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09/02/2026

Who was Anna Atkins? Discover the artist and scientist behind the first-ever illustrated photography book. https://gty.art/4wKDPAQ

09/01/2026

🎉Happy Publication Day to The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection!🎉

This new edition of The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection features over 380 of the museum’s most-beloved objects, presenting an overview of Getty’s world-renowned collection and a history of the museum and its famous founder. 🎨🖌

From treasures of the ancient world and medieval manuscripts to Renaissance drawings, French furniture, Impressionist paintings, iconic American photographs, and much more, the handbook offers an indispensable look at the art at both the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Brentwood. 🏛🏛🏛

Whether a regular visitor to the two sites or someone who hasn’t yet made the trip, this richly illustrated and beautifully designed volume is a must-have for any art lover. 💖

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08/13/2026

Happy Birthday to the legendary fashion photographer, Herb Ritts!

In "Herb Ritts: L.A. Style", Paul Martineau and James Crump trace the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of renowned, as well as previously unpublished, photographs.

Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation, sought out by leading fashion designers such as Armani, Gianfranco Ferrè, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Valentino, and Versace, as well as magazine editors from GQ, Interview, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among others.

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08/12/2026

Happy Calligraphy Day!

Admire the gorgeous work of master calligrapher Georg Bocskay in "Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript"

In 1561–62 Bocskay, imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes.

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08/11/2026

Happy Pub Day to "Rock Art: The Changing Landscape of Conservation and Management"!

This richly illustrated volume is the first interdisciplinary anthology to focus on the conservation and management of rock art sites.

Painted and engraved marks and images on rock surfaces represent the oldest and most widespread form of human expression. Found globally in its original landscapes, with some images dating back fifty thousand years or more, the world’s rock art constitutes the most important body of latent knowledge about our deep past. Today, however, mass tourism, vandalism, theft, land development, and climate change are posing increasingly dire threats to this irreplaceable heritage.

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08/10/2026

Happy Summer! It's time for the annual Getty Publications Summer Sale!

Stock up on summer reading with 50% off selected Getty books. Discover acclaimed titles on Julia Margaret Cameron, the Sistine Chapel, Harald Szeemann, the ancient lands of Thrace, French tapestries, Paul Cézanne, modern metals, and much more. Shop the sale through August 30, 2026 while supplies last.

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08/04/2026

Happy Publication to "Artifacts to Art: Collecting Ancient America in Midcentury L.A."!

By the mid-twentieth century, ancient Mexican artifacts had undergone a striking transformation. Once dismissed as anthropological curiosities they had become prized artworks.

At the center of this shift was Earl Stendahl, a savvy Los Angeles art dealer who played a pivotal role in shaping public and institutional perceptions of these objects. He repositioned these artifacts, selling them to an elite clientele that included movie stars, wealthy collectors, and museum curators.

Beneath this glamorous facade, however, lies a darker narrative of the looting, smuggling, and forgery that fueled this midcentury craze. This book brings together art history, museum studies, and the politics of the antiquities trade, offering both a social history and a critical examination of how ancient Mexico’s past was sold in twentieth-century America.

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08/01/2026

Happy Birthday Mario Giacomelli!

Known best for his sublime black-and-white photography, Mario Giacomelli's images are meditations on time, memory, and existence.

In "Mario Giacomelli: Figure/Ground", author Virginia Heckert provides an overview of Giacomelli's illustrious career. Beautifully illustrated, the book explores his preference for grainy, high-contrast film and paper, which produced bold, geometric compositions with glowing whites and deep blacks.

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Image credit:

Mario Giacomelli
Young Priests, No. 71 (Pretini, no. 71)
Negative 1961–63; print 1981
© Rita and Simone Giacomelli
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

07/14/2026

Happy Publication Day to "Black Curators Matter: Conversations on Art and Change"!

Named one of Hyperallergic's "15 Art Books We're Excited to Read in 2026", this volume gives an illuminating history of the historically fraught and hard-won relationship between Black Americans and U.S. art museums. In the late 1960s, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and other groups organized protests at major art museums, calling for the inclusion of Black artists and curators.

"Black Curators Matter" presents conversations between six pioneering curators—Lowery Stokes Sims, Deborah Willis, Richard J. Powell, Kellie Jones, Thelma Golden, and Franklin Sirmans—and a new generation of professionals, including Ashley James, Kalia Brooks, Aaron Bryant, Thomas Jean Lax, Rujeko Hockley, and LeRonn P. Brooks. Capturing the voices and experiences of Black curators, these discussions highlight their achievements and provide guidance for future generations aiming to diversify and enrich the cultural landscape. This volume reexamines the curatorial field to reveal the transformative strategies, critical interventions, and boundary-breaking exhibitions that reshaped American art museums toward greater inclusivity and experimentation.

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07/01/2026

Happy Publication Day to "Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions"!

Enigmatic and haunting, the work of the French Symbolist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) intrigues and entrances all who encounter it. During the first half of his career, Redon created dreamily dark drawings and lithographs that plumbed the depths of his wild imagination. Eventually, however, he also turned to pastels, adopting a bold colorful palette in fantastical explorations of the natural world.

Featuring more than seventy illustrations, this publication offers an overview of Redon's career. The informative, accessible essays examine his disparate influences from the worlds of religion, mythology, literature, and music, and demonstrate why Redon’s mysterious work is an important precursor to Surrealism.

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