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I was reminded of the charred scrolls from Herculaneum, on which the Getty Villa was modeled, and the ashy human figures from Pompeii, frozen in the poses in which they died as waves of volcanic ash and lava overtook them.

“She is someone who really believes in making a home for talent,” said Latasha Gillespie, a former Amazon MGM Studios executive who is now an executive board member for Getty House Foundation.

The Getty Museum will host a mask-making workshop and Corita Art Center will be on hand for programs centered around processing grief.

“Should the Villa, and the Getty Center in the fire-prone Brentwood hills nearby, both evacuate — for good?”

Times readers if they thought the Getty should move.