Bus stop bench has entered the historiographical debate.

Weird, scruffy, containing an obscure and outdated political message, loved by skateboarders and general flaneurs: the San Francisco I knew and love encompassed one fountain.

those grand fresh-water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s noblest traits

Oops...We did it again! On behalf of Sea Rocket and Imani, we are excited to announce the first egg of an expected four-egg clutch was laid on the Montrose Protected Beach the morning of Saturday, May 16, 2026. 📸: Phil Stosberg (Sea Rocket, Montrose Beach, Chicago, May 5, 2026)

And more terrific news! Pippin is going to be a Papa Plover! 🤍🟢 Our friends in Waukegan are not on Bluesky so they're letting us share the exciting news.

One month from now, hundreds of Hampshire colleagues will be out of a job and won’t receive any severance pay. Please donate if you can. The site also has other ways to help Hampshire staff and faculty, so please share it widely.

STIP: Leonard A. Lauder Residency for Curators & Conservators at the Met https://arthist.net/archive/52473

Okay, but what about if your engagement is because you work in the arts and culture field? Can’t imagine that has the same beneficial effect…

I can say this for Alito his ability to be pissy little bitch is unrivaled peerless in the little bitch field

Happy 18th anniversary of the time Manny Ramirez high-fived a fan while in the middle of turning a difficult double play.

The museum that stands on public land and has fired a lot of its staff is now going to charge Angelenos $25 for the privilege of visiting. lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2026/05/luca...

Two South Side-based visual arts organizations will receive part of a $1.8 million grant from the Los Angeles-based Getty Foundation to support Black visual arts archives, the foundation announced Wednesday.

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"If you’re an adjunct or non-tenure-track, go ahead and finish off the bottle." ...in this economy?

Interior Department staff members have raised concerns about the quality and speed of the repair work that a contractor is performing on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to government documents seen by NYT. Trump initially said he had picked the contractor doing the work.

Exciting exhibition coming to Detroit next spring

“Mass protests in Argentina decry Milei’s funding cuts to prized public universities” 5/12/26… 1/

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Why not get that special someone this pretty little early Caillebotte? www.christies.com/lot/lot-6585...

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

The Daily Star has a lettuce

'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.' Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2

I feel like we could all use some cat portraits right about now.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

Recently discovered this map that pulls together all the baseball leagues, stadiums, and teams across continental North America. Start planning your road trips immediately. www.baseballmapper.com

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy organization, is asking a federal judge to halt President Trump's plans to resurface the reflecting pool on the National Mall. n.pr/4ug725F

People are weird sometimes if you don't have kids, they're like what about having a legacy, and I just point to my box of various wires and power cables

80% the world's biggest cities assessed showed economic growth without the use of fossil fuels thanks to green policies go.nature.com/4ni9KEY

Drought building across New England. April was really dry for 90% of the area, with deficits of 1-3" across the board. If we don't get some persistent rain, we'll have a rough summer & fall in terms of water use/wildland fires. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/11/m... #mawx #boston @bostonglobe.com

Our special issue #30.1-2, "Reflections on the Global Early Modern," is now available online! It opens with an introduction by Zoltán Biedermann, Giancarlo Casale, and Molly Warsh, "How Early? How Modern? Reflections on the Global Early Modern (Part 1)." brill.com/view/journal...

Thanks to someone in the comments for identifying the source, which is University of Central Florida. Link to full video here www.youtube.com/live/zwYkHS8...

the thing where the chicago dogs have a good mascot—mustard—and a pervert mascot—ketchup—is a wild bit

Avoiding what seems to be the topic du jour here on Bluesky.

You can submit via the website below public comment about the proposed presidential #arch, which is outsized and urbanistically and symbolically inappropriate on many levels. www.cfa.gov/submit-publi...

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

It’s remarkable in this day and age to hear a politician anywhere say the following: “Support for a diverse, rigorous and accessible body of historical scholarship should be a much greater priority for democratic governments even at a time of stretched budgets.“

Maybe this Canvas hack should be a cautionary tale for AI implentation into teaching aside from the 1000 other reasons why we shouldn‘t normalize it but what do I know

National Gallery, London, July 3: "Josefa de Óbidos: Painter of the Portuguese Baroque" a half-day symposium with Susana Varela Flor, Salvador Salort-Pons, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, Carmen Ripollés and Daniel Sobrino Ralston. Free and open to the public www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/josef...

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Final Div III show of the year at Hampshire College Art Gallery—and the last with Lorenzo as director. Bittersweet, to say the least.

Tonight's Pre-Game Ceremony celebrated the 125th anniversary of the first Red Sox home game. My boss found this Boston Post article from May 8, 1901, saying that Sousa's "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty" was the first song played at that game, so I played it at the start of tonight's ceremony.

The International Vinegar Museum Roslyn, SD

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s letter opposing the appalling meglomanaical arch. There’s an address in there, to which people can write to the US Commission of Fine Arts (which has review power, but prez will do whatever the hell he wants). savingplaces.org/stories/nati...

In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Applications for the inaugural Annual Renaissance PhD Summer School, a collaboration b/w @RenWarwick, the Warburg Institute, & the CESR at L'Université de Tours, w/ support from @NewberryLibrary, close TOMORROW. Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...