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💔💔 I’m so sorry to hear this!! Sending lots of hugs 💔💔
“Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints from the VUMA Collection” is now open at Vanderbilt! See it in-person through December 7, or via the online version. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b996...
Please join us next Thursday for a virtual symposium that explores the backstories behind Southern U.S. museums’ collections of pre-1915 European prints, featuring curators from six museums (including me!). Register in advance to attend. More info here: printscholars.org/online-sympo...
Congrats!!
Our Summer Newsletter is out! In this edition: HBA's book awards long list📖; an inside view of The Clark's exhibition "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945" from curator Alexis Goodin 👩🎨; as well as exhibition, events, CFPs, and grant listings. mailchi.mp/bc3b126e4fb3...
Nashville: we’ve been practicing throwing catfish on ice for a while now… 😈 (hot chicken will come out if things get really bad)
Congratulations!!! Beautiful dress 🩷
Where’s Vanderbilt U? 👀
Good crowd at #HandsOff in Nashville’s Centennial Park (home to our Parthenon replica).
In a suit and tie.Since last night. You can WATCH. And I’m hearing that Sen. Warnock is up next.
The Senator’s empathy and anger on behalf of the many families facing devastating diagnoses of a loved one with diseases like Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s, who must now worry about losing essential support from the government, hit me hard. Thank you @booker.senate.gov for speaking for us.
We're now accepting panel submissions for the HBA-sponsored session at CAA 2026 in Chicago! 🗓️ Deadline: April 18 🗓️ Learn more via our website: historiansofbritishart.org/caa-conferen...
Abstract painting with a band blue sandwiched between two bands of golden yellow, the top one thick and the bottom one much thinner. The borders between the colors are rough.
Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection
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Called my reps+senators this morning- thanks for the inspiration! (All 3 are maga bootlickers but 🤷♀️)
I love them b/c they exemplify curiosity and creativity; love of variety & ability to imagine the hybridity and interconnection of all things. Qualities that make the world better, in other words. Approaching 500 years of survival in a world that has frequently been terrible but also beautiful.
Part of an ornament prints by A. Collaert (ca 1580-99) featuring rabbits, moths and snails as part of grotesqueries on a black ground
Part of an ornament prints by E. Delaune (ca 1550-72) featuring a squirrel as part of grotesqueries on a black ground
Part of an ornament prints by A. Collaert (ca 1580-99) featuring flowers and snails as part of grotesqueries on a black ground
Ornament prints from the 16th century pasted into a small booklet of folded paper (possibly blue at one time?). Collection of Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, gift of George H. Sullivan
I’ve been saving cataloguing several little booklets of ornament prints as a special “treat.” I needed them today 😔 Here are a few lovely little details from the booklet featuring Adriaen Collaert and Etienne Delaune to help offer a momentary break from the tragedies filling our timelines.
An early modern print depicting a winged Satan on a hilltop with gods and demons surrounding him
A tradecard depicting the exterior bow windows of a bookshop ca. 1800; 2 ancient gods and a street cleaner stand on the sidewalk. The words Small Profits Industry Fidelity and Perseverance are written at the bases of the windows.
A print showing the interior of the early 1800s bookstore the Temple of the Muses with people browsing
A hand-colored print showing the interior of the early 1800s bookstore the Temple of the Muses
This 1800 print that I just catalogued isn’t in good condition, but I love that it was published by Lackington, of the Temple of the Muses bookstore fame - and therefore feels like a ticket into that space! (See v cool trade cards from British Museum, touting a stock of 200k volumes for sale!)
Our article in Digital Humanities Quarterly is Open Access. It's a case study, so even if you don't study Nashville, the Civil War, Slavery, the South, or even Black Studies, there's a lot of discussion here about how to do a co-creative DH project. 4/4
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/4...
An engraving showing a man feeding mutton to 6 cats with varying degrees of interest
The full plate and link: archive.org/details/gri_...
A detail of an engraving showing a cat climbing up a man
A detail of an engraving showing a cat (whose expression suggests she may be plotting something)
A detail of an engraving showing a (chonky) cat from the back begging at a man’s feet
A detail of an engraving showing a cat smelling a cloth in a man’s hand
Cataloguing some Picart prints cut out from the Ceremonies et Costumes religieuses de tout les peuples du monde (1723-37) and found this absolute gem in a digitized copy!
A bronze statuette of a nude young man stretching as if just waking up
We're here! (And still hanging on over at The Bad Place: @HBA_CAA). Looking forward to sharing updates from our members and news about upcoming events, awards, etc.! (Image: Frederic, Lord Leighton, The Sluggard, bronze, modeled 1886. Met Museum Collection)
Ugh, the rebooted @rijksmuseum.bsky.social collection search is awful!! It’s style over substance: finding advance search very challenging to navigate, and am bombarded by (never thought I’d say this) waaay too many images (my eyes and RAM hurt). Bring back the perfectly good previous iteration!
“34” - I’ll take it 😉
Dangerous 25¢ record sale this weekend at The Great Escape in Nashville! So tempting to buy for the sleeve art alone…
A screenshot with the itinerary for the Drawn to Blue online symposium, with a picture of the Getty Museum in the background and the logos of the Getty & the University of Amsterdam
So excited for this!
A screenshot of a Bluesky feed showing a happy possum from “Possum Every Hour” directly above a post from Kamala HQ reading “WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!”
Following @possumeveryhour.io was an excellent decision during these anxious times 🙏
I know right!!! Such a vital resource, let’s hope it gets fixed soon 🙏
Anyone else having issues lately with British Museum collection website functionality? Search no longer works for me in Safari, and permalinks bring up blank pages across browsers 🤔
New banner debuting on Cohen Hall today announcing the Vanderbilt U Museum of Art’s 2024-25 lineup!