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Nancy Um
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Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
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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/...
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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
A Practical Join: Using Wikidata to Aggregate Awards and Affiliations Data from Residential Fellowship Programs in Art History | Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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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.
Swatch of white with a label (in another shade of white) that reads Pantone 11-4201 TCX Cloud Dancer.
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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...
Getty Vocabularies Survey
We're looking to improve the Getty Vocabularies (AAT, ULAN, TGN) and would appreciate your feedback.
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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...
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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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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
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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
White sign for the fall meeting of ARIAH - the association for research institutes of art history, held in Mexico City in November 2025 Mural painting by Siquieros in the Collin de San Idelfonso in Mexico City representing a dramatic winged figure Mosaic facade of the Central library on the historic campus of UNAM in Mexico City Pre-Colombian stone carving seen from above at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Gentle reminder that we have this job opening at the moment.
provenancelab.bsky.social Provenance Lab @provenancelab.bsky.social · Nov 2
⚠️ 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.

🙏🏼
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in Digitale Provenienzforschung (PostDoc)
www.leuphana.de
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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⚠️ 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.

🙏🏼
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in Digitale Provenienzforschung (PostDoc)
www.leuphana.de
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!
cnygren.bsky.social Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · Oct 30
🚨🚨🚨 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! 🚨🚨🚨

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.
cfopitt.taleo.net
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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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...
Photograph of the city of Kyiv with buildings in the background and tanks in the foreground. Below is text on a coral pink background that announces the lecture “Ruined” on November 22 2025, held at the Getty Center
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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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
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
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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
Horizontal color photograph of a gray and black MacBook laptop. The laptop screen shows the Getty Research Journal cover, Number 20, 2025. The main image depicts a person through illustration. There are two hands resting on the laptop keyboard.
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Applications are open for 3-month residencies at the Getty Conservation Institute in the Conservation Guest Scholars Program for those bringing new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation.

Learn more and apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/476sfGn
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September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, themed "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity."

Apply by October 1, 2025. Read more about the theme, scholars program, and grant details: gty.art/4287IOv
Promotional image for the Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, for the 2026–27 grant year. The theme is "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Applications due October 1, 2025. The graphic includes a photograph of an alabaster and gold statuette of Artemis of Ephesus from 100-200 CE.
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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For researchers seeking a short-term grant—including undergraduates—the Getty Library is offering partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use the Getty Research Institute's collections.

Apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/4mvU8f9
A full-color photograph of library research grantees working in the Special Collections Reading Room. There are four individuals pictured with two at a desk on the left side of a table and two on the right side of the table. Three are sitting down at the desk while a woman in the back left is standing flipping through the pages of a book. The man next to her on the bottom left uses a magnifying glass to look at a black-and-white illustration. The man on the bottom right wears bright royal blue gloves while smiling looking at a piece of paper. The person at the top right writes with a pencil in their right hand while wearing a baby blue pullover sweater.
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Research Institute Scholars Program for proposals on the topic of Provenance, including the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and more.

Deadline is October 1, 2025. Learn more and apply: gty.art/46AKWQC
A Getty branded split image. On the left are blue and green squares with text that reads, “Call for Applications: Grants for Scholars and Professionals 2026–2027 due October 1, 2025.” There is a Getty logo in the top left corner. On the right is a color photograph of a scholar wearing a navy blue turtleneck and pink blazer. The woman has her left arm resting on a wooden Getty-branded podium in front of her with her right hand raised as she speaks. There is a gray laptop on the podium in front of her and a sliver of a yellow presentation slide behind her in the upper left of the image.
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Binghamton University

Maritime/Global Asia

East Asia, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and/or the Indian Ocean

possible focus on the histories of environment, technology, medicine, or migration
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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In it, we explore funding patterns, with a view of where the field of art history has been heading for the past few decades. Plus an invitation to other programs with funding data to join us in putting together a bigger picture of the landscape of support for art history and related fields.
September 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Postdoc Opportunity!

Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Need a midweek pick me up? We have the remedy!

Discover new tunes hand selected by the artists of our exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives.

gty.art/QueerPlaylist
Here and Queer: A Playlist
Artist featured in $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives share songs to accompany the exhibition
gty.art
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Looking forward to presenting in the NNI Seminar in October - my paper explores the legacy of Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695 in New York), Red Sea piracy, the trafficking of enslaved captives from Madagascar, and the flow of Islamic coins to colonial North America (all in one essay!)
deborahhamer.bsky.social deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 12
As promised, the NNI Seminar schedule is here! Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch... for all of the details. Please remember that we're happy to see you whenever it fits into your schedule to attend.
NNI Scholars' Seminar :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Resharing yet again- please encourage your provenance/history of collecting colleagues, museum friends, and pre/post doc students to explore this #provenance theme and to consider applying! I truly cannot wait to see what facets of provenance in all of its forms come together for this scholar year.
jebarr.bsky.social Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · Jun 11
Ecstatic that next year’s annual Getty Scholars Program theme will be #Provenance. Please share with all of your friends and colleagues looking at the long lives of objects, the art market, and everything in between.

www.getty.edu/projects/get...
Annual Theme: Provenance In recent years the study of provenance has expanded in urgency and scope, in line with the art historical turn toward the lives of objects, and also in response to evolving debates regarding the ownership of art. Relevant to all periods and areas of art production, provenance research brings to light fundamental questions about who may lay claim to art and how objects transform as they change hands, collections, and exhibition venues. Increasingly available information on broken chains of ownership caused by theft, illicit trade, and historical looting have fueled restitution debates and ignited questions about the ethics of collecting in climates of conflict or asymmetries of power. Digitization and databases have also opened up the interdisciplinary possibilities of provenance research and laid the ground for art restitution efforts and other forms of reparation. For the 2026–2027 year, the Getty Scholars Program invites innovative proposals for projects that explore provenance and adjacent research areas, including but not limited to the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and broader explorations around the ownership of art objects. The scholar cohort will be invited to examine and critique the arena of provenance studies while also envisioning its future, situated between the practices and demands of source communities, art historians, museums, and the market. Applicants are invited to propose projects, either individual or collaborative, that reflect upon the ownership, transfer, and movement of art objects from all world regions and time periods. For this year, the Getty Scholars Program aims to link scholars with Getty resources and researchers and foster a lively community around the study of provenance—an increasingly significant domain of art historical and curatorial practice that centers the histories of both objects and people. While in residence, scholars will have the opportunity to delve into the Getty Resea…
July 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Two open positions in the Division of Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute.

Both opportunities are ideal for early career professionals who wish to advance the study of art history and cultural heritage! Please circulate to potential candidates! 1/3
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July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM