Also, a bunch of new U of MN Press books are 40% off via the Humanities & Arts book sale, and A Theory of Assembly is one of them! Apparently this isn't just for #MLA23 attendees -- it's for anyone. Virtual exhibit: z.umn.edu/mla23 40% discount code: MNMLA23 MLA News

So lovely to open Twitter just now and see Dr. Corrinne Chong’s kind tweet about my Discomfort Food, which I’m happy to say is included in U of MN Press’s 40% off Arts&Hum MLA sale (open also to the public virtually with the code: MNMLA23)

❣️Berthe Morisot retrospective coming to Dulwich Picture Gallery this spring. Morisot developed the most abstractly figurative of Impressionist techniques. It will be worth seeing the abstract brushwork of The Art Institute of Chicago ‘s Woman at her Toilette, 1875-80 alone. dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…

Calling all art historians and visual studies scholars! The Getty Research Institute is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 Scholars Program on the theme of EXTINCTION. For the full description see the program website: gty.art/scholars Apply by October 2, 2023

Of Manet’s Fish (Still Life), 1864: ‘the image strikes me as a departure from that tradition, as a noisome scene of putrefaction, a staged arrangement of barely esculent, perhaps even spoiled piscine things lying on filthy linen.’ Only one chapter in but wow Marni Kessler ! ♥️

Oh, how Linda would have loved this wallpaper! Delighted and moved to see her as I entered the inspired “It’s Pablo-Matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby” exhibition at the Bklyn Museum!

Such joy at the gorgeous “Manet/Degas” opening at the Met last night. Yes, seeing Olympia sparkle in NYC was great, but the wall with Manet’s Ham and Degas’ photograph of it & the portrait of the Manets that EM sliced through gave me the most personal happiness! Just wow!

Pleased to be presenting “The Air that They Breathed:Thinking Ecocritically About Degas’ Laundresses” in Nov. in: Virtual Symposium: Picturing Women at Work in the 19th Century | Cleveland Museum of Art. Great papers and a keynote by ⁦Susan Hiner⁩! clevelandart.org/events/lecture…

Publication Day! I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new book Behind the Seams: Women, Fashion, and Work in 19th-C France. Available now at bloomsbury.com/us/behind-the-… Much gratitude to all who helped make it happen! Bloomsbury Fashion Vassar College NCFS

It was a brilliant talk! Thank you @SiobhanAngus !!!

Tomorrow and Friday!

Brilliant application of ecocriticism to Degas’ paintings of ironing women in the toxic air of full of charcoal, ferrocyanide, cobalt blue and other bleaching products. ⁦Marni Kessler⁩ #SDNLondon2024

Great roundtable, described by one conference attendee as ‘the Spice Girls of 19thC French studies’. #SDNLondon2024 ⁦Marni Kessler⁩ ⁦@BelenkyMasha⁩ ⁦Perfumed Letters⁩ ⁦Susan Hiner⁩

So deeply moved by everything in Entangled Pasts at the RA. But the poetic texts on the backs of Lubaina Himid’s figures in Naming the Money-I have no words. Here are some of hers:

Workshopping Future Directions in Impressionism 5-6 September at UCL, 9 September online An interactive, discussion-filled space for and sharing of ideas as well as work in progress. Details here: impressionistfutures.com

We have a brand-new website! And we are in the mood to celebrate! Now thru Sunday: get 30% off when you spend $25; get 40% off when you spend $50; get 50% off when you spend $100+ with promo code MN91620. Happy shopping! upress.umn.edu/book-sales-and…

In recognition of #WorldPhotographyDay2024 may we suggest our gorgeous volume 139 dedicated to "Photography and the Body in Nineteenth Century France," edited by Anne E. Linton and @Raisarex ... Full volume available on JSTOR jstor.org/stable/i402385…

Hope to see you on 🦋