"... they felt 📦ed in by two traditional ways to arrange galleries: chronologically or thematically." They chose "a hub+spoke approach. 'The Chazen will be anchoring each gallery with a single, deeply rsched focus object, around which we’re drawing out certain themes thru a constellation of other 🎨"
Not a nice way to refer to art world visitors for the biennale opening
A Kinois couple sit at a table with bottles of beer in front of them. The beer labels say “Skol” and “Primus,” two common beer brands in Kinshasa.
A very important one! As seen in this 1991 painting by Moke (among many others)
Is MaxVelocity the Steve Kornacki of tornadoes?
Experiencing my first ever tornado warnings and am watching the recommended YouTube guy attempting to pronounce Wisconsin towns and covering Iowa towns - and I’m realizing I recognize all these places because of election coverage 😳
“Weird format for a discussion class. He put everyone on one side of the table, so we can’t face each other when we talk.”
WSJ: He Had a Full Ride at Duke—Until America Cut Him Off
By Caroline Kimeu. Photography by Badru Katumba.
Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving empty seats and broken dreams. Gift link!
Red States: We are going to cancel all programs that don't support our theology
Blue States: We are going to cancel all the same programs, but because they don't support the business school
person will have not had experience at an “assistant” (entry-) level, bc those positions don’t exist — except for the Mellon curatorial postdocs. Museums demand a curator come on board with museum experience, but don’t provide opportunities to get that experience, unless the get Mellon funding.
Museums and universities don’t want to fund people, so they farm out that job to foundations, especially Mellon. One example from my field of African art: Only one museum in the US has more than one curator of African art on staff. Which means when a museum hires a curator of African art, that
I have so many thoughts, which must include the disclaimer that my first post doc was a Mellon postdoc. But as others have said, the bigger issue is Mellon is practically the only org funding the humanities right now.
Watching people celebrate IU football when the “university” part is questionable…
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
Luckily my university funds by class enrollments (“butts in seats”) but I’ve noticed first major = what they hope will get them a job, second major = what they actually find interesting and intellectually fulfilling
Oh duh. Story of my life!
The article you shared is might be the best (or at least most thorough) one I've seen on it! All I can say is a bunch of us on social media have been saying "gosh it'd be great if someone wrote about this..."
Grading can really suck, but sometimes a student who's been struggling knocks it out of the park and I am literally sitting at my desk cheering out loud because I'm so excited for them
Absolute Belgian-ness displayed here
The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.
My favorite
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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Had my first teaching anxiety dream of the year. First Monday of August - right on time!
Occasionally we remind people that paper is the most stable long-term storage medium* and it's always a surprise.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
Brother Guy!! I got to meet him when I did a summer class in Rome and it was an absolute highlight
The Luba/Lunda kingdoms are underrated as historical actors in early modern Central Africa
Best part about a land-grant university will forever be the ice cream from our own dairy
