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@arthistory.bsky.social
art historian with eclectic interests
early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not
early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not
Paul Liégeois, Still Life with Plumps and Grapes, n.d. Oil on canvas. Sacramento, CA, Crocker Art Museum
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Paul Liégeois, Still Life with Plumps and Grapes, n.d. Oil on canvas. Sacramento, CA, Crocker Art Museum
I’ve never known anyone to lightly end contact with their parents, including the highly abusive ones. I’m former foster youth and I volunteer with FFY. I’m telling you, the amount of abuse that happens before NC is staggering. Kids give so many second chances because everyone wants a mom.
Many young people are going "no contact" with their parents. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHn3K
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’ve never known anyone to lightly end contact with their parents, including the highly abusive ones. I’m former foster youth and I volunteer with FFY. I’m telling you, the amount of abuse that happens before NC is staggering. Kids give so many second chances because everyone wants a mom.
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
Et in Arcadia Ego
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Et in Arcadia Ego
Yes.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Yes.
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See you on the other side. ✌🏻
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
See you on the other side. ✌🏻
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‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care | KQED
Multiple parents say Sutter Health caregivers told them the network will end gender-affirming care to youth in December, leaving them scrambling to find new physicians for their transgender children.
www.kqed.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
‘It’s Just Cruel’: Bay Area Parents Say Sutter Health Is Set to Halt Trans Youth Care
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
“I continue to be heartbroken, overwhelmed & livid. It’s the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone’s gone, and they knew that that was going to be the case.”
@kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/1206548...
Thrilled that I can rely on London's Institute of Historical Research to present an academic talk to distract me each US Thanksgiving.
Today: Antonio Pattori "An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy"
Today: Antonio Pattori "An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy"
An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy
www.history.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thrilled that I can rely on London's Institute of Historical Research to present an academic talk to distract me each US Thanksgiving.
Today: Antonio Pattori "An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy"
Today: Antonio Pattori "An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy"
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The East Bay Regional Park District is waiving fees and organizing group hikes.
East Bay regional parks are free on ‘Green Friday’ after Thanksgiving
The East Bay Regional Park District is waiving fees and organizing group hikes.
oaklandside.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The East Bay Regional Park District is waiving fees and organizing group hikes.
Respected the general strike blackout today by not buying limited edition vinyl on holiday sale and posting here for accountability! Nov 25 – Dec 2 don’t buy stuff
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Respected the general strike blackout today by not buying limited edition vinyl on holiday sale and posting here for accountability! Nov 25 – Dec 2 don’t buy stuff
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'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Turkey Pie, 1627. Oil on panel, 75 x 132cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a Turkey Pie, 1627. Oil on panel, 75 x 132cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
Unrecorded French artist, Still Life with Turkey, second half of the 18th c. Oil on canvas, 96 x 123cm. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Unrecorded French artist, Still Life with Turkey, second half of the 18th c. Oil on canvas, 96 x 123cm. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts
Castello Giácomo, Still Life with Dead and Living Fowl, 1680s, oil on canvas, 80 x 109. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Castello Giácomo, Still Life with Dead and Living Fowl, 1680s, oil on canvas, 80 x 109. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts.
Please let people not participate in holiday discourse at the office without socially punishing them. We're at work.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please let people not participate in holiday discourse at the office without socially punishing them. We're at work.
Want to go out and bring objects home while respecting the blackout general strike Nov 25–Dec 2?
Try the library.
Try the library.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Want to go out and bring objects home while respecting the blackout general strike Nov 25–Dec 2?
Try the library.
Try the library.
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Going to share the dates of the General Strike everyday until Nov 25th because search engines are trying to suppress the info!
#generalstrike #strike #general-strike #general-strike-dates #strike-dates #generalstrikedates
#blackout #massblackout #mass-blackout
#generalstrike #strike #general-strike #general-strike-dates #strike-dates #generalstrikedates
#blackout #massblackout #mass-blackout
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Going to share the dates of the General Strike everyday until Nov 25th because search engines are trying to suppress the info!
#generalstrike #strike #general-strike #general-strike-dates #strike-dates #generalstrikedates
#blackout #massblackout #mass-blackout
#generalstrike #strike #general-strike #general-strike-dates #strike-dates #generalstrikedates
#blackout #massblackout #mass-blackout
Some people draw hearts, others do math on the bottom of the library food prohibition sign.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some people draw hearts, others do math on the bottom of the library food prohibition sign.
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"What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump’s Venice Biennale Pick?" Some observations about the American Arts Conservancy news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump's Venice Biennale Pick? | Artnet News
What is the American Arts Conservancy? Who are its advisors? Why is a pet foods entrepreneur in charge of the U.S. Venice Biennale pavilion?
news.artnet.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump’s Venice Biennale Pick?" Some observations about the American Arts Conservancy news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
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And there's a General Strike Blackout Buy-Nothing scheduled for Nov. 26 - Dec. 2 blackoutthesystem.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
And there's a General Strike Blackout Buy-Nothing scheduled for Nov. 26 - Dec. 2 blackoutthesystem.com
It took only 20 minutes to get to $236.4m.
Gustav Klimt painting becomes second most expensive artwork sold at auction
The portrait of Austrian heiress Elisabeth Lederer was looted by the Nazis and almost destroyed.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It took only 20 minutes to get to $236.4m.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle