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You asked for more! So here we are delivering the official curatorial rating of the 📜 emoji. Which is your favorite? Emojis sourced by @emojipedia Follow @gettymuseum for more art and culture in your daily feed. #art #gettymuseum #parchment #medieval

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Today is #worldsmileday😉, but ever wonder why people didn’t smile in old photographs? The answer may surprise you. #photography #museums #vintage #photobooth #smile #trend

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The last one is too real. 🫂 What our work calendars would look like if we were totally honest, museum professionals edition. Follow @gettymuseum for more art and culture in your daily feed. #art #gettymuseum #archives #librariesoftiktok #glam

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Before true crime podcasts, televised police chases, and Paw Patrol...who got the idea to use cameras to document crime? 📸 Step into the origins of crime scene photography and mugshots in this Macabre Minute with Mel. #photographers #arthistory #crimetok #truecrime #forensics

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Which medieval creature are you? Pause to find out, and tell us in the comments. These images all come from the medieval bestiary, a kind of encyclopedia of animals illuminated in the Middle Ages. The bestiary features both real and fantasy creatures to life for medieval readers, often offering a moral lesson along the way. #Medieval #Art #Animals #Creatures

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What inspired this photograph? Hear artist Cecilia Salcedo Méndez describe in her own words how close looking over time inspired her creative process. Learn more ⬇️ [Español abajo] This image comes from her series "The Thorn and the Fruit," inspired by this poem by Pablo Neruda: "Mexico, with its prickly pear and its serpent: Mexico, flowery and thorny, dry and hurricane-force, violent in its design and color, violent in its eruption and creation, covered me with its enchantment and its surprising light." Enjoy this photograph alongside works by 13 prominent photographers who recorded the "instantes y revelaciones" (instants and revelations) of a remarkable century of Mexican creativity. Open through January 3, 2027 at the Getty Center. ¿Qué inspiró esta fotografía? Escuche a la artista Cecilia Salcedo Méndez describir cómo la observación paciente y la atención a los detalles dieron forma a su proceso creativo. Esta imagen forma parte de su serie La espina y el fruto, inspirada en el siguiente verso de Pablo Neruda: “México, con su nopal y su serpiente: México florido y espinoso, seco y huracanado, violento en su dibujo y en su color, violento en su erupción y creación, me cubrió con su hechizo y su luz sorprendente.” Descubra esta fotografía junto con las obras de 13 destacados fotógrafos que capturaron los instantes y revelaciones de un extraordinario siglo de creatividad mexicana. Guamúchil. Pithecellobium dulce de la serie La espina y el fruto, 2007, Cecilia Salcedo Méndez. Museo Getty, donación de Daniel Greenberg y Susan Steinhauser. © Cecilia Salcedo Méndez. #Photography #MexicanPhotography #Nature #Art

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Interested in seeing rare Yoko Ono archive materials? Join us September 30 for “Show and Tell: Yoko Ono Archive” at the Getty Center. See these special materials—including Ono’s Grapefruit—and join in on art-making stations inspired by Ono’s artist books in Getty’s collection. Tickets available at gty.art/yokoono This exciting event is in collaboration with @thebroad to celebrate their exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, on view through October 11.

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Did you know that green was a tricky pigment for artists across time? (And yes, arsenic is part of its story). But why? Head to youtube.com/gettymuseum to find out. Join Jessie, host of Getty's Becoming Artsy YouTube show, as she explores the color green through the ages, from ancient art to modern paintings. #art #gettymuseum #history #museumsoftiktok #artconservation

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If your favorite artworks could talk, what would they say? A new season of “If Objects Could Talk” answers that now! Hear from a new object every Monday at getty.edu/IOCT or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Today is World Architecture Day! Did you know that many of the world’s most iconic 20th-century sites are made of reinforced concrete? While it is an extraordinarily versatile material, preserving aging concrete requires specialized knowledge and care. Getty is working to protect concrete landmarks by advancing conservation research, developing practical repair guidance, and supporting preservation efforts through grants and specialized training. Many of the buildings in this video received funding for preservation efforts through Getty's Keeping It Modern initiative. Plus, Getty runs an International Course on the Conservation of Modern Heritage (MAC) which offers professionals caring for important modern buildings around the world hands-on training in the conservation of reinforced concrete, connecting research and guidance with practical, on-site experience. #architecture #modernist #brutalism #cities #getty

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After 250 years, this portrait has arrived at the Pacific: the ocean that its subject called home. 🌊 Traveling from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the Getty Centre, witness the US debut of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Mai, a compelling painting of the first Polynesian visitor to Great Britain. Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Mai and 18th-Century Portraiture will be on view at the Getty Center today through March 14, 2027. Portrait of Mai was purchased jointly by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Board of Trustees of the @National Portrait Gallery, London, 2023. Support provided to NPG by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, @artfund and other generous supporters. #Art #LosAngeles #Tahiti #Museum

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Sound on! Enjoy some archive ASMR with Getty mountmakers rehousing a papier-mâché dress by artist Fabiola Jean-Louis featured in her artwork "Marie Antoinette is Dead." Watch the full video on youtube.com/gettymuseum In the full video, Getty mountmakers Barry Russakis and Kevin Young carefully move the dress into a custom long term storage crate. This is a common process for artworks in Getty's archives, and it's work that takes a lot of time, detail, labor and care. Want more ASMR? Tell us in the comments. #art #asmr #archives #librariesoftiktok #gettymuseum