Ben Zweig
@medievalben.bsky.social
Art historian, digital projects, infographics, synthesizers, medieval things. Columbia University Libraries and Pratt School of Information. Formerly National Gallery of Art.
This is pretty much the entire story of early christian martyrs.
The entire ideological basis of fascism is "I can hurt you if I want" and they are completely helpless when the person they threaten says "And then?"
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is pretty much the entire story of early christian martyrs.
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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
Damnatio memoriae @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“The good news is this means that the next Democratic inhabitant of the White House can demolish the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino and restore the East Wing and the rest of the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
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We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
www.thebulwark.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Damnatio memoriae @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Disgusting. Everything touched is defiled.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Disgusting. Everything touched is defiled.
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
Very happy to announce I'll be giving one of the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on December 2nd in London. If you are in London and want to hear about computer vision and art history you should definitely swing by. #arthistory
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'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision
In the second lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Benjamin Zweig will examine the application of art historical methods in computer vision projects from a historiographic pe...
courtauld.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Very happy to announce I'll be giving one of the Frank Davis Memorial Lectures at the The Courtauld Institute of Art on December 2nd in London. If you are in London and want to hear about computer vision and art history you should definitely swing by. #arthistory
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/wha...
September 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Been seeing bits of anti-AI sentiment in the real world. This one in the NYC subway. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Been seeing bits of anti-AI sentiment in the real world. This one in the NYC subway. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
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The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
"Ph.D. level experts" is the kind of thing that only those who are not around many Ph.Ds would say. It's just another example of silicon valley's creepy obsession (e.g. "high IQ people") with arbitrarily metricizing everything.
Oh you mean a bunch of anxious people having an existential crisis and arguing in faculty meeting about the placement of a comma because it’s one thing they can control in a time of eroding shared governance and the implosion of higher ed?
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Ph.D. level experts" is the kind of thing that only those who are not around many Ph.Ds would say. It's just another example of silicon valley's creepy obsession (e.g. "high IQ people") with arbitrarily metricizing everything.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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A top Donald Trump ally handed me a Trump 2028 hat — these people aren’t joking.
If we don’t stop this anti-democracy movement now, the 2028 election may look nothing like what we expect in a free country.
If we don’t stop this anti-democracy movement now, the 2028 election may look nothing like what we expect in a free country.
July 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A top Donald Trump ally handed me a Trump 2028 hat — these people aren’t joking.
If we don’t stop this anti-democracy movement now, the 2028 election may look nothing like what we expect in a free country.
If we don’t stop this anti-democracy movement now, the 2028 election may look nothing like what we expect in a free country.
Because ceilings are great, here’s some late gothic vaulting from Segovia cathedral #architecture #medieval
July 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Because ceilings are great, here’s some late gothic vaulting from Segovia cathedral #architecture #medieval
Have visited the @museodelprado.es twice this week so far and I really appreciate the no photos policy. #museums
July 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Have visited the @museodelprado.es twice this week so far and I really appreciate the no photos policy. #museums
Thanks so much @gworthey.bsky.social for this amazing recap of the panel. I hope it wasn’t too…um…negative?
'Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI' :: a eye-poppingly important and panel with @medievalben.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @filipa-calado.bsky.social
Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit
#DH2025
Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit
#DH2025
July 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Thanks so much @gworthey.bsky.social for this amazing recap of the panel. I hope it wasn’t too…um…negative?
Jeronimos monastery, Lisbon. Beautiful late gothic portal. #medieval #architecture
July 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Jeronimos monastery, Lisbon. Beautiful late gothic portal. #medieval #architecture
Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film
July 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film