Judith Barr

If you have the urge to illustrate an article about an archaeological excavation with an AI-generated image that includes fake human remains, can I strongly suggest that you not

Girls want just one thing and that’s to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

I used to play this exact game while heading home so can nominate most buses on Santa Monica Blvd. going east nearing the 405

Pa. State Museum closes Native American exhibit, returns 1000s of artifacts under federal law Tens of thousands of sacred objects, artifacts, funerary objects, and human remains are being processed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to comply with the Native American Graves P...

NAGPRA repatriation and rethinking of exhibits in Pennsylvania

Fig.: Alberto Salietti, On the desk, 1946, private collection (courtesy: Il Ponte Casa d'Aste).

#CFP: Colonial Objects. Material Culture of Italian #colonialism.
If you are interested in these topics as well as #conservation, #provenance and #restitution, please send your proposal by 5.9.2025.
We are organizing two international conferences. Further information: t1p.de/bfiwu
#materialculture

I'm knackered after a full day of travelling yesterday, so let's do this.

One like, one curse tablet.

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

Seeing the American Historical Association suggest using AI to create "historical" images is disappointing. They are not historical, they are fabrications.

Reconstruction drawings are a great tool for making history accessible. Poorly done images are harmful.

AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.

The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.

The cancelled, confiscated, vindicated art of Lovis Corinth The story of how the painter’s ‘degenerate’ works did or didn’t return to Berlin’s Nationalgalerie makes for a gripping show, writes Matthew Sperling

#provenanceonview

apollo-magazine.com/lovis-corint...

ANU Press New Release Cover image of Aboriginal History Journal, Volume 48, 2024.

This volume of 'Aboriginal History Journal' opens with Christopher Morton’s careful consideration of the provenance of a Wiradjuri or Gamilaroi marara (tree carving), tracing the likely route it took to its current location on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

doi.org/10.22459/AH....

We used to be a proper country

There's a nice short entry on it in "Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co." with some Italian parallels, and they do clarify that there is no known earlier provenance or provenience for this bowl

Pots By Lucy Kirk

Just dropping this because it’s the best (the kid dress is tragically sold out but trust me: unimaginably adorable) nooworks.com/collections/...

From Loot to Legacy: Rethinking “Tibetan Art” in Western Museums - post Debates around the ownership of cultural heritage and decolonizing museums have become increasingly visible and polarizing in the public domain, leading to attempts to redefine the term “museum” itsel...

How can museums responsibly represent Tibetan cultural heritage?

For @momanyc.bsky.social, Thupten Kelsang, 2023 Dissertation Fellow in Buddhist Studies, explores this question through collections-based provenance research & sustained discussions with community experts & stakeholders. mo.ma/478O9c2

Before an LA bungalow stand multiple piñatas in progress. To one side, a dog appears to run toward the photographer.

Thanks to @highway62.bsky.social for turning me onto to these pix of LA backyards by Camilo Jose Vergara. Priceless.

www.loc.gov/search/?in=&...

Hypercars Seized In $57M Fraud Scheme Are Going Up For Auction This Month - Jalopnik Some hypercars that were seized by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police earlier this year appear to be included in the upcoming Quail Auction from Bonhams.

Auction provenance lacunae, hypercar edition: www.jalopnik.com/1928513/hype...

The latte are coming home!! Bishop Museum announces return of Hornbostel Collection to Marianas

Returns to Marianas:

my-jungle-rules-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-latte-...

Watercolor tools, very unswept, with an in progress card of an ‘unswept floor’ mosaic- here with cookie, walnut, taralli etc

you might have gone to the Centro if your friend requests an ἀσάρωτος οἶκος card

Reason #5,345,765 why you should support your local library. What a wonderful tribute to a lifelong reader and library supporter

Truly fantastic new #provenance resource from the Fondazione Zeri:

fondazionefedericozeri.github.io/Mercato_dell...

“Skeleton” “pony” with the face of, I don’t know, a chihuahua with human dentures, bony ears, and a BONE TAIL. Happy spooky season!

Praying this design team never learns what a “skeleton” is, 10/10 no notes

🗂️ La Fondazione Federico Zeri colma oggi un vuoto significativo nella conoscenza del mercato antiquario italiano tra Ottocento e Novecento, con una nuova piattaforma digitale per facilitare la… | for... 🗂️ La Fondazione Federico Zeri colma oggi un vuoto significativo nella conoscenza del mercato antiquario italiano tra Ottocento e Novecento, con una nuova piattaforma digitale per facilitare la ricerc...

c/o this post, with more chat: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Bios, dates, links between families and friends, bibliography….! So much more: fondazionefedericozeri.github.io/Mercato_dell...

Truly fantastic new #provenance resource from the Fondazione Zeri:

fondazionefedericozeri.github.io/Mercato_dell...

La county tsunami advisory

The last two weeks have just meant the wildest notifications. Just surreal.

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein!

zenodo.org/records/1583...

So fascinating- can’t wait to see more

Oh, I love this! Are you looking at Linked.Art or the AAT for the semantics at all?