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Pigment cups discovered at Pompeii

Over 200 pigment cups for makeup and painting have been discovered at Pompeii. You can see a number of them here: pompeiicommitment.org/en/inventari... Pigments for Make-up and Room Decoration - Pompeii Commitment

Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies

Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.

Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

What We’d Lose Without Public Radio

an incredibly earnest and apolitical post for Vogue about what we lose if (when?) we lose public radio
www.vogue.com/article/what...

Pottery vessel with a round body and narrow neck, featuring several handles and a string. The pottery is displayed on a white stand in a museum setting, with a blurred nature-themed backdrop behind it.

#FindsFriday! Pottery vessel with five handles and remnants of a string, found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC.
Multiple intact vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally placed there ...🧵 1/2

📷 me
#archaeology 🏺

What 1,200 reels of home movies reveal about a century of life on Chicago's South Side The South Side Home Movie Project at the University of Chicago offers a glimpse into everyday lives of a generation of Chicagoans, plus the equipment used to produce these films.

Through her “South Side Home Movie Project,” Jacqueline Stewart, professor at UChicago, has gathered more than 1,200 home movies from families dating back to the 1930s - like mini time capsules, depicting life on the South Side going back nearly 100 years. https://trib.al/uqmx2wr

Enid A. Haupt Fund

Anselm Kiefer, The Red Sea, 1984-85 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135058

Baghdad: The Once and Future City of Stars - Public Books The city testifies to the vast intellectual curiosity of medieval Muslims, and the splendor they translated from astrology into their designs.

July 30, 762: Caliph al-Mansur commissioned Baghdad's construction. As Dr. Ali A. Olomi wrote about for our previous series, he consulted astrologers to plan a city that spoke to and with the stars. ✨ www.publicbooks.org/baghdad-medi... Baghdad: The Once and Future City of Stars - Public Books

Inside an ancient tomb, with high stone walls on three sides above dark chambers at ground level

#TombTuesday Inside Quoyness Chambered Cairn on the island of Sanday in #Orkney

Built around 3000BC in the Maeshowe style, excavations in 1867 found the skeletal remains of at least 14 people buried in these side-chambers!

📸 Mine

#archaeology #scotland #ancientbritain #photooftheday

Helen Levitt
American, 1913–2009
Woman and dog in window, 1972
Manhattan, New York

#HelenLevitt #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography

Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia Thousands of years ago, adults and children left their marks on soft rock surfaces deep in this cave in GunaiKurnai Country.

Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia

theconversation.com/precious-fin...

Amazing new research led by GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Madeleine Kelly, Bruno David et al.

The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms Scientists today still make use of Mary Banning’s research, examining the same mushrooms that she located, preserved, and packed away for posterity.

Dying to see the Outcasts: Mary Banning’s World of Mushrooms exhibit at the NY State Museum curated by Patricia Kaishian - maybe a sneaky trip before the semester starts is in order. 🍄

hyperallergic.com/1029741/mary...

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

"In total, 190 manuscripts have been conserved, catalogued and digitised. More than 7,000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely displayed on the Cambridge Digital Library."

www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Wawiriya Burton, Ngayuku ngura - My Country, 2012
Indigenous Australian, Pitjantjatjara (1928-2021)
Acrylic on linen
1525 x 1980mm

Just because you all need more archaeological finds and sites in your feed.
The Bronze Age rock art site at Austre Åmøy, north of Stavanger, Norway. The protected heritage site consists of more than 400 figures at 16 different locations on the south side of the small island.

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭

(📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

My photo shows a small Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a mouse, viewed in profile with head to the left. The neck of the flask (on the right) is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The body of the vessel is rounded and has four tooled trails for feet. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The flask surface is decorated with distinctive trails of glass which have been flattened and notched, using a technique known as ‘snake thread’. Dimensions 6.3 x 5.1 x 14.6 cm.

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a little mouse 🐭 💙

The Met 📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Polar bears in shopping malls, fibreglass mountains, indoor rainforests: how humans got addicted to faking the natural world In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

"In surrounding ourselves with simulated recreations of nature, we create unwitting monuments to the very things that we have lost"
@zednelson.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Aerial view of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, showing its long, rectangular layout with one rounded end. Built on the site of the ancient Stadium of Domitian, the square features three fountains, including the central Fountain of the Four Rivers with an obelisk, surrounded by historic buildings.

#RomanSiteSaturday: The Piazza Navona in #Rome was built on the remains of the Stadium of Domitian, therefore it has its unique shape.

📷 Valentino Ligori via IG

#archaeology 🏺

Flagbearer: Minnesota Iranian artist wins national visual arts prize Minnesota-based Iranian artist Ziba Rajabi has won the inaugural $20,000 DAG Prize for Visual Arts to create “Kotál,” a large-scale fabric installation rooted in Persian mourning rituals that honors w...

Minnesota Iranian artist Ziba Rajabi has won the inaugural $20,000 DAG Prize for Visual Arts to create “Kotál,” a large-scale fabric installation rooted in Persian mourning rituals that honors women who died pursuing freedom and continues her exploration of grief, memory and cultural displacement.

My photo taken in 2023 shows a black and white mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus at Pompeii depicting a chained black dog crouching in front of an open door. The dog wears a red studded collar. It looks alert, with its mouth open to show a red tongue and teeth. The mosaic door to which the dog is chained is decorated with a spear and a shield, and the mosaic door which is ajar is decorated with a double axe head. A partial view of the atrium of the house can be seen from the entrance passage.

A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years! 🐾

Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

A mosaic showing a half fish half goat creature. There is a black semicircle around it and a red yellow and white woven pattern above in the tiles.

I had the exciting job of helping to clean one of the mosaics at Colchester Castle today, which meant I could get this close up picture of a goat fish (Capricornus). #MosaicMonday #Museums #Romans

A view into the tomb, showing various pottery vessels

A view into the tomb, in the background archaeologists at work

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization. 

news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

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This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.

New from me — on Mavis Pusey, her survey show open now at ICA Philadelphia (coming next to the Hammer in LA and Studio Museum in NYC) — and the decade of curatorial sleuthing to locate her artworks and fill out her story.

GIFT LINK

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

OPEN ACCESS Textiles in Motion: Dress for Dance in the Ancient World Edited by AUDREY GOUY Copyright Date: 2023 Published by: Oxbow Books https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6253292 Pages: 224 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.6253292 Search for reviews of this book

A newish (2023) volume that is open access focuses on _Textiles in Motion: Dress for Dance in the Ancient World_ www.jstor.org/stable/jj.62... The early Egyptian dress & dance chapter looks great, as does the Mysteries of Eleusis one. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.62...

A black and white photograph of a Bauhuas building with a figure on the top floor by Moholy-Nagy

The artist and photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was born on this day in 1895. He taught at the Bauhaus, but like many of his contemporaries he ended up fleeing the Nazi rise to power, ending up in London in 1935 1/7

🧵 Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) was a German-Swedish Jewish artist. She was persecuted by the Nazis & forced to emigrate to Sweden. After the war her work was considered de trop & old-fashioned. She was rediscovered in 1987 & her work is gradually becoming known. Her’s are amazing images [1]

Eleanor Annie Lamson looking through telescope

7/20/1900 — Eleanor Annie Lamson becomes the first female astronomer to be hired by the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, District of Columbia #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #SheIsTheFirst #Navy #military #OTD #TDIH

A woman stands with a market bucket on her arm. She’s come to pick up a coat. Inside the tailor’s workshop. The tailors sit high up, raised above the floor to catch every beam of light. A hank of thread dangles above the table, ready for the next stitch. 🧵

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108320

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72.
Photo Wolfgang Volz.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Wave, Night, 1928