Yes ... that time when Reviewer 2 told me that although I 'cite D'Arcy on ***', apparently I 'have a poor understanding of D'Arcy's historical argument' ... Some mornings I know exactly how they feel ...

It’s impossible to select a top four so here’s a random selection. The Holbein exhibition at the King’s Gallery is astounding and if you can get there before it closes you should try.

Stunning new wall paintings have emerged from the latest excavations at Pompeii. One depicts Cassandra seated on an omphalos looking utterly exasperated with Apollo! Another depicts a 'good boi' looking on anxiously or even proleptically as Helen and Paris meet... #Classics

'Trying to hollow out the arts and humanities? In the UK, where it’s one of the few things we’re good at? (No offence, scientists: you’re good too.) You don’t have to imagine it – you can see it. But I don’t think it’s a done deal.' theguardian.com/education/2024…

I found that this book really stayed with me. I wrote a thread about it last year. I should write about it properly sometime x.com/mathewjlyons/s…

'To make cuts like this, which are planned for this September, will surely change the face of the university, diminishing the educational offer that many students signed up for, and curtailing much of the activity for which Goldsmiths is famous.' #twitterstorians 1/2

Excellent piece by ⁦@[email protected]⁩: gets to the heart of the challenges for the arts & humanities across the country, as well as the particular issues at Goldsmiths. When finances are so tightly strung, it’s not taking much to push unis into trouble theguardian.com/education/2024…

theguardian.com/education/2024… To learn more about what's going wrong in UK HE (particularly in the humanities), this pretty much hits the nail on the head.

Humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ...
theguardian.com/education/2024…

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is happy to reveal and celebrate its second annual Shortlist of five fiction writers from Canada and the United States: Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, Kim Coleman Foote, V. V. Ganeshananthan, and Janika Oza. Learn more: bit.ly/3UddL0Q

Me (Francesca*!) in the Times Higher Education writing about the implications for UK Art History of the UK Research and Innovation proposal to require, from 2026, most books submitted to REF to be published open access.

Association for Art History

Or you cd ensure funding for all worthy/should be pursued research. Oh, sorry, no, this is UKHE.

MeToo (obsessed by the play!) Congrats, Emma Whipday

Still blown away - do go if you can. Also youtube rehearsal Insight.

“We want to inspire the children of the area to say 'well if three local Bradford girls, not from well off backgrounds, can go on to do what they achieved, well so can we.''

The birthplace of the Brontë sisters is being restored:

itv.com/news/calendar/…

Please just don't - UKHE has to pull together and celebrate the wonderful work being done everywhere, not fall victim to divide and rule.

We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

I am, quite literally, trembling with excitement at the latest frescoes to be uncovered at Pompeii. They're some of the finest I've seen. A wonderful piece in today's Times with helpful maps and Radio 4's bit this morning (on iPlayer) worth replaying thetimes.co.uk/article/pompei…

This is the best piece I've read so far on the whole Mary Oliver discussion (actually, surprisingly, not a poet I knew at all apart from a single poem before the last week or two). commonreader.co.uk/p/is-mary-oliv…

Like those of Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot's chosen subjects were mostly women and children. Although the society into which she was born did not see women as professional artists, her work was painted with a skill that placed her as an equal of Monet and Renoir.