As Los Angeles’s Getty Villa prepares to unveil a complete reinstallation of its collection of ancient art in April, the museum is looking to the present with its first exhibition dedicated solely to ...

“Do not, then, my friend, keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” Plato wrote this in The Republic. Who would have thought Plato would have come up with a statement as bold as this?

I’ve always harbored the ambition to be the very first to do something or other. And though minor, here it is at long last: Finding an opportunity to use “Plato” and “Yogi Berra” in the same sentence.