Art Historians (and related accounts)
Idiosyncratic list of art historians sprinkled with other art people and historians of something
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@rabbitrez.bsky.social
@greenleejw.bsky.social
Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of medieval history, talking’ about eels, history, maps, and the Spaniel. Alt-text artist. I draw custom maps on commission: https://surprisedeelmaps.com/ Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
@amberburbidge.bsky.social
Early Modern PhD researcher | EUI History | premodern race-making in material culture | currently at EHESS | decolonisation | race | gender | intersectional | global history | 17c | 18c |heritage | Uni of York alumni 🏳️🌈
@thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social
art curator • poet fascinated by memory & landscape • PhD student researching Impressionism & women artists in parks & gardens 🪷 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/matteagernentz
@jillburke.bsky.social
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, senior fellow Turin Humanities Programme, committee member @srsrensoc.bsky.social
@susiebeckham.bsky.social
Temporality in Pre-Raphaelite art and visual culture + studying the evolution of the term “Pre-Raphaelite” from 1848 to today + Pre-Raphaelite fandom and semiotics. Postdoc Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York.
@marnikessler.bsky.social
Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
@rayhd.bsky.social
Academia, Art History, Museum Studies, Author, Teacher, Mentor, Editor, Curator, UT Austin, UW Madison, UChicago, University of New Mexico
@klingley.bsky.social
Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
@maggiemcao.bsky.social
Associate professor of art history, UNC-Chapel Hill, Getty Scholar Winter 2024, author of The End of Landscape, works on US art and the broader globe.
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
@jasonedwardhill.bsky.social
Professor teaching about photography and visual culture; convalescent skateboard old-timer. Wrote a book about art and journalism against fascism. Writing a book about photography and police radio.
@verasimoneschulz.bsky.social
at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
@alexandreanarchive.bsky.social
history~antiquity femme noire 🕊️🧚🏾♀️🌙✨ ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚ Digital art archive ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚
@ericasteiner.bsky.social
Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing. Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible! Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
@cristinaele.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @SyracuseU 🎞️ scholar of Latinx diasporas, CentAm&Caribbean, histories of photography and visual culture, environmental humanities
@schalkewins.bsky.social
researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent research fellow at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing. https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
@luiseguest.bsky.social
Writer, Researcher, Teacher, Curator, Feminist - Chinese contemporary art mostly. Author of 'Half the Sky: Conversations with Women Artists in China', and the forthcoming 'Invisible Ink: Feminism and Chinese Identity in Contemporary Art'.
@jsrouthier.bsky.social
Diversity, equity, inclusion and access are good, actually. Managing editor, #JournalPanorama, @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social. Contributing writer, Antiques and The Arts Weekly. Views, while hardly controversial, are my own.
@susanklaiber.bsky.social
Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
@sarahgould.bsky.social
Associate Prof., Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. Research: British art, material studies, environmental humanities. Finishing a book on J.E. Millais (published by Cohen et Cohen) and starting a new one on air pollution and 19th c. painting
@saraayres.bsky.social
Art historian. Forthcoming: a critical edition of Prince George of Denmark's travel diary detailing his time in Restoration England, 1669. Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900, Lund Humphries, 2023. Essays in OAJ and JHNA.
@jacobhleveton.bsky.social
Scholar of visual culture, sound, & political aesthetics. Philosophy of literature, ecological form, post-Romantic media. Anti-obscurantist. Architect and Strategist for the School of Materialist Research 🌐 http://www.schoolofmaterialistresearch.org
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social
A podcast about art & visual culture, the histories of science & medicine, and the macabre. Hosted by Christy Slobogin (@slobogin.bsky.social) and Emma Merkling (@emmamerkling.bsky.social)
@tenuredrebel.bsky.social
Art Historian & Professor of Aesthetics at Humber College. Researching Surrealism & Indigenization, practicing & advocating decolonial pedagogy. Cancer and rape survivor. Proudly pro-abortion. Ally and advocate 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸. Tired parent. VeritaFineArt.com
@jessvarner.bsky.social
Historian (enviro/material culture) Assistant Prof of History, UPenn Landscape Book:Chemical Desires—corps/Indanthren, PCBs,(C₈H₈)ₙ, PFAS/built enviro/toxics Collectively: @envirodg @apeoplesepa, building the world we want www.jessicavarner.com
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
@ahaaamericanart.bsky.social
The Association of Historians of American Art, along with its e-journal Panorama, provides a scholarly forum for the study of American art and culture.
@arunadsouza.bsky.social
Writer and critic, mostly contemporary art, sometimes food, always politics. New York Times and 4Columns, among other places. I’m surprisingly sweet. 🇨🇦
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@pspiesgans.bsky.social
Writer, historian, & art historian, #womenartists, A Revolution on Canvas (YUP), writing A New Story of Art (Doubleday) parisaspiesgans.com
@m-azzolini.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Medicine and the Environment (15th-18th cent.). Author of The Duke and the Stars (2013). Citizen of the World. Currently working on stones, water, and natural history. 2 kids and a rescue dog. Against divide and rule. Opinions my own.
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her drantjegamble.com
@artherstory.bsky.social
Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
@erikagaffney.bsky.social
Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
@snelsonus.bsky.social
Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. All views are my own.
@sephspeaks.bsky.social
Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken
@hrag.bsky.social
Art Critic Futurist 🧬 Editor-in-chief, Hyperallergic 🗽 Aleppo born, Toronto raised, Brooklyn based I tweet politics & culture because art doesn't exist in a vacuum.
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@afroartnerd.bsky.social
Art historian and HBCU Professor | Author: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic | elizabethchamilton.com Header image: Alison Saar. Tobacco, Indigo, Sugar, Cotton, and Rice (2018)
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@maudlavin.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Chicago, always. Author CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE (Yale UP), CLEAN NEW WORLD (MIT), PUSH COMES TO SHOVE (MIT) SILENCES, OHIO (Cowboy Jamboree). Ed. THE BUSINESS OF HOLIDAYS, OLDEST WE'VE EVER BEEN, BOYS' LOVE, Gugg Fellow
@ebwood.bsky.social
Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth.
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
@periodeye.bsky.social
Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
@mlobelart.bsky.social
Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them. Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
@kringelberg.bsky.social
they/them, Art Historian I care a lot (too much?) Gay Race Communist, I guess
@hyperallergic.com
The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news, views, and reviews that you need right now. 😎 hyperallergic.com
@suzanneblier.bsky.social
Professor, Author & Civic Activist in Cambridge Ma. Art/Architectural History, African Studies, City Histories, Urban Planning, Museums). Native of Vt. Building communities. Find blogs and more at: suzanneprestonblier.com
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
she + they art historian poet Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices U Delaware + Philly co-founder of the journal Selva https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
@rabbitrez.bsky.social
- - - never not going the way of myspace - - - art history / politics / ecologies / bad, evil-related material / *what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* / same id at insta, mastodon.social