Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

Getty’s Emergency Planning Specialist Les Borsay arrived at the Getty Villa in Malibu. “This was not normally a day I would ...

The Getty Villa has caught fire in the wind-driven fire burning out of control in Pacific Palisades, according to Los Angeles Fire Department radio traffic.

The Getty Villa is part of the J ... It houses the trust's collection of Ancient Greek and Roman art. Fire departments used "state-of-the-art air handling systems" to help protect the building ...

oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from art experts ...

It also houses Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity—some of which is partially held at its second campus, the Getty Villa. Days before the threat of fire reached ...

“There is no need to evacuate the art or archives because they are already in the safest place possible,” the article reads. The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of ...

The Center, which houses a sprawling collection of art in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a “marvel of anti-fire engineering.” The Villa, which focuses on ancient ...

the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van G ...

Is the Getty Villa safe from the fires? The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving ...

For the next 28 hours, Borsay and 16 other staffers organized themselves to supplement fire department efforts and along the way contributed to helping keep the Getty Villa and its priceless art ...