Overview
- The Getty released the premiere episode on Tuesday, June 16, centering on Vincent van Gogh’s Irises and beginning a season of art-focused meditations.
- Host Lilit Sadoyan, a Getty gallery educator and longtime meditation practitioner, leads each 15–20 minute episode with a breathing exercise, a guided close look at a work and a short mindfulness practice.
- The first season comprises 12 meditation episodes plus 12 bonus conversational episodes with named guests, and the schedule is planned as roughly two releases per week.
- Planned subjects range across the Getty collection, including Edvard Munch’s Starry Night, a 15th-century astrological diagram, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s The Vexed Man and the Getty Center garden by Robert Irwin.
- The series builds on Sadoyan’s existing museum mindfulness programs and reflects a wider museum trend of using digital audio and video to link arts engagement with wellbeing and greater accessibility.