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Mysterious apparitions. Strange monsters.

To view the art of Odilon Redon is to enter another world. Born the same year as Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin, Odilon Redon's (1840–1916) career coincided with many of the major art movements in 19th-century France. Yet, he remains a singular figure.

True to his own vision, he refused to adhere to any one style and steadfastly resisted attempts to interpret his work. Reflecting on his career in a letter to a friend, he declared, “I have made an art according to myself.”

Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions invites you to look closely at over 40 of the artist’s strange and captivating works. Step beyond the frame and into Redon’s imagination at the Getty Center, now through October 18, 2026.

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Featured Artworks:
The Battle of the Bones (detail), about 1881, Odilon Redon. Getty Museum
Everywhere Eyeballs Are Aflame (detail), 1888, Odilon Redon. Getty Research Institute
Orpheus (detail), about 1905, Odilon Redon. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Bequest of Frederick J. Hellman, 1965.29
Baronne de Domecy (detail), about 1900, Odilon Redon. Getty Museum

Celebrate National Kitten Day with iconic catwoman Eartha Kitt. Both on and off screen, Kitt was a true animal lover at heart. Growing up as a child in South Carolina, Kitt would befriend and care for stray cats.

“I like cats because they are graceful, relaxed and independent. These are qualities I admire in most people. I prefer my pets to most people,” Eartha Kitt told EBONY Magazine in July 1957.

Ms. Kitt had several pet cats and kittens including Jinx, Mishak, Willow, Confetti, Tippy, and Shaune. Pictured here is Shaune, a dark-brown Burmese cat who kept Kitt company in her NYC townhouse while she performed on Broadway.

These photos 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.

All photos courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Made possible by the Ford Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian Institution.