Job opportunity: we are hiring a project curator to work on 15th and 16th century Netherlandish drawings at the British Museum! Please spread the word bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/CIP…

As a history of emotions fanatic, this is such an exciting & important discovery! This C17th Anglo-flemish study suggested that there could have been another bust, so I'm thrilled to learn that there are three! Do check out this ace piece from Dr Christina J Faraday: apollo-magazine.com/terracotta-bus…

reading about sixteenth-century nuns with trombones

Submissions now open for the 2025 Berger Prize. Any book on British art history is eligible if published in 2024, including on the fine arts, decorative arts, architecture, collecting & patronage, in Britain or by a British artist. More details here: walpolesociety.org.uk/enter-the-berg…

I’ll be giving my paper ‘Lurking, Feigning, Shining, Declaring: The Life of Gold in the Early Modern English Imagination’ in the History of Art Department in Cambridge on 6th February 👑🏆💛

Electricians in my college office; earlier they were huffing and swearing at the wiring and I was slightly afraid, but now they're laughing at it, and actually I think that's worse.

Tonight in Cambridge!

SOS! Does anyone have/could anyone take a good photo of the Labours of Hercules painted cloth at Ipswich Museums for me? I only have a poor photo of it and it's likely to get cut from the book unless I can get a better one! :(

Only one week away to nominate for the British Academy Book Prize! This £25,000 award honours outstanding non-fiction books in the humanities and social sciences to deepen and shape global cultural understanding. Submit your nomination by 28 February. bit.ly/4jUFmyu

Sophie Scholl was executed 82 years ago today.

This again

Gorgeous things at the opening of Siena National Gallery last night, but my favourite is Simone Martini's sulky pre-teen Christ being told off for not coming home from temple in time for tea, on loan from Walker Art Gallery. "Listen to your mother!" "You're not even my real dad."

Thank you for coming Christine, I had a blast!