Bethany Claus Widick

Words to live by.

I mean, The Circus in Bath is a pretty high bar, architecture-wise.

Vienna

But you know that when the truth is told

That you can get what you want or you can just get old

You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through, ooh

When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

*V&A East Storehouse. I always reverse it for some reason!

So excited for tomorrow’s field trip to the V&A Storehouse East! Can’t wait to talk about curation, FLW, and social housing with my students.

As a girl who grew up in PGH going to Kaufmann’s (the REAL one downtown, not just at the mall), who now studies & teaches arch. history, this is a MOMENT.

I mean, honestly. That’s embarrassing. It’s also been written about by nearly every remotely credible news source for the past 10+ years using that exact term.

Couldn’t possibly say it any better myself.

Doctored Washington Post headline changed to read: “Many HOLLYWOOD MOVIES have BLOWN UP the White House. Here's how Trump's ballroom compares.

And fun fact: one of the times the landlord himself came to view the damage and take pictures of it, he showed up in a Bentley. That was a year and a half ago.

Literally in the process of moving after our landlord of 4 years evicted us after we sent an email detailing that the mould and water damage for the prior 2.5 years, which we consistently reported and they documented every six months (hole in roof), was unacceptable and needed urgent attention.

You don’t have to be an historic preservationist or architectural historian to be livid about this, but it certainly helps.

Photo of a man in a suit with sunglasses and a young woman in a sweater vest in front of an ornate museum, with the caption “study: 38% of art history majors employed by bored billionaires planning museum heists”

Listen, a paycheck is a paycheck, amirite? 🤭

I’m finally able to articulate why I love teaching BA students so much: in that liminal university space they are both (not “neither”) children AND adults, and hold all of the best qualities of each in varying measure as they progress. They are a true joy.

Job description for a historian to help train AI to counteract liberal reasoning and positively represent conservative political thought

Yeah, it’s a swing and a miss with this job recommendation for me, LinkedIn.

The man behind me sounds like Colin Firth and since I haven’t seen his face I’m just going to believe it is.

Managed to get an upgrade to 1st class on GWR (thx @seatfrog.bsky.social!) and MY WORD it’s like a British Richard Yates novel in this carriage. The drama!! The sidelong glances!! The multiple bottles of wine!! Oh, and free snacks.

Worth every pence.

I just checked it and it works for me (accessing it from home in Bath).

SO pretty!!! I find a red lip can really lift my mood, make me feel (momentarily anyway) invincible. 💄

I’m watching it too and…it’s not good but I think I’ve watched everything else at this point so here we are.

That makes me so happy for you, and for your students, I’m teary.

Couldn’t watch the news on BBC all day bc it was all Kemi, all the time. Finally turned it on and now it’s Trump spouting insane lies about “Antifa”.

Netflix it is.

Why do American accents so successfully break through my noise cancellation on the train? Speaking volume is part of it (!), but it is maddening.

*I’m American btw

The bravery of this woman—of all of the witnesses, but her in particular—is what I aspire to.

Missing you tonight, Chicago. ❤️

I asked for a copy when I was a kid bc it prominently featured in Little Women and I too wanted a guidebook for life.

Apologise. 😁 My husband does the same for us and that would be my first instinct, WALK IT BACK.

Isn’t it wonderful?

Rude.

First week as an official Associate Lecturer complete!! It was even more fun than I hoped it would be. Academic joy!!!

This Kiss

Still a banger. (Yes, I’m middle-aged; why do you ask?)

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Ruin a book with a car:

Heart of Datsun