The original Getty Museum, housed in a replica of a Roman Villa on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, is one of Los Angeles's most treasured landmarks. Closed for almost ten years while renovations were made to the building and the site itself was transformed into a center for the study of antiquities and conservation, the Getty Villa is now set to open late in 2005. The Getty Villa is a lively history of the Getty Museum, its renowned antiquities collections, and its growth from a small museum in a ranch house in Malibu to its first home in a building designed to replicate what we know of the Villa dei Papiri, an ancient Roman villa partially uncovered in Herculaneum. Most engagingly, this book records the ten-year adventure in reconfiguring a beautiful, but topographically challenging, site into one that could continue to accommodate the splendid Museum building and also provide for an outdoor theater, laboratories for conservation work and research, offices for staff and...
В Украине начали закрываться книжные магазины: готовясь к тяжелым временам, граждане урезали расходы на духовную пищу. Но даже оставшимся на плаву скоро будет нечем торговать: импорт российских книг, которые до недавнего времени занимали львиную долю на розничных полках, снизился в разы, а то, что еще ввозят, резко подорожало. Но проблемы в отрасли могут выручить украинских издателей 0Pони уже заявили, что намерены побороться за освобождающееся место под солнцем.