Dr. Aaron Slodounik, Art Historian
@aslodounik.bsky.social
Art History │ Modern Art │ History of Photography │ Hearts = Bookmarks
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I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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record breaking at Buffalo, record breaking at Illinois, freedom to learn, freedom to learn
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August 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
record breaking at Buffalo, record breaking at Illinois, freedom to learn, freedom to learn
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We've just sent out our summer newsletter, a special issue on all things Cezanne as part of the wealth of exhibitions, publications and conferences taking place. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/3415135f429d...
August 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We've just sent out our summer newsletter, a special issue on all things Cezanne as part of the wealth of exhibitions, publications and conferences taking place. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/3415135f429d...
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
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So thrilled to share this research with everyone at last!
Out now!
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, @addressingart.bsky.social explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.
Find out more: bit.ly/414koW9
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, @addressingart.bsky.social explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.
Find out more: bit.ly/414koW9
August 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So thrilled to share this research with everyone at last!
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
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🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!
August 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!
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Shout it out: Poetry 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 everyone 👏🏻!
This is not your New Critics’ How-To. TEACHING POETRY NOW. 31 short essays chock-full of strategies from all types of colleges & classrooms. Coming in Feb from @sunypress.bsky.social. Preorder now. 30% off w/ code SBACK25. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
This is not your New Critics’ How-To. TEACHING POETRY NOW. 31 short essays chock-full of strategies from all types of colleges & classrooms. Coming in Feb from @sunypress.bsky.social. Preorder now. 30% off w/ code SBACK25. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
August 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Shout it out: Poetry 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 everyone 👏🏻!
This is not your New Critics’ How-To. TEACHING POETRY NOW. 31 short essays chock-full of strategies from all types of colleges & classrooms. Coming in Feb from @sunypress.bsky.social. Preorder now. 30% off w/ code SBACK25. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
This is not your New Critics’ How-To. TEACHING POETRY NOW. 31 short essays chock-full of strategies from all types of colleges & classrooms. Coming in Feb from @sunypress.bsky.social. Preorder now. 30% off w/ code SBACK25. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
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say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'
Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.
www.wbur.org
August 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
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This screenshot from Instagram is my only evidence my book was on sale (early!) in the Met’s “Sargent and Paris” gift shop. I went to photograph it today and it was sold out! Releases widely on August 7!
August 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This screenshot from Instagram is my only evidence my book was on sale (early!) in the Met’s “Sargent and Paris” gift shop. I went to photograph it today and it was sold out! Releases widely on August 7!
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NEW: Twenty-seven media organizations in New York, including 18 public radio and TV stations, stand to lose at least $57 million in federal funding over two years.
“This is a devastating outcome.”
“This is a devastating outcome.”
New York Public Media Will Lose At Least $57 Million in Federal Funds
Nearly $50 million will come specifically from public radio and TV stations, including rural ones that rely heavily on federal money.
nysfocus.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW: Twenty-seven media organizations in New York, including 18 public radio and TV stations, stand to lose at least $57 million in federal funding over two years.
“This is a devastating outcome.”
“This is a devastating outcome.”
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
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August 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
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A friend has asked for examples of libraries — public, private, academic, etc. — that launch inventive, esp formally experimental *exhibitions.* NYPL + BPL, of course. I also love the Philly Free Library’s hallway cubby exhibitions (below). I’d welcome other recs!
July 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A friend has asked for examples of libraries — public, private, academic, etc. — that launch inventive, esp formally experimental *exhibitions.* NYPL + BPL, of course. I also love the Philly Free Library’s hallway cubby exhibitions (below). I’d welcome other recs!
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Academics (including the journal’s founder) told Wiley to pound sand, started an open access journal, and Wiley just surrendered. I think more academics should tell academic publishers to pound sand. They are vampires.
Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.
Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous
"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...
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July 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Academics (including the journal’s founder) told Wiley to pound sand, started an open access journal, and Wiley just surrendered. I think more academics should tell academic publishers to pound sand. They are vampires.
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"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
July 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist
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Join me this summer for "Understanding Vincent van Gogh's Portraits," a virtual course for Roundtable @92ndstreety.bsky.social . We meet August 8th and 15th 🌻
Link: roundtable.org/live-courses...
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887. Musée Rodin, Paris. #Art #ArtHistory #VanGogh
Link: roundtable.org/live-courses...
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887. Musée Rodin, Paris. #Art #ArtHistory #VanGogh
July 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Join me this summer for "Understanding Vincent van Gogh's Portraits," a virtual course for Roundtable @92ndstreety.bsky.social . We meet August 8th and 15th 🌻
Link: roundtable.org/live-courses...
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887. Musée Rodin, Paris. #Art #ArtHistory #VanGogh
Link: roundtable.org/live-courses...
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887. Musée Rodin, Paris. #Art #ArtHistory #VanGogh
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And here it is!: Barthes’ “Death of the Author” — as it originally appeared, in a booklet alongside Kubler and Sontag — in Aspen 5 + 6, Fall / Winter 67; via Cooper Hewitt library
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
And here it is!: Barthes’ “Death of the Author” — as it originally appeared, in a booklet alongside Kubler and Sontag — in Aspen 5 + 6, Fall / Winter 67; via Cooper Hewitt library
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“‘Al’ is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase …is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their tech is similar to humans”
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
July 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“‘Al’ is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase …is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their tech is similar to humans”
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
Excellent & uncompromising.
Read it!
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“For every $1 invested in public libraries, there is a return of at least $4.50.”
Be sure to mention this when you call / email your representatives!
Be sure to mention this when you call / email your representatives!
“There is no more crucial time than now to speak up on behalf of libraries + the IMLS than now. There are 17 members on the Labor, Health + Human Services, Education, + Related Agencies Subcommittee... Each and every one of them should be contacted over the next couple of weeks”
We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services
Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.
bookriot.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“For every $1 invested in public libraries, there is a return of at least $4.50.”
Be sure to mention this when you call / email your representatives!
Be sure to mention this when you call / email your representatives!
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An indispensable how-to guide for scholars at all career stages.
@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's Make Your Manuscript Work is out August 5.
Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's Make Your Manuscript Work is out August 5.
Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
July 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
An indispensable how-to guide for scholars at all career stages.
@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's Make Your Manuscript Work is out August 5.
Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's Make Your Manuscript Work is out August 5.
Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Two #photography jobs at the V&A London, 3-yr full-time posts to work on the Royal Photographic Society collection. Deadline July 18th. Project Archivist in link below, Project Cataloguer in the next post. 📜🗃️📷📸
Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!
Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!
RPS Project Archivist - Cromwell Road, London
The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Our mission is to champion art, design and creativity in all its forms, for everyone. We share a 5,000-year-old story of creativity...
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July 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Two #photography jobs at the V&A London, 3-yr full-time posts to work on the Royal Photographic Society collection. Deadline July 18th. Project Archivist in link below, Project Cataloguer in the next post. 📜🗃️📷📸
Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!
Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!
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New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years
Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi slams Zohran Mamdani as "a bad example" who made "lofty, utopian promises: free public transit, free college tuition, more public housing"
July 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years