The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze ...

Fire prevention is top of mind for the team at the Getty and the Getty Villa. Irv Gotti, Music Executive Behind Ja Rule and ...

The recreated Roman villa, which often hosts high-profile events among the art, remained unharmed. According to Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the museum was ...

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.

The Getty Villa opened in 1974 by Billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the ...

The Getty Villa, which is already closed to the public on Tuesdays, was “swiftly closed” to non-emergency staff after the fire started in the morning.

The Villa holds 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD within a re-created Roman country home. The Getty Villa will remain closed to the public through at ...

The fast-moving wildfire has so far burned vegetation at the Pacific Palisades museum but not the building.

And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure that reputedly inspired Getty to built the museum in the design of a Roman villa. Upstairs, room 217 holds an ...

The Getty Villa is part of the J ... It houses the trust's collection of Ancient Greek and Roman art. Fire departments used "state-of-the-art air handling systems" to help protect the building ...