🎙️🕥 Looking forward to presenting my paper “Recovering Kairos in Education: Cultivating ‘Timeless Time’ Through Ritualized Aesthetic Experience’ at the International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE) Colloquium today! #philsky #philosophy #artsky #aesthetics #PhilEd #edusky #academicsky

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread,' as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage…

⏳The AAHE survey on the state of arts on college campuses closes this Friday! If you work in Higher Education arts administration, please share your insights with us (or send to a colleague!) 🗳️ tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #highered #artsky #edusky

On Thursdays, we philosophize… Colloquium 1 of 2: Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on “Health and Well-Being: Some Complications” 📍Philosophy Hall, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #philsky #academicsky #edusky

Confession: Philosophy is my coping mechanism, especially during crazy times like these. 🎧 @onbeing.bsky.social @philosophybites.bsky.social @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @apaphilosophy.bsky.social #philsky #academicsky

🏫 UNGA Healing Arts Week: Research Symposium at NYU The annual research symposium is presented by NYU Steinhardt as part of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab’s UN General Assembly (UNGA) Healing Arts Week. cc @lmtischfund.bsky.social @who.int @neuroartsblueprint.bsky.social

Arts Administrators in Higher Education (AAHE)—a network of arts leaders in Higher Education who champion & facilitate #arts engagement on their campuses—has launched a #survey on the State of Arts in #HigherEd. 🗳️Pls share your insights: tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #academicsky #edusky

John Dewey hits hard the morning after another horrific example of political violence 💔 “Democracy is the belief that even when needs and ends or consequences are different for each individual, the habit of amicable cooperation..

Studying #philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads #philsky #academiasky via The Conversation #edusky theconversation.com/studying-phi...

🏛️ Introducing 35 pre-service educators (@teacherscollege.bsky.social master’s students) to the @metmuseum.org today! Lucky me 👩🏼‍🏫

I see you, Vincent — my TBR pile is endless too ♾️📚 📍 @royalacademyarts.bsky.social #tbr #bibliophile #booksky #vangogh #booknerd #toberead

If you look at this van Gogh & your first thought is of Heidegger (“toilsome tread of the worker”) & your second is of Hemingway ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") are you a philosophy nerd, poetry nerd or art nerd? Asking for a friend… 📍 @royalacademyarts.bsky.social #artsky #philsky #poetrysky

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House review of Smithsonian Institution museums: bit.ly/3HEbfgs

Arts Administrators in Higher Education (AAHE)—a network of arts leaders in Higher Education who champion & facilitate #arts engagement on their campuses—has launched a #survey on the State of Arts in #HigherEd. 🗳️Pls share your insights: tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #academicsky #edusky

Requisite pilgrimage to the Prison of Socrates in Athens 🇬🇷 Fitting that I was listening to @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social at the time — always philosophising, even on holiday. #philsky #athens #socrates

Thanks to @pesgb.bsky.social for a great talk today on ‘Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy of Education’ by Camille Braune (Panthéon-Sorbonne University). Appreciated the opportunity to be able to join remotely. #philsky #academicsky

🎧 Perfect post-read listen: a three-part primer on “How to Read Simone Weil” on one of my favorite pods (Yale’s “For the Life of the World”) cc @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social @weilsociety.bsky.social @evanrosa.bsky.social @cynthiawallace.bsky.social @simoneweiluk.bsky.social #philsky

🏁 Ready, set, symposia… Conversations Across Cultures kicks off momentarily at @teacherscollege.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. We’re looking forward to 2 days of talks & panels on the theme of ‘ART TODAY: Challenging Times’. Lots to discuss on this urgent topic… #artsky #academicsky

🕷️ Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers at @guggenheim.bsky.social cc @hauserwirth.bsky.social #artsky #museumsky

Gorgeous venue for Socratic inquiry. Looking forward to this conversation about “Questions to Live By” between two brilliant interlocutors: @agcallard.bsky.social and Alexander Nehamas. 📍 Princeton University cc @princetonarts.bsky.social @princetonartandarx.bsky.social @wwnorton.bsky.social

Huge thanks to the WHEN Contemplative Pedagogy Group for inviting @contemplativeneuro.bsky.social to share his research and insights with us today. And special thanks to @metmuseum.org for providing a blissful venue to join the meeting from. #artsky #edusky #academicsky

🔴🔜 Beautiful morning at @metmuseum.org previewing the 2025 Roof Garden Commission by Jennie C. Jones. Can’t wait to enjoy summer cocktails with her Ensemble 🎼

🖼️ Sunday afternoon excursion to MoMA to see the extraordinary Jack Whitten retrospective. High expectations (because I love JW) and I was still floored — so brilliant. Brava to curator Michelle Kuo & everyone else involved 👏 📍 @moma.bsky.social // cc @hauserwirth.bsky.social #artsky #museumsky

I spent 4 hours at the @metmuseum.org yesterday facilitating young people’s engagement with art and it was beautiful to witness the transformative power of art through their eyes. #artsky #museumsky

👩🏼‍💻TFW you’re conducting a post-intervention interview and your mind is already “coding” the participant’s insightful comments about their aesthetic experience(s). #researchsky #academicsky #artsky #aesthetics #pilotstudy

📚🗣️ A rainy day well spent discussing art and inquiry with friends and colleagues at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Huge thanks to Princeton’s D. Graham Burnett and Julian Chehirian for organising. #academicsky #artsky #philsky

📸 A few pics from the gorgeous Amy Sherald show at The Whitney. A must see exhibition by an immensely talented artist #artsky #museumsky #blacksky

In honor of @booker.senate.gov’s feat of endurance on the senate floor, here are some stills from another 24 hour tour-de-force, Christian Marclay’s The Clock — one of my favorite works and it happens to be on view at @moma.bsky.social till May. Highly recommend midnight… ⏰ #artsky #corybooker

🏫🎙️🖼️ We invite you to join us for Conversations Across Cultures, a convening of artists, educators, researchers, and the broader cultural community April 25-27 at @teacherscollege.bsky.social, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. #artsky #academicsky

⏳ Let the countdown begin! So excited we finally have an opening date for the new Princeton University Art Museum …10/31/25 🎃 Walked by on Saturday and it’s looking great 👀 #museumsky #artsky #academicsky

🖼️📚 Since my usual conference lunchtime MO (museum visit) wasn’t an option today (the Princeton University Museum is coming along, but doesn’t open till fall), I indulged my inner bibliophile and read Dewey in the gorgeous Firestone Library. 📍Princeton University #booksky #museumsky #academicsky

🏫💡 “Fantasies of the People” Conference at Princeton University

Again, best part of conferences: lunchtime excursions to local museums! Today’s excursion: Yale University Art Gallery 🖼️ (I love university museums and this one is 🧨) 📸 A few of my favs: Titus Kaphar, Rashid Johnson, Hew Locke & Barkley Hendricks @yale.edu @aamg.bsky.social #artsky #museumsky

Another week, another conference: APA Div 10 (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts) Annual Research Conference at @yale.edu Here we go… #apadiv10 #psychsky #academicsky

🏛️🖼️ Another wonderful lunchtime excursion: Baltimore Museum of Art. cc @bmoreart.bsky.social // @philosophyofed.bsky.social #museumsky #artsky #travelsky

🏛️🖼️ My “guilty pleasure” of conference travel is lunchtime excursions to local museums. Today’s adventure: Walters Art Museum. Such a treat. Thx @philosophyofed.bsky.social @johndeweysociety.bsky.social for giving me an excuse to come to Baltimore / @bmoreart.bsky.social #philsky #museumsky #artsky

💡 Philosophy of Education and John Dewey Society Joint Conference Day 2 {I’ll try to live post more today since my presentation is behind me; apologies for neglecting to do so yesterday) cc @johndeweysociety.bsky.social @philosophyofed.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting my paper ‘RE-PRESENCING: A Pedagogical Framework for Ritualized Engagement with Art Grounded in Deweyan Experience’ (forthcoming in ‘Education & Culture’) at the @johndeweysociety.bsky.social @philosophyofed.bsky.social joint conference at Johns Hopkins. #academicsky

👩🏼‍🏫 🖼️ Teaching at the @metmuseum.org never gets old… #artsky #museumsky #edusky

🗞️ Lucas Museum Director and CEO Steps Down, with George Lucas to Lead ‘Content Direction’ This is a HUGE loss — Sandra Jackson-Dumont is brilliant and the Lucas Museum was lucky to have her at the helm www.artnews.com/art-news/new... #artsky

If you see this repost with something red from your gallery (school group in front of Ellsworth Kelly’s Blue Green Red, 1963, last week at @metmuseum.org) #artsky #museumsky #edusky

🎧RECOMMENDED LISTENING Critics Say 'Identity Politics' Ruined Art. Here's A Better Argument | The Art Angle (@artnet.bsky.social) Ben Davis in convo w/ @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about “elite capture,” “deference politics,” & “being-in-the-room privilege” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #artsky

📣 2025 Torrance Festival of Ideas will focus on the theme of CREATIVITY & HEALTH. The two-day festival (April 21-22) features world-renowned scholars on the intersections between creativity, health, community & medicine. Register: tinyurl.com/torranceidea... #medhum #academicsky #artshealth

“Educational leaders must not put on a demure face & stay silent while civil society is undermined by the diktat of executive orders. We must not sacrifice academic freedom & a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance.” —Michael Roth, @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social

📍The Artist as Educator: Bisa Butler (lecture and conversation with Gholdy Muhammad) at Millbank Chapel, Teachers College, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Thank you to TC’s Gordon Institute for bringing this brilliant artist to our campus! #artsky #edusky

“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.” — Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays #Tuesdayenergy #civildisobedience #academicsky #edusky #philsky

📆 SAVE THE DATE CONVERSATIONS ACROSS CULTURE: ART TODAY April 24-27, 2025 Teachers College, Columbia University A three-day convening of artists, educators, researchers, and the broader cultural community at Teachers College, Columbia University in April 2025. #artsky #edusky #ArtEd

🗞️Don't try to keep working-class students in a narrow educational lane | @theartnewspaper.bsky.social Exposing working-class students only to stories of working-class heroes, at the expense of "middle-class pursuits" such as museums, is misguided www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/17/d... #edusky

Happy #lunarnewyear 🧧 Some Mayahana #wisdom as you look toward the year of the snake 🐍 “Do not cultivate the 3 Defilements. Our every thought must avoid the 3 poisons & accord with purity (precepts), impartiality (meditative concentration) and proper understanding (wisdom).” #buddhism #philsky