The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War. "Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.

Finishing the season with a series against the Jays and then a series with Detroit as things tighten in the AL Wild Card is not helping my general anxiety levels right now, I have to say.

💉 Una vacuna intranasal experimental desarrollada en el @cnb-csic.bsky.social  elimina el virus del COVID-19 en ratones 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Esta vacuna experimental de nueva generación muestra una protección del 100% con la segunda dosis en ensayos preclínicos con roedores  👉 http://tiny.cc/0vxs001

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

New job: Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Culture Gilcrease Museum jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69164

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I don't know whether to be confused or reassured that even with everything going on, there is no shortage of people who continue to voluntarily answer phone calls from Isaac Chotiner

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that Trump’s ban on “gender ideology” in the NEA’s grant review process violates the First Amendment.

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If anyone outside the US is wondering: Yes, we know. Yes, we're absolutely mortified.

Hello #medievalsky. Where's the best place to search for images of manuscript initials? (Bonus: that I could use in an academic publication?)

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

Those interlibrary loan staff and other library staff who produce scans of articles and book chapters that are perfectly done and a pleasure to read ought to know that their skill and extra effort is appreciated. #Libraries

Workers at Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry announced Tuesday that union members have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, if necessary.

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

General Idea, "Capsule," 1990

What time is the rapture supposed to happen tomorrow? Because I have a 9am meeting and it would be great if I didn’t have to go to that…

Conservative efforts to punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself. The American Association of University Professors, an organization founded to defend academic freedom, said it was aware of retaliation against about 60 professors and teachers.

New job: ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Program, 2026-27 New York University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69154

Who do I call to cancel my subscription to the Supreme Court?

@philipkennicott.bsky.social's astute observations on the Smithsonian's recently-ended exhibition, “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture.” This show, singled out by the Trump administration for its ideas on sculpture and race, was an extraordinary success. wapo.st/4nJuDbo

I have no idea how law students are supposed take seriously anything they learn in constitutional law when the Supreme Court's entire approach to precedent and stare decisis is just "does Mister Trump want us to overturn it right now" ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Let's talk a bit about Humphrey's Executor and the Supreme Court's BS Congress created the FTC to protect the public from unfair business practices. And to keep the agency focused on the interests of the *public (not just the president), Congress gave FTC Commissioners for-cause removal protections

maybe buying a lot of decorative gourds would fix me

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

Art History escapes the cut, but put on "pause" are, among others: African American Studies, Classics, Fine Arts, French, German, History of Architecture, Italian, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, and Russian -- potentially a huge blow to the Humanities in central NY

don’t worry, for sustainability reasons we recycle all our old twitter jokes.

Alma Thomas, Morning in the Bowl of Night, 1973, Smith College Museum of Art

A mural that can be seen on the Kennedy has been blasted as "AI slop" by local artists and commuters. blockclubchi.co/428g9tg

Monopoli Cathedral, #Puglia #Italy #Architecture #MarbleMonday

The latest attack on multimodal transportation is more brazen and destructive than ever before — and the Trump administration is no longer hiding its disdain for walking and biking projects.

If you click on this link, not only can you find links to two of my co-authored articles, BUT you can also find OPEN ACCESS to 240 papers across four volumes all on NUMISMATICS. livyarrow.org/2025/09/22/i...

A Brazilian drug raises hopes of reversing spinal cord injury. Scientists in São Paulo have developed a treatment based on the protein laminin. In animal trials, it reactivated dormant nerve pathways, restoring movement and sensation after paralysis. buff.ly/Jcj1euy #ShareGoodNewsToo

Historians of early modern Christianity, take note. This looks like an interesting project.

Bluesky GOURD FEED! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Did some mandatory gen AI training. Unfortunately, I was given an opportunity to provide feedback.

Collector Thomas S. Kaplan will present highlights from the Leiden Collection—one of the largest private holdings of Dutch Old Masters—in its first major US exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art. buff.ly/EcDy3fm

Narcissus, c. 1760, by #BarbaraReginaDietzsch (German, 1706-83), who was born #otd, Sept 22. Held by @artbma, collection.artbma.org/objects/1001... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

(Presumed) Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by #BarbaraLonghi (Italian, 1552-c. 1638), who was born #otd, Sept 21. Held at the Museo d'Arte della città di Ravenna; source, www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/barb... #artherstory #womenartists

Raymond Saunders, American Dream, 1968, oil and collage on canvas, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

‘Drawings’ section added to The Frame Blog The Frame Blog now has a new section (accessible, like the Archives, Contributors, etc., from the header, above), which contains drawings and designs for frames, organized by nationality within century. These are taken mainly from the drawings departments…

“Drat,” said Toad.

Swimmers returned to the Chicago River for the first time in a century today, marking the river's transformation from a formerly polluted and hazardous waterway. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/21/s...

These details? Stunning!

Antonio Sánchez, Virgen de Guadalupe, late 18th century, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Vacancy for Head of Research, Archives and Libraries - British Museum. Deadline 29 September 2025. bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C... #MuseumJobs

As for his true brain, you can then see no indications of it, nor feel any.