I'm offering this class starting next Wednesday, July 1st: roundtable.org/live-courses...

Born on this day in 1594, in Les Andelys, Normandy, the great Nicolas Poussin. People later opposed our 2 ways of painting but I have nothing personal against him! Here, his wonderfully complex self portrait from 1650.

This July, I'll be teaching a class online on Cézanne and three masters he studied in the Louvre: Poussin, Chardin, and Rubens. Join me online with the 92nd Street Y: roundtable.org/live-courses...

Lecturer in Modern Art and Theory, UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social Please apply—or tell people who might! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY983/l...

👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!

We're at CAA this week! If you're attending in person, come find us at booth 401. If not, you can get the conference discount through our virtual exhibit! Use promo code CAA26 at checkout to save 40% on our books. Offer available on US orders only. Sale ends 3/31. https://bit.ly/4qL7Kp6

What do you suppose she is thinking about, while she waits to eat her plum in brandy? Painted in 1877 by Edouard Manet, whose day has been today.

@nancylocke.bsky.social - Allen Ginsberg on Cezanne - Cosmic Vibrations in Cezanne - allenginsberg.org/.../cosmic-v...

Deadline approaching! The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) offers short-term fellowships to support projects that engage with the museum’s collections. $5,000 for a four-week research period, or pro-rated. Deadline January 20, 12 pm EST. britishart.yale.edu/research-fel...

Excited that my first speaking event of 2026 is a virtual book salon co-hosted by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York. Please join me and other panellists for conversation about the books on 19th century art we published in 2025. 😊

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

AUTHORS: Your way of being fairly compensated - and bankrupting OpenAI.

Still time to register for my free online talk on #Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, next Mon 15th Sept 18.15- part of @forarthistory.org.uk festival www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-tal...

The absolute greatest, disquietingly relevant these days. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

It is a pleasure to announce the publication of my book, Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens. Take 30% off with code NR25 when you order through psupress.org. www.psupress.org/books/titles...

I am extremely bored of people who haven't worked with AI predicting that it is going to replace engineers/junior engineers/any engineers. Anyone who's actually used AI to do real things know they can't do it.

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

AP: Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America apnews.com/article/bord...

The Spring issue of our newsletter, #PSUPressNews, is here! Read on for reviews, upcoming events, journals news, and more: buff.ly/qtFfvNa

The GOP is slashing jobs, medical research, educational grants, and whole divisions that safeguard our food, parks, flights, and health while passing tax cuts for the rich that could add as much as $4.5 TRILLION to the national debt—and gaslighting us while they do. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

Attention all college/university administrators and general counsel: here, legal analysis grounding current diversity programs firmly in federal law, demonstrating the illegality of executive orders to the contrary. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

We talked about this lithograph by Daumier, Gargantua, in my class. It's an 1831 caricature of Louis-Philippe, but just as apt today! Money going in, ministerial positions and favors coming out. @hdaumier.bsky.social

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

WITH DARKNESS CAME STARS by Audrey Flack was named one of Hyperallergic's Best Art Books of 2024!

Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.

My book, Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens, will be out with @psupress.bsky.social in April: www.psupress.org/books/titles...