Nancy Um
@nancyum.bsky.social
Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
If you can't make the Jan 17 event featuring Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social at Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social you can still visit the terrific exhibition "How to Be a Guerilla Girl," at the Getty Research Institute thru April 2026.
www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you can't make the Jan 17 event featuring Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social at Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social you can still visit the terrific exhibition "How to Be a Guerilla Girl," at the Getty Research Institute thru April 2026.
www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
Our new data article explores funding trends in art history over the past 60 years with Wikidata facilitating cross-institutional collaboration, with @qwesterby.bsky.social and Lidia Ferrara, published in Journal of Open Humanities Data
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#ArtHistory
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#ArtHistory
A Practical Join: Using Wikidata to Aggregate Awards and Affiliations Data from Residential Fellowship Programs in Art History | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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December 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Our new data article explores funding trends in art history over the past 60 years with Wikidata facilitating cross-institutional collaboration, with @qwesterby.bsky.social and Lidia Ferrara, published in Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
#ArtHistory
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
#ArtHistory
Dave Eggers provides some good background on one of the main protagonists of the Yemeni American coffee revival: daveeggers.net/monkofmokha
Monk of Mokha
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December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Dave Eggers provides some good background on one of the main protagonists of the Yemeni American coffee revival: daveeggers.net/monkofmokha
Because it’s back in the news I am reposting this 🧵 about Pantone’s 2025 color of the year.
Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than 💩
No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.
Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than 💩
No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Because it’s back in the news I am reposting this 🧵 about Pantone’s 2025 color of the year.
Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than 💩
No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.
Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than 💩
No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.
To GLAM colleagues:
Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you!
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Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you!
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Getty Vocabularies Survey
We're looking to improve the Getty Vocabularies (AAT, ULAN, TGN) and would appreciate your feedback.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
To GLAM colleagues:
Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year!
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year!
@gettymuseum.bsky.social
@apollo-magazine.com
apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
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@apollo-magazine.com
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How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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Thank you for reading!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thank you for reading!!!!
Thank you so much for the kind words and for slogging through the long bits about coins and their details! Painful but (I hope) worth it!
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thank you so much for the kind words and for slogging through the long bits about coins and their details! Painful but (I hope) worth it!
Thank you!!! Let me know what the students think!
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thank you!!! Let me know what the students think!
It deploys textual, archaeological & numismatic evidence to make the case for tangible material entanglements between the Red Sea & colonial North America & to explore the obscured lives of those enslaved from Madagascar in the 1690s. MAP: indianoceanexchanges.com/coin/mvvmap....
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It deploys textual, archaeological & numismatic evidence to make the case for tangible material entanglements between the Red Sea & colonial North America & to explore the obscured lives of those enslaved from Madagascar in the 1690s. MAP: indianoceanexchanges.com/coin/mvvmap....
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
Heading home after the invigorating fall meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Thanks to our amazing host INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTÉTICAS at UNAM - a powerhouse of art historical research.
www.esteticas.unam.mx
www.esteticas.unam.mx
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Heading home after the invigorating fall meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Thanks to our amazing host INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTÉTICAS at UNAM - a powerhouse of art historical research.
www.esteticas.unam.mx
www.esteticas.unam.mx
Yes! I’ll DM you to make the connection!
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Yes! I’ll DM you to make the connection!
Very interesting - my colleague in conservation at Getty has worked on this topic. Do you know Arlen?
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Very interesting - my colleague in conservation at Getty has worked on this topic. Do you know Arlen?
The terms 'lodge' or 'factory' make the establishments seem formal or structurally distinct from other bldg types. Sometimes they were purpose built, but often they were provisional. On this one, I'll boost an old article of mine from a different ocean. indianoceanexchanges.com/pubs/JSAHPub...
indianoceanexchanges.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The terms 'lodge' or 'factory' make the establishments seem formal or structurally distinct from other bldg types. Sometimes they were purpose built, but often they were provisional. On this one, I'll boost an old article of mine from a different ocean. indianoceanexchanges.com/pubs/JSAHPub...
I love this thread! Art historians like @marselykehoe.bsky.social to the rescue! On the lodge ?, don't know specifically about Cochin, but it was common for a company/merchant to rent an ordinary house as trade base an in Indian Ocean port, especially before settling more formal trade agreements.
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I love this thread! Art historians like @marselykehoe.bsky.social to the rescue! On the lodge ?, don't know specifically about Cochin, but it was common for a company/merchant to rent an ordinary house as trade base an in Indian Ocean port, especially before settling more formal trade agreements.
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Gentle reminder that we have this job opening at the moment.
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in Digitale Provenienzforschung (PostDoc)
www.leuphana.de
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Gentle reminder that we have this job opening at the moment.
Reposted by Nancy Um
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in Digitale Provenienzforschung (PostDoc)
www.leuphana.de
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential.
Deadline: November 19, 2025.
More info at the link.
Thank you for sharing and spreading the word.
🙏🏼
Here it is - still there, just covered up - for the solstice in 2023
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Here it is - still there, just covered up - for the solstice in 2023
Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!
🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
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I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!
For anyone in Los Angeles who is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, put this event on your calendar!
Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm.
Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...
Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm.
Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For anyone in Los Angeles who is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, put this event on your calendar!
Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm.
Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...
Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm.
Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...
Congratulations on the new appointment! I am sure that you are going to do great things in the role!
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Congratulations on the new appointment! I am sure that you are going to do great things in the role!
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🎉The wait is over!
CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN!
⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST)
🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea
📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities!
🔄Please share widely!
#ADHO
CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN!
⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST)
🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea
📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities!
🔄Please share widely!
#ADHO
DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login
Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …
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October 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎉The wait is over!
CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN!
⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST)
🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea
📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities!
🔄Please share widely!
#ADHO
CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN!
⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST)
🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea
📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities!
🔄Please share widely!
#ADHO
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The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.”
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.”
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN