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Article: The organisation. (organizations forming the project program of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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'In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized. At the same time, it is extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible, to interest people in works of art unless they can see them and know something about them.' J. Paul Getty, 1965
These remarks are the foundation of both the Getty Center as a whole, and the J. Paul Getty Museum that it now houses. In addition five other programmes, which focus on scholarship, conservation and education, occupy the other buildings within the hilltop citadel. Within the overall complex, the distinct and different forms of the museum, clustered around its courtyard, and the Getty ...
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