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Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflectiv...

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Introducing OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation Podcast

Today, we're sharing the first episode of OMMM, Getty's newest podcast and first video podcast. This series encourages you to engage with wo...

0:18:24Jul 27, 2026

Introducing ReCurrent: Backlot and Barrio

Check out season two of ReCurrent, a Getty podcast about what we gain by keeping the past present. Hosted by Jaime Roque, this season explor...

0:18:48Feb 17, 2026

Introducing If Objects Could Talk, a Podcast for Kids and Their Families

Check out Getty’s first podcast for kids and their families, If Objects Could Talk! Listen as artifacts leave the museum vault and come aliv...

0:02:01Sep 1, 2025

Recurrent: The Recipe of Us

Discover Getty’s latest podcast, ReCurrent, a series about what we gain by keeping the past present. In the debut episode, host and producer...

0:19:50Feb 25, 2025

Recording Artists: Robert Rauschenberg

Check out the newest season of Recording Artists, hosted by actor, artist, and futurist Ahmed Best. Explore the Getty archives and learn abo...

0:34:22Nov 4, 2024

Recording Artists: Frida Kahlo

Enjoy this episode from season 2 of Getty's other podcast, Recording Artists. This series features materials from Getty's archives. This sea...

Sep 26, 2023

Trailer—Recording Artists Season 2

In Season 2 of Getty's podcast series Recording Artists, titled Intimate Addresses, each episode unpacks one letter from one artist, includi...

Sep 12, 2023

Art and Poetry: Recording Everyday Life

“I think you can see that from my work, that I try to put everything I know in there and everything I don’t know. I’m looking for stuff that...

0:39:48Jun 28, 2023

Art and Poetry: How to Witness the World

“What I tell my students—and most of them are writers—is that the only way for them to get to a place where they’re making what they should...

0:42:02Jun 28, 2023

Art and Poetry: Connecting Stories at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

“African American history is American history. You can’t tell it without talking about the contributions, the questions, the very heart of t...

0:38:25Jun 28, 2023

Cultural Heritage Under Attack: The United Nations and Uyghur China

“Culture isn’t just dead stones and statues; culture is life. Culture is, you know, all the ways in which we move and interact together as p...

0:27:02Feb 15, 2023

Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Monuments and War Zones

“Protecting cultural heritage, like protecting civilians directly, had strategic import.” How does the presence of a cultural heritage site...

0:31:08Feb 1, 2023

Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Who Defines Heritage?

“The society we now live in has been, in large measure, accomplished by destroying the cultural heritage of previous generations at various...

0:34:58Jan 18, 2023

Mindfulness in the Museum: Art for Mental Wellbeing

"I know we call them art museums, but I think they’re really wellbeing centers, because people are coming in—maybe they don’t know that’s wh...

0:35:16Dec 21, 2022

Mindfulness in the Museum: Healing through Mindfulness

“The museums give us these just incredible opportunities to have some kind of an encounter with different ways of seeing the world, shining...

0:35:23Dec 7, 2022

Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide

“Mindfulness, for me, enables me to experience an art museum as if I’m listening to music. To just listen, attend to how all these objects m...

0:38:00Nov 23, 2022

The Art of Gardening: California Native Plants

“Whenever I take people in there, I say—and it’s not a very large room—I say, ‘You’re now in the presence of millions and millions and milli...

0:32:24Nov 9, 2022

The Art of Gardening: Tomatomania!

“I’m after the charm of tomatoes. I’m after the history of tomatoes. Just obviously, appeal and taste and all of that. But if I can tie it u...

0:30:19Oct 26, 2022

The Art of Gardening: Storytelling with Plants at Disneyland

“What it is that we do at Disneyland is tell stories. And the horticulture is a work of art helping to tell the story.” At Disneyland, elabo...

0:29:12Oct 12, 2022

Reflecting on 25 Years of the Getty Center

“I was there for the groundbreaking of the Getty Center. I was there for opening day of the Getty Center. I think for a lot of people, it sa...

0:24:43Aug 31, 2022