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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2h

It's not that I want art museums to become a site of flung paint; it's that I don't want us to all die on a burning planet.

It's washable paint. It's on a glass vitrine. There was no damage to art whatsoever. Epstein rapists go free and climate activists sit in jail. What a world.

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester

‘It’s hard to fathom how a peaceful protester can receive more prison time than many of the insurrectionists,’ said one researcher, of Timothy Martin’s sentence

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Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨

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William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 9h

Millennials always ask how your pets are doing.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 9h

Delightful show of large floral collages by Jane Hammond at the Berggruen Gallery in SF. Abundant in the Dutch tradition, they’re set on Japanese textured papers.

Framed collage of flowers in a vase floating on a ground of cream paper eith gold squares

Detail many flowers all different angles reveals collage

Detail w a hummingbird perched on a flower

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 3d

Turn off Gemini in Google!
It's been turned on by default.

Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.

www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out

It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.

www.zdnet.com

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. n.pr/4ntG3PR

White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 22h

“This marks the first time that the Museum has resolved an ownership claim for works of art that were wrongfully taken under the conditions of slavery in the 19th-century U.S.”

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 22h

“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake

BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Outside SFMOMA on a Wednesday, I observe first hand how many visitors are surprised by its weekly midday closure.

The neighborly thing would be to advertise the Museum of the African Diaspora literally around the corner or the Berggruen Gallery or YBCA, both across the street. Someone tell Lurie.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Yero Adugna Yeticha, Black in Berlin photography exhibit at the Goethe Institut in San Francisco. Wonky opening hours so plan accordingly. It is, however, the most dust free zone I’ve seen in my life. So sauber.

Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes a title is the cleverest part of an artwork

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1d

Burglars stole more than 1,000 items, including jewelry and historic artifacts, from the Oakland Museum of California this month in a major art heist now being probed by a special FBI team.

More than 1,000 items stolen from Oakland Museum of California storage facility in huge art heist

Burglars stole more than 1,000 items, including jewelry and historic artifacts, from the Oakland Museum of California this month in a major art heist now being probed by a special FBI team.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned Lauren Santo Domingo is a vice president of Save Venice. Of course.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

It’s about time!

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1d

300 LACMA workers are organizing with AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36.

"As the museum nears completion of the new David Geffen Galleries — a project estimated to cost more than $700 million — ensuring the stability of staff should be equally crucial to the future of the museum"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/29/25

Contact: Kathleen Cancio
(845) 271-9651
kcancio@afscme.org

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Workers Latest to Announce Unionization Efforts

LOS ANGELES – Following a wave of successful organizing drives among cultural institutions in Los Angeles County, workers at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest art museum in the western United States, announced that they are forming a union, LACMA United, with AFSCME Cultural Workers United District Council 36. The new union would represent over 300 workers and include curators, educators, guest relations associates and more.

In a letter addressed to LACMA staff, its executive team and board of trustees, workers asserted that as the museum nears completion of the new David Geffen Galleries – a project estimated to cost more than $700 million – ensuring the stability of staff should be equally crucial to the future of the museum.

“Many employees are struggling with wages that have not kept up with the rising cost of living in the sixth most expensive city in the world,” the workers state in their letter. Workers also said that virtually all departments have absorbed expanded responsibilities and workloads due to high turnover, limited resources and vacated or frozen positions, often without additional compensation.

By forming LACMA United, workers aim to address these issues and advocate for fairer compensation, expanded benefits and increased transparency in institutional protocols and resources – changes that will improve the well-being of staff and enhance the services they provide for diverse communities.

“I’ve had the privilege of editing books and exhibition materials at LACMA for nearly 25 years,” said Sara Cody, who works as a senior publications editor. “But as departments have shrunk and workloads have grown increasingly unsustainable, it’s become more and more challenging to uphold the level of excellence these projects deserve. Forming our union will ensure that we all have the resources and respect to consistently produce our best work as the museum moves forward,” said Cody.

“Being pro-union means being pro-people!” said Charline Nacion, a mobile programs coordinator at LACMA. “To support cultural workers from within the institution means to support the communities we serve."

Sierra Schiano, a teacher for mobile programs, shared similar aspirations for the staff union. “I love teaching kids about ancient art by holding actual ancient artifacts — that's a job I can only do at LACMA,” said Schiano. “But I would also love to have the support of a union to ensure that this job is part of a sustainable career.”

Workers have requested voluntary recognition of their union, LACMA United, upon demonstration of majority support from the museum’s executive team and board of trustees by November 5.

In the last few years, Los Angeles County cultural institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Foundation, and most recently the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and La Brea Tar Pits granted voluntary recognition to their staff unions, all of whom also organized with AFSCME District Council 36 and are part of AFSCME Cultural Workers United, the largest union for cultural workers in America. Workers at LACMA are hopeful the museum will respect workers’ voices and follow suit.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Do we know what company fired him?

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Genevieve McDonald @genevieve207.bsky.social · 1d

We should not be having a debate about Nazi symbolism tattooed on the potentially top ticket Democrat in Maine. The fact we are even willing to entertain it shows desperation within the Party, not dedication, and how far we have fallen from rational thought.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Such a pretty painting! It’s a nose-to-surface one. Try to avoid biting it.

Anne Vallayer (later Vallayer-Coster), Still Life with Plums and a Lemon, 1778, oil on canvas. San Francisco, Legion of Honor.

Oil painting of very full basket of plums on a ledge w partially peeled Barthes lemon, glass vessel, and knife at a picture plane puncturing angle. Excellent technique and composition, soft appealing light

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry. What a loss for them. I am ever more convinced that being laid off in 2025 is a mark of excellent work.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 3d

Just found out it’s National Black Cat day, a holiday I can support. Hug a void! Peer into the fuzzy vortex! 🐈‍⬛

Photo black cat reclines on floor. Bright light turns ear tufts white. Fuzzy softness pervades

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve not only coaxed a formerly outdoor cat inside, I’ve persuaded her to let me use her as a book stand. This might be paradise.

Photo of a book resting on a small black cat lying on a lap. Human hand steadies bottom of open book

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 4d

Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris

The Paris prosecutor said on Sunday that a number of suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris last weekend.

www.npr.org

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 5d

It's so graceful, you forget how weird it is. Why would a grown woman sit on her mother's lap while trying to wrangle a toddler trying to mount a lamb? Even with all the religious meaning, it still looks weird. That's my hill; I'm dying on it.

Hats off, Leonardo. It's the most beautiful weird.

darkened with age oil painting of an adult, not particularly aged, woman (St. Anne) with her daughter who looks the same age (The Virgin Mary) on her lap at a totally different angle, but no hands grasp Mary to steady her while she reaches for the Christ child on the ground who is attempting to mount an unhappy protesting lamb all outdoors in a landscape.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 5d

"the rules seemed to be shifting rapidly during Mr. Trump’s administration." No, there are no rules. It's lawlessness.

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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 5d

Delicious illumination: God as Architect or God as Geometer as you will. From a 13th c. Bible Moralisée, c. 1220-1230, 34.4 x 26cm. Codex Vindobonensis 2554, f.1v. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (which has a very nice cafe).

medieval illumination (book painting) of a youthful brown-haired God both holding the sphere of the earth and measuring/creating it with a compass set against a gold background in a decorated slightly perspectival frame (YAY) that cannot contain God (how could it), who steps out it with his divine tootsies on the page

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 5d