Who has been out to a free #Getty25 community arts festival this summer? ✋ We have 6 more free arts festivals coming up across Los Angeles in celebration of the Getty Center's 25th anniversary. You're invited! Mark your calendars: 📅 June 25, 26: Pacoima with @pacoimabeautiful 📅 July 9, 10: Reseda with @1111.projects 📅 July 16, 17: San Gabriel Valley with @day1do @doelmonte 📅 July 30, 31: Wilmington with @AvalonArtsCA 📅 August 13, 14: Crenshaw with @crenshawcreative.co 📅 August 27, 28: Watts with @wlcac Each event will feature hands-on art workshops, live music and performances, an immersive digital experience of Getty's artworks, giveaways, and photo booths, as well as food for purchase. Find out all the details at the link in our bio.

Have you journeyed through "Persepolis Reimagined"? This immersive web experience lets you explore a 3D reconstruction of the ceremonial capital of the ancient Persian Empire at its height. The website is now available in Persian, Arabic, Hindi, and simplified and traditional Chinese. It accompanies the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World,” on view through August 8. The experience presents select objects from the exhibition in the context of life at Persepolis, available at: https://persepolis.getty.edu. . . . 🏷 #GettyMuseum #GettyVilla #GettyPersia #AncientWorld #History #Persepolis #Immersive #CreativeTech #Technology #3D #DigitalEnvironment

What's new at Getty? ⌚️ Extended evening hours: starting June 18, the Getty Center will stay open until 8pm on Saturdays year-round. 🎶 OFF THE 405, the Getty Center's annual outdoor summer concert series, is back! Enjoy performances by @bartees_strange, @losretross, @hand.habits, and @standing_on_the_corner. 🚘 Reduced parking fees: park for only $15 after 3pm daily. For weekday evening events and Saturdays, park for $10 after 6pm. 🍽 After two years, the Getty Center restaurant will be open for dinner on Saturday nights! Make dining reservations on @opentable. Come visit this summer! View our exhibition lineup and make a free reservation at our link in bio.

You're invited to free community art festivals this summer. This weekend join us in Wilmington! Celebrate with us and @AvalonArtsCA! There will be music, interactive workshops, performances for all ages, food vendors, giveaways, and more in celebration of the Getty Center’s 25th anniversary #Getty25 July 30 and 31 11 am–6 pm Banning Park 1331 Eubank Ave. Wilmington, CA 90744 Check out the full program at the link in our bio. Who do you want to bring to this weekend's free community arts festival? Tag a friend 👇

“Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall” is on view at the Getty Center through September 4. Gracing a freeway underpass in downtown Los Angeles, Judy Baca’s “Hitting the Wall” mural is one of the city’s most iconic works of art. The exhibition highlights the design, painting, destruction, and renewal of Baca’s 1984 artwork, as well as an actual-size reproduction of part of the mural. Tomorrow at 11 a.m. we will be hosting a live Q&A on mural art with @sparcinla, @judy_baca, and Getty’s experts. What would you like to know about public art murals? Ask us anything via Instagram stories, and we will get your question answered! images: 1. La Salsera (The Salsa Dancer), 2022, Judith F. Baca. Commissioned by the J. Paul Getty Museum. © 2022 Judith F. Baca 2. Gallery view of “Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall.” #GettyMuseum #GettyCenter #Art #PublicArt #SocialArt #ArtMurals #Murals #LosAngeles #SoCal #SocialPractice

Leaping lions! Here a Persian king turns backwards on his galloping horse and carefully aims his arrow at a pursuing lion. Swipe to get closer. Elaborate silver and gold vessels such as this one were made in in the royal workshops of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled over the ancient Persian Empire from AD 224-651. These vessels would have been gifted to aristocratic supporters and foreign dignitaries. Popular scenes on these types of vessels show the king as an invincible hunter. See this and other objects from the courts of the ancient Persian Empire in the exhibition "Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World," now on view at the Getty Villa through August 8. 🍽 Plate with King Hormizd II or III Hunting Lions, 400–600, Sasanian. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1962.150

4 different water scenes, 4 different artists. Can you guess the painter? Swipe to reveal the full artwork. . . . . . . . . . . Images: 1. The Wounded Foot, 1909, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Getty Museum 2. Sailboat on a Raging Sea, about 1818–1819, Théodore Géricault. Getty Museum 3. Sunrise (Marine), 1872 or 1873, Claude Monet. Getty Museum 4. The Banks of the Marne at Dawn, about 1888, Albert Dubois-Pillet. Getty Museum

When the pandemic prevented gatherings and community engagement, many artists turned to their work as an outlet. Four artists (@msyellowart, @mrbbaby, @desiboocreations, @ahlise.vela) worked with @1111.projects to design "Ancestral Healing," a mural that reflects the hopes, dreams, anxieties, and fears of young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about the project, one of several across LA County supported by @nogoingbackla, at our link in bio. 📷 "Ancestral Healing" in Sylmar, CA #LAArt #StreetArt #Murals #GettyFoundation

Confident or arrogant? Fiercely loyal, or just stubborn? Expressive or overly dramatic? Tell us how you really feel about Leos. Enjoy your birthday season, lions. 🦁♌ Leo, shortly after 1464, German. Getty Museum #Astrology #Zodiac #LeoSeason

Are watercolors considered paintings or drawings? Short Answer: Both! Long Answer: Watercolor is a combination of pigment (color) and a binder (usually gum arabic). It is soluble in water, which is where the name comes from. Depending on the proportions of each, the resulting colors can vary from delicate, transparent washes to opaque and vibrant hues. Watercolors traditionally fulfilled various functions. Some artists used watercolor in the the preparatory phase of their creative processes, others created finished works of art, competing with oil paintings. Often watercolors involve both brush and pencil work, so by technique they could be deemed drawings and paintings. But watercolor also exists of course as a third, separate category, much like pastels. Within our museum, watercolors are housed with drawings because they are works on paper (rather than canvas or panel) and require their own specific conservation considerations, but there are some exceptions—like the watercolors found within manuscripts. Image: 1. Coracias Benghalensis, 1788, Sarah Stone. Getty Museum 2. Rupicola Rupicola, 1788, Sarah Stone. Getty Museum

We're going swimming, who's coming? How badly do you want to jump into the water at the swimming pools in Leça da Palmeira, Portugal? Built in 1966, the pools were designed by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira and combine the natural rocky seaside with elegant minimal concrete design. Siza sought to keep as much of the original rocky shore as possible to make it feel like you are swimming in the ocean. Over the years, the ocean air and salty seawater have deteriorated the concrete and steel supports, which now need repair. In 2020, Getty took the plunge by granting money for research into the structure’s condition and for a conservation plan for the pools. 📷 Photos courtesy of João Morgado and Antoine Wilmering 🏷 #GettyFoundation #ModernArchitecture #Architecture #SwimmingPools #Summer #Portugal

Name the most iconic dragon in pop culture? Go. Dragons appear in medieval art from around the world. Larisa takes us on a dragon tour through visual history. Find more videos about the Middle Ages on our page or check out the guide of all of Larisa’s past videos.