Sarah Osborne Bender
@sarahobender.bsky.social
civil servant, art museum librarian, GLAM Wiki, photography, music, dance, reading old and new, NYC, and headstanding. post-idea.
I’m sure I am one of many making archaeological discovery of a mummified Jan 25 NYTimes, revealed under today’s melting snow.
February 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I’m sure I am one of many making archaeological discovery of a mummified Jan 25 NYTimes, revealed under today’s melting snow.
Very cool National Gallery posting closes 2/13. #GLAM data nerds, take notice! Collaborate with librarians, archivists, data scientists, registrars, and more to make collection data do dazzling things. Expanded descrip: jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/65883-c...
February 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Very cool National Gallery posting closes 2/13. #GLAM data nerds, take notice! Collaborate with librarians, archivists, data scientists, registrars, and more to make collection data do dazzling things. Expanded descrip: jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/65883-c...
National Gallery of Art is hiring Collections Information Integration Specialist. In-person 3 yr project position, aligning & enhancing metadata from library archives & art object colls to facilitate creative discovery & access. Privately funded, grade 12, closes 2/13 www.usajobs.gov/job/855932000
USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government
<p>The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Nearly four million people come through our doors each year—with millions more online&mdas...
www.usajobs.gov
January 30, 2026 at 7:43 PM
National Gallery of Art is hiring Collections Information Integration Specialist. In-person 3 yr project position, aligning & enhancing metadata from library archives & art object colls to facilitate creative discovery & access. Privately funded, grade 12, closes 2/13 www.usajobs.gov/job/855932000
This position deadline has been extended, now closing Feb 2. This job's got everything- library systems, cultural heritage metadata, digitization and IIIF, system integration and security, art, dedicated colleagues, AI experimentation, an IM Pei building... what more could you want?
National Gallery of Art in DC is looking for a Library Technology & Systems Architect. This is a great position for a creative collaborative systems librarian! Closes 1/26 www.usajobs.gov/job/854819800
USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government
<p>The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Nearly four million people come through our doors each year—with millions more online&mdas...
www.usajobs.gov
January 23, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This position deadline has been extended, now closing Feb 2. This job's got everything- library systems, cultural heritage metadata, digitization and IIIF, system integration and security, art, dedicated colleagues, AI experimentation, an IM Pei building... what more could you want?
National Gallery of Art in DC is looking for a Library Technology & Systems Architect. This is a great position for a creative collaborative systems librarian! Closes 1/26 www.usajobs.gov/job/854819800
USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government
<p>The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Nearly four million people come through our doors each year—with millions more online&mdas...
www.usajobs.gov
January 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM
National Gallery of Art in DC is looking for a Library Technology & Systems Architect. This is a great position for a creative collaborative systems librarian! Closes 1/26 www.usajobs.gov/job/854819800
Just learned about The Found Poetry Review. Not sure which is more of a downer- that it no longer exists or that a google search for it included a result from Gr*kipedia.
January 18, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Just learned about The Found Poetry Review. Not sure which is more of a downer- that it no longer exists or that a google search for it included a result from Gr*kipedia.
The Hechinger Collection being sold at Heritage Auctions is big news for DMV folks, a pretty fabulous corporate collection. Proceeds will go to International Art & Artists. fineart.ha.com/c/auction-ho...
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Tools at play: The Hechinger Collection comes to auction at Heritage
For generations of residents across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, a trip to Hechinger’s hardware store was a ritual as familiar as the
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January 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
The Hechinger Collection being sold at Heritage Auctions is big news for DMV folks, a pretty fabulous corporate collection. Proceeds will go to International Art & Artists. fineart.ha.com/c/auction-ho...
artdaily.cc/news/190009/...
artdaily.cc/news/190009/...
What a contribution she made to the world of artists and art lovers. A librarian and visionary collector with her husband Herb.
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Dorothy Vogel, Humble Collector of Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Dies at 90
Dorothy Vogel and her husband Herbert donated their entire collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
What a contribution she made to the world of artists and art lovers. A librarian and visionary collector with her husband Herb.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Received exhib cat for Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: La Dynamique intérieure, la sincère amitié. 1949 Ford purchased decommissioned ferry SS Vallejo, which became hub of artistic exchange and counter culture. Paging Colin Jost & Michael Che www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns...
The “Forgotten Man” of the Vallejo — The Sausalito Historical Society
By Larry Clinton, Sausalito Historical Society We’ve all heard colorful stories about Jean Varda and Alan Watts aboard the ferryboat Vallejo. But before Watts, an artist named Gordon Onslow Ford was ...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Received exhib cat for Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: La Dynamique intérieure, la sincère amitié. 1949 Ford purchased decommissioned ferry SS Vallejo, which became hub of artistic exchange and counter culture. Paging Colin Jost & Michael Che www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns...
Reading this @404media.co piece points me to a Library Journal article from August about Amazon's "new online hub for libraries" including free MARC records. www.libraryjournal.com/story/amazon... 🫠
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reading this @404media.co piece points me to a Library Journal article from August about Amazon's "new online hub for libraries" including free MARC records. www.libraryjournal.com/story/amazon... 🫠
Attended the first 5 hours and wish I could stay til sundown. A meaningful shared experience in a meaningful location. Thanks @shineslike.bsky.social for amplifying the event and to all who participated ✨
I’m on the train down to the History and Museum teach-in. Very excited to listen, learn, share, and build community and connection. If you’re in DC, hopefully I’ll see you there!
For streaming and updates: linktr.ee/historyteachin
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Attended the first 5 hours and wish I could stay til sundown. A meaningful shared experience in a meaningful location. Thanks @shineslike.bsky.social for amplifying the event and to all who participated ✨
Good tribute obit by Deborah Solomon about Jackie Ferrara. I got to know her work at the Phillips Collection. She sounds like she would have been great to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...
Jackie Ferrara, Artist Who Brought Mystery to Minimalism, Dies at 95
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Good tribute obit by Deborah Solomon about Jackie Ferrara. I got to know her work at the Phillips Collection. She sounds like she would have been great to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...
Supremely sad news, a loss way too young. Brilliant talent and fellow Richmond native. Listen to the 2014 masterpiece that is Black Messiah today. youtu.be/mVsQwJfWzoI
D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Really Love (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Supremely sad news, a loss way too young. Brilliant talent and fellow Richmond native. Listen to the 2014 masterpiece that is Black Messiah today. youtu.be/mVsQwJfWzoI
Me: Oooh, that looks like a good article! Let me email myself the link to read later. [send]
Also me, 0.5 seconds later: Oooh, new email! Wonder who it could be? Oh.
Also me, 0.5 seconds later: Oooh, new email! Wonder who it could be? Oh.
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Me: Oooh, that looks like a good article! Let me email myself the link to read later. [send]
Also me, 0.5 seconds later: Oooh, new email! Wonder who it could be? Oh.
Also me, 0.5 seconds later: Oooh, new email! Wonder who it could be? Oh.
Heaven, 1987, dir. Diane Keaton
October 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Heaven, 1987, dir. Diane Keaton
Jill Lepore revisits the Smithsonian’s bicentennial 1976 “A Nation of Nations” festival, highlights some of its excellent content. Heartbreaking to consider in our current situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past
Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a directive to the Smithsonian.
www.newyorker.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Jill Lepore revisits the Smithsonian’s bicentennial 1976 “A Nation of Nations” festival, highlights some of its excellent content. Heartbreaking to consider in our current situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
If you give money to one of the premier big-city public radio or tv stations, consider becoming a regular contributor to a station in a smaller town where you may have once lived or grown up, or even just drove through once and tuned in. 📻
"The closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will hurt NPR and PBS, but the most immediate and devastating blow will be to the communities that rely on public broadcasting. The stations that are the most at risk tend to be rural."
I'm closely interviewed for this Nieman Lab report that discusses how rural areas will be affected by loss of funding for local NPR reporting. We must not underestimate the importance of equal access to information - we're about to witness a seismic ideological shift in American sense of "place."
August 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you give money to one of the premier big-city public radio or tv stations, consider becoming a regular contributor to a station in a smaller town where you may have once lived or grown up, or even just drove through once and tuned in. 📻
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Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...
July 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...
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The @bpl.boston.gov's Atlascope project is one of the most ambitious historical urban mapping projects around---a tremendous resource for folks curious about urban change, land use patterns and more---just awesome!
www.atlascope.org
@theoverheadwire.com, @universalhub.com and others.
www.atlascope.org
@theoverheadwire.com, @universalhub.com and others.
Atlascope Boston
Atlascope Boston is a tool for exploring historic urban atlases in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time. A project of the Leventhal Map & Education Center at...
www.atlascope.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The @bpl.boston.gov's Atlascope project is one of the most ambitious historical urban mapping projects around---a tremendous resource for folks curious about urban change, land use patterns and more---just awesome!
www.atlascope.org
@theoverheadwire.com, @universalhub.com and others.
www.atlascope.org
@theoverheadwire.com, @universalhub.com and others.
Opening for the amazing Mei Semones, John Roseboro boldly gets the audience to sing the chorus to a song they’ve likely never heard, bringing the charm offensive and just great music tonight at The Anthem.
May 31, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Opening for the amazing Mei Semones, John Roseboro boldly gets the audience to sing the chorus to a song they’ve likely never heard, bringing the charm offensive and just great music tonight at The Anthem.
I’ve kept a profile of Dr. Carla Hayden pinned to my office wall for 8 years. She has been, and will always be, a hero and inspiration to me.
May 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I’ve kept a profile of Dr. Carla Hayden pinned to my office wall for 8 years. She has been, and will always be, a hero and inspiration to me.
Special Section: Museums- free from pesky copy editing
April 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Special Section: Museums- free from pesky copy editing
Brings to mind Christina Ramberg drawings www.artic.edu/artworks/154...
March 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Brings to mind Christina Ramberg drawings www.artic.edu/artworks/154...
Way too interested in this new book that landed in my office: Letterlocking: The hidden history of the letter. Can I learn to perfect the dagger-trap letter fold??
March 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Way too interested in this new book that landed in my office: Letterlocking: The hidden history of the letter. Can I learn to perfect the dagger-trap letter fold??
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Silver gelatin photographic papers (1890-2010) database, from Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage:
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March 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Silver gelatin photographic papers (1890-2010) database, from Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage:
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paperbase.xyz
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paperbase.xyz