J. Paul Getty Trust

Yesterday, a brush fire started late morning in the Pacific Palisades, fueled by extremely high winds. The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades remains safe and intact this morning, January 8, and will be closed at least through early next week. While trees and vegetation on the property have burned, Getty structures have been unaffected, and thankfully, both staff and the collections are safe. Out of caution and to help alleviate traffic in the area, the Getty Center in Brentwood will be closed at least through Sunday, January 12. We deeply appreciate the tireless work and dedication of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles County Fire Department, and other agencies, and also the small team of Getty staff who have remained on-site at the Villa supporting emergency response efforts. We again express our heartfelt concern to our neighbors in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and surrounding areas affected by the fires. Again, on Tuesday morning, the Villa was swiftly closed to non-emergency staff and, in any case, was closed to the public on Tuesdays. Fortunately, Getty had made extensive efforts to clear brush from the surrounding area as part of its fire mitigation efforts throughout the year. Additional fire prevention measures in place at the Villa include water storage on-site. Irrigation was immediately deployed throughout the grounds Tuesday morning. Museum galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke by state-of-the-art air handling systems. The double-walled construction of the galleries also provides significant protection for the collections.

Call for grant applications for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative! Created in collaboration with National Trust for Historic Preservation, these grants provide preservationists and stewards with funding and technical support to preserve the material heritage, innovation, and legacy of Modern sites designed by Black architects. Applications open: January 10, 2025 Applications due: March 14, 2025 Guidelines: https://lnkd.in/eEmg-4xr More info on Conserving Black Modernism: https://lnkd.in/gN5HcMwk Image 1: Robert T. Coles House. Photographed by: Jalen Wright. Courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Image 2: Interior of Carson City Hall Building. Grantee: City of Carson | Carson, California. Photo Credit: Elon Schoenholz Image 3: Azurest South driveway. Photographed by: Hannah Price. Courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Image 4: Interior of Kenneth G. Neigh Dormitory Complex. Courtesy of Davis Brody Bond, a Page company

The Fall 2024 edition of Conservation Perspectives is now available: https://gty.art/4gDL59v Each of the five essays tells a different story about education and training in collections conservation. The roundtable discussion, featuring three conservators from different parts of the world, brings to the fore a host of educational needs and challenges within the field. This issue features articles by: - Pip Laurenson, professor and director of the MSc Program in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media at UCL - Adrian Heritage, professor at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences - Stavroula Golfomitsou, head of GCI Collections and coeditor of this issue - Riza A. Romero, professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines, and... - George Joseph, program specialist in the Culture and Emergencies Entity at UNESCO

Modern philanthropy is about connections, Getty President Katherine E. Fleming argues in this Bloomberg Women, Money & Power panel. Watch in full:

Listen now to the untold stories of 100 changemakers from Los Angeles County working to make their communities better in "Intersections: Los Angeles," a new podcast by the team behind A Human Atlas. #podcast

The UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum is inviting applications for a five-day Paper Project seminar in Los Angeles! This seminar is aimed at early- to mid-career curators from small to mid-size museums, libraries, and archives. Curators managing non-medium specific collections that include prints are also welcome to apply. The program focuses on key learning areas including the technical study of prints, collection development, management, access, display, cross-institutional partnerships, philanthropy, and community engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to view and handle artworks and artist materials in person, gaining new insights and tools for assessing, interpreting, and caring for prints. The seminar includes three 1-hour virtual meetings and a five-day in-person session, with optional accommodation support available for 1-2 days before or after the in-person sessions. To apply, please submit a current CV and personal statement describing your current and past curatorial responsibilities as well as areas of learning that you feel this seminar can address. Please send all application materials to curatorialseminar@hammer.ucla.edu by January 15, 2025. Participants will be notified by February 1, 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBXJ73FX Photo: Gabriel Noguez

📖 New publication from our Conservation Institute 📖 For more than three decades, the Getty Conservation Institute has focused on the conservation of archaeological sites, with the reburial of mosaics being a core concern and activity. Our new publication, "The Reburial of Mosaics: Literature Review and Training and Planning Documents," provides information and methodologies to expand and improve the reburial of mosaic pavements for their protection. Part I is a literature review covering advances and trends in mosaic reburial, and Part II is a selection of the mosaic conservation and reburial planning, monitoring, and maintenance documents produced during our training courses and field projects. Together, these two parts provide practitioners with the tools necessary to conserve our mosaic heritage on archaeological sites for generations to come. 🔗 Read the free publication here: https://gty.art/4fbquZ3 #conservation #artconservation #heritageconservation #mosaics #mosaicheritage

This month, we welcomed several hundred international modern and contemporary art curators visiting for the annual CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) conference, which we've proudly supported through travel grants since 2011. This year's program was held in conjunction with PST ART: Art & Science Collide; participants enjoyed the initiative's special tours at MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Getty for a taste of curatorial talent in Southern California. Photo: Suhanya Raffel, Joan Weinstein, and Heather MacDonald

What is Black Modernism? Architectural historian and grant panelist for Getty and National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Conserving Black Modernism program Charles Davis answers this question and more in this interview shared by the National Trust. "To me, Black architectural modernity began as a process of resistance and humanization, just living and surviving and learning to become a whole person in this hostile space. It's now become a way of being. It’s a process of both aspiring to and attaining racial uplift, and the ways that our built environments embody this aspiration." We’re excited to renew funding for the initiative – keep an eye out for an announcement when applications open in the new year! Read more about Conserving Black Modernism and the emerging definition of Black architectural modernity. https://lnkd.in/eebQtVxw Captions: 1. Dr. Charles L. Davis II, Conserving Black Modernism Fellow. 2. Interior of Watts Happening Cultural Center. Grantee: City of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California. Photo Credit: Elon Schoenholz 3. Robert T. Coles Home and Studio, rear view. Photographed by: Jalen Wright. Courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation 4. Robert T. Coles Home and Studio, front view. Photographed by: Jalen Wright. Courtesy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Happening this Sunday 12/15! Join us in-person or online to hear from Professor Dr. Heghnar Watenpaugh in our annual Gaehtgens Lecture series. We've just added the last batch of available tickets. Reserve your spot here: https://lnkd.in/g_vz59kC