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Who is Anna Atkins? Discover the artist and scientist behind the first-ever illustrated photography book. 🧵

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Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Inspired by the masters. Made for the moment.

Elevate your gifting game with A Space for Timeless Imagination, by Getty and Pirate Worldwide.
Art-Inspired Fashion Drops Anchor at Getty A new streetwear collaboration reenvisions the Getty collection in bold new ways. A man and woman sitting on a step at the Getty Center wearing items from the Getty x Pirate collection. Close up image of the back of a blue sweatshirt featuring a design of irises coming out of a gold frame.
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Our final #drawing technique of the week is negative space. ◻️ Also known as “reserve,” negative space refers to an area of paper deliberately left blank, so that the color of the paper creates the illusion of light and form.
Drawing 101: Negative Space. A drawing of a small fishing boat, called a weyschuit, is drawn with its rigging articulated in fine, filigree pen lines. The vessel is surrounded by blank paper.
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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You may be familiar with Georges Seurat's colorful paintings, but have you ever seen his darker work with Conté crayon?

In Woman Strolling (Une élégante), a veiled lady dressed in the latest fashions seems to nearly walk off the page. (🧵 1/2)
A drawing of an elegant woman walking in profile, wearing a fashionable veil and fur-lined outfit while carrying a cane.
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Anyone else waiting for Thanksgiving dinner?

Meet Linda, the daughter of photographer Richard C. Miller and his favorite subject to photograph. He specialized in celebrity portraits and advertising, and was particularly skilled with color photographic processes.
A colorful photographic print of a young blonde child with blue bows in her hair staring across the dinner table at a plump Thanksgiving turkey.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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TW1: Working with clay is tricky, especially when it’s THICK.

This life-size turkey had its unique challenges. The clay's thickness and weight along with uneven shrinking caused early attempts of this porcelain poultry to crack and collapse in the kiln.

Gobble gobble. 🦃 (1/2)
Close up of a white ceramic turkey with a noticeable crack on the hind features.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Happy Sagittarius season! Sagittariuses are said to be charming and adventurous, but also reckless and impulsive. Sound like a Sagittarius you know?

Scroll this 🧵 to reveal the dos and don'ts of Sagittarius season. ♐️ (1/4)
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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🍗🧵 Thanksgiving moods, hot and ready for the holiday. Which is your favorite?
Painting of a man in a red coat yawning. Text overlay says, "when the tryptophan hits."
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Celebrate the season with artful gifts for everyone on your list! #MuseumStoreSunday https://gty.art/4objShH
Ten Artful Gifts for Museum Store Sunday | Getty News
Getty staff picks include Puglian olive oil jugs, a children’s book that encourages surrealist thinking, and snakes—on a hat.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🔱 Calling all demigods...and mortals. 🙋‍♂️ Your quest begins at the Getty Villa! 🌴🏛️

December 6–7 and 13–14, Getty & Disney+ invite you to join a limited-time adventure where Rick Riordan’s legendary saga collides with ancient Greek treasures.🏺

Complete the quest & win an exclusive prize! 🏆
Promotional image for Disney's Percy Jackson and the Olympians premiering December 10th on Disney plus and Hulu. Percy Jackson and his five friends are in a dramatic Greek mythology inspired scene where they are surrounded by a tentacle in a stormy ocean.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The first season of our new podcast If Objects Could Talk shared the stories of 10 objects from the Getty Villa's collection.

Learn about a slithering snake bracelet, a fish flask, a gossiping water jug, and more—then take a self-guided tour to see them in real life!

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Photo of family standing in the outer peristyle of the Getty Villa. Text on the image reads: A Podcast-Inspired Tour for Families. A new way for kids and adults to experience the Getty Villa.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#Hatching?? Is this a drawing of a bird!? 🐣

No, it's our drawing term of the week!

✍️ Four Studies of Heads Drawn over a Copy of Saint John the Evangelist by Correggio (detail), about 1585, Annibale Carracci or Ludovico Carracci. Getty #Museum
Drawing 101: Hatching. An example of hatching in two profile views of a bearded man wearing a hat. Gazing squarely at the viewer, a young man with his head cupped in his hands at the upper right overlaps earlier drawings done on the same sheet of paper (paper was scarce at the time this drawing was created). At the bottom, drawing from the side, the artist squeezed in a youth whose hat covers his sketchy eyes. Hatching is used to create tonal or shading effects through a series of closely spaced parallel lines. In this black chalk drawing, notice how hatching on the side of the man’s face creates shading. Close up of the bearded man wearing at hat, individual lines of hatching are very visible at this scale, showing how the contours of the man's face are rendered by the technique.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🚨 Attention museum visitors!

Don't miss these 4️⃣ tips for a trip to the Getty Center or Getter Villa.

Free reservations are required—book them at getty.edu/visit.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Ever wish you had more pockets? We have a solve for you!

Last week Jessie introduced us to the medieval pocket, now let her show you how to make one yourself.
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Team 💚 or team 🩷? You decide who's more ~popular~ 🧙‍♀️
A photo of the Getty Center's main building, edited to look green instead of white. A photo of the Getty Center's main building, edited to look pink instead of white.
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Did you know 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the photo booth? 🎞️
Nearly a hundred photo-booth portraits in black and white, each appearing to feature a different person. Each has unique hair, clothing, even facial shape.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Who’s afraid of the Guerrilla Girls?

Calling themselves the “conscience of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous feminist art collective who use humor and irony to expose sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination in arts and culture industries.
In the background are pink and black film strip contact sheets of a figure in a short dress wearing a gorilla mask. There are various poses including a fighting stance and raised arms. The forefront of the image is the nude figure from “Grande Odalisque” painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres wearing a black gorilla mask. Bold white text reads, “How to Be a Guerrilla Girl.” The subheader reads, “A look into the rebellious collective’s archive.” Text in the bottom right reads, “Read full story getty.edu/news”
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Did you know the iconic pointy princess hat has origins in the Middle Ages?
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Art museums have the highest average energy consumption of all cultural institutions in the US.

To make change, first you measure. Read the newly released @PST_ART climate impact report featuring the largest data set on the climate impact of exhibitions: gty.art/climate-report
Colorful geometric sphere composed of triangular panels in iridescent shades, surrounded by dark reflective surfaces. Text overlay reads: “Building a more sustainable future for art museums. Read full story gty.art/climate-report.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Looking for more art and culture in your life? There’s a Getty event for you! Film screenings, perfume making, drawing courses, and more!

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November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Join our drinking game—how do you drink from this without spilling?

ANSWER IN THIS 🧵⬇️
Tall transparent green drinking glass shaped like a man with a hat on his head and a sword at his side.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Looking for a unique dish to bring to the dinner table this season? Our pick: authentic medieval bread.

Here's the recipe:
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Reconstructing Medieval Bread
How accurate is this medieval picture of bread baking? A food historian does some delicious research
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November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Getty is officially submitting a spoon for #SpoonTok. 🥄
Council, how do you vote?

🏛️ Spoon, 1st century B.C.E.–1st century C.E., Roman. Getty Museum
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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We’re sharing a different #drawing technique each week of November! Today’s technique? Stumping. 🪵

🖼️ Standing Female Nude (detail), 1849, Gustave Courbet. Compressed charcoal. Getty Museum
Drawing 101: Stumping. Detail of the head and shoulders of a woman drawn in charcoal. Stumping involves rubbing or tapping a “stump”—a tightly rolled piece of paper, leather, or felt, tapered to a blunt point at both ends—to soften or blend marks made in dry media, such as chalk, charcoal, or graphite. In this nude, Gustave Courbet used stumping to soften the charcoal marks on the subject’s head. A charcoal drawing of a nude woman. The artist depicted a curvaceous, modern woman, but her classical pose and his sensitive modulation of form and careful rendering of flesh tones recall Courbet's study of the Old Masters in the Musée du Louvre. An inscription visible on the page, "Mon Vieux, C'en est une qu'on enverra à Sainte Beuve s'il nous embête! Gustave Ct. 28 Avril 49 (Old man, here's one to send Sainte Beuve if he gives us a hard time!)," refers to literary historian and critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, who was known for his conservative opinions. The words Les Debats at the woman's elbow probably refer to Le Journal des Débats, which published arts criticism.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM