One last visit to see the gorgeous Hilma af Klint:What Stands Behind the Flowers@MoMA before it closes next week. It’s still about the searching roots & fragile petals for me. But these goat willows with their nearly translucent faces overlaid w pin-sized dabs of yellow! Just wow!

Astonished as I look and look at every gorgeous watercolor in the Hilma af Klint show @MoMA. Just the right amount of pigment barely held by fragile graphite filaments and slivers of unfilled paper to represent intricately searching roots, gossamer petals, and slender stems.

Such a joy to see the magisterial “Gustave Caillebotte:Painting his World” exh @artinstitutechi.bsky.social on Sat with 2 beloved former grad students. The show is full of clever juxtapositions that inspire new thoughts. But I’ll never tire of the grids and veils that structure many of his works.

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.” Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...

JOB: Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas https://arthist.net/archive/49266

Moved by the Friedrich exhibition @ the Met. Delicately drawn clutches of leaves & blooms and spruce needles quieted by the softest snow. He understood deeply the aliveness of nature.

The next NCFS Unbound is Friday 2/28! Anne O’Neil-Henry will interview Rebecca Powers about her new book, Balzac on the Barricades. Link below! #FrHistory 🗃️ southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking forward to presenting “Aerial Intimacies: Edgar Degas’ Ironers, Coal Smoke, and Chemicals” tomorrow (Wed) @ 4:30pm @ CAA 113th Annual Conference

Delighted to see that @francescaberry.bsky.social’s whip-smart new book on Vuillard is out!

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

"...as we move into this grim season, we must think like [subarctic moss], survive like this, grow like this: like the hardy + unregarded things that make do with little + less. The things that cultivate the wasteland, and make it soft + green for those who need it; that bloom like rust on rock..."

A fantastic web publication from RISD about French wallpaper design! risdmuseum.org/art-french-w...

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Berlin, Germany, 1930s, two girls playing the board game "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (still popular in the German-speaking world), sitting next to a Chanukiah (Menorah) lit for the the third night of Hanukkah. Published in the Jewish newspaper CV-Zeitung on November 29, 1934. #chanukah #hanukkah

A must read by the great @rmesch.bsky.social

To celebrate women working in art history, Women’s History Today invites contributions to the topic of Women and the Making of Art History. Find out more here 👇 womenshistorynetwork.org/cfp-womens-h... #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...

Our Zoom book series NCFS Unbound resumes this Friday at 2:30 EST with Helen Craske in conversation with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature Register below #academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies

Still trying to figure out how this works, but I do have a random question: does the bsky.social handle make anyone but me think of the artist Banksy? Oh, and is there a way to search for starter packs?

I'm finally here and wondering why it took me so long to migrate to this blue space where there are so many familiar faces!