Emma von Name sighting in the inn in Widow’s Bay 👀?

Jacob Lawrence, "When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People," 1943 learninglab.si.edu/resources/vi...

When Anthropeum includes a sneaky labels and stickers shot 😍

On advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Koloniale Kontexte in Bibliotheken : un guide sur la gestion des collections liées aux contextes coloniaux. Son équivalent français serait le Vadémécum des recherches de provenance. actualitte.com/article/132323/ #Bibliotheques #Musees #Archives

Interesting new study and a very useful summary of literature from @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and @summeraustin.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All current HMML catalogers and curators contributed to a new exhibition, “Lost & Found in Translation." Co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Carnell and Rylie Owen, the exhibition explores the challenges of translation and the connections it fosters. View in-person and online: hmml.org/programs/exhibitions.

Local toddler produces obsessive (accurate!) provenances for every household balloon; area provenance researcher parent beams with pride

Does anyone have a food-safe vendor of replica kylices in the US that they'd recommend? (Doesn't have to be decorated- just a recognizable kylix shape.)

Provenance and restitution for a drawing - a case study and exhibition now on view at the Getty Research Institute #provenanceonview

No—blue books, in-class exams, locked down browsers, etc. won't fix this. Nothing will replace the research, reading, thinking, organizing, writing, and revising skills that students developed through the good old fashioned research essay that has been the core of higher ed for countless decades.

Just 1 day left to register for online attendance for Provenance Research Today: Issues, Resources, and Networks! Join us June 22–26 for conversations on provenance, restitution, collecting histories, and museum ethics. Register by June 17: buff.ly/ECaey3e

by far the best use of open content collections pages, bar none

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide "that do not align with its preferred narrative."

#FossilFriday Crinoid stems in the facing stone of the W.B. Samson cafe, Oslo, comprising Silurian limestone of the Braksøoya Formation from Brevik Quarry, Telemark.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single provenance constituent/object name search must always result in a livestock publication

Another stellar lineup of articles in part 2 of special volumes dedicated to #provenance from Museum International: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmil20/7...

Great new article by Lizzy Williamson on how the digital provenance of our databases and resources can unlock & contextualize data ethics to inform our use of them academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking." 📚 #Skybrarians

Provenance research has become integral to art history and cultural heritage studies, but the provenance of written artefacts is still understudied. From 14–16 April 2027, we'll host a conference in Hamburg to help establish this field. The CfP and further information are now online:

Dr. Nancy Um of the @gettymuseum.bsky.social Getty Research Institute talks with @smarthistory.bsky.social's Dr. Steven Zucker about tracking the clues that help us know what happened to this 19th c. drawing during WWII leading to its return to Dresden at last #provenance #ArtHistory

📖 Newly published: B. Hellings, M. Spoerri Butcher (@gordien3a.bsky.social) and C. Howgego (eds), Roman Coin Hoards across Frontiers (Oxford, 2026). doi.org/10.1093/9780... An impressive amount of new evidence for our understanding of the reach of Rome and the connectivity of the ancient world!

AI can kick rocks because I’m spending the morning staring at 2700 year old fingerprints- smudged into clay; hidden under slip; tiny typos from the tips of someone’s fingers.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

I'm not sure what to call this design aesthetic that Claude seemingly regresses to, with wide-spaced mono fonts that are too small, and pretty common color palettes in earth tones. Artless and Craftless? Slop Deco? Whatever it is, I can't wait for it to go away.

Truly though, what an enormous privilege to be surrounded by so much joy in the Odyssey- in its complicated man, in the thousands of years of depiction and reception and retellings. Thanks to @sentantiq.bsky.social for a genius kickoff and to my colleagues/all the other speakers for beautiful talks!

Kylix full of Nobody buttons 💯

If you (or your students) love the Odyssey and happen to be in town on Saturday— or on Zoom— stop by! I will briefly be talking about not one but TWO objects of my favorite monsters featuring dead sailors. What more could you ask for from a Saturday morning? www.getty.edu/calendar/ody...

Physical libraries remain undefeated

Truly enormously excited for next year's cohort of GRI Scholars, particularly those on the theme of provenance www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...

oh okay it’s the start of Watch Duty season, cool cool

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

And the PROV Data Dashboard is working again. As with @provbot there's a temp workaround for SSL issues, plus a fix for missing series. https://wragge.github.io/prov-dashboard/ #archives

Tracing Provenance in Italy. Navigating through Post-Unitarian Primary Sources and Archival Collections - Tagungsband www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-mar...

Be sure to check out the exhibition on the Melsonby Hoard! If you can't make it, you can read the first published research on the hoards in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Giving a lecture on some ideas about provenance and (un)writing names in books at the @obs1922.bsky.social next Thursday. Zoom link also available for anyone keen!

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Extraordinary lineup of speakers on a topic that ranks below only “what are we doing with all these stickers” whenever provenance researchers meet up- very excited for this!

Auden’s Musée des Beaux Artes

Does anyone know anyone familiar with turtles in LA or southern California? Or anyone who might be familiar with more exotic species in parks?

Unthinkable a year and change ago.

Sorry but I only read about political popes in terza rima

In the spirit of international Provenance Research Day, officially forthcoming this summer: shop.getty.edu/products/pro...

#provenanceonview An installation at the Carlos on repatriation long in the making, as folks at AIA 2025 know, with a great deal of online content + shots of the unforgettable Fanta cans: carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/l...