#HistorySky: I’m looking for something outside of my field of research, so I’m asking for your help. Are there early modern Spanish (or French) plays that feature a marriage scene? Like, a scene which incorporates the actual marriage ceremony, not an offstage marriage, à la Romeo and Juliet.

“Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.

A new statue, a toilet spray painted gold and set on a faux-marble pedestal, is the latest in a series of protest artworks and installations taking aim at President Trump and his administration that have popped up in Washington, D.C. https://wapo.st/484QCUB

CSMBR Online Lecture Series: 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃, 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲 Marilena Panarelli 𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../matter-p... #CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Pharmacology #Galen #Italy

“Just like we’re ahead of schedule on the ballroom, in a much bigger way, we’re ahead of schedule with Iran,” Trump said. 🤦🏽‍♀️ wapo.st/4tkK24L

"The New York Times on Sunday wrote about concerns over the ballroom’s design, an article that appeared to irk the president, who mentioned it several times aboard Air Force One." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Spread the word! My department at UMass-Amherst is inaugurating a Pre-College Summer Program in the History of Art: Visual Analysis and Exhibition Design. www.umass.edu/art-history/...

Bluesky recently announced Attie, an AI app that’s built on Claude and enables users to build custom Bluesky feeds using natural language. Bluesky users are upset the company is building generative AI features and the app’s account is now the 3rd most blocked. Screenshot via @mcs212.bsky.social

(No “AI” involved in this discussion, thankfully.)

Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse art among items stolen in Italian job

Love this: Real estate people always present new build vs preservation as an either/or when design can give you both www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

Doctor saints Cosmas and Damian, by an anonymous Portuguese artist of the 16th century. Cosmas is holding a mortar and pestle while Damian inspects a vial of urine (Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

This game actually exists.

Found the most bluesky board game possible.

I'd been wondering what became of Artemisia Gentileschi's "Portrait of a Gentleman." Apparently it's in Las Vegas

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

The Expandable Brass Band was definitely a great addition to today’s #NoKings protest.

Quite a large mixed media painting of Pembroke Street, Cambridge with Caröe's Bridge and two figures walking past. I don't think I still have this but can't remember where it went. I painted this several times loving its archaic, sooty appearance (but it has been cleaned up and restored since).

Pretty embarrassing tbh

A helpful thread to revisit with some accounts apparently compromised today! Please do turn on two-factor authentication if you haven't already. You can find the setting here: bsky.app/settings/pri...

Visited @nu-archives.bsky.social today and saw some delightful records. A thread. We begin with Big Dig ephemera.

Trump's interest in our physical money is no surprise... livyarrow.org/2026/03/27/w...

As the trailblazing Swedish star returns with her first album since 2018, she talks through going on IVF and solo parenting, expressing sexuality, and the negotiation of being a self-aware pop star. n.pr/3PCQ9CM

NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN NEW ROBYN (The whole album’s not on Apple Music in the States yet, but the videos are up on Youtube.)

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hello what did i miss tell me every thing

In August, Education Department employees will relocate to a smaller office roughly a block away, and the larger Energy Department will take over the old headquarters. n.pr/4ddVZUX

People who can design/make stamps: take inspiration from this earlier project.

This cover illustration goes so much harder than it needs to

My latest for @mcsweeneys.net. We are up to 779 Trump administration atrocities. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/feb...

Yup. Already annoyed by ABS challenges. (I know I'm in the minority opinion on this one.)

Once again.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times

Congresswoman Joyce Beatty filed a motion on Wednesday requesting a federal judge remove President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and halt his plan to close the institution for two years.

Breaking news: The Kennedy Center began layoffs on Thursday, initiating the first wave of anticipated cuts tied to President Trump’s plan to shut down the institution for two years.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

When you get an egomaniac who doesn't give a shit about democratic norms and give him a staff of toadies who venerate him, you get garbage like this. (It's a good time to shift to paying for everything digitally...) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Finally go time!

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

Today: nasturtium day at the Gardner Thursday: Red Sox Opening Day Friday: Robyn’s new album released

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Just scrolled down my feed and I have now seen the screenshot of the Pope discovering that you don't wear gloves in special collections exactly 20 times, well done staying on brand everybody.

Isabella Stewart Gardner began a tradition more than a century ago by growing orange nasturtiums for her birthday and transforming her courtyard into a celebration of spring. This week, the Gardner Museum kept the annual tradition alive. See more photos: trib.al/fyLqrAp

On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory