Craig Clunas
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Craig Clunas
@craigclunas.bsky.social
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On 28 November 1559 #otd the Ming dynasty calligrapher and painter Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559) died. Here's one of my favourites - which itself deals with themes of mourning - for the anniversary
heni.com/talks/wen-zh...
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Wen Zhengming’s Wintry Trees: Mourning and Reciprocity | HENI Talks
Craig Clunas confronts the mysteries of this 16th century Chinese hanging scroll.
heni.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
On 28 November 1559 #otd the Ming dynasty calligrapher and painter Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559) died. Here's one of my favourites - which itself deals with themes of mourning - for the anniversary
heni.com/talks/wen-zh...
heni.com/talks/wen-zh...
By @ecoomasaru.bsky.social, in @burlingtoncontemp.bsky.social
contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/art...
contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/art...
Burlington Contemporary - Articles - Strange evidence and surreal visions: contemporary Sri Lankan art in Britain
On 13th September 2025, the day of the biggest far-right rally in London for decades, nineteen members of the Sri Lankan diaspora, including the present author, gathered at the National Archives. The ...
contemporary.burlington.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Thomas Baker by Gianlorenzo Berninic. 1638.
Baker delivered Van Dyck's triple portrait of Charles I to Bernini so that he could carve a bust of the king. While there Baker commissioned this portrait of himself.
Bernini died #otd 28 Nov 1680 (V&A Museum, London)
Baker delivered Van Dyck's triple portrait of Charles I to Bernini so that he could carve a bust of the king. While there Baker commissioned this portrait of himself.
Bernini died #otd 28 Nov 1680 (V&A Museum, London)
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thomas Baker by Gianlorenzo Berninic. 1638.
Baker delivered Van Dyck's triple portrait of Charles I to Bernini so that he could carve a bust of the king. While there Baker commissioned this portrait of himself.
Bernini died #otd 28 Nov 1680 (V&A Museum, London)
Baker delivered Van Dyck's triple portrait of Charles I to Bernini so that he could carve a bust of the king. While there Baker commissioned this portrait of himself.
Bernini died #otd 28 Nov 1680 (V&A Museum, London)
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"The awards will fund travel to major collections worldwide to study works of Western art on paper from the Renaissance to 1900.
Typical awards will range from £2,000–£2,500 for travel within Europe and £3,000–£3,500 for intercontinental travel."
Typical awards will range from £2,000–£2,500 for travel within Europe and £3,000–£3,500 for intercontinental travel."
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"The awards will fund travel to major collections worldwide to study works of Western art on paper from the Renaissance to 1900.
Typical awards will range from £2,000–£2,500 for travel within Europe and £3,000–£3,500 for intercontinental travel."
Typical awards will range from £2,000–£2,500 for travel within Europe and £3,000–£3,500 for intercontinental travel."
Definitely unheimlich and well worth a visit, Cathie Pilkington’s exhibition “Housekeeper” at Freud Museum London www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Definitely unheimlich and well worth a visit, Cathie Pilkington’s exhibition “Housekeeper” at Freud Museum London www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/...
@helenbarrett.bsky.social is quite right about the dire situation for art history in UK schools; but one glimmer of hope lies in the excellent work of www.arthistorylinkup.org, a charity well worth supporting
Art History Link-Up | Art History is for Everyone
Discover free art history courses designed for under-represented students. Join us to unlock life-changing opportunities and shape the future of the arts in the UK.
www.arthistorylinkup.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@helenbarrett.bsky.social is quite right about the dire situation for art history in UK schools; but one glimmer of hope lies in the excellent work of www.arthistorylinkup.org, a charity well worth supporting
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The Burlington Magazine’s Travel Bursaries
Nicole Gilchrist-Reeves. Bewerbungsschluss: 01.02.2026
arthist.net
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Trinity College & @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social are seeking to appoint an outstanding historian with teaching and research interests in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa (c.1830 to c.1970) as a Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor of History. ➡️ www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Trinity College & @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social are seeking to appoint an outstanding historian with teaching and research interests in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa (c.1830 to c.1970) as a Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor of History. ➡️ www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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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.
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Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Highly recommend this @britishacademy.bsky.social scheme: organizing a conference helped consolidate research ideas while making new and serendipitous connections. Would urge applicants to build in cross-disciplinary perspectives from the start, including with the creative arts.
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
This would be 1975-76, and the film soc at @kingscollege.bsky.social rented "The Harder They Come", and it was the only film in those years that was hung onto so we could all watch it twice. True greatness. RIP
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This would be 1975-76, and the film soc at @kingscollege.bsky.social rented "The Harder They Come", and it was the only film in those years that was hung onto so we could all watch it twice. True greatness. RIP
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Thirty-six Acrobats in Six Groups, 1652, by Stefano della Bella
Class: Prints
Medium: Etching; second state of two
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373952
Class: Prints
Medium: Etching; second state of two
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373952
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thirty-six Acrobats in Six Groups, 1652, by Stefano della Bella
Class: Prints
Medium: Etching; second state of two
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373952
Class: Prints
Medium: Etching; second state of two
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/373952
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'View of the British Museum' (1906) by Vilhelm Hammershøi
(Fuglsang Art Museum)
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🎵 'A Foggy Day in London Town' by Ella Fitzgerald
youtu.be/ztmaOUy6DIc?...
(Fuglsang Art Museum)
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🎵 'A Foggy Day in London Town' by Ella Fitzgerald
youtu.be/ztmaOUy6DIc?...
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
'View of the British Museum' (1906) by Vilhelm Hammershøi
(Fuglsang Art Museum)
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🎵 'A Foggy Day in London Town' by Ella Fitzgerald
youtu.be/ztmaOUy6DIc?...
(Fuglsang Art Museum)
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🎵 'A Foggy Day in London Town' by Ella Fitzgerald
youtu.be/ztmaOUy6DIc?...
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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JOB> Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, University of St Andrews www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219,
School of Modern Languages
Salary: Reader Grade 8 £59,967 - £67,469 per annum / Professor Grade 9 by negotiation
Start Date: August 2026
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www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
JOB> Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, University of St Andrews www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
I always knew if I lived long enough I'd live to see a revisionist recuperation of The White Heather Club.
Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I always knew if I lived long enough I'd live to see a revisionist recuperation of The White Heather Club.
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Call for applications: 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program at the Library of Congress, which supports short-term travel for research in the LOC Asian Division's collections. Application deadline January 11, 2026.
Fellowship Information | About this Reading Room | Asian Reading Room | Research Centers | Library of Congress
The Asian Division at the Library of Congress invites applications for the 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program, established through the generous gift of Florence Tan Moeson, who…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Call for applications: 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program at the Library of Congress, which supports short-term travel for research in the LOC Asian Division's collections. Application deadline January 11, 2026.
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"It is a tremendous honour to have won this prestigious award and hugely gratifying for the Ashmolean team and our many supporters who helped bring this remarkable painting into a public collection." - Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum
We are delighted to announce that ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico, acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, is the winner of the Apollo Acquisition of the Year award, which is supported by BRAFA
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"It is a tremendous honour to have won this prestigious award and hugely gratifying for the Ashmolean team and our many supporters who helped bring this remarkable painting into a public collection." - Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum
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We'd love to publish reviews of these works in @asiancha.bsky.social. They focus on the Japanese Canadian internment & its legacies, tracing histories of dispossession, intergenerational trauma, memory, and reconciliation. Email [email protected] if you are interested in reading any of these titles.
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We'd love to publish reviews of these works in @asiancha.bsky.social. They focus on the Japanese Canadian internment & its legacies, tracing histories of dispossession, intergenerational trauma, memory, and reconciliation. Email [email protected] if you are interested in reading any of these titles.
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We are delighted to announce that ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico, acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, is the winner of the Apollo Acquisition of the Year award, which is supported by BRAFA
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We are delighted to announce that ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico, acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, is the winner of the Apollo Acquisition of the Year award, which is supported by BRAFA
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
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Wrote a history of twentieth-century Chinese poetry for the Oxford Research Library (doi.org/10.1093/acre...). It's sadly subscription-only, but feel free to DM/reply/email if you want access. Also serves as a "what's in the Anglophone field" narrative bibliography, good to populate reading lists.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wrote a history of twentieth-century Chinese poetry for the Oxford Research Library (doi.org/10.1093/acre...). It's sadly subscription-only, but feel free to DM/reply/email if you want access. Also serves as a "what's in the Anglophone field" narrative bibliography, good to populate reading lists.
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Did you know 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the photo booth? 🎞️
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Did you know 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the photo booth? 🎞️
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At the next Warburg Director’s Seminar (3 Dec), Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — the international project, book and touring exhibition exploring the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
#GothicArt #ArtHistory #Gothic
#GothicArt #ArtHistory #Gothic
Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined
This event explores the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
At the next Warburg Director’s Seminar (3 Dec), Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — the international project, book and touring exhibition exploring the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
#GothicArt #ArtHistory #Gothic
#GothicArt #ArtHistory #Gothic