Heather Ewing
@hpewing.bsky.social
writer, art historian; executive director at Civitella Ranieri Foundation / research associate at Smithsonian Archives
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I did not know either about Redford's polio episode or his involvement in making this film about the Salk Institute. #PublicHealth is embedded in all our lives.
Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks
In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn
In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn
CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE - Clip ROBERT REDFORD: Salk Institute -- La Jolla, California, USA - HD
YouTube video by neueroadmovies
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I did not know either about Redford's polio episode or his involvement in making this film about the Salk Institute. #PublicHealth is embedded in all our lives.
This is a beautiful read.
NBCC member Tiffany Troy interviewed Mary Jo Bang about about the act of “carrying” poetry across from one language to another and how Heaven is different for each person lucky enough to have made it there in Dante's "Paradiso" for Asymptote:
An Interview with Mary Jo Bang on Translating Paradiso by Dante Alighieri - Asymptote Blog
I wanted my translation to honor Dante’s decision to write the poem in the vernacular instead of in literary Latin.
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is a beautiful read.
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If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
NYC peeps: This will be 💯 amazing!
I've been the "Design Indexer" in rez at the Cooper Hewitt library this 😎. On Sept 10 we'll explore library resources that frame the INDEX itself — the Index of 🇺🇸 Design (the prjct's namesake), the index card, the manicule 👈, etc — as a material, designed thing, esp contra AI's indexical flattening
Design Index featuring Shannon Mattern | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A LIBRARY PROGRAM WITH Media & Design Scholar Shannon Mattern & DESIGN LIBRARIAN JENNIFER COHLMAN BRACCHI Join us for Design Index, a public program series at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library...
www.cooperhewitt.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
NYC peeps: This will be 💯 amazing!
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Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏
There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.
August 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏
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FYI if you're in LA this fall into next spring, two art spaces—MOCA & The Brick—will be hosting a show built around decommissioned Confederate monuments & contemporary artists' responses to them. Co-curated by Hamza Walker & Kara Walker. I think it'll be fascinating & timely the-brick.org/monuments
August 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
FYI if you're in LA this fall into next spring, two art spaces—MOCA & The Brick—will be hosting a show built around decommissioned Confederate monuments & contemporary artists' responses to them. Co-curated by Hamza Walker & Kara Walker. I think it'll be fascinating & timely the-brick.org/monuments
What a great thread!
if u could open your own museum what would it be about what are u going to devote your life to curate
what is the most unique museum u have visited
for me possibly the ramen museum
for me possibly the ramen museum
August 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
What a great thread!
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I never thought to see something like this in my lifetime, what a profound joy
Well, I'll be damned.
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I never thought to see something like this in my lifetime, what a profound joy
Absolutely love this
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
[writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfs7afx6ue4mknbhhpnrzkyz/bafkreiel77b25truczj372qokmg5p3apa2dphux3jtplpz3dv35jul6wdu@jpeg)
July 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Absolutely love this
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TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
July 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
And it was great! 👏👏
Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead.
500+ students online and in person.
My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT!
WE MOVE!!
karenattiah.substack.com/p/resistance...
500+ students online and in person.
My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT!
WE MOVE!!
karenattiah.substack.com/p/resistance...
Resistance Summer School is officially in Session!
Columbia cancelled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.
karenattiah.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
And it was great! 👏👏
🚨 Save American Science. Call your Senators if you live in one of these states.
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
July 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🚨 Save American Science. Call your Senators if you live in one of these states.
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Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...
Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented…
The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…
www.planetary.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...
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Hey folks,
Given some closings for July 4, I’ll be experimenting with doing “History Matters” from my YouTube channel.
Was planning to discuss what 1775 has to tell us.
Now I’ve got more to say.
Join us at 10 AM ET at:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Given some closings for July 4, I’ll be experimenting with doing “History Matters” from my YouTube channel.
Was planning to discuss what 1775 has to tell us.
Now I’ve got more to say.
Join us at 10 AM ET at:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
m.youtube.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hey folks,
Given some closings for July 4, I’ll be experimenting with doing “History Matters” from my YouTube channel.
Was planning to discuss what 1775 has to tell us.
Now I’ve got more to say.
Join us at 10 AM ET at:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Given some closings for July 4, I’ll be experimenting with doing “History Matters” from my YouTube channel.
Was planning to discuss what 1775 has to tell us.
Now I’ve got more to say.
Join us at 10 AM ET at:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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Just saw @vrubinobs.bsky.social made Channel 4 News in the UK and it’s worth saying that this is what happens when American science is publicly funded and it benefits not just Americans but people across the world. That funding is at risk right now. 🔭
www.instagram.com/reel/DLPgwYZ...
www.instagram.com/reel/DLPgwYZ...
June 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just saw @vrubinobs.bsky.social made Channel 4 News in the UK and it’s worth saying that this is what happens when American science is publicly funded and it benefits not just Americans but people across the world. That funding is at risk right now. 🔭
www.instagram.com/reel/DLPgwYZ...
www.instagram.com/reel/DLPgwYZ...
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If you need cheering up, here is my favorite feature of Frederick Douglass’ home in DC, which I visited today: his “growlery,” where he would escape to read, write or fume. What I wouldn’t give for my own growlery
June 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If you need cheering up, here is my favorite feature of Frederick Douglass’ home in DC, which I visited today: his “growlery,” where he would escape to read, write or fume. What I wouldn’t give for my own growlery
Excellent thread
Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.
June 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Excellent thread
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Everything Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer say here is spot on. If there’s no one to oversee and the condition and location of the art works, and to insure they’re maintained, we may well lose a magnificent national collection of unique breadth and significance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/a...
Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Everything Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer say here is spot on. If there’s no one to oversee and the condition and location of the art works, and to insure they’re maintained, we may well lose a magnificent national collection of unique breadth and significance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/a...
Wowser! Great sleuthing by @mlobelart.bsky.social on the threatened GSA collection — which belongs to all of us
Okay folks, here an art history mystery, courtesy the NY Times & Trump administration (thread). We'll start things here: an article in today's NY Times, on federal art collection threatened by funding cuts, includes photo of a man holding up a painting in a warehouse www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/a...
June 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Wowser! Great sleuthing by @mlobelart.bsky.social on the threatened GSA collection — which belongs to all of us
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From the BBC, a surprisingly good obituary of Koyo Kouoh, a towering figure in the contemporary art world, who has died far too young.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Koyo Kouoh: Cameroonian art curator aged 57 at height of career
A fierce advocate of African art, she was due to become the first African woman to lead the Venice Biennale.
www.bbc.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From the BBC, a surprisingly good obituary of Koyo Kouoh, a towering figure in the contemporary art world, who has died far too young.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/
May 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/
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NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
![The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5qyswhppr7tiskw43xhcv7f/bafkreicwqv4vszkknu4dvsdfhmrzzmtscjx5eg64gykfmrgynrnhup6sai@jpeg)
May 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
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Julia Alexander was a friend and brilliant colleague. We were thrilled to appoint her as President of the Kress Foundation. Even in the short time she was with us, she created major, positive change. I'll miss her greatly.
Kress Foundation Mourns Sudden Loss of New President | Samuel H. Kress Foundation80B205F3-D517-4DDB-A197-694921D90FA5
www.kressfoundation.org
May 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Julia Alexander was a friend and brilliant colleague. We were thrilled to appoint her as President of the Kress Foundation. Even in the short time she was with us, she created major, positive change. I'll miss her greatly.
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For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...