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art historian with eclectic interests
Masks work for both summer colds and Covid (and pollen, how wonderful)
Yes, That ‘Summer Cold’ Really Might Be COVID (Again). What to Know About Bay Area Viral Levels | KQED
COVID-19 levels in Bay Area wastewater are up again this summer — as if you needed another thing to worry about. Here’s what to know about your risk.
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Rembrandt, The Abduction of Europe, 1632. Beautifully cleaned painting, in excellent shape, gorgeous @gettymuseum.bsky.social
When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
As a professor, I received a lot of pitches from textbook sales people pushing digital platforms (that cost more money). They were to a one completely flabbergasted that I didn't want to track students and every click they made.
How very much like Caravaggio’s St Jerome Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Many A Moo lit Caveat, 2026, oil on linen Caravaggio, St. Jerome, 1605. Galleria Borghese
NYPL has the full print of Dürer’s Triumphal Arch on exhibition and you should definitely go see it if you’re in NYC.
Staring down from the attic, my cat asks her perpetual question, “are you sure you want to be doing that?” #Caturday
This hilarity was worth going to the Mildred Howard show at the Oakland Museum of California (but there’s so much more too) “What Came First,” 2007
My ex-husband's SAHM grandmother was prescribed tranquilizers after her first child was born and was still on them 50 years later. It was not a good time.
Vox@vox.com · last wk.@annanorth.bsky.social explains what’s driving young men’s nostalgia for a version of family life that was never as simple as it looks online.
Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.
America: GoFundMe for healthcare; OnlyFans for scientific research
Calif. researchers turn to OnlyFans as their funding dries up
But it's not what you think.
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Betye Saar (1926–2026) created a wealth of unforgettable art with clever multi-faceted imagery. The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, one of her most famous works, owned by @bampfa.bsky.social, can be found on Smarthistory here: smarthistory.org/betye-saar-l...
My favorite Betye Saar quote was in a story I did in 2015 about how LA museums were then failing to engage her work. Her response: "They can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks. Then they will pay for their hesitation.” Love her. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Column: Betye Saar's art on race couldn't be timelier. So why aren't more museums showing her work?
It's not for nothing that Betye Saar's traveling museum show is called "Still Tickin'."
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Rest in Peace Betye Saar. 👑✊🏾 #BlackSky #ArtSky
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10mo ago“People would go to church after a Saturday lynching and they could never see the disconnection or connection.” - Betye Saar I've Got Rhythm, 1972 Betye Saar b. 1926 "… assemblage became a language of protest and renewal during a period of social rupture" - Sixties Surreal #ArtSky #BlackSky
There are many things that are not actually hard but require giving a damn. The rewards of caring a little bit past minimum are great. I highly recommend giving a damn.
Just an illuminated cat catching an illuminated mouse in an illuminated manuscript from around 1300. #bookhistory
Reading 16th-century documents written by merchants rather than by clergy had be ruing the day I chose my dissertation subject. People writing for eternity have more incentive to be legible. My little mercantesca scribblers? Not so much.
Alice Lilly@aliceolilly.bsky.social · last wk.If I were a person in the past writing a document that may be looked at by historians one day I would simply have legible handwriting
I know a guy who never smoked but got bladder cancer as an adult because he grew up with parents who smoked in the home. Don’t smoke. You’re not just harming yourself.
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w agoI genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.
Went to an event at the library, had fun, learned something, met people, and came home with food I learned how to make all for free. What an institution.
The new exhibition at the San José Museum of Art, ‘a small ocean swallowed,’ emphasizes the ecological entwinement between humans and the natural world through an unabashedly feminist lens. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13991848/a-small-ocean-swallowed-san-jose-museum-of-art-review
An Exhibition in San José Asks Visitors to Become Water | KQED
‘a small ocean swallowed’ is an unabashedly feminist ecological show at the SJMA.
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A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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