Larisa Grollemond

love being an art historian and all but damn, copyediting image captions have got to be one of the top 5 worst academic tasks

(from a weird 15th century German manuscript of fables, Getty
Ms. Ludwig XV 1, fol. 50)

SCRIBE: hey man you know how to draw a frog right
ARTIST: um yeah totally they have spots and long fingers and also an underbite with teeth
SCRIBE: and they're small?
ARTIST: no huge with arms and legs like people
SCRIBE: yes exactly

this is wild and totally outrageous, boomers have to get out of the way

I know everything has a price but the thought of dinosaur skeletons at auction evokes a deep sense of melancholy

imagine signing up for English paleography and getting pop bib instead

my inbox currently has emails about bloodletting fleams and 14th century urine flasks, so I think I'm doing this whole medieval thing right

How to Reimagine Middle Age Creation Myths for the Contemporary World [Interview] At first glance, the exhibition 'Beginnings' may seem familiar. But thanks to the vision of the curators, there's a contemporary twist.

Lovely to chat with Eva Baron of My Modern Met about Beginnings!

mymodernmet.com/beginnings-g...

A+ that single person bobsled is called “monobob” and that the announcers have to say it over and over with a straight face

oh I love them, I definitely want to be leaving the house wearing eyeshadow in shade “centipede” finished off with eyeliner in “fester” or “exhume,” the weirder the better!

another fave: “written in blood” lipstick, a nice dark red, of course

Cosmetic shade names are endlessly amusing to me, but goth cosmetic shade names go so hard. Like something called “unearthly doom” but it’s just a purple lipliner 😂

"the protective comfort of the Middle Ages" is quite a take

Beth and I joined Tyler to talk about Beginnings on the latest Modern Art Notes, which also features Harmonia Rosales discusses her work in the show

Creator/Creation: Conversation with Harmonia Rosales | Getty Talks Discover the ways medieval imagery influences Rosales's practice, and how this produces paintings that challenge and reframe historic works.

Beth and I will be in conversation with Harmonia Rosales about how her work in our exhibition "Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages" reframes familiar Creation narratives--online and in-person March 1st!

www.getty.edu/calendar/har...

Depop is such a dangerous place for me, it's at the intersection of two of my great loves: online shopping and haggling

“Do ladybugs have hands or fingers?”—my 5 year old asking the important questions

TheRealReal marking things as a “smart investment” is frying me, like girl I love those perfect black Chanel Mary Janes but by no metric are they a smart investment

Medieval Tymes: birth!

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry - Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews The Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated

Happy to finally read a critical review of the TRH show in Chantilly and its accompanying catalogues. Sherry Lindquist here with some particularly salient points on what the exhibition foregrounded, often at the expense of important scholarship.

I don’t really make resolutions, but I do jot down some vague goals and general vibes for the upcoming year—started doing that but got interrupted, so here’s what it is so far

one of my most controversial opinions is that raising cane’s is just….fine? I don’t get it

other options: sit on the floor of a bathroom stall, or try to origami-cover both yourself and a wiggly baby

for example: a fancy shopping center with a "family lounge" accessible only by calling security and waiting (with a fussy baby) for 10 minutes for them to come unlock it

I knew this, but its been surprising how hostile the US is to breastfeeding mothers and babies. Lactation spaces are difficult to come by at all, and when they exist, there are always hurdles that have to be cleared to access them

Getty Presents Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages | Getty News Exhibition spotlights humanity’s enduring fascination with how the world began through a display of medieval and contemporary works.

Our next exhibition, Beginnings, features the work of contemporary painter Harmonia Rosales in conversation with works from the manuscripts collection, considering the legacy of Creation stories—opens January 27th at the Getty Center @gettymuseum.bsky.social !

www.getty.edu/news/getty-p...

in honor of my last week on maternity leave, here’s a new Medieval Tymes on pregnancy 👶

Is there maybe a club I could join where we get together and drink wine and dunk on Ross Douthat?

In 1! (otherwise I think I’d have to retire)

this is my only magic trick but dang it’s a good one