UPDATE: Found! Whew!

Tuxedo cat

tuxedo cat

tuxedo cat

tuxedo cat

Our cat, Shark, has escaped from our South Portland home on Bellevue Avenue, on the edge of the Piggery. She is a petite tuxedo cat, about six pounds, with white whiskers. She is approachable but will react better to women than men. No collar, but microchipped. #lostcat #lostcats #maine 2077997324

Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025 Several contributors to the new essay collection What We Know, What We Wish: Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History (UMass Press, 2025) will offer a brief illustr...

Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025.

Tonight at University of Southern ME! Hosted by @mainehistory.org and the Osher Map Library.

Reception: 5:30–6:00 p.m.
Panel discussion and book signing: 6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m.

www.mainehistory.org/events/shoul...

Volume 17: Issue 1 (2025) - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

The new Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art is out! The roundtable on curating #womenartists is required reading for #curators and other #museumpeople. It was also a pleasure to edit pieces by Virginia Girard, Larry Silver, and Angela Jager. #arthistory #museums jhna.org/issues/vol-1...

Maine Trust for Local News workers launch union expansion effort Staff have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board and are asking the parent company of the Press Herald and other newspapers to recognize nearly 50 additional employees as part of th...

Please sign the petition to support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News, to include staff at the Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Brunswick Times Record, Portland Press Herald, and Morning Sentinel within the News Guild of Maine. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

A Fountain of Forms: The Rise Of The American Woman Sculptor, 1910-1929 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly GREENSBURG, PENN. — This year, 2025, is the “Year of the Woman” at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Blockbusters are planned (and some have already opened) on Cecilia Beaux, Berenice Abbott an...

"These nudes...do not bear the weight of the centuries that came before them. They are more free, less inhibited, than their predecessors."

My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on "A Fountain of Forms" at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art: bit.ly/40DOwHE

#Mainers, know and remember this.

The New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s mother The magazine, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, traces its famously rigorous process to a 1927 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother, pointing out several errors in a story abou...

Once upon a time, a #Maine mom put the fear of God into the staff at the @newyorker.com. @rayrouthier.bsky.social on how a strongly worded letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother was the genesis of the magazine's #factchecking department. www.pressherald.com?p=7469341&uu...

Screenshot of website for Panorama, Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

Some reading for your #Juneteenth —the new issue of #JournalPanorama is out, with features on Dave the Potter, Edmonia Lewis, Blackness in the Ashcan school, and more. #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #AfricanAmericanArt @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social

Gilded statue of a man in sunglasses and hip-hop garb seated on a throne and wearing a crown. One foot is up on a giant stack of dollar bills, and his left arm holds a scepter-like cane.

"of teaching commercial art & illustration as well as painting & sculpture and exhibiting works like Ruth Morley’s costume designs & Steven Cartoccio’s figurine of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. alongside portraits by Will Barnet & seascapes by Winslow Homer.”

📷Steven Cartoccio/Art Students League NY

"This philosophy, historically and today, extends beyond women to include queer artists, people of color and international students, and, moreover, that it extends beyond human demographics. The League also has a history of dismantling barriers between art genres...

Shaping American Art: A Celebration Of The Art Students League Of New York At 150 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly NEW YORK CITY — The Art Students League is an unusual name for an art school, when you think about it. The word “league” usually refers to a diplomatic entity (League of Nations), or a sports organiza...

“The League’s commitment to inclusivity, its willingness to break boundaries, is clearly one of its superpowers" My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on the capstone 150th anniversary show at the Art Students League of New York.
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I also want to note that as a Catholic I agree that actions matter, not just belief. To that end I have to look at my own words and actions in this thread and discern where I've gone so wrong that it came to this point. Again, I apologize for it.

I hear this and don't deny it. I definitely grew up in a Christian-dominated environment. But for what it's worth I did not grow up *as* a Christian and often felt some of the things you are describing. It's been a complicated journey. I appreciate you taking the time to engage with me on this.

Do you have more authority than me? I thought we were just people talking.

OK, I didn't say that at all, but I am sorry that you have been hurt, and I wish you well.

That's all I've got, in the end.

I acknowledge that I see it through a Christian lens, but doesn't that follow? I do not view it as an example of Judenhass but I do understand how it is possible to.

You asked why I'm privileging Jesus's opinion over Jewish sources. I mean, I'm Christian. I privilege his opinion in most things. Plus as far as I know there is no Jewish retelling of the Temple story; it only appears in Christian scripture

Nice intolerance badge, sport.

Respectfully, I believe this is a misinterpretation.

I have actually really enjoyed the conversation, which reminds me of Twitter before it sucked. I appreciate your perspectives.

The waters have gotten very muddied here as we both practice exegesis and discuss the historical moment in which Christianity emerged.

OK. I will say for the record that I do not see Christianity as replacement for Judaism, that Jews are the real Jews, and that I fully acknowledge the bible is not historical fact.

I don't really disagree with you, though personally I find the teachings of Jesus to be a moment of clarity within it. It's okay for us to disagree.

I converted in my late 40s.

This seems uncalled for. I make no claim to be Jewish in terms of practice and belief. But I am ethnically half Jewish, and it has been part of my upbringing. That is just a fact.

What holds most impact, for me, are the moments that many witnessed, like the Sermon on the Mount, and while your mileage may vary, I just don't think it's possible to believe the dude who said all that means ill toward his fellow humans.

Not every teller of those stories will have remembered things perfectly or been immune from adding their own gloss on what they'd been told.

Cleveland, Cuyahoga County cut ties with Greater Cleveland Partnership over Browns Brook Park stadium support Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are severing ties with the Greater Cleveland Partnership over the Browns debate.

Shame on you, Browns. After what this city has done for you. Good luck filling an airplane hangar in suburbia. The Brook Park Browns, what a legacy 🙄