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The New York Times4d
How Museums in Los Angeles Survived the Fires — and Have Prepared for the Quakes
was testing the fire system at the Getty Villa, a museum in the Palisades full of ancient treasures, when Los Angeles found itself at the center of a national disaster. That morning, a text from ...
Artnet News16d
The Getty Trust Will Sell $500 Million in Bonds to Beef Up Museum’s Fire Protections
The Getty Trust, which manages the Getty Villa and Getty Center in California, will sell $500 million in bonds to bolster fire protections.
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LA's beloved Getty Villa museum collection saved from Palisades Fire
The Getty Villa, a sprawling cultural compound and museum built for namesake billionaire ... As of Wednesday morning, the Palisades Fire had spread to thousands of acres (an updated count is ...
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Getty Villa closes amid wind-driven Palisades Fire
The Palisades Fire forced roughly 30,000 ... The flames also spread to the Getty Villa and burned some of the trees and vegetation at the historic museum. "Fortunately, Getty had made extensive ...
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The Getty Trust Is Selling $500 Million in Bonds for Increased Protection Against Natural Disasters
Following the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in California earlier this year, the Getty Trust has decided to sell $500 million in bonds to enhance museum protection against natural disasters such as ...
The Art Newspaper22d
Los Angeles wildfires put museum-lender relationships in spotlight
Walking through the new exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men (until 25 May) at the Getty Museum ... Palisades fire Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Credit: UPI / Alamy Stock Photo Speaking at the ...
The Washington Post on MSN27d
Extreme weather is testing the notoriously secretive art world
On the morning of Jan. 7, as a windstorm fanned the flames of wildfires tearing through Los Angeles, art collector Ron Rivlin watched the destruction from his rooftop in the Pacific Palisades ... the ...
Luxury London10d
From the ashes: How LA is enticing back visitors after the wildfires
After the devastating Los Angeles wildfires at the start of 2025, the sunbaked Californian city is open for business - and ...
The Architect’s Newspaper4h
House Museum proposes memorial using chimneys to commemorate people and places lost in the Southern California wildfires
How should we memorialize the lives and places lost during the fires which recently swept Southern California? Project Chimney is a new initiative by House Museum which, as the name suggests, seeks to ...
Los Angeles Times2d
Holocaust survivor, ex-Navy pilot among seniors suing L.A. over Palisades fire damage
In a complaint filed late Monday evening, they alleged the city should have ensured that key reservoirs were filled with water and that all fire hydrants were operational prior to the Palisades fire.
Los Angeles Times9d
The Thomas Mann House survived the Palisades fire. We should heed Mann’s words
he said. Gordon and I bid farewell to Hartmann and Herz, then proceeded to Villa Aurora on the other side of the Palisades. The capriciousness of the fire quickly revealed itself. An intact ...