Emily Wood
@ebwood.bsky.social
Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
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𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁
By Benjamin D.R. Hellings
More info: bit.ly/4oiZfjE
#Numismatics #Coinage #Coins #Antiquity #RomanEmpire #Archaeology #Archaeologysky
By Benjamin D.R. Hellings
More info: bit.ly/4oiZfjE
#Numismatics #Coinage #Coins #Antiquity #RomanEmpire #Archaeology #Archaeologysky
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁
By Benjamin D.R. Hellings
More info: bit.ly/4oiZfjE
#Numismatics #Coinage #Coins #Antiquity #RomanEmpire #Archaeology #Archaeologysky
By Benjamin D.R. Hellings
More info: bit.ly/4oiZfjE
#Numismatics #Coinage #Coins #Antiquity #RomanEmpire #Archaeology #Archaeologysky
So much for “It’s the thought that counts.”
Roughly 42% of shoppers are already using A.I. tools for their holiday shopping, a recent survey found. More than half of Generation Z and millennial respondents said they trusted A.I. to recommend unique gifts. nyti.ms/4pocGQc
A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season
New tools and features from retailers and tech companies use artificial intelligence to help people find gifts and make decisions about their shopping lists.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So much for “It’s the thought that counts.”
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
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Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
Subsellium
ANS specimen Another ANS Specimen I want to think about how RIC Augustus 407 intersects with Republican types of Caepio Piso and also the Plebeian Aedile issue of the Cinnan regime, not to mention …
livyarrow.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
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Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Think about applying NOW to the Society for Renaissance Studies award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Museums & Galleries Research Award – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Think about applying NOW to the Society for Renaissance Studies award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
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This story is bonkers.
Also, I hope the labor union is getting annual 3% cost of living increases.
Also, I hope the labor union is getting annual 3% cost of living increases.
"We didn't notice something that was noted on our 990s" is, I fear, more common than not at large nonprofits
(This is a corporate boards problem, I think, not a nonprofit specific issue – as any casual glance at the business world, and the welter of normalized self-dealing and fraud, might attest)
(This is a corporate boards problem, I think, not a nonprofit specific issue – as any casual glance at the business world, and the welter of normalized self-dealing and fraud, might attest)
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This story is bonkers.
Also, I hope the labor union is getting annual 3% cost of living increases.
Also, I hope the labor union is getting annual 3% cost of living increases.
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One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
‘By his own estimate, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled three thousand antiquities out of Egypt in 65 trips over six years. His success was down to his skill as a “fabricator”.’
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.
Will be interesting to see what happens with this.
The small, spontaneously drawn red chalk sketch shows a bare right foot. It might become one of the most expensive drawings of a foot ever sold. nyti.ms/3XzFU33
His Right Foot: One Tiny Drawing for Sale, Said to Be by Michelangelo
The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain. Could this five-inch drawing at Christie’s be one?
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Will be interesting to see what happens with this.
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El PP se pliega a Vox y fulmina las ayudas a las entidades que vertebran la defensa y el fomento del catalán en Mallorca
El PP se pliega a Vox y fulmina las ayudas a las entidades que vertebran la defensa y el fomento del catalán en Mallorca
Por primera vez la historia de la institución, tanto la Obra Cultural Balear (OCB) como Joves per la Llengua, que desde hace décadas articulan el tejido cultural catalanoparlante de la isla, quedarán ...
www.eldiario.es
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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New job:
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69525
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69525
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New job:
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69525
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69525
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Inside Chicago’s essential dive bars: Photos from 12 iconic watering holes. blockclubchi.co/3K7MYRi
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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NEW Local bronze coins and imitations of Roman aurei (gold coins) from Tell Abraq, UAE. Occupied for over three millennia, recent discoveries at the site indicate widespread trade and connections over both land and sea as early as the Bronze Age.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
NEW Local bronze coins and imitations of Roman aurei (gold coins) from Tell Abraq, UAE. Occupied for over three millennia, recent discoveries at the site indicate widespread trade and connections over both land and sea as early as the Bronze Age.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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STIP: Jill Franklin Fellowship in Romanesque Architectural History, Rome
https://arthist.net/archive/51210
https://arthist.net/archive/51210
Jill Franklin Fellowship in Romanesque Architectural History, Rome
Roisin Astell. The British School at Rome, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2026
arthist.net
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
STIP: Jill Franklin Fellowship in Romanesque Architectural History, Rome
https://arthist.net/archive/51210
https://arthist.net/archive/51210
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JOB: Tenure Track Position, Modern and Contemporary Art History, Claremont, CA
https://arthist.net/archive/51207
https://arthist.net/archive/51207
Tenure Track Position, Modern and Contemporary Art History, Claremont, CA
Hiral. Claremont, CA, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2026
arthist.net
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
JOB: Tenure Track Position, Modern and Contemporary Art History, Claremont, CA
https://arthist.net/archive/51207
https://arthist.net/archive/51207
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
How your email finds me:
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
How your email finds me:
I managed to discern enough about what was happening to know what to avoid/scroll past quickly without reading this weekend.
But now I worry about letting my guard down and someone posting about it unexpectedly in the near future.
But now I worry about letting my guard down and someone posting about it unexpectedly in the near future.
Scrolling through the skyline this AM, just knowing that at some point…
a baby in a yellow shirt is playing with a toy block
Alt: Gif of a baby in a yellow shirt and sitting on a tan armchair, watching an adult wind a jack-in-the-box, then crying when the lid pops open and the toy inside springs out.
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I managed to discern enough about what was happening to know what to avoid/scroll past quickly without reading this weekend.
But now I worry about letting my guard down and someone posting about it unexpectedly in the near future.
But now I worry about letting my guard down and someone posting about it unexpectedly in the near future.
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The oldest brewing school in the U.S. is leaving Chicago for Canada, citing Trump visa restrictions. blockclubchi.co/4oaLGmn
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The oldest brewing school in the U.S. is leaving Chicago for Canada, citing Trump visa restrictions. blockclubchi.co/4oaLGmn
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Still thinking through everything here, but this is a good, straightforward piece of old fashioned architectural criticism that, I think, successfully navigates the complexities of the assignment, worth reading.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Despite Star Architect’s Alleged Misconduct, New Harlem and Princeton Museums Shine
Two years after misconduct accusations emerged against designer David Adjaye, two museum openings show the value of his architecture firm’s voice.
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Still thinking through everything here, but this is a good, straightforward piece of old fashioned architectural criticism that, I think, successfully navigates the complexities of the assignment, worth reading.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Orion shining through the clouds in the early hours of this morning 😀 #Astronomy #Astrophotography
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Orion shining through the clouds in the early hours of this morning 😀 #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Renaissance painting sells for half a million pounds in Banbury
Renaissance painting sells for half a million pounds in Banbury
A painting believed to be by Perugino depicting the Madonna and child went for £685,000.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Renaissance painting sells for half a million pounds in Banbury
Wait, this is an option??
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Wait, this is an option??