Judith Barr
@jebarr.bsky.social
@J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Read the Invention of Love my senior year of high school- one of the first ways I understood how Latin can still be living, still a way to understand the modern lives of those who love it. D.m. to a beautiful writer.
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Read the Invention of Love my senior year of high school- one of the first ways I understood how Latin can still be living, still a way to understand the modern lives of those who love it. D.m. to a beautiful writer.
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I know about book breaking but had no idea that fragment breaking was a thing. A martyrology leaf offered recently by a respected dealer is now offered on eBay, having been recently (within the past 2 months) sliced in half. The other half has gone missing. *angry sigh* Caveat emptor fragmentorum.
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I know about book breaking but had no idea that fragment breaking was a thing. A martyrology leaf offered recently by a respected dealer is now offered on eBay, having been recently (within the past 2 months) sliced in half. The other half has gone missing. *angry sigh* Caveat emptor fragmentorum.
Our previous Associate Curator Molly Boarati curated a show focusing on the provenance research of one painting from the collection.
It resulted in a new attribution of Joseph Wright of Derby.
It resulted in a new attribution of Joseph Wright of Derby.
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
The first actually engaging way to display provenance research I’ve seen, in “Max Ernst bis Dorothea Tanning” from the Pietzsch collection bequeathed to the Deutsche Nationalgalerie
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
for your consideration: Thanksgiving tahdig and fesenjen (I am a genius)
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
for your consideration: Thanksgiving tahdig and fesenjen (I am a genius)
Another day of senseless and horrifying news too close to home. Hug your family, hug your friends.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Another day of senseless and horrifying news too close to home. Hug your family, hug your friends.
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We’re delighted to announce that the newly remodeled Getty Provenance Index has won Digital Innovation of the Year in this year’s Apollo Awards. [🧵10/10]
Learn more:
www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Learn more:
www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Tracing Art
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming research on the social life of art
www.getty.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We’re delighted to announce that the newly remodeled Getty Provenance Index has won Digital Innovation of the Year in this year’s Apollo Awards. [🧵10/10]
Learn more:
www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Learn more:
www.getty.edu/tracingart/
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For the What's History Feed 🗃️.
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For the What's History Feed 🗃️.
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
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NEW Local bronze coins and imitations of Roman aurei (gold coins) from Tell Abraq, UAE. Occupied for over three millennia, recent discoveries at the site indicate widespread trade and connections over both land and sea as early as the Bronze Age.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
NEW Local bronze coins and imitations of Roman aurei (gold coins) from Tell Abraq, UAE. Occupied for over three millennia, recent discoveries at the site indicate widespread trade and connections over both land and sea as early as the Bronze Age.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Madeline also catalogued a selection of digital images of provenance marks found in the Haliday collection for the CERL Provenance Digital Archive. The archive enables scholars to compare provenance marks from other collections in the CERL network. You can search the archive here: pda.cerl.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Madeline also catalogued a selection of digital images of provenance marks found in the Haliday collection for the CERL Provenance Digital Archive. The archive enables scholars to compare provenance marks from other collections in the CERL network. You can search the archive here: pda.cerl.org
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 11.–12.06.2026
Eingabeschluss : 31.01.2026
arthist.net/archive/51130
Eingabeschluss : 31.01.2026
arthist.net/archive/51130
Looted Art and the Art Market (Brussels, 11-12 Jun 26)
Fenya Almstadt. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 11.–12.06.2026, Eingabeschluss : 31.01.2026
arthist.net
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 11.–12.06.2026
Eingabeschluss : 31.01.2026
arthist.net/archive/51130
Eingabeschluss : 31.01.2026
arthist.net/archive/51130
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📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
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Just a girl, standing in front of a major online platform for antiques, asking it to PLEASE stop selling mislabeled human remains via Facebook ads
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just a girl, standing in front of a major online platform for antiques, asking it to PLEASE stop selling mislabeled human remains via Facebook ads
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Use this one weird trick to help folks near you and get literally heaps of snacks: www.redcrossblood.org
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Use this one weird trick to help folks near you and get literally heaps of snacks: www.redcrossblood.org
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
Use this one weird trick to help folks near you and get literally heaps of snacks: www.redcrossblood.org
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Use this one weird trick to help folks near you and get literally heaps of snacks: www.redcrossblood.org
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
(or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)
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⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in Digitale Provenienzforschung (PostDoc)
www.leuphana.de
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
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Every food bank is getting slammed and it will only get harder. I am happy to match donations up to $50 total for Westside or your local food bank and send you a little watercolor doodle if you like.
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Every food bank is getting slammed and it will only get harder. I am happy to match donations up to $50 total for Westside or your local food bank and send you a little watercolor doodle if you like.
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Romantic in the sense of John Keats dying of tuberculosis
How can you not be romantic about baseball? [DEROGATORY] [COMPLIMENTARY]
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Romantic in the sense of John Keats dying of tuberculosis
When Game 7 goes into extra innings
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
When Game 7 goes into extra innings
Every food bank is getting slammed and it will only get harder. I am happy to match donations up to $50 total for Westside or your local food bank and send you a little watercolor doodle if you like.
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Every food bank is getting slammed and it will only get harder. I am happy to match donations up to $50 total for Westside or your local food bank and send you a little watercolor doodle if you like.
Happy tenth anniversary to the sssssingle best hat I’ve ever owned
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Happy tenth anniversary to the sssssingle best hat I’ve ever owned
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
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OTTAWA, CANADA—The Vatican Museums will transfer several dozen Indigenous belongings—including an Inuvialuit kayak and ceremonial items—back to communities in Canada via a church-to-church process.
Read more: buff.ly/UIuejRk
CBC coverage: buff.ly/7wbXCfS
Read more: buff.ly/UIuejRk
CBC coverage: buff.ly/7wbXCfS
Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as gesture of reconciliation
The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada.
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
OTTAWA, CANADA—The Vatican Museums will transfer several dozen Indigenous belongings—including an Inuvialuit kayak and ceremonial items—back to communities in Canada via a church-to-church process.
Read more: buff.ly/UIuejRk
CBC coverage: buff.ly/7wbXCfS
Read more: buff.ly/UIuejRk
CBC coverage: buff.ly/7wbXCfS