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@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times! You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-lives...

Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Our exhibition research process captured in a comic! Visit @gettymuseum.bsky.social for the full story of a wartime art loss soon to be returned to its rightful home. The exhibition, Lost. Found. Returned, is on view until October 18, 2026. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

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This new Smarthistory video provides a preview of the new exhibition, "Lost.Found.Returned," opening at the Getty Research Institute next week! www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

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Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

Great to see the Guerilla Girls back @gettymuseum.bsky.social today!

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!

This is happening tomorrow @gettymuseum.bsky.social - so excited! www.getty.edu/calendar/gue...

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/...

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

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 💩 No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.

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...

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...

How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/10]

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

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

For anyone in Los Angeles who is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, put this event on your calendar! Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm. Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...

🎉The wait is over! CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN! ⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST) 🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea 📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/ We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities! 🔄Please share widely! #ADHO

The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.” Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN

Applications are open for 3-month residencies at the Getty Conservation Institute in the Conservation Guest Scholars Program for those bringing new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation. Learn more and apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/476sfGn

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, themed "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Apply by October 1, 2025. Read more about the theme, scholars program, and grant details: gty.art/4287IOv

For researchers seeking a short-term grant—including undergraduates—the Getty Library is offering partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use the Getty Research Institute's collections. Apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/4mvU8f9

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Research Institute Scholars Program for proposals on the topic of Provenance, including the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and more. Deadline is October 1, 2025. Learn more and apply: gty.art/46AKWQC

In it, we explore funding patterns, with a view of where the field of art history has been heading for the past few decades. Plus an invitation to other programs with funding data to join us in putting together a bigger picture of the landscape of support for art history and related fields.

Postdoc Opportunity! Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Need a midweek pick me up? We have the remedy! Discover new tunes hand selected by the artists of our exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives. gty.art/QueerPlaylist

Looking forward to presenting in the NNI Seminar in October - my paper explores the legacy of Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695 in New York), Red Sea piracy, the trafficking of enslaved captives from Madagascar, and the flow of Islamic coins to colonial North America (all in one essay!)

Resharing yet again- please encourage your provenance/history of collecting colleagues, museum friends, and pre/post doc students to explore this #provenance theme and to consider applying! I truly cannot wait to see what facets of provenance in all of its forms come together for this scholar year.

Ann Philbin is awarded the 2025 Getty Prize! Philbin chose @npr.org for the Getty Prize's accompanying $500,000 pay-it-forward grant. The funds will be split between @npr.org , @kcrw.com , and @laist.com. Read full announcement: gty.art/3Ir9q6N

Are you interested in learning more about computational provenance research? This workshop held in Germany in December 2025 offers the perfect opportunity to work directly with leaders in the field. Funding is also available! Perfect for art historians, curators and digital humanists!

🧵(5) An example of a fāʼidah in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, bearing direct witness to the period of European Atlantic slavery as seen from the African perspective: hmml.org/stories/post...

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder in his work for many years. His studio approached Getty asked how they could preserve the color of the pyrotechnic powders used in the fireworks displays. How Getty conservators tackled this question: gty.art/3IeG1wx

Amazing thread that introduces important figures in the field of climate science, lots of interesting people working on oceans and marine environments. Great advocacy for advanced researchers, with terrific photos. Thanks for taking the time to do this @davidho.bsky.social

My wonderful colleague Karen Hall and I are convening a panel at AAANZ2025 in Perth on unruly histories and practices of water. Histories & practices of infrastructure, hydrofeminism, blue humanities, oceanic thinking. #envhum #aaanz #cfp #water #arthistory aaanz.info/aaanz-home/c...

Exciting news from SAR: A new Getty-funded seminar will challenge extractive museum practices and reimagine how art historians engage with Native art and communities. Launching summer 2026 in Santa Fe. Details → sarweb.org/getty-founda...

#provenance job alert with a wonderful team!