On April 22 at 12 pm, join us for "Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv's Visual Culture" with Olenka Z. Pevny, the inaugural lecture of a series on #Ukraine's historical and cultural complexity thru objects, sites, & monuments: ow.ly/JIrk50IzJw3 North of Byzantium Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700 🇺🇦

Symposium: 'Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages', Bard Graduate Center and Online, 28th-29th April 2022 medievalartresearch.com/2022/04/14/sym…

#WorldArtDay Ochre is a precious resource and central to the art of Indigenous Australian & Torres Strait Island peoples' religion and culture. This is Ngalyod, Red Rainbow Serpent creator ancestor, painted by Billinyara Nabegeyo tinyurl.com/2p9ekzyx Post by Fiona @GlamVols

The art of calligraphy on a dried leaf, was practised widely in Ottoman Turkey. This was difficult & delicate work. The leaf was dried, & the tissue removed to leave the skeletal membrane, with gold ink applied over it. For Ramadan, here are 20 exquisite examples… A thread…

Lest we forget ❤️ Today, #AnzacDay services are being held at dawn to commemorate the brave Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in war and service to their country. If you're ever in #Australia on April 25, it's worth the early start to take part in a dawn service.

this little thread 🧵 was just the tonic I needed ~ thank you W. David O. Taylor

with an omphalos, I am glad there is something inherently classical about The Fox, the new ⁦NGV⁩ Contemporary gallery 😉 ngv.vic.gov.au/the-fox-ngv-co…

To those who have encountered Dean Willis & been touched by his extraordinary ministry (as part of the GC, as a visitor/pilgrim to Canterbury Cathedral, passing admirer of his felicitous felines, etc etc): please consider offering a tribute & spreading the word tribute.co/the-very-rev-d…

RIP

Another triumph of cross-platform collaboration at The New York Times. About this team project with Marisa Schwartz Taylor and Rebecca Lieberman. The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/06/12/us/…

Caspar Meyer and I asked 25 scholars (Art Historians, Archaeologists, Curators, and Conservators), what is going in the field of metalwork research studies today. The result is here: journals.uchicago.edu/toc/wes/current W86th, The Place to Be

Congratulations colleague @eshetbaalathaov 😊

Major job alert: please spread the word! Looking for my new Institute Manager The Warburg Institute jobs.london.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

Wayne Meeks, distinguished Woolsey Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Yale, requiescat in pace.

The moment I wake up Before I put on my makeup I say a little prayer for you… RIP Burt Bacharach 🙏

Remembering a truly Warburgian life: Christopher Ligota obituary theguardian.com/books/2023/feb…

We've launched a new interface of the Photographic Collection's Iconographic Database! 🎉 We hope that users will find the new version to be much more inviting, user-friendly, and navigable. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/just-laun…