News flashed around the British press and social media early Friday morning of an unusually clever fundraising gambit: the joint acquisition by London’s National Portrait Gallery and Los Angeles’ J.

The institutions will jointly acquire the painting, with plans to send the work back and forth between the U.S. and U.K. Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Omai on the move at Tate Britain. Photo: Matthew ...

Almost five years ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a very beautiful, very strange painting by a 19th century Danish artist not widely known outside Northern Europe. The museum’s recently opened ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The J. Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet and Degas, once again found itself in the path of destruction ...

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The Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles are closed to visitors as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but art lovers can visit the museum’s collection virtually, in a way, through Animal ...

The Getty fire in California is burning the fringes of the Getty Center property, but an official told Newsweek the museum wasn't concerned about its priceless works of art being damaged by the flames ...

Last year, I wrote about Getty staff’s tantrums after the Floyd murder in Minneapolis. An entitled, surly, ungrateful, and, I suspect, large part of the Getty staff badgered the Getty’s top brass to ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum‘s newest acquisition is a marble bust of Pope Paul V (1621) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini that art historians had long believed was lost. The two-and-a-half foot tall Bust of Pope ...

The world famous J. Paul Getty Museum in California may be temporarily closed due to the coronavirus crisis, but that doesn't mean it has stopped inspiring people to love art. The museum challenged ...

The devil is in the details. A satanic statuette long thought to be made by post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin is a fake, it has been revealed. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which is ...