Juliet Bellow
@julietbellow.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Art History at American University; author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2013) and Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2025).
Do the Yes Men still exist? They could do something very good with this I reckon
lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.
September 27, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Do the Yes Men still exist? They could do something very good with this I reckon
I’m so pleased that my book “Rodin’s Dancers” was the focus of an issue of H-France Salon, with reviews by Ellen McBreen, Susan Waller, Bénédicte Jarasse, Tom Stammers, and a response by yours truly, organized and edited by Melissa Hyde.
h-france.net/h-france-for...
h-france.net/h-france-for...
H-France Forum: Volume 21 (2026) – H-France
h-france.net
September 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I’m so pleased that my book “Rodin’s Dancers” was the focus of an issue of H-France Salon, with reviews by Ellen McBreen, Susan Waller, Bénédicte Jarasse, Tom Stammers, and a response by yours truly, organized and edited by Melissa Hyde.
h-france.net/h-france-for...
h-france.net/h-france-for...
I was officially promoted to Full Professor today! I am celebrating by changing my email signature.
May 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I was officially promoted to Full Professor today! I am celebrating by changing my email signature.
I started eating lunch today at 10:45. I wonder when lunch is just going to become breakfast, and breakfast will be a midnight snack.
February 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I started eating lunch today at 10:45. I wonder when lunch is just going to become breakfast, and breakfast will be a midnight snack.
The Buddhist monks and @katya-zamo.bsky.social are coming to my university in a span of two weeks and i have to miss both of these religious experiences
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
The Buddhist monks and @katya-zamo.bsky.social are coming to my university in a span of two weeks and i have to miss both of these religious experiences
If youll be in NYC on January 28, come hear me talk about Rodin at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, in conjunction with their fascinating exhibition “Rodin’s Egypt”: isaw.nyu.edu/events/cares...
Exhibition Lecture
This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture explores how Rodin created the same tactile, intimate viewing experience...
isaw.nyu.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If youll be in NYC on January 28, come hear me talk about Rodin at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, in conjunction with their fascinating exhibition “Rodin’s Egypt”: isaw.nyu.edu/events/cares...
“Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” is in my office and can now be in yours, too! (DM me for discount code.) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
May 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” is in my office and can now be in yours, too! (DM me for discount code.) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
You have GOT to be kidding me
May 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You have GOT to be kidding me
First sighting of my book in the wild! (It’s the one with the bright yellow binding.)
We’ve had a fantastic time @forarthistory.org.uk conference this week! Make sure you visit our exhibition stand this morning to browse our books, meet our art team and make the most of our final day in person offers…
We have @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social books on our stand too!
We have @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social books on our stand too!
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
First sighting of my book in the wild! (It’s the one with the bright yellow binding.)
I saw some good signs in DC today, but none will ever beat the one I saw on January 21, 2017 in London, here at center: “Quite annoyed”
April 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I saw some good signs in DC today, but none will ever beat the one I saw on January 21, 2017 in London, here at center: “Quite annoyed”
I like being asked to peer review articles…but I really don’t like receiving review requests out of the blue, on topics totally unrelated to my research, that require me to create a user ID and log into a system I’ve never used just to decline.
April 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I like being asked to peer review articles…but I really don’t like receiving review requests out of the blue, on topics totally unrelated to my research, that require me to create a user ID and log into a system I’ve never used just to decline.
Call your senators, please! We would if we had any!
The House just approved a federal spending bill that could force D.C. to slash more than $1 billion from its current budget. Mayor Bowser has called the cuts "potentially devastating," and warned they could result in layoffs and reduced city services. 51st.news/house-republ...
March 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Call your senators, please! We would if we had any!
I have a cover design! My book “Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” will be published in June 2025 by @yalebooks.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 4:39 PM
I have a cover design! My book “Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” will be published in June 2025 by @yalebooks.bsky.social
Thrilled to be giving the Fourteenth Annual Robert Rosenblum lecture on February 26 at the Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.”
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
"Dancing an Orphist 'Egypt': The Delaunays and Artistic Imperialism" | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation
Juliet Bellow, PhD, delivers the fourteenth annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture on the occasion of Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930.
www.guggenheim.org
December 7, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Thrilled to be giving the Fourteenth Annual Robert Rosenblum lecture on February 26 at the Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.”
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...
This is a lovely and evocative film, and it’s wonderful to see Fuller get her due. However, it’s misleading on one key point. There are no period films of Fuller dancing. All of the films that exist of the Serpentine dance are other performers. This is why Fuller wanted to copyright her technique!
Loïe Fuller, the 19th-century dancer who spun fabric into glowing art, revolutionized modern dance and inspired artists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Rodin.
A Dazzling Light in Dance History
When dancer Loïe Fuller’s spinning garment reflected the stage lights, it took on a life of its own, beguiling those in New York, Berlin, and Paris.
hyperallergic.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:02 PM
This is a lovely and evocative film, and it’s wonderful to see Fuller get her due. However, it’s misleading on one key point. There are no period films of Fuller dancing. All of the films that exist of the Serpentine dance are other performers. This is why Fuller wanted to copyright her technique!
Dance studies colleagues, join us in DC in summer 2025! Proposals due December 16. linktr.ee/dancestudies...
November 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Dance studies colleagues, join us in DC in summer 2025! Proposals due December 16. linktr.ee/dancestudies...
FYI, I went with “boorish uber-bro”
What Homeric epithet would you use to describe Jeff Koons? (This is for an academic publication, so it can’t be too ad-hominemy, but I’m willing to be very judgy.)
November 16, 2024 at 3:10 PM
FYI, I went with “boorish uber-bro”
A combination of nationalism and socialism in Germany? That sounds unprecedented and totally benign
August 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
A combination of nationalism and socialism in Germany? That sounds unprecedented and totally benign
Last night I dreamt that I was starring in the school play tomorrow and hadn’t learned my lines yet. My unconscious is so predictable! #firstdayjitters
August 25, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Last night I dreamt that I was starring in the school play tomorrow and hadn’t learned my lines yet. My unconscious is so predictable! #firstdayjitters
What Homeric epithet would you use to describe Jeff Koons? (This is for an academic publication, so it can’t be too ad-hominemy, but I’m willing to be very judgy.)
May 16, 2024 at 8:58 PM
What Homeric epithet would you use to describe Jeff Koons? (This is for an academic publication, so it can’t be too ad-hominemy, but I’m willing to be very judgy.)
Are these fucking people for real?!
May 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Are these fucking people for real?!
Can anyone here recommend smart takes on the monograph (ideally, the single-artist/author monograph)? Or recommend texts that present themselves self-consciously as alternatives to that format/organizational principle?
May 5, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Can anyone here recommend smart takes on the monograph (ideally, the single-artist/author monograph)? Or recommend texts that present themselves self-consciously as alternatives to that format/organizational principle?
Highly recommended analysis of our current “campus panic” culture.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
April 23, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Highly recommended analysis of our current “campus panic” culture.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
Perfect pull quote. Also it just so happens that I live in exactly this Venn diagram
"The American public has become convinced that the only justifiable purpose for higher education is to get people jobs (though it isn’t) and...that one can’t get a good-paying job with a degree in philosophy, art history, French, sculpture or dance (though one can)" www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Opinion | The Gutting of the Liberal Arts
At public comprehensive universities like SUNY-Potsdam, the humanities are being hollowed out.
www.chronicle.com
April 8, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Perfect pull quote. Also it just so happens that I live in exactly this Venn diagram