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Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities

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Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) Job Opening: Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) at National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.

Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.

04.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I love this! Thanks for sharing!

03.03.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to see the Guerilla Girls back @gettymuseum.bsky.social today!

02.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It also feels like a movie trailer.

02.03.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for hosting us so generously! It was a lovely escape from CAA! Can’t wait to see your upcoming exhibition about printing on cloth!

21.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for this terrific article - I will now deploy the terms derived, enhanced and aggregated to think about the various modalities of the datasets that I am wrestling with!

17.02.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I totally bombed this one

09.02.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Be a Guerrilla Girl | Getty Exhibitions Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in th...

Too bad that you can't join us at this event but I hope you can come see the exhibition! It's up until April 12, 2026 and full of amazing insights from the Guerrilla Girls archive.

www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

17.01.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In Conversation: The Guerrilla Girls and Roxane Gay | Getty Events Iconic feminist voices explore the intersections of activism, protest, and creative expression

This is happening tomorrow @gettymuseum.bsky.social - so excited!

www.getty.edu/calendar/gue...

17.01.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can't make the Jan 17 event featuring Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social at Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social you can still visit the terrific exhibition "How to Be a Guerilla Girl," at the Getty Research Institute thru April 2026.

www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

20.12.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Practical Join: Using Wikidata to Aggregate Awards and Affiliations Data from Residential Fellowship Programs in Art History | Journal of Open Humanities Data

Our new data article explores funding trends in art history over the past 60 years with Wikidata facilitating cross-institutional collaboration, with @qwesterby.bsky.social and Lidia Ferrara, published in Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

#ArtHistory

18.12.2025 23:33 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers provides some good background on one of the main protagonists of the Yemeni American coffee revival: daveeggers.net/monkofmokha

13.12.2025 00:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Because it’s back in the news I am reposting this 🧡 about Pantone’s 2025 color of the year.

Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than πŸ’©

No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.

06.12.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Getty Vocabularies Survey We're looking to improve the Getty Vocabularies (AAT, ULAN, TGN) and would appreciate your feedback.

To GLAM colleagues:

Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

03.12.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year!

@gettymuseum.bsky.social
@apollo-magazine.com

apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...

25.11.2025 06:14 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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24.11.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you for reading!!!!

24.11.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for the kind words and for slogging through the long bits about coins and their details! Painful but (I hope) worth it!

23.11.2025 20:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!!! Let me know what the students think!

23.11.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It deploys textual, archaeological & numismatic evidence to make the case for tangible material entanglements between the Red Sea & colonial North America & to explore the obscured lives of those enslaved from Madagascar in the 1690s. MAP: indianoceanexchanges.com/coin/mvvmap....

23.11.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.

#vastearlyamerica #arthistory

journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

23.11.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 7
White sign for the fall meeting of ARIAH - the association for research institutes of art history, held in Mexico City in November 2025

White sign for the fall meeting of ARIAH - the association for research institutes of art history, held in Mexico City in November 2025

Mural painting by Siquieros in the Collin de San Idelfonso in Mexico City representing a dramatic winged figure

Mural painting by Siquieros in the Collin de San Idelfonso in Mexico City representing a dramatic winged figure

Mosaic facade of the Central library on the historic campus of UNAM in Mexico City

Mosaic facade of the Central library on the historic campus of UNAM in Mexico City

Pre-Colombian stone carving seen from above at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City

Pre-Colombian stone carving seen from above at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City

Heading home after the invigorating fall meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Thanks to our amazing host INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTÉTICAS at UNAM - a powerhouse of art historical research.
www.esteticas.unam.mx

22.11.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! I’ll DM you to make the connection!

18.11.2025 22:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very interesting - my colleague in conservation at Getty has worked on this topic. Do you know Arlen?

18.11.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The terms 'lodge' or 'factory' make the establishments seem formal or structurally distinct from other bldg types. Sometimes they were purpose built, but often they were provisional. On this one, I'll boost an old article of mine from a different ocean. indianoceanexchanges.com/pubs/JSAHPub...

15.11.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love this thread! Art historians like @marselykehoe.bsky.social to the rescue! On the lodge ?, don't know specifically about Cochin, but it was common for a company/merchant to rent an ordinary house as trade base an in Indian Ocean port, especially before settling more formal trade agreements.

15.11.2025 18:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Getty Research Institute L3 level on the occasion of the summer solstice 2023. Overlooking what used to be an installation project by Andy Goldsworthy

Getty Research Institute L3 level on the occasion of the summer solstice 2023. Overlooking what used to be an installation project by Andy Goldsworthy

Here it is - still there, just covered up - for the solstice in 2023

31.10.2025 04:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!

30.10.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0