share.google/okYUKyXROh2h... #Smithsonian #Folklife #US250

🎨 Portrait of an Ottoman Zeybek from the Aegean (Western Anatolia), 1869 #african #blackhistory

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

Join us on 4th February, live in-person or online, for our next Lecture, 'Gertrude Jekyll: Artist Gardener Craftswoman.' This is part of our series 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement', which runs from 28th January - 18th March 2026. Book here: bit.ly/4q7xhZg 🧵

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has announced the winner of its 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal will receive $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living person. buff.ly/CYOR1i6

A Kentucky cathedral called 'America's Notre Dame' gets a rehab, gargoyles and all apnews.com/article/amer... #DecorativeArts #MaterialCulture

UK should show more gratitude to arts donors, says V&A chief ft.trib.al/aKcwqeQ

Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album c. 1630 Painting by Payag Jahan, 5th Mughal Emperor, died #otd 22 Jan 1666 (Met Museum)

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Imran Mulla about his recent book of “The Indian Caliphate, Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Is it the end of the line for one of India’s most distinctive garments?

We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In Our Time returns this week. Thanks for waiting patiently and/or impatiently www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Easy to forget how early Portuguese involvement in the enslavement of West Africans was: 1441. By the mid-C16th, the country with the largest African slave population? Portugal, with more than 30,000 enslaved Africans working on the estates of nobles as well as religious orders.

It's January, which means we're all telling ourselves to "read more," right? How about these titles that dive into the history and culture of our city? To help build The 51st's bookshelf, we asked our readers for their favorite books about D.C. Let us know what you'd add! 51st.news/what-to-read...

🟦 A definitive account of the President's assault on the Smithsonian — if you read one thing today, make it this Another excellent (and vital) Guardian long-read from Charlotte Higgins

Times: The British Museum is looking for a "treasure hunter" to track down the hundreds of gems, cameos and gold fragments allegedly stolen from storerooms by former curator Peter Higgs. The BM has recovered just 654 of the estimated 1,500 items stolen. www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

📣One week today! @warburginstitute.bsky.social #arthistory #history #historylover #learning #earlymodern #frenchhistory #materialculture

The documentary about Seymour Hersh, 'Cover Up', is available on Netflix from today (Dec 26). Here are my initial thoughts on the parts that concern the My Lai Massacre. 1/

I co-wrote a book on a popular #Jain #textile #art form…and now it’s out! Visualizing #Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings. Order via the University of Washington Press, and now through Jan 2, it is 40% off with free domestic shipping with code: Winter25 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780998...

Salvador Dalí’s Surreal Jewelry Designs: From Throbbing Heart Necklaces to Medusa Brooches

The perfect working day: how to get everything done – without getting stressed

Looking for recommendations for a proofreader with experience in academic art history. Any leads much appreciated!

Hat badge with St John the Evangelist, whose feast is #otd 27 Dec. The saint is pictured astride his symbol the eagle, and writing the first two words of his Gospel. 16th century, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

The trifecta of sugar, low moisture ingredients and some high-proof spirits make fruitcakes some of the longest-lasting foods in the world (from 2021) https://to.pbs.org/3CGSK8o

Did you know the chocolate chip cookie that we know and love is less than 100 years old? The Library of Congress has a copy of the book in which the very first chocolate chip cookie recipe appeared, "Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes." blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...

The word cashmere is an anglicisation of Kashmir. A luxury product traded from India to Europe, the Kashmir shawl was a fashionable item of clothing in the late 1700s and early 1800s in Europe. 🧥 Victorian surcoat made of Kashmir shawl pieces, mid-19th century, India. EA2000.39

Bentley and Greg Kewdar’s adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella of the same name is about “a world that has gone”, which has been “rolled up like a scroll but you still feel the echo of it”. Read more: scroll.in/reel/1089474... #MovieRecommendation via The Reel

Royal Feast in a Garden, left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025) https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.10

Jewelled jade pendant, Mughal court, c. 1610-20 (V&A, London)

Join us on Friday for a fun, free pop-up display of books, drawings, and objects that highlight a selection of jewels from our library and archive collections. We’ll be running a glitzy pick n mix sweet stand, as well as creative workshops for all ages www.sal.org.uk/event/all-th...

American fashion designer Ann Lowe was born #OnThisDay in 1898. She designed this cream silk faille dress with embroidered floral appliqué decorations that was worn by Patricia Schieffer for the Tyler Texas Rose Festival in 1958. NMAAHC collection. #fashionhistory

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “The Indian Caliphate, Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince” by Imran Mulla @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-indian-c...

Completely dazzled by Networks of the Past, a new gallery @CSMVSmumbai charting India's relationship with the ancient world. Its not just one of the best curated museum galleries in South Asia, it is also the best visual representation I have ever seen of the world I describe in The Golden Road...

Loot looted? 'Items from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection were stolen and detectives are now trying to trace four men captured in the area on CCTV.'

More glittering royal jewels displayed while Paris is still uneasy over the Louvre robbery apnews.com/article/roya...

#UNESCO described the Hindu festival of #Diwali as a “joyous occasion that symbolises the victory of light over darkness and good over evil”. It is is the sixteenth festival from India to be added to the representative list. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10891... #IntangibleCulturalHeritageList

🧵 An Ottoman Üç Etek (Three-Panel) Kaftan Made of Purple Silk Satin, Embroidered with Gold Metallic Thread, 19th Century #FashionHistory

Another great #ZooLights #Smithsonian #DC

#AshmoleanAdvent Day 7: Decorated Elizabethan Trenchers   These decorated wooden trenchers, made around 1600, would have been used as dining plates at banquets on special occasions. Placed face down on a table they would have held sugared fruits, marzipan or other sugary delicacies.

Everything about this is as exactly as bad as you think it's going to be www.ft.com/content/b127...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Magnificent #Design

Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said. n.pr/44TlUw2