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"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions
This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie....
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Yeah this is a fair assessment. Also get your point about the repeated mispronunciation by anglophone commentators
I hear the stress on the first syllable
why is google search so good but google books search so bad?
Today I'm looking at: Remedios Varo's "Simpatía (La rabia del gato)" aka Sympathy (the cat's rage).
Today I learned that @theguardian.com is running a contest for “Invertebrate of the Year”. At a time of increasing climate crisis, of course the tardigrade—which has survived all 5 great extinction events—should win www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Lego and tardigrades’: when humans finally destroy the world, what will remain?
Milnesium tardigradum is only 0.5mm long and has survived all five great extinction events – plus it’s cute
www.theguardian.com
In Waterstones. What’s the story here then
And here’s the research article in The British Art Journal britishartjournal.co.uk/recovery-of-...
I’ve read it but haven’t logged it on my Goodreads, but I’d give it 5 stars
Some of us will go to an art gallery this weekend. Maybe it will help us reflect or inspire us. Isn’t that part of a life well lived? ... But what if you didn’t? What if there were no galleries, theatres, publishers or concert halls? What if we got rid of art? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The big idea: should we abolish art?
Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
www.theguardian.com
What about the good half 😏
Today I'm thinking about Ceal Floyer's Working Title (Digging), a stereo sound installation that aurally represents the act of shovelling dirt. freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/en/blog/acqu...
I think it’s one of the best emoji because it is so versatile
Oh I can certainly imagine
A sad day: RIP to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social's vaguely Italian-sounding, impressively laconic sign which greets visitors on the entrance piazza. Replaced with this much more conventionally grammared yellow sign. Interesting to note the continuing commitment to capitalising "piazza".
"The painting had been hanging in the National Museum in Gdańsk, when on 24 April 1974, a cleaner knocked it from the wall, the frame broke, and she discovered the painting had been replaced with a photograph." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Brueghel painting stolen from Poland in 1974 found in local Dutch museum
Art detective and magazine help crack case of Flemish masterpiece thought to have been stolen by Polish agents
www.theguardian.com
Will be in New York next week for the College Art Association annual conference #CAA2025 — so looking for NYC recommendations
To the tune of “we found love in a hopeless place”
Aren’t arguments stories?