Juliet Bellow
@julietbellow.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Art History at American University; author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2013) and Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2025).
“Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” is in my office and can now be in yours, too! (DM me for discount code.) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
May 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” is in my office and can now be in yours, too! (DM me for discount code.) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
You have GOT to be kidding me
May 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You have GOT to be kidding me
First sighting of my book in the wild! (It’s the one with the bright yellow binding.)
We’ve had a fantastic time @forarthistory.org.uk conference this week! Make sure you visit our exhibition stand this morning to browse our books, meet our art team and make the most of our final day in person offers…
We have @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social books on our stand too!
We have @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social books on our stand too!
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
First sighting of my book in the wild! (It’s the one with the bright yellow binding.)
I saw some good signs in DC today, but none will ever beat the one I saw on January 21, 2017 in London, here at center: “Quite annoyed”
April 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I saw some good signs in DC today, but none will ever beat the one I saw on January 21, 2017 in London, here at center: “Quite annoyed”
I like being asked to peer review articles…but I really don’t like receiving review requests out of the blue, on topics totally unrelated to my research, that require me to create a user ID and log into a system I’ve never used just to decline.
April 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I like being asked to peer review articles…but I really don’t like receiving review requests out of the blue, on topics totally unrelated to my research, that require me to create a user ID and log into a system I’ve never used just to decline.
Call your senators, please! We would if we had any!
The House just approved a federal spending bill that could force D.C. to slash more than $1 billion from its current budget. Mayor Bowser has called the cuts "potentially devastating," and warned they could result in layoffs and reduced city services. 51st.news/house-republ...
March 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Call your senators, please! We would if we had any!
I have a cover design! My book “Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” will be published in June 2025 by @yalebooks.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 4:39 PM
I have a cover design! My book “Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” will be published in June 2025 by @yalebooks.bsky.social
Thrilled to be giving the Fourteenth Annual Robert Rosenblum lecture on February 26 at the Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.”
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
"Dancing an Orphist 'Egypt': The Delaunays and Artistic Imperialism" | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation
Juliet Bellow, PhD, delivers the fourteenth annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture on the occasion of Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930.
www.guggenheim.org
December 7, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Thrilled to be giving the Fourteenth Annual Robert Rosenblum lecture on February 26 at the Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.”
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
This is a lovely and evocative film, and it’s wonderful to see Fuller get her due. However, it’s misleading on one key point. There are no period films of Fuller dancing. All of the films that exist of the Serpentine dance are other performers. This is why Fuller wanted to copyright her technique!
Loïe Fuller, the 19th-century dancer who spun fabric into glowing art, revolutionized modern dance and inspired artists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Rodin.
A Dazzling Light in Dance History
When dancer Loïe Fuller’s spinning garment reflected the stage lights, it took on a life of its own, beguiling those in New York, Berlin, and Paris.
hyperallergic.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:02 PM
This is a lovely and evocative film, and it’s wonderful to see Fuller get her due. However, it’s misleading on one key point. There are no period films of Fuller dancing. All of the films that exist of the Serpentine dance are other performers. This is why Fuller wanted to copyright her technique!
Dance studies colleagues, join us in DC in summer 2025! Proposals due December 16. linktr.ee/dancestudies...
November 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Dance studies colleagues, join us in DC in summer 2025! Proposals due December 16. linktr.ee/dancestudies...
FYI, I went with “boorish uber-bro”
What Homeric epithet would you use to describe Jeff Koons? (This is for an academic publication, so it can’t be too ad-hominemy, but I’m willing to be very judgy.)
November 16, 2024 at 3:10 PM
FYI, I went with “boorish uber-bro”
A combination of nationalism and socialism in Germany? That sounds unprecedented and totally benign
August 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
A combination of nationalism and socialism in Germany? That sounds unprecedented and totally benign
Last night I dreamt that I was starring in the school play tomorrow and hadn’t learned my lines yet. My unconscious is so predictable! #firstdayjitters
August 25, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Last night I dreamt that I was starring in the school play tomorrow and hadn’t learned my lines yet. My unconscious is so predictable! #firstdayjitters
What Homeric epithet would you use to describe Jeff Koons? (This is for an academic publication, so it can’t be too ad-hominemy, but I’m willing to be very judgy.)
May 16, 2024 at 8:58 PM
What Homeric epithet would you use to describe Jeff Koons? (This is for an academic publication, so it can’t be too ad-hominemy, but I’m willing to be very judgy.)
Are these fucking people for real?!
May 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Are these fucking people for real?!
Can anyone here recommend smart takes on the monograph (ideally, the single-artist/author monograph)? Or recommend texts that present themselves self-consciously as alternatives to that format/organizational principle?
May 5, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Can anyone here recommend smart takes on the monograph (ideally, the single-artist/author monograph)? Or recommend texts that present themselves self-consciously as alternatives to that format/organizational principle?
Highly recommended analysis of our current “campus panic” culture.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
April 23, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Highly recommended analysis of our current “campus panic” culture.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
Perfect pull quote. Also it just so happens that I live in exactly this Venn diagram
"The American public has become convinced that the only justifiable purpose for higher education is to get people jobs (though it isn’t) and...that one can’t get a good-paying job with a degree in philosophy, art history, French, sculpture or dance (though one can)" www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Opinion | The Gutting of the Liberal Arts
At public comprehensive universities like SUNY-Potsdam, the humanities are being hollowed out.
www.chronicle.com
April 8, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Perfect pull quote. Also it just so happens that I live in exactly this Venn diagram
It amazes me (though it shouldn’t) that there remains profound resistance to non-logocentric ideation. #thebodythinks
March 4, 2024 at 9:28 PM
It amazes me (though it shouldn’t) that there remains profound resistance to non-logocentric ideation. #thebodythinks
Ten years later…almost done! #firstdraft #tired
February 17, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Ten years later…almost done! #firstdraft #tired
Tfw you are writing something and instead of thinking it’s absolute rubbish you decide it’s awesome
January 28, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Tfw you are writing something and instead of thinking it’s absolute rubbish you decide it’s awesome
RIP Joan Acocella
January 9, 2024 at 1:14 AM
RIP Joan Acocella
American University just announced that they have hired this consulting firm to conduct a “workforce assessment.” We are the next WVU.
Corporate Consultants Set Their Targets on American Universities
www.thenation.com
December 6, 2023 at 10:33 PM
American University just announced that they have hired this consulting firm to conduct a “workforce assessment.” We are the next WVU.
Reposted by Juliet Bellow
Under cover of the busy end of the semester, American University's leadership announced a decision to hire the Huron Consulting Group, which has brought disastrous 'restructuring' to the New School, Marymount Univ, West Virginia Univ, and elsewhere. AAUP statement to come. Please share widely.
December 6, 2023 at 4:37 AM
Under cover of the busy end of the semester, American University's leadership announced a decision to hire the Huron Consulting Group, which has brought disastrous 'restructuring' to the New School, Marymount Univ, West Virginia Univ, and elsewhere. AAUP statement to come. Please share widely.