Tuesday 24 May 2011

Curatorial change at the Getty

Karol Wight, who succeeded Marion True at the senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will be leaving to be the Executive Director at the Corning Museum of Glass ("Getty Museum's senior antiquities curator leaving for Corning Museum of Glass", LA Times Culture Monster May 23, 2011). Wight has been extremely helpful to me with my research and I would like to offer her the best of success in her new role.

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GRANT MACDONALD said...

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during World War II. He called the FBI and the FBI charged J.P. Getty with Espionage, FBI File 100.1202, June 26, 1940. 43,000 people were killed in the UK while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin still shipping oil to Hitler five months before Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941. The mother of J.P. Getty was German. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that in Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces’ war production plants. As aristocrats with treasures of art were executed -- beginning in 1933 -- with the outbreak of war; Getty assiduously added to his vast collection with the Nazis. The Rembrandt of Marten Looten hangs in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Gainsborough of Christie purchased in 1938 is at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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