I love that Pete Sessions, who we voted out of our district in 2018 in a seat that was supposedly safely gerrymandered to be red (he later carpetbagged a seat in a different district near Waco), is the first one kicked off the speaker longlist.

THE DEVILS is the big news here. I actually saw it screened at the Castro in SF in the late 90s and it’s basically been totally MIA since.

For the Collation blog of the Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Research, I wrote a post on their collection of bird’s-eye views. folger.edu/blogs/collatio…

And friggin FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, people

Mel Brooks’ “BLAZING SADDLES” was released 50 years ago today.

Please join us today at 5 pm ET on Zoom for the roundtable "Slavery in the Medici Tuscany" by Tamar Herzig, Mark Rosen, and Stephanie Nadalo The Medici Archive Project Mark Rosen Stephanie Nadalo #twitterstorians #earlymodern #slavery Free Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/87145338626

Our next Wednesday Series: Art in Context lecture, “Modello for the Triton Fountain and the Depiction of Non-Europeans in Seventeenth-Century Sculpture”, will be presented by Mark Rosen. Join us on April 17 at 12:30 pm for this free lecture: kimbellart.org/event/wednesda…

I'm speaking Wednesday at 12:30 at the Kimbell in Fort Worth. Everyone's invited! kimbellart.org/event/wednesda…

You hear “nothing could have prepared me” a lot but like nothing could have prepared me

Art history hive: my new article on the 17th-century facade of S. Maria del Giglio in Venice (*that* one with the sculpted maps) is just out in the new issue of Artibus et Historiae. Learn a lot about the structure of the Venetian navy for this one. artibusethistoriae.org/chapter1051.ht…

Un altro grande successo per i museitaliani in occasione dell’apertura gratuita del #2giugno, che è coincisa con la #domenicalmuseo del mese. “È stata una giornata di festa per la nostra Repubblica”, ha dichiarato il Ministro Gennaro Sangiuliano. cultura.gov.it/comunicato/264…

After a $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with all 82 of its First Folios on permanent view, as part of an effort to welcome a broader audience. nyti.ms/4bgtRfk

We invite applications from scholars and arts professionals on the topic of Repair. Collaborative teams are invited to apply! More info and complete program description at getty.edu/projects/getty…

The editors of (peer-reviewed) Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2025 / Volume 20.1 Forum on Early Modern Women in Wartime. Submissions are due November 15, 2024 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes. tinyurl.com/2e3cncx8

I can't think of anything more badass than asking your team to not trade you and then, when they honor your request, throwing a no-hitter your next time out

When A Fistful of Dollars aired on ABC in the 70s, the network added a 4 minute prologue in an attempt to justify the film's cynical tone & amoral violence. The prologue was directed by Monte Hellman & stars Harry Dean Stanton:

On view for the first time in 400 years 🙌

Especially with the departure of the A’s, Memorial Stadium is now one of the only remaining old school venues left in the Bay Area. Affordable, accessible by public transit, family friendly. A relic of true community. Cal is primed to fill a void for the fans here