Anne Leader
@leaderannephd.bsky.social
Art historian. Author of The Badia of Florence. Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, IATH virginia.academia.edu/AnneLeader. Italian art and architecture. Editor/creator of digitalSepoltuario sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu. GenX. Dachshund enthusiast.
So, I left for the airport at 9:30 am local time yesterday. My flight was 3 hours late so had to spend the night in an airport hotel. It is now 8:30pm today local time from whence I left. On the shuttle so “only” 90 more travel minutes to go. Going to break 36 hours!
a dog is sitting on a couch with its eyes closed and a person is standing behind it .
ALT: a dog is sitting on a couch with its eyes closed and a person is standing behind it .
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So, I left for the airport at 9:30 am local time yesterday. My flight was 3 hours late so had to spend the night in an airport hotel. It is now 8:30pm today local time from whence I left. On the shuttle so “only” 90 more travel minutes to go. Going to break 36 hours!
Infuriating and heartbreaking. And no, I’m not over my grant being revoked.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Infuriating and heartbreaking. And no, I’m not over my grant being revoked.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Every day, in every way, I am reminded that perhaps being out of the professorial circuit was not such a bad career move... @sepoltuario.bsky.social
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Every day, in every way, I am reminded that perhaps being out of the professorial circuit was not such a bad career move... @sepoltuario.bsky.social
Would be absolutely hilarious if it weren't so frighteningly close to the possible...
In New Yorker Humor, the White House undergoes additional renovations. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/preliminary-sketches-for-the-white-house-renovation
Preliminary Sketches for the White House Renovation
The ballroom ceiling will feature a Sistine Chapel-inspired fresco, depicting traditional American heroes.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Would be absolutely hilarious if it weren't so frighteningly close to the possible...
Also extraordinary. Restored for the show. Apparently he’s usually in the dark in SS Annunziata and very hard to see.
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Also extraordinary. Restored for the show. Apparently he’s usually in the dark in SS Annunziata and very hard to see.
This Bernardo Rossellino terracotta altarpiece from Arezzo was new to me. I love it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This Bernardo Rossellino terracotta altarpiece from Arezzo was new to me. I love it.
I love looking at people looking at art.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I love looking at people looking at art.
The expression on this tiny face is extraordinary
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The expression on this tiny face is extraordinary
For a brief moment I was the only person in the room.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For a brief moment I was the only person in the room.
Possibly my last visit to this fabulous show.
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Possibly my last visit to this fabulous show.
My great-grandmother was a Levy. I wonder if we are distant cousins. Fascinating story.
The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My great-grandmother was a Levy. I wonder if we are distant cousins. Fascinating story.
And yet the right accuses the Democrats of pedophilia…..
Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
And yet the right accuses the Democrats of pedophilia…..
Um. I love this.
“It’s important to be chic.”
The Mysterious ‘Louvre Detective’ Was a 15-Year-Old Passer-by www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
“It’s important to be chic.”
The Mysterious ‘Louvre Detective’ Was a 15-Year-Old Passer-by www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
The Mysterious ‘Louvre Detective’ Was a 15-Year-Old Passer-by
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Um. I love this.
“It’s important to be chic.”
The Mysterious ‘Louvre Detective’ Was a 15-Year-Old Passer-by www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
“It’s important to be chic.”
The Mysterious ‘Louvre Detective’ Was a 15-Year-Old Passer-by www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
Have I ever mentioned what a geek I am for family trees for @sepoltuario.bsky.social? #skystorians
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Have I ever mentioned what a geek I am for family trees for @sepoltuario.bsky.social? #skystorians
I’m irrationally sad about the demise of the penny, and cash in general. This made me laugh and warmed my nostalgic heart.
The #Penny Dies at 232
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
The #Penny Dies at 232
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
The Penny Dies at 232
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I’m irrationally sad about the demise of the penny, and cash in general. This made me laugh and warmed my nostalgic heart.
The #Penny Dies at 232
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
The #Penny Dies at 232
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
A nice break in your doomscrolling. Sound ON!
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
A nice break in your doomscrolling. Sound ON!
#Trump has declined to use that money…despite [using] other parts of the federal budget to sustain their priorities during the shutdown — including to pay officers conducting mass deportations.” And a new marble bathroom, gilded ballroom, etc. etc. Let them eat cake.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
#Trump has declined to use that money…despite [using] other parts of the federal budget to sustain their priorities during the shutdown — including to pay officers conducting mass deportations.” And a new marble bathroom, gilded ballroom, etc. etc. Let them eat cake.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
So many quotable things in this serious yet hilarious article. Among my favorites:
#Mamdani …cruised to a victory that was no less resounding, and no less heartlifting, for being achieved in the teeth of so much unhinged hatefulness.” It is truly unhinged.
#Mamdani …cruised to a victory that was no less resounding, and no less heartlifting, for being achieved in the teeth of so much unhinged hatefulness.” It is truly unhinged.
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
So many quotable things in this serious yet hilarious article. Among my favorites:
#Mamdani …cruised to a victory that was no less resounding, and no less heartlifting, for being achieved in the teeth of so much unhinged hatefulness.” It is truly unhinged.
#Mamdani …cruised to a victory that was no less resounding, and no less heartlifting, for being achieved in the teeth of so much unhinged hatefulness.” It is truly unhinged.
A warning from Fra Angelico. Thinking that torturers and kleptocrats will not fare well in the end.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A warning from Fra Angelico. Thinking that torturers and kleptocrats will not fare well in the end.
Absolutely ghastly. Ashamed for and of my country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Absolutely ghastly. Ashamed for and of my country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Michelangelo’s river god. Accademia del disegno in Florence. Now open to the public Monday-Wednesday and on Friday.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Michelangelo’s river god. Accademia del disegno in Florence. Now open to the public Monday-Wednesday and on Friday.
Utterly.
This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company.
Utterly despicable.
Utterly despicable.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Utterly.
Despite the ever-present crowds, the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social are always a joy and full of new surprises
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Despite the ever-present crowds, the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social are always a joy and full of new surprises
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On this All Saints Day I decided to reconstruct an altarpiece. Enjoy @sepoltuario.bsky.social!
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/32...
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/32...
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
On this All Saints Day I decided to reconstruct an altarpiece. Enjoy @sepoltuario.bsky.social!
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/32...
sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/memorials/32...