The Iris is the blog of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, and has been online since 2010. The blog is written by Getty curators, educators, scientists, scholars, digital specialists, guest speakers, interns, and many others, in the hope of offering an "engaging, behind-the-scenes look at art in all its aspects - history, conservation, research, publishing, education, and digital interpretation." Posts are tagged into several broad categories, reflecting the breadth of the Getty: Art & Archives, Conservation, People & Places, Scholarship, Technology, Audio & Video, and Series. For example, a post from March 23, 2017 titled, What Is Concrete Poetry?, can be found under either Art & Archives or Audio & Video. However, what's more interesting about it is that it details a current exhibition on concrete poetry, featuring such works as Augusto de Campos's "Lygia Fingers," a poem from 1953 written for his wife-to-be, Lygia Azeredo, or Ian Hamilton Finlay's 1968 piece, "Cork/Net," a wordplay with a spiraling ring of words and letters. There is also audio, another poem by Augusto de Campos, "O Pulsar." Other recent posts in Art & Archives discuss feminist performance art; Alchemy, with audio by David Brafman, associate curator of rare books; and a symposium on the Medieval Bestiary. Visitors are invited to comment, and can subscribe to receive daily or weekly updates.
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