#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom

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Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

“There’s nothing good to say about the bribe, the $30 million bribe.”

Nov. is such a busy month…so I’m posting this to spur myself (& friends?) to get over to the MFA for this soon!

A drama at the Kennedy Center has been playing out inside the performing arts center since President Trump named himself its chairman in February. It has been damaging for business.

“There is inevitable crossover [between the Gardner and the Athenaeum shows], but you need to see both. Crite was devoted to Boston, *his* Boston, though this is the first time Boston has loved him back in equal measure.”

I participated in building Biden’s Official White House website, and given that it was an official government resource, the restrictions on political messaging were considered deeply important and severe. This is a joke. It of course breaks the law, but deeper, it breaks the very spirit of the law

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Hey folks. DIA workers are working to unionize! Sign the letter of support below + follow IG DIAworkersunited. My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back. www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Jackson's dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, says the evidence showed that gender-incongruent passports led to humiliating, invasive searches of trans Americans (including strip searches) since their gender marker didn't align with their appearance. The policy is both cruel and irrational.

Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com

Ahead of the US’s 250th anniversary, museums like The Phillips Collection argue for pushing the national narrative forward, not retreating into “normalcy.” buff.ly/cyNI4vl

D978,480 - issued (yes, to Smucker's) in 2023 for a design for a sandwich. #DesignPatents

Does it make sense for a Mamluk-era manuscript of juz' 16 to open with Q18:57 rather than Q18:75? Sharing the opening pages here.

I genuinely love all of your sandwich puns

roses are red some wolves are dire

Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!

This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪

My new book on the Portuguese Baroque Painter Josefa de Óbidos www.pdx.edu/news/illumin... #portugal #earlymodern

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

We were looking for a good quote to set up the satire here, but nothing clicked. Then Douthat’s op-ed dropped late morning, and well, thank you New York Times yet again. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

A new work thought to be from Artemisia Gentileschi's Neapolitan period up for auction at Christie's www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

Andy Warhol, Hammer & Sickle, 1977 crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/3647...

This labeller never misses

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

The spokesperson’s phrase “staffing transitions” sure is one way to describe the gutting of the NEA… [gift link]

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert. recipes.hypotheses.org

Does anyone know Cuomo’s move date?

A fascinating look at the things Vermeer owned, and very close to my own research on Italian artists (now just wishing I knew Dutch)

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free: (Published 2019)

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Over 300 staff at Lacma have announced plans to unionise under AFSCME, citing pay equity, transparency, and fairer working conditions. buff.ly/aSwF6hx

no no it's not seasonal depression I'm simply working my way through a playlist of 65 versions of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and some Lake Superior spilled down my face.

The Philadelphia Art Museum has dismissed director Sasha Suda. www.inquirer.com/arts/sasha-s...

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... @julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social @lrbrody.bsky.social

Claes Oldenburg, Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato Sandwich), 1963

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

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