Ashley Rye-Kopec

Friends, this is why #VisualLiteracy matters

“Until quite recently, historians have not really been so concerned about who took the pictures, and why they took them and what they were for...It’s been rather historians using pictures as illustrations of a text, rather than being a text themselves.” nytimes.com/2022/07/29/art…

One Foundation Is Giving Top U.S. Museums Millions of Dollars to Address a Critical Blind Spot: Programming for Older Adults | Artnet News news.artnet.com/art-world/ea-m…

First the van Gogh self-portrait, now Modigliani sketches! hooray for #artconservation discoveries

We have made a truly incredible discovery. A previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh has been found in our collection. Yes, you read that right! 🖌️👇

We are putting together a Twitter list of all the fantastic digital humanities projects centred on the nineteenth century. 💻🔎💫 Follow along #Victorianists and / or send us recommendations of new projects to add! twitter.com/i/lists/151921…

@smeadleonard Love the alt text. I feel like we could have a super fun parlor game composing alt text for weird arty things.

By Richard Hicks Bridgens, engraved by Henry Shaw, London 1838 - now at the Met, 62.600.16. metmuseum.org/art/collection…

I've had this 1838 furniture engraving open on my computer for a week. I'm obsessed with it. It's just so weird.

The Baltimore Museum of Art invited its guards to curate their latest exhibition. “Guarding the Art” features works from the BMA’s collection selected by 17 members of its security team, and it opens this weekend. bit.ly/3ulaChe

Stress manifests itself in many different ways. You might be clenching your jaw, slouching, fidgeting, or forgetting to eat. Give yourself five minutes to lift your spine, roll your shoulders back, gently stretch your neck, and get some water.

@smeadleonard @NCHistoricSites Congratulations! Sounds like a fun (and wide-ranging!) role!

I have news! I’m beyond excited to say that this is my first week working for @NCHistoricSites as their Research Historian - providing research and exhibtions support to all 27 state historic sites.

After contracting a debilitating chronic illness, former Dallas museum director Bonnie Pitman resolved to start a habit of trying something new each day. It turns out she was on to something. She now works with @BrainHealth to help others like her. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

'Sun & Sea,' the Golden Lion–winning performance work became a surprise hit at the 2019 Venice Biennale, will make its U.S. debut this fall artnews.com/art-news/news/…

For real this time???🤞reuters.com/world/europe/e…

For any researcher who has felt overwhelmed by their material, here’s Virginia Woolf on note-taking at the British Library: ‘It was distressing, it was bewildering, it was humiliating. Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.’

and I'm sure there are more! Anybody know of other cities/towns that claim to be USA's Venice?

Thinking about the various cities in the US that have claimed to be "America's Venice." Ft. Lauderdale, but also: San Antonio, Sea Isle City NJ, St. Clair, Mich., Lowell, Mass...plus, of course, Venice, CA

Weeks after the Newark Museum of Art controversially sold off a seminal work by Thomas Cole, the @philamuseum announced today that it would display the painting, The Arch of Nero (1846), on long-term loan ow.ly/zUlI50F5VSO

Western museums are finally reconsidering their African collections. We gathered 3 experts to explain why—and what needs to happen next: bit.ly/3g2AUP8

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