The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators from around the world as part of the Getty's mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world's artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to the Getty's collections, initiatives, and research.

This issue features essays on the culture of display in eighteenth-century Venetian palaces, the influence of prehistoric cave paintings on American abstract artists, the life and writings of Pauline Gibling Schindler, an unrealized project by Sam Francis and Walter Hopps for a contemporary art venue in 1960s Los Angeles, Harald Szeemann's early plans for the documenta 5 exhibition, and the notebooks and manuscripts that led to Aldo Rossi's Scientific Autobiography.

Shorter texts include notices on Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's illustrations accompanying a tale in Martin de Murua's Historia general del Piru, copperplate prints depicting the Qing army's invasion of Nepal in 1792, the Nazi-era business records of the Gustav Cramer gallery in The Hague, Netherlands, and a proposal for the integration of provenance research into all aspects of museum activities, including a call for cross-institutional databases and international collaborations.