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Both the Getty Center and Getty Villa remain safe from the Palisades Fire, and we continue to monitor the situation closely. Getty Center in Brentwood will likely remain closed until Monday, January 20, and the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is closed until further notice.

Call for grant applications for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative! Created in collaboration with @SavingPlaces, 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: savingplaces.org/black-modernis… More info on Conserving Black Modernism: savingplaces.org/conserving-bla… 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

Explore @NatGalleryCan Department of Prints and Drawings’ new illustrated catalogue for “Gathered Leaves” – an exhibition funded by a Paper Project grant. This publication celebrates the department's 100th anniversary and is available for purchase online: boutique.gallery.ca/collections/ga…

Thank you to all our followers for a wonderful year. We’re signing off for now and will see you again in January 2025! We share our warmest wishes with you all this holiday season. Image: Benjamin West Kilburn, photographer (American, 1827 - 1909), "The Great Game of Snow Ball." American, 1889, Albumen silver print, 84.XC.870.888.

In the Fall, artists and curators in botanical illustration joined the @TheBotanics for the workshop "Plants on Paper: curatorial practice and the decolonization of collections of scientific prints and drawings.” Supported by a Paper Project grant, the workshop included two pre-workshop online seminars and an in-person workshop. Participants examined both the difficulties and opportunities involved in creating and curating botanical art, in the context of issues such as decolonization.

Attention Getty Marrow Undergraduate Alumni! Scholarship program applications for @AAMers' 2025 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo conference are now open through January 17, 2025. The conference will be in Los Angeles May 6-9, 2025 and the scholarship program includes full registration, event tickets, and a housing and travel stipend. Learn more about the program and apply by January 17: annualmeeting.aam-us.org/alliance-schol…

This month we welcomed several hundred international modern and contemporary art curators visiting for the annual @infoCimam 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 and participants enjoyed the initiative's special tours at @MOCAlosangeles, @hammer_museum, @LACMA, and @GettyMuseum 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 @SavingPlaces' 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. savingplaces.org/stories/black-… 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

Our Lise Meitner Group's @Fra_Borgo and @Feli_Bodenstein (Sorbonne) organized 3 sessions for “Materialising Loss: Absence and Remaking in Art History” at #CIHA in Lyon. Thanks to @khiflorenz and @GettyFoundation for travel grants to support these international panels!

Call For Applications: Mongol Connections! Supported through a Connecting Art Histories grant, @TheCourtauld is hosting a three-year (2025-2027) research network project and travelling seminar. They will have short information session on January 6, 2025 at 2 pm GMT. Email mongolconnections@courtauld.ac.uk for a zoom link to attend. Learn more about the program and apply:  courtauld.ac.uk/research/mongo… Photo: Mosul, Northern Iraq, metalworker Metalwork bag, known as 'The Courtauld Bag' (early 14th century) 1300 - 1335. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Check out “Planned Conservation of 20th-century Architecture: Research in Italy and Brazil," a recent publication about six Keeping It Modern projects from Italian and Brazilian organizations. Both countries implemented a number of conservation management programs, leading to comparisons among the state of the buildings, the dedication of the ownership, the conservation culture in each country, and more. Buy the ebook: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Congratulations to @oneinstitutela! The book accompanying their PST ART exhibition “Sci-fi, Magick, Queer LA: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation” was recently named one of Hyperallergic’s best art books of 2024. Read more: hyperallergic.com/968703/the-30-…

We’re starting the week off with some photos from the Paper Project workshop, “Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800).” The workshop organized by the Lise Meitner Group @BiblHertz in collaboration with the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica provided object-based training for early career curators in the field of prints and drawings, focusing on premodern care practices and material histories of paper objects. Held in Rome this month, it hosted twelve professionals and senior discussants to provide essential technical and material knowledge, fostering collaboration between academics, curators, and conservators. Activities included hands-on examination and viewing exercises of works on paper at the ICG and the Hertziana, visits to the archive of the Fondazione Caetani in Rome and Fondazione Fedrigoni in Fabriano, as well as two practical sessions on letter locking and paper making.

🌆 You won’t want to miss the final installment of the PST ART Weekend series in Downtown LA, Friday, December 6 to Sunday, December 8! 🌃 Check out the full PST ART Weekend: Downtown LA itinerary at the link: pst.art/en/events/dtal…

College Undergraduates! Thinking ahead about your summer work plans? Apply now for a paid, 10-week Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship. You can gain arts experience at the Getty Center or Villa in areas including curatorial, conservation, education, and publications. Applications due Feb. 4, 2025. getty.edu/projects/getty…

We’re delighted to share some photos highlighting the success of @OKContemporary’s Paper Project workshop. "Scratch the Surface" explored Oklahoma City-based artist Edgar Heap of Birds’ collaborative printmaking process, and participants engaged in a hands-on printmaking activity inspired by his works. Be sure to mark your calendars for Heap of Birds' first major retrospective at Oklahoma Contemporary, opening on Feb. 20, 2025! oklahomacontemporary.org/exhibitions/up… Caption for all images: "The Wichita," 2024. Printed by Marina Ancona with Fourth Dimension Studio. © Edgar Heap of Birds. Image courtesy of Oklahoma Contemporary Getty Paper Project Workshop.

Earlier this month we welcomed a group of Sudanese and Egyptian archaeologists to visit Getty Villa as part of "Nilotic Cultures," a Connecting Art Histories project organized by the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Their activities included a tour of the Villa grounds and galleries and the "Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt" exhibit. Our Connecting Art Histories grant initiative aims to globally strengthen art history by fostering intellectual exchange among scholars and emphasizing the importance of bringing people together to enhance the vitality of the discipline. Initially focused on the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America, it has expanded to include the Global South and East Central Europe, targeting regions where economic or political challenges have hindered collaboration. Core activities have included training younger scholars and building their networks through seminars, workshops, and courses. These grants usually take place in other parts of the world, so we were especially delighted to have the chance to meet this group in person. Caption for all photos: Sudanese and Egyptian archaeologists visit the Getty Villa as part of Nilotic Cultures, a Connecting Art Histories project funded by the Foundation through a grant to UCLA.

Next up on the PST ART Weekends tour: San Diego and La Jolla, this Friday, Nov 22 through Sunday, Nov 24! 🌊✨ Check out the full PST ART Weekend: San Diego & La Jolla itinerary at the link: pst.art/en/events/sdwe…

.@DallasMuseumArt is offering a Conserving Canvas workshop on minimally invasive methods for tear mending and single thread bonding for painted canvas. Early to mid-career painting conservators from Latin America who are actively caring for their institution’s paintings collection or have a special interest in the structural treatment of paintings on canvas are invited to apply. Learn more: dma.org/conservation/t…

.@GettyFoundation Invests in Preserving Historic Modernist Buildings Created By Black Architects, Designers: retrofitmagazine.com/getty-foundati…