Emily Wood

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

Job opportunity! 🚨

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps and Geography @bplmaps.bsky.social

#maps #jobadvert #geography

Why the arts still matter at DePaul Economic constraints that suffocate creative expression and access to artistic skill and imagination are now at the front door of DePaul University.

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

DePaul faculty, students call on university to reverse decision to close campus art museum

Last week, the university announced that it will close its art museum on Fullerton Avenue on June 30. More than 1,500 people have signed on to an open letter asking administrators to reconsider.

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

It also remains the case that the Trump NEH will not fund work that 'promotes' "gender ideology," "discriminatory equity ideology," "support for diversity, equity, and inclusion," "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility," or "environmental justice initiatives or activities"

#TapestryOnTour

Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚

Save Dallas City Hall | Dallas, TX The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!

Much more serious things happening in the world, obvi, but if you live in the DFW region, Dallas is taking a vote on March 4 to decide the future of one of the most important pieces of 20th century architecture, IM Pei's city hall building. Contact the city council and urge preservation.

The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.

Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."

🌟 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌟
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas is hiring a Curator for Research!
Join them in advancing interdisciplinary arts research and making a lasting impact in the academic art world.

UPDATED DUE DATE!
📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣

Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
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Always interesting how these kinds of stories get framed for the press (and what kind of work the verb “discover” does)

Oh man, I miss Pop-Up Video.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Bold black text on a pastel gradient background reads: "hands off our rights. 03/03 FEDERAL PLAZA. SOLIDARITY WITH THE KANSAS TRANS COMMUNITY. 6 P.M. 219 S. DEARBORN ST, CHICAGO, IL. SHOW WE WON’T STAND FOR TRANSPHOBIC LEGISLATION.

Tuesday in Chicago - Hands OFF - Solidarity With the Kansas Trans Community

Not today, I’m afraid.

Plan and section of the State of Illinois building (Thompson Center) in Chicago. The drawing is done in colored pencil, sepia ink, and oil pastels on tracing paper.

New online database for the permanent collection of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.

For example: a presentation drawing for Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center.

sammlungen.dam-online.de

For all those interested in the early Middle Ages, economy, money, etc. Even more affordable now!

This was the third weekend of sugaring season, which meant my third meal at a sugar shack this year.

Maple syrup is going to get me through March and into April.

Please consider signing this open letter regarding the shameful closing of the DePaul Art Museum openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

A metal plaque with raised lettering spelling out the phrase, "In a dream you saw a way to survive and your were full of joy."

Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85