Mark Liebenrood

Which one is more English?

Sad news about DeJohnette; this is a nice obit. I once saw him play with Jarrett's Standards Trio. There were a lot of camera flashes, irritating Jarrett. DeJohnette appealed to the audience to stop, saying: 'don't take photos, just take the music', in the most dignified way you can imagine.

Tickets still available for this in conversation event, 'Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York', online on Wednesday.

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Pollocks Toy Museum and the Bakelite Museum have been looking for new homes. This new collaborative project in Dalston, East London, could be the one: www.colvestone.org

This article may be of interest, 'The hair of distinguished persons in the patent office building museum'. It's historical, and an American case: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:

The next @mghg.bsky.social in conversation event is on Wed 22 Oct 2025 at 17:30.

Hear Jeffrey Abt talking about his book 'Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York'.

Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mghg-in-co...

Probably the loveliest thread you will read today, full of beauty and kindness and improvised owl physio

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Still time to book tickets for the museums history event of the season! Join us on 26-27 September for two days packed with papers showcasing UK and international perspectives, in-depth keynote talks and roundtable discussions:
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...

Another powerful blog post and kudos @wadehistory.bsky.social

I don’t think “ECR” works as a meaningful label any more

E - “early” is based on an out of date PhD➡️ postdoc➡️ permanent timeline
C - “career” is wildly optimistic for most of us
R - how many of us in teaching jobs get paid to research?

Just a week remaining to get your tickets for the @mghg.bsky.social conference on 'Creating the museum':

🏛️ National Gallery, London

📅 26-27 September, 10-5pm (come for one or both days)

🔗 www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...

All welcome!

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

Just an astonishing bit of engineering - read down the thread for more info

Sonny Rollins is 95 today which feels slightly miraculous, a survivor from his art form's heroic age

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

Thanks for offering - please email mappingmuseums@bbk.ac.uk with the details.

(1902, Wuppertal, Germany.) Another era, very stylish. The still-functioning oldest suspended monorail in the world.

Home | Kunstsammlung NRW K20 and K21 are internationally renowned for their outstanding art collections of early modernism, postwar and contemporary art. Our museums are vibrant, public places that are accessible to all.

K20 and K21? Great art galleries from what I remember, if that's your kind of thing: www.kunstsammlung.de/en/

What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

Interesting & critical review of the new V&A Storehouse by @profdanhicks.bsky.social

artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

Bookings are open for the @mghg.bsky.social / National Gallery conference 'Creating the museum' on 26 and 27 September. A great lineup of speakers! www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...

This is great, read the whole thread

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

Gaza: BBC's Jeremy Bowen goes onboard a plane dropping aid The BBC's international editor was on a Jordanian flight as it dropped supplies into Gaza.

"The Israelis don't want us to film out of the window at the devastation inside Gaza. But I've spent 10 mins looking at it with my own eyes and I can tell you communities in the north of Gaza, that I knew well, are flat. There's nothing left of them."

Jeremy Bowen

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Please share this call for participants from @sineadcarter.bsky.social, who is doing a brilliant PhD project with me and @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social -- and do get in touch with her if you were involved with Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism or feminist architecture c. 1968-1990!

Hundreds of families displaced by Israeli air strikes on Gaza, witnesses say At least five people were reported killed in the overnight attacks, as fears of an intensified ground offensive grow.

It would, obviously, be asking too much for our media and political class to care more about the repeated, state-directed criminal massacres of starving civilians in Gaza than what some rappers say at Glastonbury.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week. I was at Queen Mary University in London last week at a charming conference that turned out to be mainly about modern British history. I…

I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at @qmcbs.bsky.social for this paper on AI and history by @davehitchcock.bsky.social, which was not only thought provoking but very entertaining as well. hitchcockian.medium.com/this-is-the-...

Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn's at risk of cuts DWP data obtained by Big Issue shows that the majority of people with heart failure, HIV and arthritis are at risk of losing their benefits.

NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data

By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...