Christopher Nygren

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry - Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews The Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated

Art History will continue to be seen as an elitist discipline if the public apparatuses for communicating it refuse to acknowledge the scholarship that has drawn attention to art's role in serving and subverting power.

Read the righteous review by Sherry Lindqiust here. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...

If you are attending @historians.org #aha2026 please join us at 330 this afternoon when we discuss our project, “Transforming Humanities Education in a Time of Gun Violence.” We discuss various approaches to tracing the long history of guns, gun control, and legislation.

Wtaf? This is absurd. The fact that people are looking for this is insane and such a waste of resources. I hate when STEM decides it cares about history

Really not sure what to make of this as a prediction for 2026…

For any early modernists who are upset by the Compact piece, this is a great thread. And the point about Celenza’s “Lost Renaissance” is spot on. Some people saw changes to the field coming a mile away. Others got bitter

This administration understands that regulatory action can be effective. They are just deeply misguided in how they apply in the health sphere, and they refuse that premise with the tech sphere saying regulation is impossible. It is not. Your HHS sec shows what can be done. He’s just evil.

What we see in the last paragraph is striking wrt some discourse on here in the last few days re: AI. 10 children _claimed_ to have been killed by COVID vaccine, and now the whole of Gov is moving to pull the hand break.

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Take a few to read this. it is fire. “The humanities are not in crisis. The humanities are in the vanguard. The project of public education, perhaps the closest thing there is to a lasting success authored amid the broader failure of Reconstruction, is in danger.”

If the AI boosters have it their way, there will be no historians in archives. Just AI “agents” telling us “how history _really_ was”

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I’m very pleased to announce the latest from me and the inimitable @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social. In it, we lay out vision for why and how faculty and students should be resisting the AI in education. Please share.

Pretzels!

Please, make it stop!

I can’t even bring myself to go look at what you’re referencing… having too much fun imagining things.

My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!

careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Please circulate widely and encourage qualified applicants to reach out to me!

The CBA outlines a clear path to promotion to Teaching Associate Professor and eventually Teaching Professor. Our Architectural Studies program is thriving! We offer both a B.A. and B.S. in Arch. Studies. This position will teach mostly Arch Theory (no studio requirement).

Pitt has a unionized faculty, and the CBA governs contracts for positions like this. After an initial renewal in the second year, the position goes into “presumptive renewal” on a five-year time horizon.

More exciting news coming out of Pittsburgh! My department is searching for a Teaching Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies. This is a permanent position in the Appointment Stream (i.e. non-tenure-track). networks.h-net.org/jobs/69451/u...

I know… this is a moment when few international candidates look at this country and think “I want to go there.” But I promise it isn’t all bad!

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tagging art historians and pre-modernists so they can hopefully help spread the word (and consider applying, if appropriate!)
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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨

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If Chotiner calls, you’re not obliged to pick up the phone. My god… This man just continues to destroy people. By…. By simply asking follow up questions. Others could really take note.

This is worth a read. As he says, this shouldn’t be on us. Companies do have agency, and that also implies culpability

I say do it. They need to hear from their faculty

Students never asked for this and done like it