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Virtual Tour: J. Paul Getty Museum

As we keep lists of the cultural nourishment we’d like to consume in the months following the lift of quarantine, heading overseas may still be off limits. It would be wise, therefore, to consider some of the U.S.-based destinations replete with amazing examples of art from all over the world.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has one of the best collections in the United States, including this online exhibit of 18 th century pastel portraits full of exquisite details and soothing colors.

More portable and easier to work with than oil painting, pastels were popular for portraits, including this self-portrait from a young Charles-Antoine Coypel, created as a gift for his brother Phillippe.

Pastels were an excellent medium for creating convincing likenesses, making them popular with prominent figures in 18 th century France. Jean Baptiste-Perroneau portrays this wealthy French textile scion, and even with some of the more brilliant hues fading over the centuries the details are striking.

Visit this and other online exhibits at the Getty Museum…that is, until you can witness them in person.

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Michelangelo: Mind of the Master

How much do you know about Michaelangelo? No, he’s not a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle who loves pizza. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet born in the Republic of Florence during the High Renaissance times. You might know some of his works of art, including The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, The Last Judgment, and many more. Learn about his life, inspirations, and revolutionary achievements that grant him his place within The Getty gallery.

A virtual tour of an art and history museum may not be the first choice to view these items, but there is a bright side to the online portal. You get to see many more works of art along with additional resources of information for each collection you choose to see. So when viewing works in antiquities, drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, or sculptures – you’ll also be able to read more about the history than you would have inside the museum.

Resources for the Classroom

School is still in session! If your children are in grades Kindergarten to their Senior year of high school, there are many educational resources to explore on The Getty Center’s website. The Getty resources for the classroom include multiple lesson plans for guiding students through The Getty collections. Depending on the display, subject, time, or other focus the students may be studying – there is a worksheet just for them. Anyone wanting to learn more about everything inside The Getty will have a selection of interactive experiences and creative lessons available at their fingertips.

Getty Podcasts

Podcasts are a valuable resource for anyone wanting to learn more about anything. We hear them for criminal cases, for the beautify industry, and overall entertainment. With the various Getty podcasts featured on their website, you’ll be able to listen to experts speaking about their favorite subjects featured at The Getty Museum. Choose to listen to an art podcast hosted by an art professor or Ancient Greece’s history hosted by a Greece Historian. The experienced hosts feature multiples guests and scholarly examples, so you can learn as much as you want about every collection.

Getty Search Gateway

Sometimes your searches for educational materials might be more specific. If you’re a college student, professor, or curious about the history of somewhere in particular – here is the best place to look. The Getty Search Gateway lets you choose the filter parameters for every work in The Getty collection. Filter your search with time periods, work type, names, locations, and more. Find your way to precisely the time period or artist you want to learn more about. A virtual tour through The Getty Center is a much deeper dive into history than you could ever imagine.

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The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa

TripSavvy / Christian Hundley 

Oil magnate J. Paul Getty used some of his vast wealth to amass an incredible art and antiquities collection, first displayed in his ranch house on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. In the early 70s, he had a Romanesque villa constructed next to his house to be a permanent museum for his collection. The Malibu Villa, modeled after the partially excavated Villa dei Papiri in Italy, became the home of the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1974. In 1997, the Getty Villa was closed and the collection was relocated to the hilltop Getty Center in Brentwood (Los Angeles).

After a nine-year, $275 million renovation and expansion, the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa re-opened in 2006 as home to the Museum’s Antiquities Collection. The Villa and gardens are familiar to those who visited in the past. The original building was stripped down to the bare framework and re-built as an earthquake-resistant, enhanced version of itself. The rest of the canyon was built up from bottom to top, covering the steep hillside with strata of wood-grained concrete and stone in a high-concept version of an archaeological dig. They also added a new parking structure, Entry Pavilion, Outdoor Theater, Auditorium, expanded Café and Museum Store in the narrow canyon. If you’re not overly obsessed with architectural accuracy, you’ll be charmed by the updated Villa, despite its cramped quarters. Use this guide to get the most out of your visit. Like the Getty Center, the Getty Villa is one of the top free things to do in LA  and one of the ​top art museums in Los Angeles .

Address:  17985 Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles Hours:  Wednesday - Monday 10 am - 5 pm. Closed Tuesday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving, and December 25. Cost:  Admission is FREE, but advance timed tickets are required for every person over 5 years old. Each adult tickets may bring up to 3 children 15 and under in the same car. 

Getting There: By Car:  The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in Pacific Palisades (Malibu), just north of the intersection with Sunset Boulevard. The Villa can only be accessed from the northbound side of PCH. By Bus:  Metro Bus 434 stops in front.

Accessibility:  All parts of the Getty Villa compound are handicapped accessible via ramps and elevators. Standard wheelchairs and strollers are available without charge in the Entry Pavilion on a first come basis. Select materials are available in Large Print or Braille. Sign Language Interpretation is available by advance request at public events. Assisted Listening Devices are available at the Tour Meeting Point and Information Desk.

Getty Villa Architecture I - The Grounds

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The Getty Center and Getty Villa are as much about the architecture as the art collection. Like much art, they are better appreciated with an understanding of their creators’ intentions. Knowing the architects' concept of re-imagining the site as an archaeological dig, puts otherwise incongruous details in context. Oddly placed walls in the Entry Pavilion overlooking the Villa to one side and a concrete courtyard below re-create the sense of looking down into the dig pit - if you know that's what it's supposed to represent.

Stairs from the garage through the Entry Pavilion and the Path to Museum bring you to the top of the Outdoor Theater , from where you can look down to the Villa Entrance. This, again, gives the impression of looking down into the site. But if you don't feel like ascending all those stairs just to climb back down through the theater, the archway to the right as you come up the stairs will take you through the Herb Garden to the Museum entrance. There are also elevators.

Beyond the Villa and Outdoor Theater, between the Auditorium and the Museum Store, a flat, square pool of Chinese black marble collects water seeping from between layers of travertine, bronze, red porphyry stone and board-formed concrete to add to the archaeological concept. The different textures represent the strata of volcanic deposits that covered the Villa dei Papiri when Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. An Orientation Tour gives architectural highlights.

Getty Villa Architecture II - The Villa

J. Paul Getty modeled the Malibu Villa after the Villa dei Papiri in Herculenium near Pompeii. Only part of the villa was excavated, but from floor plans, architects were able to recreate the dimensions of the ancient Roman villa. Details of floor and wall designs come from several other Greek and Roman edifices.

The Museum interior consists of 29 galleries on two levels, a reading room, and two interactive exhibits. Downstairs galleries open off an Atrium with an open skylight over a central pool. Beyond the Atrium, sculptured figures flank a long fountain amid Mediterranean plants in the Inner Peristyle , a courtyard surrounded by a columned porch. The doorway straight ahead under the yellow marble stairs leads to the East Garden .

To the right of the Inner Peristyle, is the Triclinium - a fancy dining room in a 1st-century Roman villa. This space is vacant to allow you to appreciate the intricate geometric marble designs on the floor and walls and the grapevine-painted ceiling. The Triclinium opens to the Outer Peristyle and Garden with a reflecting pool running its length. Unlike the Inner Peristyle, there are no galleries behind the long porticos. Latticed openings in the mural-covered walls look through to the grounds beyond. The landscaping of the Villa includes over 1000 Mediterranean plants.

From the south end of the Outer Peristyle, you can look out over the canyon to the Pacific Ocean. Another great view is from the south terrace on the Museum’s second floor.

The Getty Villa Permanent Antiquities Collection

The Getty Villa houses the Museum’s antiquities collection, focusing on Greek, Roman and Etruscan artifacts. The exhibit areas are organized thematically, which allows you to compare the different styles used across time and place. For example, the Stories of the Trojan War display contains any item that made reference to Achilles, whether on an Etruscan Vase, a Roman sarcophagus or a stone likeness of the Greek hero. There is a little bit of overlap or overflow of themes. Hercules/Herakles has his own Temple and appears also in the Mythological Heroes gallery. There is a lot to see, which can lead to museum fatigue, so plan your visit to see what interests you most first. Downstairs Galleries:

• Terracotta and Marble Vessels
• Silver Treasures
• Bronze Vessels
• Gods and Goddesses
• Luxury Vessels
• Basilica (more Gods and Goddesses)
• Monsters and Minor Deities
• Temple of Herakles (Hercules)
• Mythological Heroes
• Stories of the Trojan War
• Dionysus and the Theater
• Interactive Exhibits (see next page)

Upstairs Galleries:

• Changing Exhibitions
• Funerary Sculpture
• Animals in Antiquity
• Arts of Greco-roman Egypt
• Women and Children in Antiquity
• Religious Offerings
• Men in Antiquity
• The Victorious Youth
• Athletes and Competition
• Gems, Coins, and Jewelry
• Prehistoric and Bronze Age Arts

The colors, textures, and materials of the gallery spaces are designed to complement the artifacts and mimic the spaces that might have housed these items in earlier times.

Interactive Exhibits at the Getty Villa

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On the first floor off of the Triclinium are two interactive exhibit rooms. The Family Forum provides a space where children and adults can explore ancient cultures with hands-on activities. The artistically inclined can draw designs on replica vases and urns with dry-erase markers. A shadow play area allows you to grab a sword or pitcher and become a live part of the black on red vase motif. A touchy-feely display lets you reach through holes in a wall to feel what the clay for the vases would have felt like.

On the other side of the Triclinium, the TimeScape exhibit helps to put the Greek, Roman and Etruscan cultures into geographical and chronological perspective. Three parallel timelines wrap around three walls. An interactive map allows you to visualize who covered what territory when. Video stations highlight stylistic differences in the representational art of the three cultures. There are also GettyGuide stations where you can use the computer directory to look up specific artifacts to learn more about them and find their location in the Museum.

Upstairs on the east side of the building, there are more GettyGuide stations. You can also access the collection online  to get a preview.

Getty Villa Amenities

Café The Café at the Getty Villa has expanded and has indoor and outdoor seating. The Café offers Mediterranean cuisine from salads, pizza, and panini to pork chops with polenta. Espresso Cart The Espresso Cart is located near the outdoor Café seating. In addition to a variety of coffee and tea beverages, they have a limited selection of reasonably priced sandwiches, soup, salad, and baked goods. Museum Store The Museum Store is located below the Café, next to the Outdoor Theater on the same level as the Museum entrance. They have typical Museum Store goods including replicas and miniatures of some of the Museum’s collection or related items, books, jewelry, souvenirs and educational games and activities for kids. Tours Free Orientation Tours and Collection Highlights Tours leave from the Tour Meeting Spot across from the Villa entrance. Audio Tours are available at the Audio Guide Pickup near the cloakroom. There are five pre-programmed tours you can choose from. Alternately, some of the artifacts in each room are marked with a red PLAY arrow and a number that you can punch into the keypad to hear a description of the item including relevant history and myths. There are only a few numbered pieces in each gallery, so you’re left to read what you like about the rest.

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6 Virtual Museum Experiences You Can View from Home

It’s no time to get into mischief, even if you are reposing at home, social distancing from others, or simply looking for some escapism. Instead, be sure to check out these six museums offering virtual tours from your couch.

Grab your favorite blanket, take a break from binge-watching another season of The Office on Netflix, and check out some of these amazing collections from around the globe!

#1. Guggenheim Museum

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is renowned for its collection of 19th to 21st century art as well as for the expanding spirals of its awe-inspiring Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building . The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation established the museum in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. The museum adopted its current name after the death of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim , in 1952.

The wealthy industrialist Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting non-objective art in 1929 at the age of 66. Non-objective art is a type of abstract art in which artists aren’t concerned with portraying recognizable objects from reality. Instead, they work with elements of composition to show geometric forms, often using bright colors and crisp edges. Guggenheim was counseled by Hilla von Rebay , an artist, theorist, and tireless advocate for this artistic style. Rebay became Guggenheim’s personal curator and the first director of the museum.

Today the museum is the permanent home of an ever-expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art, and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. Picasso, Marc, Mondrian, Koons, and Beckmann are only a few of the featured works held here.

The museum’s Max Beckmann collection includes a self-portrait and a painting of a Paris house party. The house party shows people drinking and conversing, without the social distancing that we use today, but the painting is a good reminder that we should enjoy the good times when we can. The painting would look good on any wall and display well at your next virtual party!

Max Beckmann, Paris Society (Gesellschaft Paris) , 1931. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

#2. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)

Located in the heart of Texas’ largest city, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a dynamic cultural complex.

With its encyclopedic collection, an exciting schedule of exhibitions, and award-winning programs, MFAH is one of the premier destinations for art lovers in the United States. The MFAH’s permanent collection totals 63,718 pieces in 300,000 square feet of exhibition space.

You should definitely visit MFAH in person, but if that’s not practical, check out the virtual tour . And while taking some time off, cuddling with your pets, be sure to enjoy the art of Swiss artist Félix Vallotton that is housed at MFAH. We thought you would like this woodcut by Vallotton titled Laziness .

Félix Vallotton, Laziness , 1896. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

#3. The Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art has an impressive collection of 20th century art that features major examples of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Pop Art. It also has one of the largest collections in the U.S. of late works by Andy Warhol.

The museum houses the wonderful, internationally-renowned Cone Collection , which is a set of paintings and other art objects that Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone collected in the early 1900s. After visiting the Paris studios of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, the sisters began collecting art that they displayed in their Baltimore apartments. They later gave much of their collection to the museum, including 500 Matisse works as well as masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh.

Devoted to the art of our time, the Museum continues to expand its contemporary art collection. And in 2020, they are leading the way for the Year of the Woman by buying works from women only. In addition to new works, they have an extensive Mary Cassatt collection.

Mary Cassatt, In the Garden , 1893. Baltimore Museum of Art.

The Baltimore Museum of Art also has some Félix Vallotton works, including this woodcut print of Baltimore author Edgar Allan Poe. If you can’t visit the museum, it’s okay to stay home and relax. Slow down, listen to some music, look at art, and read some Edgar Allan Poe poetry.

Félix Vallotton, A Edgar Poe (To Edgar Poe) , 1894. Baltimore Museum of Art.

#4. National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London houses the country’s collection of Western European paintings from the 13th–19th centuries.

The museum got its start in 1824 when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein, a London businessman and patron of the fine arts.

Its collection belongs to the British government on behalf of the British public, and entry to the main collection is free of charge. It is among the most visited art museums in the world, after the Louvre , the British Museum , and the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

The museum has a large collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings, including works by Van Gogh. Now might be a good time to send yourself or someone you know a painting of flowers!

Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers , 1888. National Gallery, London.

#5. J. Paul Getty Museum

John William Godward, Mischief and Repose , 1895. J. Paul Getty Museum.

The Getty’s permanent collection includes Asian, European, and American photographs along with European paintings, sculptures, and drawings dating from the 8th–21st century.

John Paul Getty, the American industrialist and billionaire who founded Getty Oil Company, was an avid art collector. His collection formed the basis of the J. Paul Getty Museum. He left more than $661 million of his estate to the museum upon his death.

Getty first began collecting in the late 1930s, when he took inspiration from the collection of 18th-century French paintings and furniture owned by the landlord of his New York City penthouse, Amy Guest, a relation of Sir Winston Churchill. A fan of 18th-century France, Getty began buying furniture from the period at reduced prices because of the depressed art market due to the Great Depression. Although he was infamously frugal, by the time of his death, he owned more than 600 items valued at more than $4 million, including paintings by Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, Renoir, Tintoretto, Degas, and Monet.

We will never be as rich as Getty, but we can still enjoy art, whether at the museum or from home, online. Now is a good time to stay home, read books, study, look at art, and play music.

Bartolomeo Veneto, Lady Playing a Lute , c. 1530. J. Paul Getty Museum.

#6. National Gallery of Australia

The National Gallery of Australia is the national museum for the country of Australia. Located in Canberra, the opening of the museum in 1982 concluded a planning, design and construction period of fourteen years. One of the largest art museums in Australia, The National Gallery holds more than 166,000 works of art. Admission to the museum is free.

The collection of the National Gallery of Australia includes Australian art, Melanesia and Polynesia art, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, European art, Eastern and Western art, Modern art, abstract art, photography, and sculpture. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection comprises over 7500 works and is the largest in the world.

The collection of abstract art includes this beautiful work by Australian artist and modernist painter, Grace Crowley. Born in 1890 in Barraba, New South Wales, Crowley went on to create a body of work comprising 25 paintings and 12 drawings. She died in Manly, New South Wales in 1979 at the age of 89. The bright colors and curving lines of her abstract paintings both excite and calm us in a way that only art can do.

Grace Crowley, Abstract Painting , 1947. National Gallery of Australia, © artist’s estate.

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Explore la's j. paul getty museum virtually by joining us for this exciting presentation led by a getty docent.  the getty museum has a collection that spans over 1000 years. on this  virtual tour, you will get a brief introduction to the getty’s  architecture and gardens and then, moving into the galleries, you will  see some of the highlights of our museum from various collections  including manuscripts, decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, drawings and photography., so what is contrapposto exactly adlocutio how about pentimenti there is lots of terminology we hear about, but do we really understand all of it what do some of these things look like in a work of art what’s the difference between international gothic and the renaissance what do we mean by mannerism using objects from the getty collection, we will see examples of art terminology we see everyday and the schools of art with which we work. maybe you’ll come away with something you didn’t know before., image credit line: , self-portrait charles-antoine coypel, french, 1734 j. paul getty museum.

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Welcome to Porter College’s virtual scavenger hunt series!  Our first scavenger hunt in the series was in J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles  Our second is a scavenger hunt in the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdamm

Follow this link to our J. Paul Getty Museum scavenger hunt

Below is a scavenger hunt designed to follow the Google Arts & Culture Tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles . 

About the Getty Museum : The Getty Museum is the legacy of American billionaire, John Paul Getty. In the later years of his life, Getty undertook the role of amassing a collection of art that could be shared with the public. In 1954, the first of his collection opened to the public in his Malibu ranch house. After his death in 1976, he left a majority of his fortune to the J Paul Getty Trust. In the 1980’s the trust began working on the Getty Center, a six building structure in Los Angeles, where the collection currently resides. The project was finished in 1998 and has become a prominent landmark for the city of LA.

Please read all of the guidelines before beginning the scavenger hunt.

Access : There are two different ways to access the collection , the first is a virtual tour, the second is a slide show of the collection. 

• The Virtual Tour: This tour explores the inside of the Getty in the same structure of a street view in Google Maps, to move around the museum simply click and drag or just click around the museum to move from place to place. This museum is also two stories, and you can travel between them by clicking on the one or two in the right hand corner of your screen. Please note that if you go through the museum virtually you will be unable to see the placards next to each piece of art. To access this tour click the link above, and then click the yellow figure in the right hand corner .   Here's a video "how to" guide!  
• Slide Show: This view of the collection is a slide show. This option allows you to see the specific details of a piece, with both information about the work and a zoom feature that allows you to see all the details of the work. To access the slide show click the link above and scroll down to the “In this Collection” section of the webpage. From here you can view the collection by most popular, when it was made, or the color pallet of the piece.

Items: There are two types of items in this scavenger hunt: Lost and Found, and Interactive

• Lost and Found Items are things you are trying to find within the museum. These items are open to interpretation, and no two answers will be alike. Each Lost and Found Item is 5 points each, for a total of 100 points.
• Interactive Items are specific tasks that involve both finding an item in the museum and then altering the image to fit the description. The number of points for each varies.

Submitting Items: For each item you complete, you can submit an image through our Discord channel or through email at [email protected] . No one beside the Porter Activities Office staff will be able to see your submissions on the Discord channel.

Points: Points can be accumulated as you submit each item you complete. We (The Porter Activities Office) will keep track of the amount of points each person has received through the Discord channel submissions, and through your email submissions.

Prizes: Once you complete the scavenger hunt, we will tally up your points. There are 200 total possible points to score. Once we tally up your points, we will send you an email, or a message on Discord, to let you know what points you finished with, and what prizes you will receive. 

1-50 points : One custom limited edition Porter coloring page, and one custom limited edition Porter Zoom background.

51-100 points : Two custom limited edition Porter coloring pages, and two custom limited edition Porter Zoom backgrounds.

101-150 points : A limited edition Porter Postcard sent to your current address! We will confirm your address before sending.

151-200 points : A Porter Virtual Scavenger Hunt Patch sent to your current address, as well as receiving a custom color role in our Discord server. 

Weekly, we will be spotlighting our Staff’s favorite submissions from the Lost and Found and Interactive portions of the Scavenger Hunt on Porter Activities’ social media.

Lost and Found:  

Lost and Found is an exploration activity. As you go through the collection, your goal is to find a piece that you think best suits the item, take a photo of the piece and share it within the Discord chat. For this challenge we ask you to explore the content of the museum. These items do not follow any order, and your answer can be any piece from the museum. You may even find multiple of the same item, but please only share one for your answer. 5 points each.

• Is that Hank the Turkey?
• Which deity is that?
• That golden decor would clash horribly with your dorm room walls!
• Holy cow! Why are there so many cows???
• Who let the dogs out? Who?
• Working women run the world!
• Pink really is their color
• You’re lion if you don’t see the details in this furniture
• What a beautiful sunset!
• Well dinner didn’t go as planned
• Dragons? Dragons!
• Don’t these guys belong in the ocean?
• That’s a lot of candles!
• Oh jeez, food doesn’t go on the floor… 5 second rule?
• That has to be getting heavy…
• What a “cheep” looking chair!
• An x-ray that nailed it
• What a tree!
• Men really love their red capes
• The google camera person :)

Interactive:

Interactive items are specific tasks. You can explore the museum any way that you wish to find these items. The final product of each item should follow the guidelines of the task. 

• You can’t sit there! That is a piece of art! Or… find a chair you are not supposed to sit in, and show yourself sitting in the chair. 15 points
• Normally you can sit there, but today that couch is a work of art. Or… find a place that you can sit, and make it into a work of art that the museum would kick you out for sitting on. 15 points
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Paul McCartney Shares Rare Photographs of The Beatles

Peering into mccartney’s journey amidst fame and camaraderie..

Paul McCartney ‘s rare photographs from The Beatles’ 1963–64 U.S. tour arrive at the Brooklyn Museum. Rediscovered from McCartney’s archives, over 250 images capture the frenzy of Beatlemania and the band’s personal moments. The exhibition blends photography, video clips, and archival materials to immerse viewers in the era. Director Catherine Futter describes it as a window into McCartney’s journey amidst fame and camaraderie.

McCartney’s diverse artistic talent shines through in his photos, reflecting influences from 1960s photography styles. From formal portraits to candid snapshots, the exhibition showcases his range beyond music. “Eyes of the Storm” offers a personal narrative of McCartney’s journey alongside John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

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Self-portrait. London, 1963. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1963 Paul McCartney under exclusive license ... [+] to MPL Archive LLP

It seems more than appropriate that a new exhibition of photographs circa 1963-1964 from the archives of Paul McCartney is on display at New York City’s Brooklyn Museum. After all, the Big Apple was where the Beatles memorably performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964–a moment that launched Beatlemania in the U.S. and changed pop culture forever.

The exhibit, titled Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm (which opens to the public on Friday), features over 250 black-and-white and color photographs covering the Beatles’ already-established popularity in Britain and their first visit to the U.S. Amid the craziness of screaming fans and swarm of photographers the Beatles experienced, McCartney, had the foresight to document what was happening with his Pentax camera.

Decades later, those images he took were rediscovered and first shown at London’s National Portrait Gallery prior to this current stop in Brooklyn. “The photographs remind me of an England that was more my parents’ generation than my own; of the early concerts and those original fans; of Beatlemania, a true English invention; and of a London that in 1963 spoke of promise and ambition and everything new to four young men from the North,” McCartney said, as quoted in the new exhibition.

Accompanied by memorabilia and archival footage of the Beatles’ press conference at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport in February 1964 and the legendary Ed Sullivan appearance, McCartney’s photographs offer a first-hand glimpse of a band conquering the hearts and minds of a nation. There are candid images he took of his bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr that reveal an intimate and unguarded (as well at times goofy and funny) side of the band away from the glare of the media spotlight.

John Lennon and George Harrison. Paris, January 1964. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1964 Paul McCartney ... [+] under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP

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Ringo Starr. London, January 1964. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive ... [+] license to MPL Archive LLP

“When I look back I think, wow, we did that and we’re just kids from Liverpool,” said McCartney as quoted from the exhibit. “And here it is in these photographs. Boy, how great does John look? How handsome is George and how cool is Ringo, wearing his funny French hat?

But it wasn’t just John, George and Ringo and other Beatles associates (among them producer George Martin, manager Brian Epstein, and Lennon’s first wife Cynthia) whom McCartney photographed. As the band was performing and traveling, McCartney snapped such scenes as people running on New York’s Avenue of the Americas, reminiscent of the band being chased in the film A Hard Day’s Night ; photographers congregating in Central Park; and spectators welcoming the band at Miami Airport.

West 58th Street, crossing 6th Avenue. New York, February 1964. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1964 Paul ... [+] McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP

Welcoming scenes at Miami Airport, February 1964. Pigmented inkjet print. © 1964 Paul McCartney ... [+] under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP

Other non-Beatles-related images featured in the exhibit include people crossing a snow-slushed street in Washington, D.C., and a close-up of a Miami police officer’s gun in his holster–scenes that may be ordinary to us but fascinating to McCartney as a first-time visitor to America (He could arguably be considered rock’s first photojournalist).

The exhibit concludes with color images of the Beatles and their associates relaxing in Miami Beach and having fun by the pool. They depict a relaxed change of pace (at least temporarily) for the Beatles following the frenetic pace of performances, media appearances and fan hysteria as the group would later return to the States in August 1964 for their North American tour.

George Harrison. Miami Beach, February 1964. Chromogenic print. © 1964 Paul McCartney under ... [+] exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP.

In a press statement, Catherine Futter, the Brooklyn Museum’s director of curatorial affairs and senior curator of decorative arts, said: “Since first arriving in New York in February 1964, Paul McCartney has built a strong, everlasting connection to the city. His vibrant photographs from The Beatles’ first visit capture the energy of the city, the excitement of the American fans, and the frenzy of the band’s status as celebrities. Yet the images also record The Beatles’ fun and delight with each other. Through McCartney’s lens, we feel the intensity of being at the center of such extraordinary events.”

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, through Aug. 18. For information, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org .

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