It’s been a while since I bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies and I’m still extremely happy to have them and to support the Scouts, but… …man, shrinkflation is real.

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Washington National Opera artistic director Francesca Zambello divulged the traumatic effect of President Trump’s takeover: empty seats, plunging donations, and supporters ripping up the opera’s brochures and sending them back to her with angry notes.

Oh FFS.

Just as a reminder, The Interior Department also includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

I think one of my favorite Bad Bunny reax vids is Canadians getting all excited they got namechecked at the Super Bowl and now pronouncing the country's name Canadá.

I just remembered that I have Girl Scout Cookies. My watching of the men’s short program replay has just gotten exponentially better.

How it started / How it's going

Our FDA has been hijacked by RFKJ & co. This is outrageous. “Moderna’s vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as its Covid shot. In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

New discovery: During excavations in Cologne, archaeologists have unearthed a lararium, a household shrine, dating back to the 2nd century. This discovery is considered unique north of the Alps. Similar examples were found in Pompeii and Herculaneum. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... 🏺

Take care of your heart this American Heart Month. Get your blood pressure and your cholesterol checked. www.challiance.org/services-pro...

Attn: Dallas. This is how you can activate a civic plaza in front of an iconic, brutalist city hall building. Reimagine, renovate, and keep Dallas City Hall. cc: @mlamster.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social

It’s that *season again! *the week that pitchers and catchers report and we learn which of their collective limbs did not survive the offseason.

Still The Same Picture @newberrylibrary.bsky.social

A “Wall of Tears” zip-tied to a fence in Brooklyn lists the names of 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza. Artist Phil Buehler hopes the public work will confront people with the scale of the loss.

In what will likely be a major draw for the museum, the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday installed its first-ever Norman Rockwell painting, and it depicts the Chicago Cubs.

Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake

Sometimes it pays not to sign the contract because then it means you didn’t sign the non disclosure agreement.

The erasure of symbols is a symbol of erasure.

Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of a Baby Boy, probably one of the sons of Cosimo de' Medici and Eleonora da Toledo, 1540-1549, oil on poplar panel (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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#Artists #Dancers #Poets #Bakers #Animators 🐡 #OpenCall Pitch an idea for a 15-to-30-second social media video inspired by a work of art from the National Gallery's collection. If your idea is selected, you’ll receive $3,000 to bring it to life. Proposals due Feb 28. More info here:

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

AAH Curatorial Prizes: Writing & Publications Panel This year’s panel brings together leading curatorial and publishing expertise. Gillian Malpas • Christine Riding • Kamini Vellodi • Fatoş Üstek Fri 27 Feb More info: https://loom.ly/r50hZIg

Native curators help create a Penn Museum exhibit that could serve as a model for other museums under NAGPRA.

Rumor has it that this rare, diminutive work by Antonella da Messina, which was just purchased by the Italian state for $15 million, is headed to the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. An excellent decision!

Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers

🔴 72 instituciones piden a Ayuso que frene el recorte al Círculo de Bellas Artes y pruebe que “la libertad artística no está amenazada en Madrid”

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Who knew the Great America parking lot could see such greatness.

Everybody: That show was beautiful. Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

what a shot

Puerto Rico está cabrónnnnnn

A perfectly joyous performance 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

So elegantly done.

omg the power line workers fixing the apagón

This is an incredible halftime show.

Historical fun fact:

Thanks, Emily! I always think the trouble is that art historians are even willing to entertain these discussions with journalists. They need us to make this work look legitimate; without this commentary there is literally no story (read: press release) to write. It's almost an impossible scenario.

A) Read the many things that @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has posted and published about this kind of story. B) I’m begging reporters to talk to other people besides Noah Charney about art history stories.

THREAD: Random aesthetically pleasing baseball fields … Estadio "José Aguilar y Maya", Guanajuato, Mexico