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Nikolas Orr

@nikolasorr.bsky.social
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Independent (Art) Historian & Senior Heritage Officer for NSW Government | researching colonial monuments, anticolonial protest | former sculptor, editor | settler Australian on unceded Awabakal land | madrileño adoptado | he/him/él | all views my own

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Nikolas Orr @nikolasorr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Very cool if true: Academia.edu says I have readers in Singapore, Hanoi and Cangzhou
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Nikolas Orr @nikolasorr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Ok so we follow the he Aus Gov style manual. None of that no caps business unless in plural ie ‘world wars’.
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Nikolas Orr @nikolasorr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Over time I’ve come to appreciate the hard-headed scepticism of historians towards much art history. I wonder, in the case below, how certain scholars of Rubens can really be on the separation of labour between the painter and his assistants and what evidence they rely on… 1/
A screenshot of a video produced by the Museo Nacional del Prado, which starts: “La mayor parte de lo que vemos en el cuadro Mercurio y Argos fue pintado por Rubens.”
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Nikolas Orr @nikolasorr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
TIL just how much the setting of the Cook statue in Hyde Park, Sydney has changed over time...
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