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Thank you, Siggne! 💙 We are so glad this video came to you at a time it was needed. You're exactly right—transition is difficult but it is natural. We wish you peace and the support of loving community during this time and always.
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🖼️ A Walk at Dusk, about 1830–35, Caspar David Friedrich. Getty Museum
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🪦 By meditating on the impermanence of life, Memento Mori invites viewers to better appreciate and make the most of living.

Enjoy your meditations with a side of mortality? Join us in person for a Memento Mori gallery tour! 🖼️

⌛Tour schedule: getty.edu/calendar/memento-mori-tour
Memento Mori Tour | Getty Tours
Reflect on life’s brevity through a gently guided meditation and close looking activity with a selected artwork in the galleries.
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💀 #MementoMori—Latin for “remember you must die”—dates back to the ancient Romans, but blossomed as an artistic theme amid the famine, plague, & war of the Middle Ages. These eerie artworks use skulls, hourglasses, & other symbols to whisper a chilling truth: life is fleeting.

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The Sands of Time (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
The Sands of Time (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1850–1852; Thomas Richard Williams (English, 1824 - 1871); Stereo-daguerreotype; Image (Each): 7 × 5.9 cm (2 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.); 84.XT.266.9
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It's #MentalHealth Awareness Day!

Take a moment(o), find a comfortable seat, and embrace macabre mindfulness with Getty Gallery Education Specialist Liz. 🕯️
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A study of pleated fabric that reads: What you’ll need: Many yards of pleated fabric
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A pair of red antique chairs that reads: What you’ll need: Silk upholstery Horse hair or feathers (stuffing) A friend willing to do the same
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Portrait of a woman labeled allegory of painting that reads: What you’ll need: Paintbrushes Painting smock Collection of forgotten hobbies
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Cyanotype portrait (done in blue hues) of a man that reads: What you’ll need: Blue face paint Blue clothes
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Drawing of a Ballerina by Degas that reads: What you’ll need: Tutu Hair in a bun Ability to balance on one leg
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Portrait of David (vs Goliath) that reads: What you’ll need: Slingshot Severed Head
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Cat sculpture that reads: Turquoise cat costume Gold throne Unnerving smile
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Looking for totally unique Halloween costume?This 🧵 has you covered. ⬇️
Ancient miniature skeleton toy that reads: 7 Art-Inspired Halloween Costume Ideas
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Not saying we believe in ghosts, BUT...anyone have any museum or art-related ghost stories?
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👻 Tune in each Wednesday in October for a new Macabre Minute with Mel, our annual autumnal exploration of the darker objects and stories in Getty's collections.
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A Christmas Carol...but make it medieval?

Join Mel on a journey to the Middle Ages as she tells the torrid tale of Tondal, the knight who had to learn things the hard way.
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Many thanks to our community partners who have made this event possible: The Chapter House LA, Meztli Projects, and NDN Girls Book Club.

🎟️ RSVP for your free ticket: www.getty.edu/calendar/cel...
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day. Free outdoor family festival. Music, activities, storytelling, poetry, art and performance. Saturday, October 11 2025, 11am- 4pm. Getty Center
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🔸 Music performance by Lazaro Arvizu, Jr. (Gabrielino, Tongva)
🔸 Drag story time led by Bohenne Arreaux (Jena Choctaw) and Johnny Gentleman (Guatemalan Maya, Nicaraguan Ocanxiu)
Woman dressed in indigenous clothing beating a drum at the Getty Center Woman instructing children in a drawing activity for Indigenous Peoples' Day
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🔸 Zine making workshop led by Meztli Projects
🔸 Collage making workshop led by The Chapter House
🔸 Traditional intertribal dancing curated by Candido Cornejo (Tlaxcalan, Nahua) with drumming by the Bearspring Singers
🔸 DJ sets by deesco
Person at the Getty Center gardens holding a sign that reads: I am on Tongva Lands Person giving an indigenous plant tour of the Getty Center's garden
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🔸 Comedy master of ceremonies Jana Schmieding (Lakota)
🔸 Poetry reading curated by NDN Girls Book Club featuring Solange Aguilar (Mescalero Apache, Yoeme, Kalinga, Kapampangan), Megan Dorame (Tongva), Erin Marie Lynch (Standing Rock Sioux), and Tabitha Smith (North Fork Mono, Concow Maidu, Wailaki)
People teaching basket weaving at the Getty Center's 2024 Indigenous Peoples Day event. Person teaching young children how to make indigo sun prints at the Getty Center
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Join us this Saturday, October 11 for a full day of free family fun celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the Getty Center.

This year’s theme celebrates libraries with performances and activities sharing traditional and contemporary Indigenous perspectives and storytelling featuring:
Two men dressed in elaborate indigenous ceremonial regalia at the Getty Center gardens. Woman performing a dance at Indigenous Peoples Day at Getty Center in 2024.
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Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, India is both a marvel of modern architecture and an important community hang out.

As modern architecture like this has aged and degraded, it is at risk for demolition. How modernist architecture in India is being preserved for posterity: gty.art/4q51RE7
Concrete structures surround a figure. Text reads: Look inside Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, India. Read full story getty.edu/news
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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 through October 27. Listen now: www.getty.edu/podcasts/if-...
If Objects Could Talk | Getty Podcasts
Listen to Getty’s newest podcast for kids and their families.
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Kids, families, listen up! Today's new ep of "If Objects Could Talk" brings a pocket-sized household demigod called a Lar.

Follow along with a family’s daily rituals and routines and hear how this Lar protected two young boys from getting into trouble:
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Statuette of a pocket-sized demigod named Lar. The statuette features a man standing in a playful pose, dressed in a toga, and holding a plate. Modern illustration of the same statuette.
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Image: King Haldin Accusing the Sultan’s Daughter Gracienne of Dishonorable Behavior (detail), 1464, Lieven van Lathem, David Aubert. Getty Museum
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