Instagram Inspiration from the Old Masters
"I am able to capture so much more with my eyes than what I would from studying a photograph."
View ArticleUsing Live Video to Connect with Art and Each Other
All this year, teams at the Getty have been experimenting with live video using Periscope and Facebook Live. The three of us have focused on Periscope, broadcasting from the galleries every Tuesday at...
View ArticleClosed Captioning for the Middle Ages
Have you ever looked at a work of art and thought: What the heck is going on? You might think art historians never ask this question, but we do—regularly! Enter #ThyCaptionBe, a weekly celebration of...
View ArticleJoin 10 Getty Curators for #AskACurator Day on September 14
Ten curators from the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute are excited to meet you—and join their colleagues at nearly 1,000 institutions in 50 countries around the globe—this Wednesday,...
View ArticleTwo “Tipsy Medievalists” Share Their Passion for Illuminated Manuscripts
In 2013 the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a magnificent copy of the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, now Ms. 111 in the Getty’s collection. In the Manuscripts Department, we’ve long been interested in...
View ArticleChat with Getty Archivists on October 5 for #AskAnArchivist Day
The Getty Research Institute is home to millions of pages of archival material about art and the humanities, from Renaissance notebooks to contemporary art posters. A large part of the archives is...
View Article#GettyInspired—A Look Back at a Year of Inspiration
Throughout the past year we’ve asked our visitors (both physical and digital) to share the ways that the Getty has inspired them. We’ve been astonished by the number of posts on social media—30,000...
View ArticleWhat Are Museums Doing to Engage Millennials?
What makes a group of people instantly feel like a place is “for them” when they walk through the door? What if this group of people is millennials—young adults 18 to 34? These are the questions I...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Instagrammers Taking the Same Photo at the Getty?
As a social media manager, I have the privilege of monitoring all of the mentions and tags of the Getty on Instagram, the modern art gallery so many of us now carry around in our pockets. Among...
View Article@GettyHub Twitter Offers News for Researchers and Practitioners in...
Calling all Twitter users who work in heritage conservation, humanities research, or digital art history: find us at @GettyHub. This morning the account formerly known as @TheGetty became the new...
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Experience Death Salon Getty Villa
Seven talks, a live Q&A, a comedy podcast, a music set, gallery tours, an Instagram scavenger hunt, and a wine reception with funeral-themed treats—this was yesterday's Death Salon Getty Villa. And...
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Enemies All Around—The Medieval/Modern Game of Thrones
The penultimate season of Game of Thrones is here (almost), and our medieval/modern episode recaps will return each week as well (see previous seasons here). The rhetoric of “enemies all...
View ArticleExperience Death Salon Getty Villa
Seven talks, a live Q&A, a comedy podcast, a music set, gallery tours, an Instagram scavenger hunt, and a wine reception with funeral-themed treats—this was yesterday's Death Salon Getty Villa. And...
View ArticleSix Lessons Learned from Our First Crowdsourcing Project in the Digital...
At the Getty Research Institute (GRI), we think a lot about how we can provide greater access to the growing corpus of digitized materials from our special collections. This means we think a lot about...
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