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The Most Beautiful Train Stations In America, According To Passengers
There is no more romantic way to travel than by riding the rails, and these are the most magnificently beautiful train ...
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Trees, brush on Getty Villa Museum grounds catch fire
Some "trees and vegetation on site" of the Getty Villa Museum ... remain safe." "Museum galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke by state-of-the-art air handling systems," the ...
The Independent21d
How the Getty Museum survived LA wildfires as the super-rich take note
The Getty Villa, separate from the main museum in Brentwood, was designed by Robert E Langdon Jr and Ernest C Wilson Jr, opened in 1974 and has since been renovated. Although it wasn’t in the ...
Artnet21d
How the Getty Museum Survived L.A.’s Fires
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 the museum’s main venue over ...
The Washington Post21d
Inside the Getty museums’ defense against the L.A. wildfires
Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames ... During a previous fire, the museum said: “There is no need to evacuate the art or archives, because they are already in the safest place possible.” ...
The Australian21d
How the Getty Museum is surviving an inferno
“Everything is about being fire-resistive,” he said. The Getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of the wind-driven Palisades Fire on January 10. Picture: AFP Those ...
The Star22d
Spared from the flames: Getty art centre survives Los Angeles wildfires
Inside, the galleries can be closed off with a vault-like double door that, museum officials say, is practically impenetrable. “Getty staff, the art collections and buildings remain safe from ...
BusinessWorld22d
LA’s Getty Center’s art safeguarded as Palisades fire rages
A million-gallon (3.8-million liter) water storage tank on the site supplies ... of art to be in the middle of a fire,” said Ms. Fleming. The museum’s collection includes more than 400 European ...
The Art Newspaper22d
Getty and other arts organisations launch $12m relief fund for victims of Los Angeles wildfires
Paul Getty Trust and several cultural ... the Ford Foundation and the Mohn Art Collective (on behalf of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum ...
Mansion Global22d
The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
Under siege by Los Angeles wildfires, the J. Paul Getty Museum is emerging as a near-miraculous beacon of disaster preparedness. Behind the scenes, it’s taking a small army to defend.
The Globe and Mail22d
Strategy and architecture helped L.A.’s storied Getty Museum survive the wildfires
As flames whip the Pacific Palisades, the storied Getty Villa museum has withstood the Los Angeles wildfires, preserving its 44,000-plus items thanks to strategy and architecture designed for ...
Time Out22d
Getty Villa
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 ...