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On September 23, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of "Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares" (ca. 1626) by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez (1599–1660).
![Getty, NYU, UCLA to Host Black Portraiture[s] Conference on Black Built Environment](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Deborah_Willis.jpg)
On September 22, 2026, the Getty announced the upcoming conference Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment, cohosted with New York University and UCLA.
On September 22, 2026, Centre Pompidou published an extensive interview with French photographer Mathieu Pernot (born 1970), whose long-term documentation of the Gorgan Romani family is featured in the exhibition 'Vies minuscules' at the Panthéon in Paris.
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