Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year! @gettymuseum.bsky.social @apollo-magazine.com apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...

How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/10]

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

Heading home after the invigorating fall meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Thanks to our amazing host INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTÉTICAS at UNAM - a powerhouse of art historical research. www.esteticas.unam.mx

Gentle reminder that we have this job opening at the moment.

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️ We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential. Deadline: November 19, 2025. More info at the link. Thank you for sharing and spreading the word. 🙏🏼

Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!

For anyone in Los Angeles who is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, put this event on your calendar! Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm. Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...

🎉The wait is over! CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN! ⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST) 🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea 📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/ We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities! 🔄Please share widely! #ADHO

The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.” Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN

Applications are open for 3-month residencies at the Getty Conservation Institute in the Conservation Guest Scholars Program for those bringing new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation. Learn more and apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/476sfGn

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, themed "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Apply by October 1, 2025. Read more about the theme, scholars program, and grant details: gty.art/4287IOv

For researchers seeking a short-term grant—including undergraduates—the Getty Library is offering partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use the Getty Research Institute's collections. Apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/4mvU8f9

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Research Institute Scholars Program for proposals on the topic of Provenance, including the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and more. Deadline is October 1, 2025. Learn more and apply: gty.art/46AKWQC

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Binghamton University Maritime/Global Asia East Asia, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and/or the Indian Ocean possible focus on the histories of environment, technology, medicine, or migration www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

In it, we explore funding patterns, with a view of where the field of art history has been heading for the past few decades. Plus an invitation to other programs with funding data to join us in putting together a bigger picture of the landscape of support for art history and related fields.

Postdoc Opportunity! Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Need a midweek pick me up? We have the remedy! Discover new tunes hand selected by the artists of our exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives. gty.art/QueerPlaylist

Looking forward to presenting in the NNI Seminar in October - my paper explores the legacy of Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695 in New York), Red Sea piracy, the trafficking of enslaved captives from Madagascar, and the flow of Islamic coins to colonial North America (all in one essay!)

Resharing yet again- please encourage your provenance/history of collecting colleagues, museum friends, and pre/post doc students to explore this #provenance theme and to consider applying! I truly cannot wait to see what facets of provenance in all of its forms come together for this scholar year.

Two open positions in the Division of Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute. Both opportunities are ideal for early career professionals who wish to advance the study of art history and cultural heritage! Please circulate to potential candidates! 1/3

Ann Philbin is awarded the 2025 Getty Prize! Philbin chose @npr.org for the Getty Prize's accompanying $500,000 pay-it-forward grant. The funds will be split between @npr.org , @kcrw.com , and @laist.com. Read full announcement: gty.art/3Ir9q6N

Are you interested in learning more about computational provenance research? This workshop held in Germany in December 2025 offers the perfect opportunity to work directly with leaders in the field. Funding is also available! Perfect for art historians, curators and digital humanists!

🧵(5) An example of a fāʼidah in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, bearing direct witness to the period of European Atlantic slavery as seen from the African perspective: hmml.org/stories/post...

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder in his work for many years. His studio approached Getty asked how they could preserve the color of the pyrotechnic powders used in the fireworks displays. How Getty conservators tackled this question: gty.art/3IeG1wx

For the Getty's Thomas & Barbara Gaetghens lecture, Heghnar Watenpaugh uses the Zeytun Gospels' canon tables to explore "connections between art and genocide, how sacred items become artworks in museums, & how communities & art institutions can work..toward justice." www.linkedin.com/posts/j.-pau...

Amazing thread that introduces important figures in the field of climate science, lots of interesting people working on oceans and marine environments. Great advocacy for advanced researchers, with terrific photos. Thanks for taking the time to do this @davidho.bsky.social

My wonderful colleague Karen Hall and I are convening a panel at AAANZ2025 in Perth on unruly histories and practices of water. Histories & practices of infrastructure, hydrofeminism, blue humanities, oceanic thinking. #envhum #aaanz #cfp #water #arthistory aaanz.info/aaanz-home/c...

Exciting news from SAR: A new Getty-funded seminar will challenge extractive museum practices and reimagine how art historians engage with Native art and communities. Launching summer 2026 in Santa Fe. Details → sarweb.org/getty-founda...

#provenance job alert with a wonderful team!

Want more accessible transit options to visit Getty? Metro is soliciting feedback about options for the Sepulveda Pass. We support Alt 3, the only option with stops at both Getty Center and UCLA. Let Metro know your thoughts in this one-comment survey: gty.art/metro

Looking forward to the Mediterranean Seminar, on "Oceanic Crossroads," Dec 8 - 9, 2025, at NYU Abu Dhabi. I am very lucky to deliver the keynote, which will consider the current urgencies and tensions that drive oceanic studies. Submit your paper proposals by September 1. mailchi.mp/mediterranea...

Learn about methods and resources for provenance research on Nazi Era items and antiquities and archaeological property. Speakers on Tuesday, June 24 include Leila Amineddoleh, Kate Aufses, Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social‬ , Antonia Bartoli, Eric Hormell, Sally McKay, and Andrew Turner. Join us!

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

At a time when funding for the humanities is in great jeopardy, we offer data on past funding patterns in art history based on four residential scholars programs since 1961: www.ariah.info/news-opportu...

I had forgotten how amazingly beautiful the grounds of the Huntington are! Finally got to see the Shoya house, transported and reconstructed from Japan.

Excited to share a new glossary entry: PATOLA, which is either a double-ikat silk or a printed cotton imitation, both historically made in Gujarat. To dig into this fascinating textile, see dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/pat... and also check out Sylvia Houghteling's article (linked in biblio).

This is such a fabulous conversation — from the historiographic value of vernacular photos, to the politics of institutional affiliations, to the ethics of graceful degradation in church-basement collections

At the request of @shannonmattern.bsky.social, here is a fun panel I was on last week my good friends and colleagues Steven Booth and Savannah Woods of @afrocharities.bsky.social I ran home from the New Haven train and logged in about 5 before showtime! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLF...

Source: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

Classic headline: “Art History beats finance”! www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

Unsolicited praise to art historians @marnikessler.bsky.social

Read this terrific article, written by the co-author of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France! Her incisive reading of the painting charges beyond the standard airy representations of rococo art and is perfect for the classroom.

Read this terrific post about the conclave, communicated through historic prints! Including a print of the 17th C procession of Pope Innocent X, from @gettymuseum.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/10020/p85000...

Art historians, digital humanists, data scientists - explore the new Getty Provenance Index! A vast trove of high quality data about relationships between artists, dealers, collectors, and institutions. The new resources provide many opportunities for research and teaching with more to come.

There’s lots there to interest nerdy types and non-nerdy types!

Check out this new @smarthistory.bsky.social video about provenance using the Getty Provenance Index www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWR...

JOB POSTING: Prints and Drawings Curator, Getty Research Institute An exciting opportunity to work with and shape a dynamic collection in a research-focused arts environment in the city of Los Angeles. Please consider applying + amplify and circulate widely! jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/4581/cu...

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On a train heading for the Historians of Islamic Art Association symposium, held at the Boston MFA and Boston College, which is also hosting the Wonders of Creation exhibition at the McMullen Museum. Some sessions offer remote participation: www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...