diversifying the Conservation Profession through Paid Internships and Training

Many of us who work in conservation are painfully aware of the fact that training programs in our field attract applicants primarily from privileged backgrounds. There are clear reasons for this—a key...

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An International Conservation Partnership Is Preserving Herculaneum, Ancient...

A similarly dramatic scene has unfolded, albeit much more slowly, at Herculaneum. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79, the Roman seaside towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum as well as the...

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Newly Conserved Church in Peru Offers a Model for the Preservation of Earthen...

High in the Peruvian Andes sits Comunidad Campesina Kuñotambo, a remote village founded in the seventeenth century. With a population of only 500, the isolated community is close-knit  and full of...

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New Getty Grants Will Help Preserve 10 Gems of Modernist Architecture Around...

Massive concrete spans, buoyant sculptural forms, and shimmering stretches of glass: these are some of the celebrated innovations that define modern architecture. They also pose significant challenges...

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Getty Will Devote $100 Million to Preserve and Study Ancient Art and Sites...

Today, we at Getty are embarking on an unprecedented and ambitious $100 million global initiative, Ancient Worlds Now: A Future for the Past. Including far-reaching education, research, and...

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How Should the World Respond to the Deliberate Destruction of Cultural Heritage?

The protection of cultural heritage in conflict zones has been urgently discussed by the international community for the past decade. The targeted destruction of monuments and sites has been likened to...

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‘Bagan Is a Treasure’: Getty Partners to Conserve the Ancient Site

Bagan, Myanmar, is known for the over 3,500 ancient temples, pagodas, and monasteries that dot its landscape. These magnificent structures house an astonishing array of wall paintings, sculptures,...

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Getty Stands against Threats to Cultural Heritage

The material legacy of the ancient world is our common heritage, the identity and inspiration for all humanity.  Cultural heritage has the power to unite us and is critical for achieving peace....

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VIDEO: Preserving a Church in Earthquake-Prone Peru

Last summer, the residents of Kuñotambo celebrated the reopening and rededication of their much-loved church after years of painstaking conservation work led by the Getty Conservation Institute and the...

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