What a lovely idea! Mine seems somehow even more appropriate than usual on Thanksgiving! www.upress.umn.edu/978151790880...

Oh, you would have loved it! Sorry you didn’t get to see it in person, but delighted that you got to hear about it from Jodi! We were supposed to take a last walk through it together yesterday, but unfortunately she had a last minute unmissable meeting.

You might try Nineteenth-century Art Worldwide. www.19thc-artworldwide.org

Yes! Such an amazing show! For me, her representation of roots was especially revelatory. Each one so fragile yet so tough.

Spent Fri in the study room @artinstitutechi.bsky.social thinking about industrial smoke, Prussian blue, and extraction in Degas’ knockout Landscape with Smokestacks

Congratulations, Anne (and to Cary, too)! It looks fantastic!

Oh, happiest of birthdays to you, John! And what a great picture of your lovely parents. The swirl of your mom’s skirt lifted by the breeze and your dad’s “pretty good line”-beautiful for you to think about on this day!

What a wonderful essay! Still thinking especially about “The rain, like rain, continues to fall” and that last line: “…those things so like the world but not the world”

How great! Congratulations, Hannah!

This is fantastic news, Maud! And what a fabulous cover! No doubt the words inside are equally amazing! Can’t wait to read them. 💕

Chez Marianne for falafel.

Glad I did!

Thanks so much, @johnmkuhn.bsky.social! True, the Nelson-Atkins has real strengths in 19th-c French art. I bet you would notice some familiar works at most major museums. It means so much to know that what we studied in that class still reverberates for you!

Oh, wow! Thank you for noticing and passing along this lovely compliment, @nancyum.bsky.social!

Oh, this is such tragic and shocking news. My heart breaks for Julia’s family, close friends, and colleagues. I’ll always remember her as she was when we were in grad school—smart, outspoken, and thoughtful.

Grateful to you for writing it!