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Sometimes, to protect your peace, you've got to cut out the chaos. 🔪

In this illustration for spell 17 of the Book of the Dead, a blade-wielding cat cuts the head off a snake. The serpent is Apep, the lord of chaos, who every night attacks the sun god Re during his nocturnal journey through the underworld. Re, in the form of a great cat, defeats Apep, ensuring cosmic order.

In the Book of the Dead, as in day-to-day life, this battle repeats eternally. Chaos always threatens, but the rhythm of day and night reassures us (as it has for thousands of years) that order will be restored. ☀️

Visit The Egyptian Book of the Dead at the Getty Villa through November 30, 2026.

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🐈‍⬛ Mummy Wrapping of Petosiris, son of Nanesbastet, from Book of the Dead, 300–100 B.C., Egyptian. Getty Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Kraus

Happy ! 🌈 In the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, you’ll find a trove of photographs of drag ball performers dating from the 1940s-60s.

Fashionable, feminine, and a rebellious source of entertainment: these iconic images are a radiant example of the rebellious and revolutionary ways Black and/or Q***r people resist systems of discrimination.

For art historian Alex Jones, they became a fascination, and a research project that brought these images back to life for the first time in nearly seven decades.

https://www.getty.edu/news/drag-balls-johnson-publishing-company-archive-photos/

These photographs come from the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, one of the most comprehensive records of Black culture in the 20th century which is currently being digitized and archived by Getty and Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Through time, the color green in art has been made from the copper-derived mineral called malachite, the pale gray-green glaze called celadon, or verdigris—made by hanging copper plates over a hot vinegar bath.

Green has also symbolized everything from life, rejuvenation, rebirth, fertility, and more.

Curious? Learn more about the history of the color green:
https://www.getty.edu/news/color-series-history-of-green/

Leer en español:
https://www.getty.edu/news/el-verde-siempre-perdura/

What form does your creativity take? For Yasuo Kuniyoshi, it was painting AND photography.

In 1906, Yasuo Kuniyoshi came from Japan to America as a teenager.

After landing in Washington state, he worked odd jobs, learned English, and eventually made his way to Los Angeles, where he enrolled in classes. An encouraging teacher inspired him to go to art school.

He moved to New York in 1910, where he studied painting at the Art Students' League, but around 1919 he began to photograph works of art to earn a living.

Although painting remained his primary medium, in 1935, Kuniyoshi acquired a small-format 35mm camera that allowed him greater freedom and mobility.

He began experimenting with angles and unconventional points of view to make more creative photographs. Soon after, he set up a darkroom at his studio.

Between 1935 and 1939, he made more than 400 photographs, frequently basing paintings on these images.

Discover over 100 Kuniyoshi photographs in our collection:
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