Son of ‘Pacific Standard Time’

By Tom Teicholz
Published on May 15, 2013

It’s back! Remember long ago in those dark days of 2011, when “Pacific Standard Time,” the Getty-sponsored initiative, got more than 60 cultural organizations throughout Southern California to shine a light on the impact of Los Angeles’ art scene between 1945 and 1980?

The truth, beauty and desire

By Tom Teicholz
Published on July 11, 2012

Gustav Klimt is best known for his famous golden paintings, portraits of society women adorned in jewels and cloaked in gold, and for the flat two-dimensionality of his work that led many to declare it superficial and merely decorative. The Getty exhibition “Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line” puts a lie to that characterization, demonstrating how Klimt’s work conveys complex emotions and even allegorical ideals.

How L.A. grew its own art

By Tom Teicholz
Published on September 7, 2011

For those of us who are not native to Los Angeles yet live here (some for more of our lives than anywhere else), there is a compulsion to define Los Angeles, to get control in some manner of this ever-changing city that is distinguished as much by its sprawl as its particulars, by its air and light as its buildings and institutions, by its self-made individualists as its patchwork of ethnic communities.

Chancellor Merkel, Heidi Klum, Seal and the Holocaust

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 16, 2010

Chabad finds possible solution to land-use problem in Pacific Palisades

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 25, 2008

The recent discovery of a long-overlooked legal document could substantially alter the situation, potentially allowing for a public street to be constructed that would lead directly to the entrance of the proposed site.

Chabad, Getty and neighbors square off over Palisades school plan

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 5, 2008

Everything went smoothly until April 2, when Getty Trust attorney Lori Fox informed Cunin that Chabad does not have the right to approach the building via a private Getty service road -- which Chabad disputes

Holy Moses—The Getty’s latest collection puts a Christian perspective on the leader, lawgiver and

By Tom L. Freudenheim
Published on September 14, 2006

The Getty Center's upcoming exhibition "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai" (Nov. 14-March 4) provides a great opportunity to ponder these religious confluences, while also coming almost face-to-face with some of the earliest, and most beautiful, images in Christian art.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on July 19, 2006

Finders Keepers?

By Tom L. Freudenheim
Published on February 2, 2006

It's definitely tsuris time at the pristine white acropolis complex of the Getty, which overlooks the San Diego Freeway, and at its wonderful, freshly renovated, fake Pompeian villa up the Pacific Coast Highway. Barry Munitz, the Getty Trust's president and CEO since 1998, has been battered with press reports about apparently uncontrolled and self-indulgent personal expense-account spending of the kind that we have learned to associate with corporate malfeasance. The Getty's vast assets may result from spectacular corporate earnings, but a trust is responsible to the public -- to us! -- not to stockholders. Insider staff dissatisfaction became most evident last fall, with the sudden resignation of Getty Museum Director Deborah Gribben.