In National Portrait Gallery USA this past weekend I was pleased to find this great image of Dr Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919), a physician who received a Congressional Medal of Honor (awarded 1865, rescinded 1917, restored 1977), the only woman as of 2024 so honored cmohs.org/recipients/mar…

Hi friends in Washington DC -- I am talking on 26 Sept in the NGA: Colloquium: Mary Beard “The Trouble with Museums” 4:00–5:30 p.m. East Building Auditorium and virtual

sad to see another legacy news organization disappear: WCBS 880 radio in NYC. Thanks to Tom Jones Poynter for sharing anchor Wayne Cabot's final words: "With each closing newspaper, radio newsroom, TV newsroom, magazine, now even digital news operations, the country we love is

Reading two new reviews of “The Fasces” back to back

Decades ago a real veteran of the 60s / early 70s Ann Arbor scene told me that when Nixon declared “I’m not a crook” what folks cognitively registered at the time was the word “crook”

Nashville was a blast, Atlanta tonight, come on! Terminal West at 8:00

One of the few acquisitions I dream about is a Hayter lawnmower. Not urgent since I lack a lawn hayter.co.uk

One of my culture heroes. Can’t believe he would be 85 today.

Managed to get on Ticketmaster completely panicked and bought 10 tickets for “Puss In Boots” at the Bradford Alhambra

Congratulations Dr Cora Beth Fraser of The Open University, OU Arts & Social Sciences and OU_Classics on her #NTFSaward. Cora specialises in developing safe and supportive online spaces for classical distance-learning students and is committed to removing barriers faced by neurodivergent students.

Huge news for art historians: the first phase of ⁦The Courtauld⁩ Witt Library digitisation is now live. Search the British School artist boxes for images from private collections and pre-internet auction records. French School coming next week. photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/sec-menu/searc…

A huge groover from Lazare Hoche! 🔥 🎧 DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto - Canoa Find this track in our Latin House Mix 2024: youtu.be/kvAd8bnrpgc 📺

First day of my 25th year Rutgers SAS !

So been working a new DJ Mix for a few months & it's now available to listen & download soundcloud.com/kraftykuts/fun…

Rome's Arch of Constantine was damaged after being struck by lightning during a violent storm. wantedinrome.com/news/rome-arch…

Our kids (well, the ones in the US) seeing The Lemonheads in NYC tonight, in DC 9:30 Club on Sunday…

Literally jaw-dropping moment just now as I discover a previously unknown 18th-c drawing of a Guarini church blithely posted to Wikimedia Commons by its owner-repository as part of an entire MS. Not a super-accurate drawing, but still. Wow. 😍

One of the greatest moments in history, captured on film