The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has made a major acquisition: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia (ca. 1627), a striking portrait of an ancient Roman noblewoman pictured moments before she stabs herself ...

One of Los Angeles' most prized gems is at risk from the raging Palisades Fire, with flames seen on the iconic Los Angeles property. Aerial footage and images showed the fast-growing fire approaching ...

Italy’s version of the Supreme Court has ruled that one of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s most prized antiquities — the 2,000-plus-year-old Greek artwork known as “Statue of a Victorious Youth,” or the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Walking through gallery after gallery of classical European paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum here, it's easy to get lost in the history and ...

Threatened by wildfires just north of Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum has closed its doors to the public to make way for firefighters. The blaze, known as the Getty fire, ignited at about 1:30 a ...

A terracotta head depicting the Greek god Hades that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired in 1985 is being voluntarily sent back to Sicily, the museum has announced. Getty officials said that the museum ...

Some of the many images include works by (clockwise from top left) Jacques-Louis David, the “Brooklyn Painter,” Paul Cézanne, Rembrandt, 17th C. Chinese ceramics, and Nadar, are available for download ...

Sitting in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center is no stranger to wildfires in its proximity. Just two years ago during the Skirball Fire, a small fire started on the museum's adjoining hill.

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 ...

As flames encroach on the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the art inside is staying put. The artwork in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is “considerably safer not being moved,” said ...

ROME — Even as the Italian government and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles continue their decades-long legal battle over ownership of a prized bronze statue, the Italian culture ministry this ...