The Getty, long richer than the Met, is beginning to attract as much attention.
Mr Pountney said the company was "very grateful" to members of the Getty family for their gift.
In 2007, the Getty agreed to return 40 disputed objects to Italy, and all three frescoes were recovered by 2009.
But, the Getty Museum cannot equal Getty Images in its cultural and social reach to the entire globe.
Many back in Los Angeles looked at the Getty, and wondered what Frank Gehry might have done there.
Part of the Getty's own collection, the museum has agreed to give it back once the show finishes touring.
Pountney denied telling the Getty family that he would put on Gordon Getty's opera after they offered a donation.
For instance the Getty show includes drawings by Egon Schiele, photographs by Arnulf Rainer, and prints by Bruce Nauman.
Before leaving town, we also meet Richard Meier, famous for his awe-inspiring creation of the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Her former colleagues at the Getty have nothing to learn from Pontius Pilate when it comes to washing their hands.
One difficulty for the Getty is that many of the antiquities in dispute are among its most treasured and most visible.
But there is still life after the Getty for Mr Meier, who maintained a packed building schedule during the Getty's gestation.
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The famed Hearst Castle, for example, may be better maintained by an outside operator such as the Getty Museum, the report suggested.
In choosing Mr Meier, officials at the Getty said that they wanted somebody whom they could enjoy having dinner with for a decade.
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To preserve the home's historic flavor, Mr. McIlwee and Mr. Damaschke looked at Mr. Lautner's original drawings for the property, kept in the Getty archives.
She returned to Italy four significant pieces bought by the Getty.
The chief executive of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) has defended the decision to put on a Gordon Getty opera after a donation from the Getty family.
Another reason is that Mr Brand came to the Getty only last August, which means he has no personal link to a dubious Venus or suspect Apollo.
For example, the reputation of the Getty Museum, an avid collector of antiquities, has been seriously stained by the scandal involving a London dealer who served time in jail.
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The Getty is betting that in the years since then, commercial photography has become firmly enough established as an art form that such arguments won't carry the same power.
The Getty's trustees decided the house loan was a conflict of interest and forced out Ms True while she was on trial for transactions they had known about and approved.
It is a very grand achievement on many levels and a worthy heir to the Getty family reputation no matter the amount of money he has added to the family fortune.
She coveted a house in Greece and borrowed money to buy it from an important New York collector, who had just given and sold much of his collection to the Getty.
When he was 12, a godmother introduced him to some of the cultural wonders of Southern California, like the Getty Museum, the Huntington Library and the jewelry and set designer Tony Duquette.
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An important new exhibition at the Getty explores Googie architecture and the car culture that drove it, together with the high modernism pursued in LA by architects such as Pierre Koenig and Richard Neutra.
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Later that week, we drove north along the famed Pacific Coast Highway to the Getty Villa in Malibu, an offshoot of the Getty Center in Los Angeles that houses ancient Greek and Roman art.
If you get to the Getty Villa, save a few minutes to walk slowly around this proud hero, relishing the curving waterfall of pleats that define the first totally convincing human being created by an artist.
New York City architect Richard Meier, who designed the Getty Center museum in Los Angeles, says the old design (with identical facing on each side) ignored the impact of sunlight on heating and cooling the enormous buildings.
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