Truly depressing that this isn't a state (or country) that would invest to protect Captiva and the Rauschenberg property from serious environmental threats and preserve preeminent American cultural heritage like this. </pollyanna> I dread the resort marketing.
This is extremely great nerdy instruction about focal lengths, image tagging, all kinds of digital photography minutiae. Unexpected!
Listening to the NASA feed as the Artemis II crew nears the moon, hearing communication about photo metadata creation and management...and concerns about disorganization. Astronauts: they're just like us.
Stephen Koch's meaningful life in service to a friend and the story told through Hujar's photos of a lost time, a lost New York, many lost people. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/a...
I’m sure I am one of many making archaeological discovery of a mummified Jan 25 NYTimes, revealed under today’s melting snow.
Strategies included in this through-provoking, wide ranging report, Century-Scale Storage by @maxy.bsky.social lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...
Very cool National Gallery posting closes 2/13. #GLAM data nerds, take notice! Collaborate with librarians, archivists, data scientists, registrars, and more to make collection data do dazzling things. Expanded descrip: jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/65883-c...
National Gallery of Art is hiring Collections Information Integration Specialist. In-person 3 yr project position, aligning & enhancing metadata from library archives & art object colls to facilitate creative discovery & access. Privately funded, grade 12, closes 2/13 www.usajobs.gov/job/855932000
I might have proclaimed "Exactly!" more than once while watching this. Great talk, so glad it is available! 👏
This position deadline has been extended, now closing Feb 2. This job's got everything- library systems, cultural heritage metadata, digitization and IIIF, system integration and security, art, dedicated colleagues, AI experimentation, an IM Pei building... what more could you want?
National Gallery of Art in DC is looking for a Library Technology & Systems Architect. This is a great position for a creative collaborative systems librarian! Closes 1/26 www.usajobs.gov/job/854819800
Just learned about The Found Poetry Review. Not sure which is more of a downer- that it no longer exists or that a google search for it included a result from Gr*kipedia.
The Hechinger Collection being sold at Heritage Auctions is big news for DMV folks, a pretty fabulous corporate collection. Proceeds will go to International Art & Artists. fineart.ha.com/c/auction-ho...
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I did not expect to read this entire excerpt when I clicked on it. Fascinating, indeed.
Grateful for this explanation
I personally found this project astonishing to experience when it was unveiled. Gratitude to all who made it happen. You can explore the resource here: www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
What a contribution she made to the world of artists and art lovers. A librarian and visionary collector with her husband Herb.
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Received exhib cat for Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: La Dynamique intérieure, la sincère amitié. 1949 Ford purchased decommissioned ferry SS Vallejo, which became hub of artistic exchange and counter culture. Paging Colin Jost & Michael Che www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns...
@thisismattmiller.com Thanks for all the cool and informative things you do!
Reading this @404media.co piece points me to a Library Journal article from August about Amazon's "new online hub for libraries" including free MARC records. www.libraryjournal.com/story/amazon... 🫠
Further complicated that it is happening to federal libraries who buy from them while shut down.
Attended the first 5 hours and wish I could stay til sundown. A meaningful shared experience in a meaningful location. Thanks @shineslike.bsky.social for amplifying the event and to all who participated ✨
Good tribute obit by Deborah Solomon about Jackie Ferrara. I got to know her work at the Phillips Collection. She sounds like she would have been great to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...
Supremely sad news, a loss way too young. Brilliant talent and fellow Richmond native. Listen to the 2014 masterpiece that is Black Messiah today. youtu.be/mVsQwJfWzoI
Me: Oooh, that looks like a good article! Let me email myself the link to read later. [send]
Also me, 0.5 seconds later: Oooh, new email! Wonder who it could be? Oh.
Movie poster for Heaven showing faces floating in a dark background like stars in a sky
Heaven, 1987, dir. Diane Keaton
Jill Lepore revisits the Smithsonian’s bicentennial 1976 “A Nation of Nations” festival, highlights some of its excellent content. Heartbreaking to consider in our current situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
If you give money to one of the premier big-city public radio or tv stations, consider becoming a regular contributor to a station in a smaller town where you may have once lived or grown up, or even just drove through once and tuned in. 📻
Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...