Nancy Locke

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!

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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨

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Volume 48 Issue 1 | Oxford Art Journal | Oxford Academic Publishes innovative critical work in art history from Antiquity to contemporary art practice, with a commitment to the political analysis of visual art and material representation from a variety of t...

Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.

Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

AUTHORS: Your way of being fairly compensated - and bankrupting OpenAI.

Poster for lecture on stained glass, with angel in green robe with Amber wings

Still time to register for my free online talk on #Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, next Mon 15th Sept 18.15- part of @forarthistory.org.uk festival

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They are the Lavoisiers’ pens, by J-L David!

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

The absolute greatest, disquietingly relevant these days.

Gift link:

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Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

Giorgione, Tempesta

Congratulations to both of you! Huge loss for us, but Wash U is wonderful and you will love it!

Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens By Nancy Locke Modernism has often been described as a rejection of the art of the past, but Cézanne’s Shadows makes an eloquent case for precisely the opposite artistic practice.

It is a pleasure to announce the publication of my book, Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens. Take 30% off with code NR25 when you order through psupress.org. www.psupress.org/books/titles...

I also checked it out a lot in elementary school and think it is a major reason I became an art historian.

I am extremely bored of people who haven't worked with AI predicting that it is going to replace engineers/junior engineers/any engineers. Anyone who's actually used AI to do real things know they can't do it.

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks.

AP: Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America apnews.com/article/bord...

The Spring issue of our newsletter, #PSUPressNews, is here! Read on for reviews, upcoming events, journals news, and more: buff.ly/qtFfvNa

House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.

The GOP is slashing jobs, medical research, educational grants, and whole divisions that safeguard our food, parks, flights, and health while passing tax cuts for the rich that could add as much as $4.5 TRILLION to the national debt—and gaslighting us while they do. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

U.S. weighs destroying $500 million in stockpiled covid tests The government is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households and has been considering destroying 160 million tests.

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Attention all college/university administrators and general counsel: here, legal analysis grounding current diversity programs firmly in federal law, demonstrating the illegality of executive orders to the contrary. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

Honoré Daumier, Gargantua, 1831, lithograph

We talked about this lithograph by Daumier, Gargantua, in my class. It's an 1831 caricature of Louis-Philippe, but just as apt today! Money going in, ministerial positions and favors coming out. @hdaumier.bsky.social

Tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the DC mid air collision by Thomas Schaller on X: “An FAA employee I know confirms agency already lacks sufficient air traffic controllers. The so-called "buyouts" and other attacks on federal employees won't help. Remember that fact when the flight delays (crashes?) commence and Trumpers start falsely blaming DEl or Biden. 08:06 • 1/29/25 • 1.4M Views”

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone.

Or on a plaque in every ATC tower.

Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode.

Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American.

Or on a stamp.

Or maybe currency.

Something.

The 30 Best Art Books of 2024 This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s “Suffrage Song.”

WITH DARKNESS CAME STARS by Audrey Flack was named one of Hyperallergic's Best Art Books of 2024!

Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.

Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens By Nancy Locke Modernism has often been described as a rejection of the art of the past, but Cézanne’s Shadows makes an eloquent case for precisely the opposite artistic practice.

My book, Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens, will be out with @psupress.bsky.social in April: www.psupress.org/books/titles...