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Moonlight on Lake George (detail), about 1875, S. R. Stoddard. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

A lake barely lit by cloud-obscured moonlight. A large tree casts shadow over the silhouette of a person sitting at the edge of the restless water, fist to their chin as if in thought.

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Landscape with Lake, late 19th century, artist unknown. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

A landscape with trees, a lake, and a stark white sky rendered in rusty red pigment. The location and artist are both a mystery. The foliage is blurry, and a small building is barely perceptible behind trees.

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Lake, 1907-1943, Louis Fleckenstein. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

It's as if this lake is disappearing. A white blur, totally opaque on the left side of the image, reveals more and more as the eye moves right. Dark trees and imposing mountains emerge, looming behind black waters.

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Meadow Lake, Summit City (detail); about 1872, Thomas Houseworth & Company. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

At Meadow Lake, dozens of bare or sparsely needled trees emerge from the water like skeletal fingers casting ghostly reflections that melt into a dark foreground.

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Bear Lake, 1907–1943, Louis Fleckenstein. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

A misty view of Bear Lake. There is a full-sized evergreen tree just growing out of the middle of the water. Another cluster of small plants appears to float in from the right, like a ghostly ship.

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Lake Angela and Summit, near Donner Peak. Nevada County. (detail), 1866, Lawrence & Houseworth. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

A rocky lakeshore at Donner Peak (Yes, as in the Donner Party.) is mirrored in dark water, where ghostly, blurred reflections seem almost alive. In the foreground, a rock resembles a human head staring intensely back at the viewer.

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Upper Saranac Lake - Bartlett's Landing Moonlight (detail), about 1870, G. W. Baldwin. Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

This composition feels visually uneven, with the bright moon and churning clouds pulling attention to the left. An eerie orb on the lake and scattered rocks reinforce a mood of chaos and unease.

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Today is World Architecture Day! Did you know many of the world’s most iconic 20th-century sites are made of reinforced concrete? As concrete ages, it requires specialized care.

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Muchos de los fotógrafos incluidos en Instante/revelación: momentos en la fotografía mexicana realizaron retratos de artistas, escritores e intelectuales de sus círculos sociales. Estos creadores compartían vínculos de amistad que los inspiraban a pensar con los ojos y a ver con el pensamiento. ✨

Retrato de la escultora mexicana Isabel Villaseñor, reclinada sobre un trozo de madera flotante. Con los ojos cerrados, Villaseñor está recostada con un brazo levantado para sostener la cabeza y una pierna doblada.

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Lola Álvarez Bravo mantuvo amistad con una comunidad de artistas, entre ellos Frida Kahlo. Álvarez Bravo y Kahlo compartieron una relación muy cercana, quizá debido a sus matrimonios turbulentos y a la escasez de referentes femeninos en sus respectivos campos.

Retrato de cuerpo entero de Frida Kahlo mirándose en un espejo. Kahlo lleva un vestido negro de encaje de cuello alto, aretes con cuentas y el cabello recogido en una corona trenzada. Dos perros deambulan a sus pies.

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Many of the photographers featured in Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography produced portraits of the visual artists, writers, & intellectuals in their social circles.

Portrait of the Mexican sculptor Isabel Villaseñor reclining on a piece of driftwood. Eyes closed, Villaseñor reclines with one arm raised to support her head and one leg bent.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lola Álvarez Bravo maintained friendships with a community of artists, including Frida Kahlo. 🎨 Kahlo and Álvarez Bravo shared a particularly close relationship, perhaps because of their turbulent marriages and limited female role models in their respective fields.

Full-length portrait of Frida Kahlo looking in a mirror. Kahlo wears a black lace high-neck dress, beaded earrings, and her hair tied up in a braided crown. Two dogs roam around at her feet.

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Ever wonder why people didn’t smile in old photographs? The answer may surprise you: gty.art/3PtD5QD

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If museum professionals named meetings honestly.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spooky season trivia time! What scary story by Edgar Allen Poe inspired this drawing by Odilon Redon? Reply with your guess! ✍️

An eye peers through the crack between two planks of a wood floor in this charcoal drawing on brown paper.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interested in art exhibitions? Explore what’s on: www.getty.edu/exhibitions/

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking for more #art and #culture in your life? There are Getty events for you: concerts, workshops, artist talks, and more! 🪇 www.getty.edu/calendar/ Photo: El Santo Golpe in Little Tokyo by Aaron Paley

A lively band performs on the steps of a museum in downtown LA. They are accompanied by mexican folk dancers in large skirts.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you… 1️⃣ Looking for something to listen to while doing chores? 2️⃣ Needing something to listen to while driving your kids to school? 3️⃣ Wanting inspiration for an artsy dinner? …if yes, there’s a Getty podcast for you! #WorldPodcastDay Happy listening! gty.art/4hosp0D

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can you guess this mythological figure? Some clues: 🔎 Spreads rose petals 🔎 Married to Tithonus, who is eternally growing old 🔎 Goddess of dawn, first light of day

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With the Latina Lesbian series, Laura Aguilar produced a type of social documentary #photography. By capturing life on the margins, #Latina #Lesbians combats negative stereotypes about queer women both within & outside the Chicano/Latino community. 📷 bit.ly/4hSh0q6

Portrait of a woman wearing large, black frame glasses and a black jacket posing with one elbow resting on her knee. Bookshelves filled with books and framed pictures line the wall behind her. Text: My motivation comes from within. This is where my heritage as a woman and Latina lives. It reminds me always of how far I have come and how far I still have to go. - Jay Jay, 1987

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s Purrquoise’s world, and we’re just living in it. In an *exclusive* interview, he touches down on his international travels, his east coast frienemy, and his starring role in Getty’s new season of the If Objects Could Talk podcast. www.getty.edu/news/purrquo...

Installation view of Purrquoise, the turquoise colored ceramic cat sitting on a gold throne at the Getty Museum.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

national ghost hunting day is a day for ghosts who hunt...right? 👻

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Which medieval creature are you? Pause to find out.

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According to medieval astrology, Libra season is a bad time for taking medicine for the eyes, moving into a new house, and going to war.

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According to medieval astrology, Libra season is a good time for short-term projects, making new clothes, harvesting grapes, and getting haircuts.

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In today’s astrological terms, Libras are believed to be friendly, compassionate, and indecisive. In medieval humoral theory, this was believed to be due to their hot and moist humors owing to an excess of blood in their bodies.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Libras are said to be friendly and compassionate, but indecisive. Sound like a Libra you know? Scroll this 🧵 to reveal the dos and don'ts of Libra Season. ♎️

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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.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

¿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.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interested in seeing rare Yoko Ono archive materials? Join us 9/30 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. Tickets available: gty.art/yokoono

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getty is welcoming its first painting by Diego Velázquez, a recently rediscovered portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares. Learn more: gty.art/4ha6I4v

A painted portrait of a man in armor with a red sash. Text reads: Rediscovered portrait by Velazquez joins Getty's collection.

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Heading to the Black Portraiture[s] conference? In anticipation, peruse a reading list of books that span art, architecture, migration, and the many ways Black communities create—and reclaim—space. www.getty.edu/news/black-p...

Stack of books featured in the reading list including:
1. Black Curators Matter: Conversations on Art and Change
2. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present
3. Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985
4. South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
5. Of Interest to the General Public: About a Coronation Cloak from Ethiopia (Objects Talk Back series)
6. Kin
7. Fugitive Tilts: Essays
8. Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
9. When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas series)
10. Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation
11. Devin Allen: Baltimore
12. The Revelation of Dionne Daphne

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These depictions offer a more compassionate portrayal of fatherhood and a more personal connection to the divine. It's a good reminder that ideas about fathers, families, religion, & relationships aren't set in stone. Art shifts culture, and culture impacts art. 🔄 🧵6/6 gty.art/3SOrwF1

A close-up of the Holy Family is in a contemporary Netherlandish home. Joseph offers nourishing milk soup to Jesus, kept warm with a lid.

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Joseph's growing prominence reflects a change in how people imagined both fatherhood and humanity's relationship with the divine. Rather than emphasizing the lofty majesty of the Holy Family, artists highlighted tenderness, intimacy, & human connection. 🧵5/6 gty.art/46D93P8

Medieval manuscript in which Joseph guides Jesus by the hand.

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Why the change? New religious writings (and Joseph's freshly-minted sainthood) inspired people to imagine Joseph as an active father who nurtured and protected his family. 🧵 4/6 gty.art/4dfAIJx

A medieval manuscript in which Joseph is hunched over a fire, warming food for the Christ-child.

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By the late 1400s, something shifted. More artists began to portray Joseph as a caring, capable parent. 🧵3/6 gty.art/4qUXR9X

Joseph holds the infant Jesus, smiling tenderly down at him, as Mary walks alongside.

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Yet before the turn of the 15th century, Mary's husband Joseph (Jesus's earthly father) was either absent from depictions of the family altogether or tucked into the background, tired and detached. 🧵 2/6 gty.art/3SNE0Na

A medieval manuscript in which Joseph is sitting in a corner looking miserable.

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