Kate Lusheck

Kate Lusheck

@klusheck.bsky.social

Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things

712 Followers 1,440 Following 177 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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Absolute DREAM of a PhD position! Four years getting lost in the Plantin Press 🤩 #BookHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians

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Appointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefers The head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building’s front entrance

For nearly 200 years, these iconic — and Ionic — columns have welcomed visitors to the White House.

Trump has privately mused about changing them to his preferred style, and now his top arts commissioner has proposed a plan to do exactly that.

With @asteckelberg.bsky.social.

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Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

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Drone footage of the site this morning… Source Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...

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This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

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If you missed the news about Elsevier and Wiley (and doubtless the rest to follow) remaking themselves as AI companies with plans to profit from selling AI summaries of academic work back to the institutions that produced the original work:
bsky.app/profile/benp...

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You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

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Coffee, Newfoundland, spouse, Constitution (no kids)

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SO special.

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Architecture & Reflections, San Francisco

#photography #architecture #sanfrancisco #nikon

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Recovering Hidden Histories in Archival Collections A course on how the tools of humanistic inquiry can recover experiences lost, hidden, or even suppressed in the historical record.

www.newberry.org/calendar/rec... looks like an incredible program!

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Self-Portrait (rotated), potential sketch for The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, late 15th//early 16th c

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The slight touch of the lace! Nice job PPR

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Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

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How do you not view this as a gorgeous expression of Hispanic culture in the U.S.?

Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.

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I can't believe this is a real NYT headline. In addition to being the tech-bougie capital, SF has to have the most natural beauty of any major American city, right? The giant mountains and the lush forests and the drastic cliffs that overlook the Pacific.

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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

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This is actually very interesting because that’s what people get wrong about the Middle Ages as well. Simply put: you might know how to build aqueducts from self healing concrete but you might lose the need *and* capability to do so. Three separate things. Many misunderstand how societies adapt. 1/

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"When in doubt, draw a distinction."

Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.

This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.

I will post them one at a time. Ready?

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"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.

...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

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TFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously

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Pottery drinking cup shaped like an animal’s head. The vessel is glossy black, featuring a rounded snout, raised eyes, and a handle. A red-digured banquet scene encircles the lower part. The cup is photographed against a plain light background

Weekend timeline cleanse!

A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶

Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down

Dating ca. 475 BC.

📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

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2 months ago

Early modern women writing in books! An online resource.

#earlymodern #Renaissance 🗃

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Thank you!!

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Interested in being added. Thanks for these great lists!

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Nice!!

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Please do David Hockney and little Boodge!

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