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We're putting our best foot (or feet!) forward for this week's #MuseumTeaTime. 🍵 This teapot, with its lions’ paw feet, is an example of English drabware, a type of Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware introduced in the 1720s. Learn more: https://t.co/vf19mQVTzm https://t.co/gh4O2Wrr5t

This chart chronicles the colors of Mister Rogers’ cardigans from 1969 to 2001 https://t.co/EVKrvYgrVK https://t.co/2LEyIAxjzi

A monumental Pablo Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, his muse and lover, could fetch up to $55 million at auction this spring: https://t.co/NYhYpVZtFQ https://t.co/fald25jzFi

Did you know that we have a library at the Getty Center? It's #LibraryWeek and #LibraryWorkersDay, so come along on a quick trip to Getty Library. https://t.co/57PjaF4e5n

Two miniature dachshunds named Crusoe and Oakley used their digging skills to “free” a huge container ship from the Suez Canal. https://t.co/W0GfgIEAAB

A couple accidentally defaced a $500,000 painting by street artist JonOne: https://t.co/5Qa7Kgzcw4 https://t.co/547rCUNRmW

Thank you to Getty Library staff for their dedication this past year. Working mostly from home, they completed many projects and helped people remotely from over 700 institutions in 53 countries. They're now preparing library spaces and collections for when the library reopens.

Hold The Moon, Spoodie, Digital, 2021

Brazilian photographer Vitor Schietti uses fireworks to paint with light. https://t.co/k7tpj6SzsG

Join us in congratulating Math Bass, who joined the gallery Various Small Fires in Asia. While the interdisciplinary artist is best known for their crisp paintings inspired by graphic design, Bass began their career primarily as a performance artist.⁠ https://t.co/OAzsWP1U68 https://t.co/Ke8HFZaDDK

With the International Federation of Film Archives' Programming Game, film curators, scholars, and fans can create their own streaming programs. https://t.co/CDpCORY90m

Horror Skeletons - Diablo 1 Redesign, Typhon Art, Digital 2D, 2021

An upstate New York home designed by artist Ai Weiwei has sold for $4.9 million: https://t.co/Itk0kMKPIt https://t.co/ihU1WvWJB2

Special collections include archives of artists, scholars, and galleries, works on paper, photographs, sketchbooks, rare books and architectural drawings and models. Explore the collections for yourself at https://t.co/0TTVpUJrG4 https://t.co/0SWUeP99XI

"It was creating a space for Black folks to experiment, to not know, to be uncertain," MoMA curator Thomas J. Lax said of New York's legendary Just Above Midtown gallery https://t.co/6Febl5N7tB