“Noah Davis” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (or whatever they’re calling it now—they’re the HBO Max of museums) is essential viewing. It’s also really troubling. My take here:
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"... 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 🎨"
I hope people understand that Louisiana, and the South, are the way they are because the people in power will do everything they can to keep us down. Good for him for saying it to their faces.
A blue and white ceramic European figure made in China
Chinese produced clay portrait of European merchant
Two ivory figures of European figures made in China
A rock crystal figure of Christ Child made in South Asia
A collection of strange little guys from Peabody Essex museum, a delightful gem of a place.
hope is that over the next twenty years we shift the opinion around the ivy league. it’s not the best and brightest. it’s a daycare camp for the richest and most dysfunctional children in america.
real scholars go to michigan. they go to ucla and north carolina. they go georgia tech.
Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
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Lolllll. Collection is amazing but god I hate the install there
Me, it’s of particular interest to ME
@carey.bsky.social just got one and I’m jealous
Evacuating for hurricanes is my only excuse… but given I live in New Orleans and this is 1/4 of the year threat, it has given me pause when considering a full EV
Booooooooo. That’s bad form.
The circle of death is:
Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.
just admit you can't do anything and leave me alone about it! god!!!!!!!
For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA
Amen!
Taping reading is a form of writing to every surface in my house, thanks.
Thank you!! I gripe about this constantly!
Im so sorry ❤️
Now, well I don’t think anyone was afraid of me, but I did work in a record store and I would very occasionally *scoff at people in my 20s but I was never MEAN mean
My dad and brother scored me tickets to rock climbing and judo and table tennis (my brother got basketball and flag football too) and while I still somehow doubt the Olympics will happen, I am stoked
Wow that’s a ton! In a Smaller field - art history - I did 2 books, 5 journal articles and 3 p and t type reviews in 2025/26 so far. I also do a lot of junior/friends soft reads/edits - Let’s see if this opens the floodgates, ha.
I basically never say no! And same, I think it’s one of the better uses of my time!
I’m… low key impressed?
Join us on May 22nd for a workshop on early modern North Africa and the Iberian Atlantic. Online and in person!
Losing SLACs (small liberal arts colleges) is absolutely a sign of American academia's decline and the gutting of the humanities in particular.
I'm pretty sure SLACs are a uniquely American phenomenon. Most countries don't have hundreds of small, non-research-oriented colleges dedicated to teaching.
Gender studies explains so much of our current moment
Living in the perceptual world of the wealthy and the material world of a regular person is stressful. It is *meant* to make you feel like you’re falling behind even if you’re not. That’s how demand is induced. This is just one element but I think economists miss it (among other things).
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
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Just got my Harvard library card and they still had my picture from when I was a fellow here in 2007. So now I get to experience nostalgia and melancholy while browsing the stacks!
