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Posts by Judith Barr

Big turtle with flat shell and narrow snout- kind of like a Chinese soft shell?

Big turtle with flat shell and narrow snout- kind of like a Chinese soft shell?

Different view of the turtle

Different view of the turtle

Does anyone know anyone familiar with turtles in LA or southern California? Or anyone who might be familiar with more exotic species in parks?

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Associate Director for Provenance Research and Object Histories (Museum Curator IS-1015-14) Job Opening: Associate Director for Provenance Research and Object Histories (Museum Curator IS-1015-14) at National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.

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Hillside of native flowers including rampant poppies

Hillside of native flowers including rampant poppies

Caterpillar on a red flower by a poppy

Caterpillar on a red flower by a poppy

Unthinkable a year and change ago.

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Meme update of the ol’ I…worked on this INFERNO for a year…and…he just…he tweeted it out

Meme update of the ol’ I…worked on this INFERNO for a year…and…he just…he tweeted it out

Dante, if he could hate post:

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Text message: Big news for King Henry VIII

Text message: Big news for King Henry VIII

well-played, friends

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Many popes have been entangled In politics. Here are 5 of them.

Many popes have been entangled In politics. Here are 5 of them.

Sorry but I only read about political popes in terza rima

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The spirit of provenance research is community, and that community extends far beyond the other authors in the volume: it’s all of the hundreds of researchers, librarians, students, archivists, and visitors around the world who have shared their research, perspectives, and questions with us.

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Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources This practical volume is the first to gather resources specific to the provenance of Mediterranean antiquities in an accessible, comprehensive guidebook.

In the spirit of international Provenance Research Day, officially forthcoming this summer: shop.getty.edu/products/pro...

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Heute ist der 8. Internationale Tag der Provenienzforschung Ein Gespräch mit Regine Dehnel, Provenienzforscherin in der Abteilung Handschriften und historische Drucke der Berliner Staatsbibliothek

www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...

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There is a useful link to the other Carlos pieces ex-DvB on the exhibition website, and the chat there does reference the prior ex-DvB returns from the Carlos in 2023 and 2024: collections.carlos.emory.edu/groups/bothm...

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Thieves, soda cans and an ancient vessel: Carlos exhibit pieces together a provenance puzzle A new exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum reveals how scattered pieces of an ancient cup were reunified despite a history of looting — thanks to policies that prioritize relationships with museum ...

more info from the Carlos team here: news.emory.edu/features/202...

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One Cup and Three Cans | Emory | Michael C. Carlos Museum

#provenanceonview An installation at the Carlos on repatriation long in the making, as folks at AIA 2025 know, with a great deal of online content + shots of the unforgettable Fanta cans:

carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/l...

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Aristarchus crater has greenish hues, reports Jeremy Hansen from #ArtemisII. And there are a lot of brown hues visible in crater rays. It' amazing hearing the crew describe their impressions in real time. 🧪

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Paleo bat signal- does anyone know of good dinosaur/illustrated geology poster sources? Or illustrators with cool wall art options of dinosaurs and/or geology that a curious toddler might enjoy? A friend is finding a sad lacuna in the museum poster market, which seems greatly diminished these days

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A vernal pool and the battered, beautiful, wildflower mountains of Malibu

A vernal pool and the battered, beautiful, wildflower mountains of Malibu

This is the twentieth anniversary of the first time I lived in LA, and it’s times like this that I remember why we came back and stayed.

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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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captain sisko repping the Niners and a disparaging vulcan

captain sisko repping the Niners and a disparaging vulcan

texts and office chat filled with opening day updates, what a day to be alive

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Internationaler Tag der Provenienzforschung MIT ANMELDUNG, EINTRITT FREI (teilweise kostenpflichtige Angebote)

www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/meldung/arti...

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good morning. our long national nightmare is over.

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Book cover

Book cover

⚠️ New Publication ⚠️

Our chapter "Provenance as accountability: Transparent and verifiable cataloguing for the digital age" is here!

This chapter proposes a strategic shift in provenance practice, moving from traditional pedigree models toward a digital framework of institutional accountability.

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This is great to hear- is this largely acquisition-related provenance data, or is there older provenance data (eg earlier auctions) that are part of the records as well?

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The landing page for an object lot in the American Numismatic Society database, with provenance metadata, a map showing the geographic distribution of the lot, and a paginated list of specimens from the lot.

The landing page for an object lot in the American Numismatic Society database, with provenance metadata, a map showing the geographic distribution of the lot, and a paginated list of specimens from the lot.

The landing page for Edward T. Newell in the American Numismatic Society database, with provenance metadata for all associated object losts, a map showing the geographic distribution of the lots, and a paginated list of specimens from related lots.

The landing page for Edward T. Newell in the American Numismatic Society database, with provenance metadata for all associated object losts, a map showing the geographic distribution of the lots, and a paginated list of specimens from related lots.

Coming soon to the American Numismatic Society database: provenance records for object lots, with distribution maps of the lot contents and a list of associated objects. It is possible to drill down into entities (eg Edward T. Newell) to gain a big picture view of their collecting/donating history.

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Review of Patty Gerstenblith. 2024. Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice: A Legal and Historical Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge ... Review of Patty Gerstenblith. 2024. Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice: A Legal and Historical Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Volume 32 Issue 4

One for the #provenance reading lists: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Definitely one for the diaries — this is such a rich resource, very student friendly as well if you’re designing projects, and a wealth of archives represented.

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So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

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"...natural history museums are communal places."

"...one in five visitors passed through the exhibit without reading any words, presumably using their existing knowledge to make sense of what they were seeing."

"...people gravitate toward the dinosaurs. And they’re gravitating toward the T. rex"

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Tag der Provenienzforschung Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Provenienzforschung laden wir am Forschungscampus Dahlem dazu ein, gemeinsam in aktuelle Projekte und ...

www.smb.museum/veranstaltun...

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🏺🗃️📚 Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour

*out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed

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This is a fun romp, lots of ethics chat! Provenance book club? Let me know if you want to borrow it!

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