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The life-size Greek bronze statue called "Victorious Youth" is at the center of what seems like a never-ending legal battle that has been underway for several decades. The statue is currently being shown in a special pavilion at the J....

A funerary vessel, known as a 'krater', is the centerpiece of an exhibition that raises the question of what the ancient Greeks believed happened after death. The exhibition, called "Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife," is taking place began on Wednesday and...

On Friday, June 8, an Italian court ruled that the famous Greek bronze statue known as “Statue of a Victorious Youth” was to be returned to Italy. The statue currently resides at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles...

Today Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, enthusiastically announced the museum's acquisition of a Geometric Greek vase dating back to 720 to 700 BC. The addition of the Geometric Greek vase will be on...

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today plans to voluntarily return a 12th-century Byzantine illuminated New Testament to the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos in Greece. The manuscript was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1983 as part...

On Tuesday, February 18, the Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles, Ms. Elisabeth Fotiadou opened her home to a plethora of guests from the press, academic and the arts community in Southern California for a sneak peek of...

Greek bronze artworks will be shown at the Getty Museum in California in 2015 as part of a promotion to showcase Greece through a series of events in the American museum, such as banquets and lectures by Greek Byzantinologists...

"Heaven, Hell and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages" is the subject of one of the summer exhibitions of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. From May 29 through August 12, the Museum will show the course...

Two ancient Greek artifacts were returned to Greece on Friday by the Getty Museum in California. One item was a carved relief depicting the female form: the other a tablet recording a religious calendar. The pieces are dated from...

An agreement was made to send two ancient Greek artifacts back to the motherland from the Getty Museum in an attempt to reunify, repatriate and showcase Greek antiquities in their country of origin. In collaboration with Pavlos Yeroulanos, Minister of...

A special event at the famous Getty Museum in Malibu, California, was held last Saturday and was organized by the International Greek Theatre, with main characters the "Readers of Homer." This special event, which proved once again that the poetry...

"The Art of Ancient Greek Theater" exhibit is currently on view at The Getty Villa from August 26, 2010  untill January 3, 2011.  It is the first exhibition in the United States in over fifty years to focus on the...

The J. Paul Getty Museum today placed on view a Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, the first Greek loan to arise from a 2011 framework for cultural cooperation between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture. On...

Τhe J. Paul Getty Museum’s Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, LA, is hosting the first US-wide exhibition exploring the origins, myth, cult and Roman adaptation of the ancient Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love” will...

“Almost every rock, every promontory, every river, is haunted by the shadows of the mighty dead,” wrote the English antiquarian Edward Dodwell of his travels to Greece in the early nineteenth century. During this time, he and the Italian...