Susan Klaiber
@susanklaiber.bsky.social
Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
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Susan Klaiber
@susanklaiber.bsky.social
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Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38)
#earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings
www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...
Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38)
#earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings
www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts have gone public with their push to unionize, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize
“The people at the 'bottom' are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” said one of the workers.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts have gone public with their push to unionize, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.
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Imagine owning this fabulous ca. 1790 house in Virginia and putting in those vinyl replacement windows 🙃
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Imagine owning this fabulous ca. 1790 house in Virginia and putting in those vinyl replacement windows 🙃
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The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
medievalartresearch.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
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Dacha/Staff Building, Gesundheit! Institute, Hillsboro, West Virginia, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America", by Joel Sternfeld
American, born 1944
April 2004
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186131
American, born 1944
April 2004
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186131
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Dacha/Staff Building, Gesundheit! Institute, Hillsboro, West Virginia, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America", by Joel Sternfeld
American, born 1944
April 2004
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186131
American, born 1944
April 2004
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186131
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Fall colors in Alton, Illinois
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Fall colors in Alton, Illinois
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If the ACA implodes it means that the last decade might be remembered as the golden age of American healthcare, God help us all.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If the ACA implodes it means that the last decade might be remembered as the golden age of American healthcare, God help us all.
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Anni Albers gilt als Pionierin der Textilkunst. Warum ihr Werk nach wie vor aktuell ist, zeigt das Zentrum Paul Klee.
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/kunst/erste-schweizer-ausstellung-anni-albers-webkunst-sollte-man-nicht-unter-den-teppich-kehren
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/kunst/erste-schweizer-ausstellung-anni-albers-webkunst-sollte-man-nicht-unter-den-teppich-kehren
Das Zentrum Paul Klee rollt Anni Albers den Teppich aus
Anni Albers gilt als Pionierin der Textilkunst. Warum ihr Werk nach wie vor aktuell ist, zeigt das Zentrum Paul Klee.
www.srf.ch
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Anni Albers gilt als Pionierin der Textilkunst. Warum ihr Werk nach wie vor aktuell ist, zeigt das Zentrum Paul Klee.
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/kunst/erste-schweizer-ausstellung-anni-albers-webkunst-sollte-man-nicht-unter-den-teppich-kehren
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/kunst/erste-schweizer-ausstellung-anni-albers-webkunst-sollte-man-nicht-unter-den-teppich-kehren
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Americans can’t afford this deal.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Americans can’t afford this deal.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
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Drawing for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Color Study for Quincy Street Elevation https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/294459
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Drawing for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Color Study for Quincy Street Elevation https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/294459
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Timely every lot selection with a store proudly advertising that they accept EBT / Electronic Benefits Transfer. #SNAP #SNAPbenefits
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Timely every lot selection with a store proudly advertising that they accept EBT / Electronic Benefits Transfer. #SNAP #SNAPbenefits
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Virginia Woolf and an Aalto chair, by Man Ray.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Virginia Woolf and an Aalto chair, by Man Ray.
Timely every lot selection with a store proudly advertising that they accept EBT / Electronic Benefits Transfer. #SNAP #SNAPbenefits
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Timely every lot selection with a store proudly advertising that they accept EBT / Electronic Benefits Transfer. #SNAP #SNAPbenefits
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Die ehem. Synagoge, Die Vereinigte Alte und Neue Klaus, in der Rutschbahn 11 hier in #Hamburg, wurde am 28. September 1905 eingeweiht. Am 9. November 1938 wurden die Innenräume dieser Synagoge zerstört und geschändet, die Torarolle aus dem Fenster geworfen.
Das Gebäude selbst blieb überhaupt nur
Das Gebäude selbst blieb überhaupt nur
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Die ehem. Synagoge, Die Vereinigte Alte und Neue Klaus, in der Rutschbahn 11 hier in #Hamburg, wurde am 28. September 1905 eingeweiht. Am 9. November 1938 wurden die Innenräume dieser Synagoge zerstört und geschändet, die Torarolle aus dem Fenster geworfen.
Das Gebäude selbst blieb überhaupt nur
Das Gebäude selbst blieb überhaupt nur
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Kenzo Tange, maquette de la cité de Skopje, 1960s.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Kenzo Tange, maquette de la cité de Skopje, 1960s.
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Auftauchen, Atmen und immer bei Mama bleiben: Der neuste Flusspferd-Zuwachs im Zoo #Berlin muss noch viel lernen. Besucher:innen können dem Nachwuchs nun dabei zuschauen. Das Baby-#Hippo ist übrigens noch namenlos. Habt ihr Ideen?
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Auftauchen, Atmen und immer bei Mama bleiben: Der neuste Flusspferd-Zuwachs im Zoo #Berlin muss noch viel lernen. Besucher:innen können dem Nachwuchs nun dabei zuschauen. Das Baby-#Hippo ist übrigens noch namenlos. Habt ihr Ideen?
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Amazing essay from the brilliant Pete Coviello
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Amazing essay from the brilliant Pete Coviello
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Zeit, zu erinnern an Kurt Eisner, Anführer der Novemberrevolution in München, der heute vor 107 Jahren König Ludwig III absetzte, den Freistaat Bayern ausrief und der erste bayerische Ministerpräsident wurde. Am 2. Februar 1919 wurde er auf dem Weg in den Bayerischen Landtag erschossen.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Zeit, zu erinnern an Kurt Eisner, Anführer der Novemberrevolution in München, der heute vor 107 Jahren König Ludwig III absetzte, den Freistaat Bayern ausrief und der erste bayerische Ministerpräsident wurde. Am 2. Februar 1919 wurde er auf dem Weg in den Bayerischen Landtag erschossen.
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Well, what a strange and wonderful survival this is…a turf maze dating from 1660! 🤩
It sits in the middle of the very lovely village of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, and was made by William Sparrow, a royalist, to commemorate the restoration of Charles II.
It sits in the middle of the very lovely village of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, and was made by William Sparrow, a royalist, to commemorate the restoration of Charles II.
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Well, what a strange and wonderful survival this is…a turf maze dating from 1660! 🤩
It sits in the middle of the very lovely village of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, and was made by William Sparrow, a royalist, to commemorate the restoration of Charles II.
It sits in the middle of the very lovely village of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, and was made by William Sparrow, a royalist, to commemorate the restoration of Charles II.
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this thread remains so good
Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
this thread remains so good
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in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
www.sothebys.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
While we're thinking about Rosalind Franklin today... #WomenInSTEM
Nuclear physicist Lise Meitner ForMemRS was born #OnThisDay in 1878. She was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission, along with her collaborators Otto Hahn and Otto Robert Frisch FRS, but wasn't awarded a share of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/2HjWryI
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While we're thinking about Rosalind Franklin today... #WomenInSTEM
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.