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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 14h

Calling all ghouls, ghosts, and gallerinas — this Halloween, Hyperallergic is teaming up with our friends at the Francis Kite Club in NYC to host an art-inspired costume party.

Get Artsy With Your Costumes for Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party

Join us for spooky cocktails, a fun costume competition, and more at the Francis Kite Club.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 17h

Wildly jealous

Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 18h

I absolutely love the fact they've Pokemon-ised the museum staff, for the upcoming Pokémon partnership with the Field Museum. Museums, take note.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 17h

"It’s a stunning vision of our inequitable, climate-challenged future: Wander around the area today and you’ll find a neighborhood reduced to ashes as Lululemon still stands."

I spent the summer hanging out at Rick Caruso's malls as he allegedly mulls a gubernatorial run:
nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

A color photograph shows a fountain with bronze female figure atop a pedastal before anodyne chain stores like Blue Mercury and Planet Beauty.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 19h

Here's one! bsky.app/profile/artc...

Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

As we protest statues that glorify racist ideology, we also need to think about the things that ended up inside of museums because of assumptions about white superiority. Here's one story - of meteorites, pandemic, and Minik, the boy who lost his parents and his whole world.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 19h

Here's one! bsky.app/profile/artc...

Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

As we protest statues that glorify racist ideology, we also need to think about the things that ended up inside of museums because of assumptions about white superiority. Here's one story - of meteorites, pandemic, and Minik, the boy who lost his parents and his whole world.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 19h

Here's one! bsky.app/profile/artc...

Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

As we protest statues that glorify racist ideology, we also need to think about the things that ended up inside of museums because of assumptions about white superiority. Here's one story - of meteorites, pandemic, and Minik, the boy who lost his parents and his whole world.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 19h

For those of you asking, here's the story I told Jodie Foster! bsky.app/profile/artc...

Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · Jul 17

As we protest statues that glorify racist ideology, we also need to think about the things that ended up inside of museums because of assumptions about white superiority. Here's one story - of meteorites, pandemic, and Minik, the boy who lost his parents and his whole world.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooohhhhhhh

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 2d

If by cursed you mean blessed

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 2d

Today, Jodie Foster came right back at me with a grim museum story of her own, so, fan for life!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 2d

Look - I could get embarrassed thinking about how every time I meet a celebrity, I end up telling them some incredibly grim story about museum collections… or I could just acknowledge that any time I meet anyone, I end up telling them some incredibly grim story about museum collections.

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 4d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4d

The fruit and nut bar of my dreams

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4d

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

Closest I've come to describing why Archaic Greek sculpture is so great in today's writing session was by contrasting it to the way High Classical puts the convention in conventionally attractive. Ya-awn.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

It's proving surprisingly hard to write for the public about ancient art that I love without sounding like "here are my weird little guys look at my weird little guys!"

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

I'm so tired today because the secret society dinner at Yale ran so late last night (is a sentence that is true and that I most likely won't get to say again)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

I was in that bookstore and saw your book prominently displayed! (Then went to Grey Matter Books, where one of the other patrons was wearing knee socks and a pith helmet. Very Yale day all around.)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 7d

Ate breakfast with many little photos of me

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 7d

Bluesky labeled the original post as "adult material" so I modified it so it would show the image

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 7d

Bluesky labeled the original post as "adult material" so I modified it

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 8d

👗 Fabric samples from Marie Antoinette’s court gowns (grand habits), 1784, preserved by her dame d’atour Geneviève d’Ossun

Mme d’Ossun was charged with bringing the budget for the queen’s wardrobe into line following some seriously extravagant spending by her predecessor in the 1770s 👗

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 8d

(Joke shamelessly stolen from @mtanderson.bsky.social)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 8d

William Blake’s illustration of my upstairs neighbor

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 8d

Men, what’s stopping you from looking like this? With those delightful little pumps?

Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, later first Earl Granville, c. 1804.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 9d

"Public scholarship should not be reserved for celebrity intellectuals or tenured faculty at elite institutions. It's designed for anyone who wants to share their academic work and engage with the public" boom!

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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