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New “Getty Voices” Project Features Creative Angles on Art and Culture, One...
We’ve just launched Getty Voices, a new social media project on The Iris led by a different member of the Getty community every week. Each Monday we’ll have a new voice and a new topic, kicking off...
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Write the Opening Line to Vermeer’s “Lady in Blue”
Update + more fun with Vermeer—We’ve written the rest of the letter based on Beth’s opening line and made several the stars in a video valentine. Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, about 1663–64, Johannes...
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Getty Voices: Rethinking Art History
Getty Voices presents first-person perspectives by members of the Getty community in weekly rotation. This week, Murtha Baca, head of the digital art history program at the Getty Research Institute,...
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It’s Time to Rethink and Expand Art History for the Digital Age
Continuing this week’s conversation on Getty Voices about rethinking art history, art historian Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (a participant in this week’s Digital Art History Lab) argues that we must...
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Getty Voices: Classics 2.0
Were the ancient Greeks and Romans really so different from us? This week on Getty Voices, the Villa Teen Apprentices dish up an ordinary-folks view of classical civilization rich with saucy graffiti,...
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Ask Him Anything! Jim Cuno on Reddit This Monday
Jim sits down with Snoo, Reddit’s alien mascot, to prep himself for the upcoming Q&A. At keyboards, everybody! This Monday, Getty President and CEO Jim Cuno joins the Reddit community in an AMA...
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Getty Voices: The Social Museum
Do museums need to change? If so, how do the people who work in them make that happen? This week on Getty Voices, a group of Getty colleagues immersed in different facets of arts technology, from...
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Windows Around Us
Today I walked around the Getty Center, looking to my left and to my right, tilting my head up and down. I looked for reflections, light play on the travertine, interesting shadows and geometric...
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What’s the Difference between a Selfie and a Self-Portrait?
Are selfies simply 21st-century self-portraits, or are they fundamentally different? In honor of #MuseumSelfie Day, we ask curator Arpad Kovacs and writer Alli Burness Hanging out with The Getty’s new...
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#MusePose, February Edition
The Instagram challenge steps up a notch with a monarch in tights and a sexpot goddess Show us your best #musepose! @the_toof_fairy becomes Maillol’s Air. #regram A photo posted by The Getty...
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Join Three Color Experts for a Twitter Chat about Red
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we co-host a Twitter chat about the color red, from science to seduction UPDATE: See highlights from the chat on the National Gallery of Art’s Storify. Download larger...
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#MusePose Gets Physical
Fight with your friends and flex like a hero in this month’s Instagram challenge Great way to spend the day @thegetty #musepose pic.twitter.com/5t390v3dZ9 — K Schwartz (@thosewhocan) February 21, 2015...
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Be a Fool for Art
Throw caution to the winds and strut, yawn, and glare your way through the galleries with #MusePose Raven Santos and friend show how it’s done (courtesy raveninez on Instagram) Posing like the art–the...
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Experience Death Salon Getty Villa
The death event achieves immortality through audio, photos, and social media Seven talks, a live Q&A, a comedy podcast, a music set, gallery tours, an Instagram scavenger hunt, and a wine reception...
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How to Find a Job in the Arts
Four people with cool arts jobs reveal how they got where they are and share their best career advice If you’re interested in working in the arts, you have lots of career options. From registrar to...
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Share Your #LAstory and You Could See Your Photos at the Getty
Join L.A. Tourism’s #LAstory project for a chance to have your art featured at one of the summer’s biggest outdoor concert events Photo of the Getty by @trevortraynor See your artwork in lights!...
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Join Getty Curators for #AskACurator Day on September 16
Get your questions ready—Getty curators are standing by! Curators from the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute will join their colleagues at nearly 1,000 institutions in 50 countries this...
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Museums Based on Books: Your Nominees
From Homer to Hobbits, your awesome suggestions for museums based on fictional worlds Alice in Wonderland Museum? Darth Vader Gallery? (Alice by John Tenniel on Wikimedia Commons; Darth Vader by...
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“Make for Yourself First” — Tips from a Favorite Instagrammer on Art and...
Talking to writer and artist Matt Allard about where he finds inspiration Matt Allard. All photos in this post courtesy of and © Matthew Allard Matt Allard, commonly known to his more than 88,000...
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Why’d You Take That #MuseumSelfie?
Eight reasons to take a selfie in museums—from the silly to the profound #MuseumSelfie Day is January 20 each year. This social media funday is intended to encourage people to visit museums and...
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