i have never clicked so fast, what a nightmare

obsessed with this little peek of block print fabric in the early modern binding of the 14th c Gladzor gospel

to the girl on the bike in the witch hat who just adjusted her headphones and pedaled away singing Sally’s Song from Nightmare Before Xmas: I love you

i’m in a crowded bar and the time warp just came on and no one time warped, i am an ancient being out of time

amazing www.emptysetmag.com/articles/blo...

Astghik wrote this excellent discussion of the trajectory of medieval archaeology in the Republic of Armenia, from the perspective of our project. And the rest of this issue is awesome also! journals.ysu.am/index.php/hi...

boosting the signal for this excellent conference in Yerevan: 📌International conference “Fortresses and Defense System in the Middle East” | October 23-25, 2025 ➡️The conference program is presented below: ➡️You may also join the conference via the Zoom platform: us05web.zoom.us/j/8200944272....

doomed opinion but it’s a weird vibe hearing people w cancelled nsfs congratulating themselves on being mostwoke martyrs when, babes, actual critical postmodern shit didn’t get nsfs before, we’ve been poor this whole time

me and who

smiles, retitles syllabus topic heading from "anchoresses and anchorholds" to "Living Dead Girls"

bow to our varmint queen

as an inveterate lawn hater but also a human-landscape-entanglement story lover, im so excited to head to this later today--- humanities.tufts.edu/events/unive...

ugh, a new favorite panel by Vayots Dzortsi T'oros Sarkawag -- famous for putting himself into his paintings, this one of the Dormition, with a little T'oros sweetly censing in the foreground

looking for lecture slide pics and finding only a tiny version of myself, taking dusk selfies at the arena of Siena

hmm should i work, or should i design my own ex libris book plates, a thing i cant believe i havent done

despite walking by this monument a million times, I learned today that it commemorates the saving of the Mush Homiliary by two unknown women, who cut the massive manuscript in half and carried it on their backs out of the genocide from Arakelots to Yerevan

millennials, this is a sober reminder to check in on those people you knew in college who were clearly poised for a villain arc. are they in safe containment? could they be appointed the ceo of anything?

tracked down the news article covering the SCANDALOUS purchase of the unicorn tapestries by Rockefeller Tues Feb 27, 1923

a beautiful thing that didnt make it into the lecture today: a paradise carpet, 17th c Isfahan

back on my bullshit (reading Hafez at work)

i spent 7 years with no bluejays and i missed you you yelly little jerks

new favorite Layla/Majnun illustration: Walters 611 Khamsah of the 13th c, f92b

hoooboy that douay rheims song of songs really hits

as it steadily rains all day, i am loving the watery gurgling wash of marbling in the margins of this perfect painting of nightingale and rose, lover and beloved ('Abdullah Bukhari, Ottoman Istanbul, 18th c, metmuseum 2023.217)

Boosting the important work of Tamar Shirinian today, as this colleague comes under fire for expressing her emotions in the public sphere, an act that is legal and hypothetically protected by her workplace

putting together a lecture on the medieval desert and the desert fathers in art, and holy moly, what a smorgasbord of weird little guys

A nostalgic view unearthed during lecture prep: the archaeological base at Dvin, Armenia, in 2008. You can see Aram Kalantaryan, Gayane Kocharyan, and Nura Hakobyan under the walnut tree, on break from digging

can we have a consensus on the cutoff rank for academic men wearing bleu travail

a surprising orientalist pedigree for my secondhand art book

hey classical art lovers, for class i am running through Roman allegories of Winter-- does anyone know what this reedy plant held in all these images is? A bare stalk? A leek?

about to leave the office, aiming to enjoy the late afternoon sun as much as these gamboling snakes from Morgan MS M500 f.53v

me in class: lectures on Donatello, makes a turtle joke my class of 40 zoomers: me: no but, see there were four turtles, and one is also raphael, and one is also leonardo, and... dammit no this is important

a real spicy kitten, carved from bone, ca 8th c BC, from Rusahinili/Toprakkale

in lieu of a scan of my original paper diploma from multiple decades ago may i submit instead these 394,890 solicitous emails from the alumni office

me ordering my first pumpkin ale of the season

prepping my intro lectures for next week, and tracked down this photo of my academic 'grandparents' in the 1970s: A. Kalantaryan, G. Kocharyan, A. Zhamkochyan, F. Babayan, and N. Hakobyan, in the laboratory at Dvin

breaking: professor of image analysis incapable of submitting satisfactory ID photo

oh. this is how a university dies

on the plane,mixed feelings but elation up front, let’s gooooo youtu.be/pMgHX2dhVlE

the last of 7 years of runs in this park 🌳💚

I love this (at the link) juxtaposition of in-process carpets and landscape (and bodies and landscape, and bodies and medieval architecture) in Varzhapetyan's 1983 adaptation of Tumanyan's <Anoush> youtu.be/_UmDvrJeEIM?...

last day with this view— movers come monday i wrote hundreds of lectures and tens of thousands of words in here, had profound conversations with students and colleagues, drank viva champagne and ate hundreds of sad little sandwiches

magnetized today by this original photograph of Princess Abbess Hripsime, Senior deaconess of Etchmiadzin, taken probably by Lynch in 1874 when she was 27 years old also the only image of a woman who isn’t a saint or a goddess in the Matenadaran

ahhh it finally happened, i got fully hit by an e-scooter while legally crossing the brixton-ferndale intersection

not me crying hot tears saying goodbye to my south london vintage dealer

mentally im here

surreal to be reading about Natanz again today, this time in the context of piles of ilkhanid lustreware tiles which were chipped off the walls of mosques and tombs and sold to collectors and museums. L: from Masuya 2000, 42 R: tiles from Natanz in the V&A catalog

margin art speaking to my joint special interests of picturesque ruins and derpy cats: Luma 'zine, Tbilisi, 1901

today i'm reading gothic stories in BEE OF ARMENIA, a literary newsletter from 19th Tbilisi

Shhe Arperiar Ipdzthirary ir tie Wese?