The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind- driven Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan 7. — AFP
THE J Paul Getty Museum houses Vincent van Gogh’s Irises and many other priceless masterpieces in buildings that were dangerously close to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. So where did the Getty staff take the art for safekeeping as flames and smoke approached?
Nowhere. The Getty itself, its president says, is the safest place for art during a fire.
