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In Getty Villa Gardens on Friday morning, a light breeze and fountain spray perfect calm; There is no hint of construction below on the Pacific coast road. Nearly six months after burning a Palisades fire, 23,000 acres of perimeter, and made thousands of nearby houses, and many of the museum’s lands, the Los Angeles teacher is open again.
It is a moment of joy for employees and visitors, eliminating the continuous recovery outside the museum’s walls. Alexandria Seifak, the assistant communications director at The Getty, expresses “an official understanding that we are surrounded by many houses that we did not make through the fire … while at the same time we feel very grateful because we remain standing.”
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The Getty Villa Museum, a cultural test in Los Angeles, has survived severe damage to forest fires. Reopening it gives Angelinus recovery, etc., something that smiles about it.
“To come here and experience this indicates that there is life and there is beauty and there is still an art to experience here,” says Phil Sky, who has been working in the villa as a carrier for about 20 years.
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“I don’t feel that this is Los Angeles,” says Mr. Sky. “I am walking across Europe or some other country and I go here.”
During the Palisades fire, the artwork was safe inside the buildings, which were designed to endure heat and flame. But “there was stress and nervousness at the center of operations while we were watching fires raising the campus,” says Ms. Seifak. The fire consumed more than 1,400 trees on the property and left soot and ash to weigh the site.
This is the first visit to the museum of Robin Kranezer, although it grew up in the nearby northern Hollywood. “I was fool. I didn’t know it was very beautiful here,” she says.
The professional runner lives in Wisconsin now, and has not been for nearly four years. She says the damage of fires in the region is shocking, as the villa says an important break from the political and social turmoil in the world. “It is extremely easy to be busy with everything here and now … … and something like that reminds you that there is a lot.”
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Lee Holtz lives in New York, but he spends a lot of time in Los Angeles. He was here during forest fires in January. He says the museum is in a “landscape of inequality.” “This is the survivor of a civilization earlier and in some respects. This is symbolic in all kinds of ways.”
I thought that you might not survive the next catastrophe made Heather Fuller to lead from Orange County, South Los Angeles. She had planned to visit in January, but the fires kept them away.
It is happy because the villa is open, she says, and she hopes “symbolizes that everyone else is affected will be able to return to their lives as well.”