As wildfires ravaged greater Los Angeles last week, the J. Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts. Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, coming within ...
The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow.
On Jan. 7, the day the Palisades Fire began, more than a dozen Getty staffers used emergency preparation tactics to help save the Getty Villa from ... “They could come inside for a second ...
They look for embers. The Getty’s ongoing survival against daunting odds—the flames made it to within 6 feet of the villa’s eastern walls on Jan. 7—has come to represent one of the ...
Fire extinguishers stand ready inside the museum's entrance hall, to be used to quickly ... as the Pacific Palisades fire threatened the Getty Villa, a re-creation of a Roman villa on the Malibu ...
As wildfires ravaged greater Los Angeles last week, the J. Paul Getty Museum faced encroaching flames on two fronts. Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, coming within ...
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 ...
Buildings in the area that have survived include the Getty Villa art museum in Pacific Palisades ... which also helped protect the precious art inside. But it wasn't just expensive architecture ...