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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.
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.
ℹ️ https://gty.art/4Avy5xf
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 The Broad to celebrate their exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, on view through October 11.
09/23/2026
Getty is welcoming its first painting by Diego Velázquez, a recently rediscovered portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares.
Learn more: https://gty.art/4ha6I4v
09/22/2026
Our new exhibition, The Holy Family at Home, showcases a recently acquired painting by Gerard David alongside illuminated manuscripts and panel paintings of the period that shaped and reflected David's approach. Together, these works highlight the late medieval view of the tender human relationships at the heart of the Christian story.
👼 At the Getty Center until January 10, 2027
https://gty.art/4yL4IFA
Featured Artworks:
1. The Adoration of the Magi with Saint Anthony Abbot (detail), about 1410–1420, Franco-Flemish. Getty Museum
2. The Holy Family, about 1507–1508, Jan Gossaert. Getty Museum
3. The Nativity (detail), about 1025-1050, Ottonian. Ms. Ludwig V 2 (83.MF.77), fol. 18v. Getty Museum
4. The Nativity, about 1360–1370, Master of Jean de Mandeville. Ms. 1, v2 (84.MA.40.2), fol. 164. Getty Museum
5. The Flight into Egypt (detail), about 1480–1485, Master of the Dresden Prayer Book or workshop. Ms. 23 (86.ML.606), fol. 114v. Getty Museum
6. The Holy Family, about 1440–1450, Workshop of the Bedford Master. Ms. Ludwig IX 6 (83.ML.102), fol. 181. Getty Museum
7. The Holy Family, about 1520, Gerard David. Getty Museum
8. Christ Led to Jerusalem by Mary and Joseph (detail) from Illustrated Vita Christi, about 1190–1200, English. Ms. 101 (2008.3), fol. 48v. Getty Museum
09/21/2026
What happens when art historians leave their comfort zone?
Since 2009, Getty's Connecting Art Histories initiative has worked to shift the way art history is practiced. Here's what happened when a group of art historians traveled the Amazon River: https://gty.art/4yPuuZw
Did you know that green was a tricky pigment for artists across time? (And yes, arsenic is part of its story).
But why? Find out now: youtube.com/watch?v=sG5lJtAW8lw&t=5s
09/19/2026
You asked for more! So here we are delivering the official curatorial rating of the 📜 emoji.
Which is your favorite?
09/18/2026
To understand a curator’s work, imagine not an exhibition opening night, but what most visitors never see: storage rooms, family collections, facilities, boxes of letters and ephemera, and the fragile materials that remain after a life in art.
For LeRonn P. Brooks, curator of African American collections and acquisitions at Getty, those spaces are where history is protected before it becomes public.
That idea is central to "Black Curators Matter: Conversations on Art and Change," a new Getty publication about the complicated history of Black arts and cultures in museums.
Read our full conversation with Brooks about why this work matters: https://gty.art/3VC7wXc
If your favorite artworks could talk, what would they say? Find out in the new season of our family-friendly podcast If Objects Could Talk, out now.
This playful storytelling podcast imagines what Getty objects might share if they came alive and found their way to our podcast studio.
Hear from a new object every Monday at getty.edu/IOCT.
Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
After 250 years, this portrait has arrived at the Pacific: the ocean its subject called home. 🌊
Traveling from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the Getty Center, 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.
Learn more ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hum0ks
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, Art Fund and other generous supporters.
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