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Author of "Van Gogh and the End of Nature," forthcoming Spring 2024: https://t.co/rrJ5uN0QLJ
Jul 2, 2019 11 tweets 4 min read
If you’re ever having a really bad day at work, just remember that you didn’t have to publish an entire book to apologize for erroneously authenticating a large group of forged Van Gogh paintings Meet Jacob-Baart (J.-B.) de la Faille. In 1928, he published the first Van Gogh catalogue raisonné, four volumes in all
May 14, 2019 17 tweets 6 min read
Absolutely thrilled to share one of the most rewarding projects I’ve ever worked on with students: Wikipedia entries for African-American artists & printmakers, written by my undergraduate research methods class @Hunter_College this semester (thread) The semester-long project was inspired by a December tweet by @stephenniem, describing a @wikipedia assignment she devised for students in her Arts of Islam survey