Mathilde Montpetit
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Mathilde Montpetit
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PhD student & translator (French-English) studying medieval West Africa, eunuchs, and the Mediterranean.
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... and then an investigation into the weird, precocious, maybe sui generis dioramas of the early-nineteenth-century Surinamese artist Gerrit Schouten.
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1830 diorama by the artist gerrit schouten depicting a du, a ritual dance performed by enslaved people 1820 diorama of the paramaribo harbor by the artist gerrit schouten
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I have two new pieces up at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social this week: first, about the human-animal hybrids of Louis XIV's court painter Charles le Brun...
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eighteenth-century pencil drawing of the facial similarities between a man and a lion eighteenth-century pencil drawing of the facial similarities between a man and a parrot eighteenth-century pencil drawing of the facial similarities between a man and an ox
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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This morning, The Berliner began – against the will of its staff – posting a series of advertisements for the Nova Festival Exhibition. Our concerns having been dismissed and stonewalled, we have had no choice but to strike.
The decision of The Berliner magazine to run an ad campaign for the Nova Festival Exhibition was taken against the explicit objections of its editorial staff and regular freelance contributors. As we expressed in a letter to management, we freelancers consider these ads clear evidence of ownership taking a political stance on Gaza, having for months pressured the magazine to suppress editorial coverage of Palestine. As such, we have no other choice but to protest the campaign by withdrawing our collective labour for the magazine's next issue. We demand that The Berliner withdraw the ads. If the ads continue, our protest will continue.
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM