- Twitter celebrated #AskAnArchivist Day on October 3. A promising sign for the profession: most of the questions this year were for archivists, not anarchists! See a round-up of topics covered here. [via SIA]
- Last week, the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, its first retrospective for an artist who was born enslaved. If you can't visit, read the New Yorker's profile of Bill Traylor. [via The New Yorker]
- The Opportunity Atlas, recently released through the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies (CES), lets you map American census tracts by social mobility. [via New York Times]
- A multidisciplinary and multimedia art exhibit on the heart, The Heart of the Matter, will open next month in London's Copeland Gallery. [via The Conversation]
- The Health Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI), led by Smithsonian scientist Melanie McField, is expanding its biannual coral reef "report card"! Beginning in 2019, the report card will evaluate seagrass beds and mangrove forests as well as reefs. [via Conservation Commons]
- The National Portrait Gallery hosted over 2 million visitors this year--twice as many as in 2017. (THANKS, OBAMAS' portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald). [via artnet News]
- 19th century illustrator-astronomer Etienne Leopold Trouvelot drew celestial objects in pastels, recently the subject of an exhibition at the Huntington. (We missed them in person, but check out the video below!) [via Ars Technica]
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