Judith Barr
@jebarr.bsky.social
@J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
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Need inspiration for your Saturnalia parties? 🥂 Villa curator Judith is here to help! 🏺
Thirsty for more information on these drinking vessels? Dive into this thread to learn more. ⬇️
#museumfinds #homegoodsfinds
Thirsty for more information on these drinking vessels? Dive into this thread to learn more. ⬇️
#museumfinds #homegoodsfinds
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Need inspiration for your Saturnalia parties? 🥂 Villa curator Judith is here to help! 🏺
Thirsty for more information on these drinking vessels? Dive into this thread to learn more. ⬇️
#museumfinds #homegoodsfinds
Thirsty for more information on these drinking vessels? Dive into this thread to learn more. ⬇️
#museumfinds #homegoodsfinds
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📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Find out about our employment opportunities
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
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Fraudsters are using AI chatbots to forge sales invoices and other documents to fake artwork authenticity and ownership, industry figures say, threatening provenance checks and prompting calls for forensic analysis, AI detection tools and stronger seller verification.
Fraudsters use AI to fake artwork authenticity and ownership
Chatbots forge convincing sales invoices and other documents, say industry figures
www.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fraudsters are using AI chatbots to forge sales invoices and other documents to fake artwork authenticity and ownership, industry figures say, threatening provenance checks and prompting calls for forensic analysis, AI detection tools and stronger seller verification.
love to once again work in a museum and learn nothing from what’s on the walls 😭
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
love to once again work in a museum and learn nothing from what’s on the walls 😭
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A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy's central Alps, near where some Olympic skiing and snowboarding events will be held in February. n.pr/48Xfbm3
Italy makes a surprising discovery ahead of the Winter Olympics: dinosaur tracks
A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy's central Alps, near where some Olympic skiing and snowboarding events will be held in February.
n.pr
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy's central Alps, near where some Olympic skiing and snowboarding events will be held in February. n.pr/48Xfbm3
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Look closely at a collection of old-fashioned Italian and German menorahs, and you’ll find a figure no longer mentioned in today’s Hanukkah story: a lone woman with a knife. She is Judith, the OG Jewish badass lady who was once commonly celebrated alongside the Maccabees.
This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs
The legendary heroine was once widely recognized with fried ricotta pancakes during holiday celebrations. What’s responsible for her erasure?
hyperallergic.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Look closely at a collection of old-fashioned Italian and German menorahs, and you’ll find a figure no longer mentioned in today’s Hanukkah story: a lone woman with a knife. She is Judith, the OG Jewish badass lady who was once commonly celebrated alongside the Maccabees.
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Every December, thousands of well-known and emerging artists from around the world scale down their work on three-by-three inch Post-it notes and display them at Giant Robot 2 in Sawtelle.
The full story: lataco.com/giant-robot-...
By @marinamasako.bsky.social
The full story: lataco.com/giant-robot-...
By @marinamasako.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Every December, thousands of well-known and emerging artists from around the world scale down their work on three-by-three inch Post-it notes and display them at Giant Robot 2 in Sawtelle.
The full story: lataco.com/giant-robot-...
By @marinamasako.bsky.social
The full story: lataco.com/giant-robot-...
By @marinamasako.bsky.social
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11. Week 2:
⏲️📍For all things provenance, join Dr David Pearson in 'Provenance in Books'
Find out more about the course here: buff.ly/i1xRhYJ
⏲️📍For all things provenance, join Dr David Pearson in 'Provenance in Books'
Find out more about the course here: buff.ly/i1xRhYJ
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
11. Week 2:
⏲️📍For all things provenance, join Dr David Pearson in 'Provenance in Books'
Find out more about the course here: buff.ly/i1xRhYJ
⏲️📍For all things provenance, join Dr David Pearson in 'Provenance in Books'
Find out more about the course here: buff.ly/i1xRhYJ
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Hey, Australians, if you want to do something that will help right now (and you physically and legally can): go give blood
www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood...
www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood...
Blood, plasma and platelets
From how blood donation works to who needs it, let's talk about it.
www.lifeblood.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hey, Australians, if you want to do something that will help right now (and you physically and legally can): go give blood
www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood...
www.lifeblood.com.au/donors/blood...
They’re not on here, but had to bring this over to share from the MFAH, with a beautiful object biography:
www.instagram.com/reel/DSQFb4o...
www.instagram.com/reel/DSQFb4o...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Instagram: "We’re honored to share a work of art that holds deep meaning: a stunning, brand new menorah by JAR ( @jarjewelry ).
Inspired by JAR's childhood memories o...
JAR's new menorah is a breathtaking representation of Jewish tradition and symbolism. This exquisite piece is a must-see for anyone interested in Judaica, art, and craftsmanship. With its unique blend...
www.instagram.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
They’re not on here, but had to bring this over to share from the MFAH, with a beautiful object biography:
www.instagram.com/reel/DSQFb4o...
www.instagram.com/reel/DSQFb4o...
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One of the most iconic early discoveries of human origins is the skull from Kabwe, now thought to be around 300,000 years old. The human story behind the site, with its legacy of industrial lead contamination, is not often told with the paleoanthropological one.
www.johnhawks.net/p/kabwe-famo...
www.johnhawks.net/p/kabwe-famo...
Kabwe: A famous fossil and the human costs of mining
Mining led to the skull's discovery, destroyed its context, and left a century-long legacy of lead poisoning.
www.johnhawks.net
December 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One of the most iconic early discoveries of human origins is the skull from Kabwe, now thought to be around 300,000 years old. The human story behind the site, with its legacy of industrial lead contamination, is not often told with the paleoanthropological one.
www.johnhawks.net/p/kabwe-famo...
www.johnhawks.net/p/kabwe-famo...
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Kees Scherer - Relief at a Ptolemaic Temple
Egypt, 1968 🏺
Egypt, 1968 🏺
December 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Kees Scherer - Relief at a Ptolemaic Temple
Egypt, 1968 🏺
Egypt, 1968 🏺
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Hey 🏺colleagues working in SW Asia: I am searching for contacts to museums with prehistory on display in the region, and struggle to find some online.
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hey 🏺colleagues working in SW Asia: I am searching for contacts to museums with prehistory on display in the region, and struggle to find some online.
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
This is just mandatory training every year now. You go and sit and think about escape routes while they show a slide about makeshift tourniquets. The first time a sniper was nearby I was a toddler. The next was high school. It’s grueling and terrible and my heart breaks for everyone at Brown.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is just mandatory training every year now. You go and sit and think about escape routes while they show a slide about makeshift tourniquets. The first time a sniper was nearby I was a toddler. The next was high school. It’s grueling and terrible and my heart breaks for everyone at Brown.
Provenance matters: sports edition
Between 2022 and 2024, Daniel Damato doctored and invented false provenance to valuable items in order to make them look like authentic sports collectibles, the DOJ said. He would then inflate the prices and sell them to people.
localnewsmatters.org/2025/12/12/c...
localnewsmatters.org/2025/12/12/c...
Concord sports memorabilia dealer admits to fraud after selling phony Willie Mays items - Local News Matters
A Concord sports memorabilia dealer has pleaded guilty to wire fraud after he was caught selling fake sports collectibles, the U.S. Department of Justice
localnewsmatters.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Provenance matters: sports edition
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🎉 Proud to announce that the Polish Provenance Database (PPD) has launched!
Focused on post-1500 books in Polish collections, it’s a collaboration of 17 libraries & CERL, led by the University Library of Warsaw. Work and testing of PPD in progress.
Search PPD: data.cerl.org/polish-prove...
👏
Focused on post-1500 books in Polish collections, it’s a collaboration of 17 libraries & CERL, led by the University Library of Warsaw. Work and testing of PPD in progress.
Search PPD: data.cerl.org/polish-prove...
👏
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎉 Proud to announce that the Polish Provenance Database (PPD) has launched!
Focused on post-1500 books in Polish collections, it’s a collaboration of 17 libraries & CERL, led by the University Library of Warsaw. Work and testing of PPD in progress.
Search PPD: data.cerl.org/polish-prove...
👏
Focused on post-1500 books in Polish collections, it’s a collaboration of 17 libraries & CERL, led by the University Library of Warsaw. Work and testing of PPD in progress.
Search PPD: data.cerl.org/polish-prove...
👏
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7/ The site became exceptional with the 2021 discovery of an unprecedented ritual deposit. Behind anthropomorphic carved stelae (one 1.12 m tall), archaeologists found 150 perfectly arranged fossils : ammonites and nautiluses.
Finally, some marine inverts !
Finally, some marine inverts !
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
7/ The site became exceptional with the 2021 discovery of an unprecedented ritual deposit. Behind anthropomorphic carved stelae (one 1.12 m tall), archaeologists found 150 perfectly arranged fossils : ammonites and nautiluses.
Finally, some marine inverts !
Finally, some marine inverts !
I keep seeing gift guides for kids that have nary a single book on them for the holidays and frankly this pattern is sobering and maddening: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I keep seeing gift guides for kids that have nary a single book on them for the holidays and frankly this pattern is sobering and maddening: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Rubbing of an ancient Egyptian door jamb (vertical part of a door frame) made by Chinese diplomat and antiquarian Duanfang in AD 1912 #AdoorableThursday
His rubbings provide a window not just into the cultural history of Egypt, but of China as well.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
His rubbings provide a window not just into the cultural history of Egypt, but of China as well.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Rubbing of an ancient Egyptian door jamb (vertical part of a door frame) made by Chinese diplomat and antiquarian Duanfang in AD 1912 #AdoorableThursday
His rubbings provide a window not just into the cultural history of Egypt, but of China as well.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
His rubbings provide a window not just into the cultural history of Egypt, but of China as well.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
by the time you are in your late 30s you will have received 110 mailers from former employers, old bank accounts, and a laser tag joint about a banking details breach but don’t worry they are sure nothing nefarious has happened
December 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
by the time you are in your late 30s you will have received 110 mailers from former employers, old bank accounts, and a laser tag joint about a banking details breach but don’t worry they are sure nothing nefarious has happened
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MoMA PS1, New York, has announced that entry will be free for all visitors for the next three years starting 1 January 2026 artreview.com/moma-ps1-ent...
MoMA PS1 entry to be free for all in 2026
The initiative is made possible by a $900,000 gift from Sonya Yu
artreview.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
MoMA PS1, New York, has announced that entry will be free for all visitors for the next three years starting 1 January 2026 artreview.com/moma-ps1-ent...
Lots of gloomy education posts but yesterday I got spend a couple of hours hearing students report on provenance research they were conducting on objects from all over the world and it was so lovely! Thoughtful, smart, curious. So proud of their work and so appreciative of them sharing it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Lots of gloomy education posts but yesterday I got spend a couple of hours hearing students report on provenance research they were conducting on objects from all over the world and it was so lovely! Thoughtful, smart, curious. So proud of their work and so appreciative of them sharing it.
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Teaching students to read auction catalogues, for the MA Art & Business today @courtauld.bsky.social
They hunted for annotations and compared frontispiece - so satisfying to be able to pour over the primary sources for a hands on session! At senate house library
They hunted for annotations and compared frontispiece - so satisfying to be able to pour over the primary sources for a hands on session! At senate house library
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Teaching students to read auction catalogues, for the MA Art & Business today @courtauld.bsky.social
They hunted for annotations and compared frontispiece - so satisfying to be able to pour over the primary sources for a hands on session! At senate house library
They hunted for annotations and compared frontispiece - so satisfying to be able to pour over the primary sources for a hands on session! At senate house library
I loved working in ILL but unwinding bad citations turned into mystery requests took tremendous effort ten years ago- can’t even imagine it now. Huge respect for the library teams facing this, and a great deal of sympathy for users who have been given horrible tools with no guidance.
“Her library estimates that 15 percent of emailed reference questions it receives are now ChatGPT-generated, and some include hallucinated citations for both published works and unique primary source documents. ‘For our staff, it is much harder to prove that a unique record doesn’t exist.’”
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I loved working in ILL but unwinding bad citations turned into mystery requests took tremendous effort ten years ago- can’t even imagine it now. Huge respect for the library teams facing this, and a great deal of sympathy for users who have been given horrible tools with no guidance.