This Museum Is Asking People to Recreate Works of Art Using Household Items

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Annelisa Stephan, the museum’s assistant director for digital content strategy, said to Smithsonian Magazine, “There have been thousands of amazing ones. … Some of them are brilliant artistically, but they’re all just really funny.”

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There are no right or wrong answers to this challenge — every piece of art out there is fair game. If in need of inspiration, the stay-at-home-artists can recreate an image from the Getty’s online photo archive, which contains over two million items from the collection.

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According to Stephan, the aim of the challenge is to connect communities around the world through a love of art and creativity. “The heartening part of this is not just the creations, but how generous and kind people are in the comment [sections] by holding each other up. When [the Getty] was thinking about what we could do during this time when so many museums are closed, it seemed to us that what art could really offer is a sense of community.”

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With nothing but time on our hands, there’s really no excuse not to give it a shot.