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Seeing the Villa Gardens in a Different Light
Magic hour in the East Garden at the Getty Villa Long evenings and bright sun are taking the place of early dusks and sprinkling rains: spring is here. At the Getty Villa, the light is brilliant even...
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A New Light: 15 Hours in the Getty Villa Gardens
I’m often struck by how transformative a place the Getty is. Throughout the day a great deal can change. While the crowds do come and go, I’m often most transfixed by the subtle shifts of light, the...
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Pollarding the Getty Knuckle Trees
The sycamore trees in the Restaurant Grove recently underwent a considerable transformation. Their lush canopies of vivid, green leaves were trimmed away, and the trees took on a strange, knobby...
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Getty Voices: Renaissance Gardens
Getty Voices presents first-person perspectives by members of the Getty community in weekly rotation. This week, Bryan Keene of the Museum’s Department of Manuscripts takes us on a journey through the...
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For California Gardeners, Winter Is the New Summer
I always smile to myself when people complain about Los Angeles “winters.” Sure, California gets cold this time of year, but the chilly and wet season is actually our most alive, our most fertile of...
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Getty Voices: Getty Gone Wild
Wild things are all around us—we just need to stop and look. This week on Getty Voices, photographer Tahnee Cracchiola reveals her encounters with the creatures of the Getty and how they took her craft...
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The Waltz of the Hummingbirds
Photographer and nature-whisper Tahnee Cracchiola continues her week on Getty Voices sharing her stunning series of encounters with wildlife at the Getty Villa. Here she shares her surprising dance...
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The Transformative Outer Peristyle
“I think there is something magical about shooting in natural light.” This week on Getty Voices, Tahnee Cracchiola shares her photographic encounters with wildlife on site at the Getty. Her first...
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Hi! I’m an L.A. Native.
They say L.A. has no center; they say it’s a desert. We Angelenos know that’s not true—and not just when it comes to architecture, but when it comes to nature, too. On National Public Gardens Day, I...
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Our L.A., Mapped
Lyra Kilston and Chris Alexander of the team behind Overdrive take Getty Voices to the streets of L.A. this week. We’re exploring what L.A. means to the people who inhabit it, and how our memories of a...
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Edible Gardening in the Renaissance
Gardening expert Christy Wilhelmi on how the Renaissance ate, on the occasion of the new exhibition Gardens of the Renaissance The Nuremberg Residence and Garden of Magdalene Pairin, about 1626–1711,...
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September in the Central Garden
September is an odd month in the California garden. Fall officially begins on the 22nd, but the heat is winding up, not down. The Central Garden at the Getty Center, which changes dramatically...
View ArticleNew Audio Tour Celebrates the Getty Villa’s 40th Anniversary
To mark four decades of the Getty Villa in Malibu, a new audio tour takes you through the juiciest meals, deals, and even eels of ancient Rome January 16, 2014, marks the 40th anniversary of the...
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Miniature Getty Center Opens in Philadelphia
Look slightly familiar? This landscape-in-progress riffs on the Getty Center’s architecture and gardens. It’s on view March 1 to 9 at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadephia Flower Show....
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Sniff Your Way through the Getty Gardens
Let your nose be your guide to some of the Getty’s most intriguing flowers and foliage National Public Gardens Day is this Friday, May 9! This annual celebration of the nation’s public gardens aims to...
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Getty Fountains Temporarily Turned Off to Save Water
Breathtaking works of art? Check! Stunning architecture? Check! Sunshine? Check! Sweeping vistas? Check! Beautiful gardens? Check! Gurgling fountains? Well, no. California is in the midst of its worst...
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Summer in the Getty Garden
The annual theme for summer in the Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin is color—and lots of it. Here, a plant preview Spring is said to be the most colorful season, but we can’t wait for you to see...
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A Tree Gets Its Wings
Having reached the end of its life, a colorful angels’ trumpet is removed to make way for a successor This golden angels’ trumpet (Brugmansia suaveolens) stood in our gardens since before the Getty...
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Getty Gardens: Brown Is the New Green
To adapt to the California drought, water-hungry flowers are out and shrubs, succulents, and ornamental mulch are in Gorilla Hair was not part of artist Robert Irwin’s original plan when he designed...
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Scent, Spice, Salve at the Getty Villa
A summer workshop connects 21st-century visitors to the ancient past through touch, taste, sight, and smell Artist Becca Lofchie in the Getty Villa’s Outer Peristyle A replica of a first-century Roman...
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