Emily Wood
@ebwood.bsky.social
Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
If you’d like a wonderful antidote to those proclaiming that automated facts-mashing is historical practice I urge you to read this 2025 essay from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
Job Opportunity! The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Assistant Curator of African Art networks.h-net.org/jobs/70190/m...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Assistant Curator of African Art | H-Net
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“Kaseya pointed out that some 60-70% of the new cases were recorded from spreading within a community, not from contact tracing… “Contact tracing is not working,” said Kaseya, “we don’t like the trajectory of this outbreak, and it’s already the second largest outbreak (ever) in the world.”
Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges
Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.
statnews.com
My architecture column today. "Built in 1973, St. Mark AME Zion Church is one of the finest works of pioneering Black architect Wendell Campbell’s distinguished 50-year career."
National Trust grant provides preservation hope for modernist East Chicago church
The $150,000 award will help St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church's congregation create a plan to preserve the unique 53-year-old structure designed by the late Black Chicago architect Wendell Campbell.
chicago.suntimes.com
Well, the FCC Commissioner has made the decision, first announced in an op-ed in Breitbart, stating that a regulatory body does not have to observe laws made by Congress if they don't feel like it. Every month is new and unprecedented territory. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
“The recently updated list of affected sites, which the Park Service has asked outside groups to comment on by Thursday, is notable for its length and the many major buildings (and surrounding districts and landscapes) on it…” The list is 37 entries long. [gift link]
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places (Gift Article)
The 250-foot-tall edifice would alter views across Washington and Arlington Cemetery.
nytimes.com
The Eric Carle Museum staff are pushing to unionize due to allegations of understaffing, a lack of promotions, and poor workplace conditions.
Eric Carle Museum Workers Push for Union Vote
Employees at the Massachusetts museum established by the children’s book artist behind “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” cited poor working conditions and under-staffing in a statement.
hyperallergic.com
Very interesting story that could probably make a mini-series, with intersecting issues of aesthetics, authenticity, personalities and money www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Yes, the Show Has Drawn Raves. But Some of the Objects Are Not Real. (Gift Article)
When the New York Historical realized that sunlight in its new wing would potentially damage some items on display, it scrambled to reproduce or remove them.
nytimes.com
I needed something really smart to read tonight. Here's something neat for folks doing #GlobalMiddleAges work: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Trans-SaharanTrade #MedievalSky #AfricanHistory
![An excerpt from de Palaminy et al. 2026 on the sources of Fatimid gold coins found in the Caesarea hoard:
"The number of Early Islamic single gold coins and hoards discovered in excavations over the past decades has grown exponentially, particular those minted during the Fatimid period (10th-11th c.) [65]. As a result, numismatic research has made impressive advances with publication of a detailed corpus of these coins [66,67]. In 2015, a hoard of 2,668 gold coins of this period, one of the largest hoard of its kind ever discovered in the Eastern Mediterranean (weighing 7.5 kg), was found in a shipwreck in the ancient harbor of Caesarea, Israel [68]. Now housed in the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, this assemblage offers a rare and valuable case study for gold provenance research. It presents two major advantages: it is both “sourced” and “sealed.” First, its archaeological context is securely known—unlike coins in most numismatic collections, which mostly derive from undocumented donations. Second, having remained underwater for nearly a millennium, the hoard has not been subject to post-depositional processes such as reminting, recycling, or forgery, nor chemical cleaning, preserving the original metallurgical composition of the coins."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreibzcoyh5bpeslilvhnwgxc2nqdykzrv6aflfveyod4ftkprnev5ly)
The presidents who helped draft the letter — Andrew Martin of Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow of Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, and Ronald Daniels of Johns Hopkins University — should be ashamed. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Trump Administration Tries A New Reform Pitch To The Nation’s Universities
The Trump administration has sent a letter to the nation’s universities asking them to answer how they will address reforms in seven policy areas before the end of 2026.
forbes.com
The Red Sox dealt Marcelo Mayer to the Giants for LHP Erik Miller and minor league OF Carlos Gutierrez. No other Red Sox buzzer beaters.
and now for something good: architecture people, design people, urbanists! most aesthetically innovative/ distinctive public (maybe government maybe just public access) buildings constructed in the U.S. in the C21?
So excited for this new #nuntastic work!
Dr. Sarah Joan Moran@lc-beguines.bsky.social · 2d agoMy new book, Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries: 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages, is officially available for pre-order from Routledge! An absolute must for your university library, if you ask me 😉. www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
The Walters Art Museum seeks a new James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, who will oversee a collection of over 3,000 works of European art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The deadline for applications is 31 August: www.codart.nl/careers/job-...
James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art - CODART
The Walters Art Museum is among America’s most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world and spanning seven millennia. Located in Baltimore’s Mount...
codart.nl
I do not subscribe to Bloomberg, so I can't read the article, but those pull quotes in the screenshots...
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoTime to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The strike across the east London museums will occur on 11 and 12 August as Prospect union pledges to step up industrial action across the heritage sector this summer. buff.ly/PcJLC0R
Gen AI companies are scraping museum websites/socials so we now have to worry about those images being used to create CSAM.
Museums Association@museumsassociation.org · 2d agoNews | Updated safeguarding guidance addresses generative AI concerns Kids in Museums offers advice on using images of children on websites and social media
Most of the interior shots are actually the NY Public Library movie-locations.com/movies/t/Tho... #HATM #ThomasCrownAffair
Filming Locations for The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), in New York and the Windward Islands.
Travel guide to filming locations for The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), in New York and the Windward Islands.
movie-locations.com
Katherine @auntik.bsky.social · 3d ago#hatm does anyone know what museum this was filmed in?
"It's about money, theft, and... romance." Counterpoint: It's about two incredibly attractive people playing two incredibly smart and attractive people doing clever things while looking incredibly and casually attractive. 😎🍿 #HATM
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 3d agoAnd welcome to Historians at the Movies! Tonight we are live posting THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. It’s about money, theft, and… romance. 1/
I love this movie and am excited to watch with you guys, but I have to get it out of my system now: do not snap a painting’s stretcher in half with the painting still stretched on it. Right, now I can watch and not need to vent about that plot point. #HATM
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 3d agoAs our fearless leader @herberthistory.bsky.social is still out this week, I am once again the substitute teacher taking over his lesson plans & showing the class a film. See you at 7pm CT for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. #HATM
This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!
Politico@politico.com · 3d agoSenate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Nearly 500,000 public comments have flooded in since the Trump administration proposed a rule that gives political appointees control over research funding. “The United States will not just fall behind. It will step aside,” one physicist wrote.
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
propublica.org
The inaugural season of the Women’s Pro Baseball League is underway! Good luck, Hunters! 👊
