Judith Barr

This is a fun romp, lots of ethics chat! Provenance book club? Let me know if you want to borrow it!

Email header: testing chatgpt on the Beazley archive pottery database

I’m so tired.

If they’re going to make accounts mandatory at least they could offer single user FirstSearch premium options or an upgrade model where the search options/info available in FS is accessible, because basic WC is just deprived of useful search facets

ILL listserves used to have whispered stories about the dark ages when you got charged by the search in OCLC (or something like that) and I used to be so glad that the system was now open, inviting, for all of my patrons.

I use FirstSearch almost exclusively so I missed this but what a terrible move. Being able to cite and link to WC records is a boon for museum bibliographies, publication biographies, much more. How is that sustainable with a system like this? How much less discoverable is all of the data now?

Reading this counts as an academic study about reception of provenance right

Book on a pillow- jack mcdevitt’s SEEKER with a classic space opera cover

When your dad sends you a SPACE OPERA about an ANTIQUITIES DEALER and PROVENANCE in SPACE

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

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V day card of an anglerfish with heart shaped light: you’re my light in the darkness

perfect V-day cards from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social‘s shop 🦑

The Centurion and the Sapper: Did Australian Soldiers Souvenir Roman Artefacts While Training at Brightlingsea During World War I? As a result of exposure to a classical education or to the histories permeating the popular culture of the British Empire, many Australian soldiers who went overseas during World War I were recepti...

Kiem, P., & Donaldson, J. (2026). The Centurion and the Sapper: Did Australian Soldiers Souvenir Roman Artefacts While Training at Brightlingsea During World War I? Journal of Australian Studies, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/1444...
@cairojim.bsky.social sorry forgot to tag you!

The Centurion and the Sapper: Did Australian Soldiers Souvenir Roman Artefacts While Training at Brightlingsea During World War I? As a result of exposure to a classical education or to the histories permeating the popular culture of the British Empire, many Australian soldiers who went overseas during World War I were recepti...

Thoughtful look at soldier souvenirs and reconstructing faint traces of their experiences with the ancient world in training from James Donaldson
and Paul Kiem: doi.org/10.1080/1444...

FOA Webinar: Carl Walsh - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) Friends of ASOR Webinar - Carl Walsh presents: "'An elegance of spirit adorns all its works.': Auguste Rodin and the Art of Ancient Egypt" on February 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm ET.

This should be delightful: www.asor.org/news/2026/01...

museumsberatung-bayern.de/detail/05-02...

Four footprints, two languages, one tile hn. sattiieis. detfri segnatted. plavtad herennis. amica signauit. qando. a- ponebamus. tegila(m)   Detfri of Hn. Sattis signed with a footprint. Amica of Herens signed when we were laying out…

Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...

People often think provenance is like Indiana Jones but realistically it is more like sticker collections crossed with a sprawling game of Memory

Not one but TWO emails this morning resolving mystery stickers on objects, an absolute treat

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Fresh punnets of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, etc with a price sign and the heat of 75 degree sun making everything glow

I am very sorry about all of you who do not live in southern California

French senate adopts a bill to ease the return of colonial-era artifacts to their countries of origin The new legislation aims to broaden the restitution of colonial-era assets, introducing clear criteria and a transparent process for handling requests from the countries involved.

French senate adopts a bill to ease the return of colonial-era artifacts to their countries of origin

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

I have such good news for you:

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(She does a lot of custom options so you could always ask about other versions! Super nice!)

National Museum of Asian Art to Return Three Bronze Sculptures to the Government of India Following the Museum’s Extensive Provenance Research - National Museum of Asian Art The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art announced today its plans to return three sculptures to the Government of India.

asia.si.edu/about/press/...

I wish I’d kept the ones with a menacing ear of corn (might have had a FEAR THE EAR tagline?) ILL is the best.

Happy #FossilFriday. Did you know Diplodocus skin glows orange under UV light? 🦕🟠

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

An amazing 5th C bronze cauldron now going on display after 10 years of restoration and research
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/au...

More images and a link to the video of the press conference last Monday (in Italian) here. #archaeology 🏺 #architecture #Vitruvius

www.centrostudivitruviani.org/studi/la-bas...

Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park Following last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site.

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.