Allyson Healey

I absolutely love the fact they've Pokemon-ised the museum staff, for the upcoming Pokémon partnership with the Field Museum. Museums, take note.

Art History escapes the cut, but put on "pause" are, among others: African American Studies, Classics, Fine Arts, French, German, History of Architecture, Italian, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, and Russian -- potentially a huge blow to the Humanities in central NY

Old black and white photo of two bearded white men with short cropped hair wearing suits. The man on the left is slightly taller and has a longer moustache and beard. He has his hand tucked into his waistcoat. The man on the right has a much shorter beard and is standing with his hands in his pockets. Both men look directly at the camera and are not smiling.

Doing a little research on Caillebotte for work and tbh I just thought this was a great pic of Gustave (right) and his brother Martial, it gives off such “dynamic duo” vibes

Aaagh gotta get over to the university library to get access to this, love this kinda stuff

I Prefer Weeds to Ivy Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

Read @shannonmattern.bsky.social's beautiful, heartbreaking reflection on abandoning her tenured full professorship for a system that better reflects her values and doesn't demand unending life sacrifices. The Metropolitan New York Library Council and all the people it serves are lucky to have her.

Really great #provenance webinar this morning from the National Museum of Asian Art—even if I can’t directly apply some of the resources it just reinforces the order of operations for provenance research, which I can often lose track of with all the hats I wear at work.

Front view of Iolani Palace, an ornate two-story 19th century building with palm trees on the driveway leading up to it.

Large outdoor bronze sculpture of a bipedal creature with chicken feet and what appear to be a raccoon body and head. A stack of shells balances on top of its head.

May Izumi 1964, Honolulu. Mr. Chickenpants bronze, 2018. Mr. Chickenpants began with the Hawaiian trickster tale, Puapualenalena, but like all tricksters soon took on a direction all its own. The hybrid nature of the sculpture symbolizes the idea that all things are related and we are closer to nature than we might realize. May Izumi was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Izumi received a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from University of Hawaii at Manoa. Art in Public Places. State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Gallery view of wood sculptures by Rocky K. Jensen, which are based on traditional Hawaiian depictions of humanoid heads and figures.

I went to Hawai’i for a friend’s wedding last week and while I didn’t get to see all the things I wanted to (in part bc Iolani Palace is closed 2 days a week) I did get over to Capitol Modern to see the Hawai’i Triennial and see some cool new-to-me artists

I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed

Science depends on the humanities 🧪

Collection of stickers, flyers, business cards, and letter.

Today is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.

National Portrait Gallery head steps down following Trump attempt to fire her Kim Sajet’s resignation comes days after the Smithsonian said it would review content across its museums, which the White House has slammed as being influenced by “divisive, race-centered ideology.”

More on this: A person who was at a meeting today in which Sajet announced her resignation says she stepped down to remove herself as a distraction and protect the Smithsonian's mission. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

270 artists and creators demand congress drop “Nonprofit killer” law, opposing Trump’s attack on organizations essential to our society Today, 270 artists and creators released a letter denouncing recent efforts to pass a “nonprofit killer” law that would give the executive branch unlimited power to annihilate any nonprofit in the Uni...

BREAKING: Lucy Lawless ( Xena), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill) + Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and over 260 other artists signed our open letter opposing the #nonprofitkillerbill that would let Trump strip orgs 501c3 status! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-06...

ILL/ILB library staff are the real heroes of basically all research, especially humanities research.

Just insane to watch us, as a society, actively opting to let decades of knowledge and progress rot, not out of poverty, but out of a mix of apathy and malice.

Oh how I yearn for these days

An icon and a legend

if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

Update on earlier thread: I just got a message from someone connected to GSA, who wrote that the painting in the NY Times photo & one at Christie's in 2014 are likely the same: "GSA likely asserted ownership of the artwork when it went up for auction, which would also explain why it was in storage."

Too tired to put periods at the end of my posts even

Dealing with a big clear-out of a space with a ton of unprocessed material at work, some of which is archival, some of which isn’t. It runs so counter to my impulses to have to let go of things, but there’s just too much that is not of archival value or which are duplicate records
Anyway I’m tired

Found my newest procrastination tool

Illustration of a man sitting against a tree with a stack of 17 caps on his head.

Shoutout to my fellow #GLAMSky workers at small-to-medium institutions who are also wearing so many “hats” job-wise that we’re like the guy in Caps for Sale

#AcademiaSky and #HistorySky friends, what are your favorite intro resources (books/audiobooks and podcasts) on how the Cultural Revolution in China impacted art? Currently listening to the BBC’s In Our Time episode about it but would love an artier focus!

i do think that most workplace DEI is useless, but that doesn’t matter because when Republicans complain about “DEI” they’re not talking about that, they’re talking about the visibility of minorities in public life

Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher

Well I guess that’s the end of my Bridgerton fandom

Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.

NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch.

One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.

I could do more work when I was much poorer and less institutionally embedded because I could trust publications, citations. I could aggregate high quality sources, untouched by advertising influence.

Now I just made sure that a paper I read was actually from the journal it says it’s from

Finally got to dig into some archival files I’ve had my eye on for a while at work and found further evidence pointing to a particular figure’s queerness, I’m so happy

Add this to your list of demands to members of Congress!

(Read Ryan's full thread for more context about what's actually ending and what seems vulnerable to future cuts)

A colleague on an art history listserv I am a part of shared this resource list and a script for contacting your reps. I recommend tailoring it to a specific building in your area from the GSA’s list. docs.google.com/document/d/e...