🎃 Looking to read something truly terrifying?
We asked Getty employees what sends chills down their spine and wakes them in a cold sweat. 😱
⬇️ – at Burbank, CA
Take a moment(o), find a comfortable seat, and embrace macabre mindfulness with Getty Gallery Education Specialist Liz. 🕯️ – at Burbank, CA
💀 Memento Mori—Latin for “remember you must die”—dates back to the ancient Romans, but blossomed as an artistic theme amid the famine, plague, and war of the Middle Ages. These eerie artworks use skulls, hourglasses, and other symbols to whisper a chilling truth: life is fleeting.
🪦 By meditating on the impermanence of life, Memento Mori invites viewers to better appreciate and make the most of living. – at Burbank, CA
Enjoy your meditations with a side of mortality?
Join us in person for a Memento Mori gallery tour! 🖼️
⌛Tour schedule: gty.art/48jGetb – at Burbank, CA
Working with art can be dangerous...but why?
Meet the Getty Conservation Institute's Reference Collection, established in the early 1990s as a repository of materials used in the creation and analysis of art. It houses over 20k materials including lead, arsenic, and mercury. ☠️
Getty is awarding $2.7 million for 11 museum projects that will prioritize and deepen connections between audiences and artworks.
"New Interpretations" will support this work at museums worldwide, with an emphasis on experimentation, visitor research and evaluation. gty.art/4A3C1oe
Technology is cool, but you ever need to touch grass?
If you need to lower your screen time or even a full digital detox, try some of these objects from our collection on for size: getty.edu/news/mechanical-de…
Celebrate Día de Los Muertos with a colorful bloom from our Central Garden—Matthew the horticulturist will tell you all about it.
Enjoy another installment of Bloomscrolling, not Doomscrolling.
Artist Accra Shepp developed an innovative technique to print photographs on dried leaves, and this summer, we brought Shepp to meet with a group of art professionals to discuss his work directly.
Called a "Conservation Study Day," this unique gathering matters, learn more: gty.art/4BugeY9
Kids, families, listen up! Today's new ep of "If Objects Could Talk" tells the story of a slow moving snail who has traveled from Paris, to Chicago, and then to Brussels.
Dive in to hear more about our small friend in the big city.
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"If Objects Could Talk" is a playful storytelling podcast for kids and families that imagines what antiquities at the Getty Villa Museum might say if they came alive and found their way to our podcast studio.
New eps every Monday. Listen now: getty.edu/podcasts/if-object…
Today, three interconnected exhibitions featuring new works by contemporary painter Reggie Burrows Hodges open at the Getty Center, @caaminla, and Art + Practice.
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Experience some of Hodges's most ambitious work to date in the artist's first solo presentations in Southern California. ⬇️ – at Burbank, CA
🗓️ Join Hodges and curators Davide Gasparotto and Bridget R. Cooks for a wide-ranging conversation about his artistic practice, inspiration, and storied career.
For in-person attendees, a hosted reception and exhibition viewing follows the conversation.
Register to attend: getty.edu/calendar/painterly… – at Burbank, CA
Can you guess this mythological figure?
Some clues:
🔎King of the gods
🔎Armed with thunder and lightning bolts
🔎Often seen with an eagle
















