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Archaeologist and Architectural Historian; Associate Prof. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Smarthistory.org - editor and board chair. Interested in antiquity & why the modern world is obsessed with Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. Pug lover & cook.
A delightful morning with my mom (mother's day treat at day late) for a visit to the Sargent & Paris show at the met. Saw old favorites and new ones. Love his use of red, black, and white. Also love how the ladies take center stage.
perfect afternoon. A street fair with my daughter (weird and wacky macarons, snicker flavored from Brooklyn). some light reading for next term: papyri and the museum of the bible (which for all of its ethics) had no problem buying a lot of stolen papyri (so much for the 10 commandments)..
Catch it before it closes (Sun May 4) — Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy at the Morgan
Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
Great visit to Rethinking Etruria Exhibit at ISAW. Great objects, but even better stories. The grave goods from Norchia's tombs were unique: a stamnos from Tomb Lattanzi 3 with figures from the Iliad. 3-D printed copy of the Vicchio Stele from Poggio Colla; one can touch and look for inscriptions.
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apparently, a British Research survey says that owning a dog is like getting paid an extra $90,000. No price could be put on the joy that Minerva brings us! Happy 5th Birthday to our family's goddess of wisdom.
From yesterday's seminar on Umayyad Art and Architecture. Part of the facade of Mshatta, an early caliphal residence in Jordan. Today in Berlin...it was gift from the Ottoman Sultan to the Kaiser..because nothing says friendship like a monumental piece of architecture. The Kaiser sent horses back...
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Went to very cool center for book arts she looked at a fun exhibition about books that are not books! Personally, I like the decanters hidden in old books…
🦁 The goddess Ishtar is the first known deity to appear in the written historical record! Also known as Inanna, Ishtar is the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. Scholars believe that worship of her in the Near East can be traced all the way back to the 4th millennium BCE!
CUNY and Bard while different have a lot in common…
Civilization in midtown...
Astoria the Celebrity Turkey Returns to Ritzy Midtown Manhattan www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
From last spring break, 2024; I am stuck here in NYC working away to finish an MS...the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose...just a little Egyptomania on a Tuesday.
ICYMI, watch classicist Mary Beard’s brilliant talk, “Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography” – this year’s Leon Levy Lecture on the craft of biography. Now up on YouTube! youtu.be/ZGyBxaP-vWI @wmarybeard.bsky.social
Professor Manisha Sinha and Professor Prithi Kanakamedala sit next to each other on stage at The New-York Historical. Behind them a screen shows a child’s hands holding up a book with Brooklynites by Prithi Kanakamedala on the cover
A statue of Abraham Lincoln stands on the stairs of The New-York Historical. A sign shows their latest exhibit, a blurry picture of New York City in the background
A statue of Frederick Douglass outside the entrance to The New-York Historical
Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to hear me and THE @profmsinha.bsky.social discuss legacies of the 19th c abolitionists who organized for a more just world, and how we must continue to speak their names & their stories @nyhistory.bsky.social #historymattters
As a 14 year old my dad took me to see Rebecca Lobo and Jen Rizzotti in NCAA, the year before they won their first national title. Inspired me to play sports and to do well in school (they both had like 3.8 GPAs). 12 national titles today. Proud to be from CT and for my Uconn Huskies.
Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
A few more from the Frick...che bella! So happy this grand museum has reopened
So lucky to visit the Frick Collection today for a preview! #frick Yeah! such a delight on rainy day.
Minerva, Minerva, Minerva...One from Aquae Sulis (aka Roman Bath), One from Hildesheim in 1868, and One from NYC...All goddesses...all worshipped (I am preparing a seminar on Roman Britain...)
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia and Livia by Jean-Bapiste Wicar (1790-1793) - from a trip to the Art Institute in 11/2024...I love the colors in the painting. It also reminds me of how my kids might respond when I have talking a little bit too long about the Temple of Dendur...
Paige Bueckers has set a new UConn WBB record for points in an NCAA Tournament game in today's win over Oklahoma 🔥
◽ 40 PTS
◽ 16/27 FG
◽ 6/8 3-PT FG
🏛️ Have you seen the controversial film “Agora” (2009), directed by Alejandro Amenabar? The film depicts the story of the ancient female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. However, the movie has received some backlash for its depiction of early Christianity.
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Thinking of lost NY buildings today like Lewishon Stadium, CCNY @cuny.edu. Now under the North Academic Center, this building was for CCNY athletes, hosted Albert Einstein & was so-called Carnegie Hall of the working classes, where free and cheap concerts brought Gershwin to all. From the archives
wonderful visit to the Morgan Library with my son to see the Bella de Costa Greene exhibition (b/c he attends her same school now); he thought the application was a lot easier...(no youtube piano uploads for her) but important to understand history and her part.
This is so cool and amazing! Stuck in a Rut? Live in a Tiny Home on Wheels. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/r...
Pane per tutti! Devo mangiare...