Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I have a new favorite ballplayer nickname: James "Jew Baby" Floyd. pendergastkc.org/collection/k... 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The art I won't be using with story TK next week on @universityofkansas.bsky.social Classics prof's book project: Detail from "Orestes Pursued by the Furies" by John Singer Sargeant. 000
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I'm honored that a firm producing a new introductory video for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art asked to use my 2019 photo of @universityofkansas.bsky.social professor emeritus Roger Shimomura. 10-min. looping video should premiere this summer. Love how pic captures his take-no-shit essence. 000
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I didn't realize the Roger Shimomura angle to the "Jimmy Mirikitani" show opening Thursday @universityofkansas.bsky.social Spencer Museum until I sat down w/curators. Story TK. spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions-... 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Oh, they remember in Jeff City! house.mo.gov/FamousInduct... 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Exhibition opening next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social Spencer Museum of Art has a Roger Shimomura connection. Story TK. news.ku.edu/news/article... 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The resemblance is uncanny! HMU to interview @universityofkansas.bsky.social author/professor/musician Colin Roust about his new "Complete Works" of pioneering African American bandleader Francis Johnson. news.ku.edu/news/article... 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Based on analytics, doncha know, and not Charlie O's whim! The new pennant porch. 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Noon-2 p.m. Sunday at Cap Gun Studio in West Bottoms, the most trenchant and thus anguished folk musician working today: Mark Rubin - Jew of Oklahoma. 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Don't you dare miss the story TK about the music of Rocket Man, from #kuexperts! 110
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Herminia Machry of @universityofkansas.bsky.social Architecture gives Red Hot Research presentation. 000
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Oh, boy, TK next week: Conflicts over dogs on the kibbutz reveal deeper issues in intentional communities, from KU Jewish Studies scholar Omri Senderowicz. 000
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025This recent joke/post by KU Religious/Jewish Studies prof Sam Brody has gone viral here and elsewhere. 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025This statue was in front of my bank in Overland Park, Kan., for 50 years until a remodel a couple of years ago. 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025If, like me, you were on the fence about catching Gang of Four on their farewell U.S. tour, get off and go! Ted Leo fills Andy Gill’s shoes admirably. 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Eddie Moore story TK, y'all! Pic reminds me of Herbie's "Thrust" LP cover, and while the KU Music lecturer digs Herbie, his new recording is more straight-ahead than fusion. 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Quick, which 20th c. starchitecht is LeCorbusier and which is Philip Johnson? 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I refuse to feel bad about confusing an unmarked painting of starchitecht Le Corbusier (right) with starchitect Philip Johnson (left). 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I have gotten to work w/some brilliant folks as @kunewsservice.bsky.social publicist, but Kevin tops them all. HMU and I'll TRY to get you an exit interview w/him. news.ku.edu/news/article... 010
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Kevin Willmott tells me his typically incisive "The 24th," about the 1917 Houston race riot, which premiered on streaming in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now showing on @nbcpeacock.bsky.social 021
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025My remembrance of Baby Boom-era local TV host extraordinaire Torey Southwick is to be published in @thekansascitystar.bsky.social on Sunday. 020
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Story TK on transcendentalism ... not involving this guy. But made you look! 000
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 09/11/2023Rejected photo for story TK on "Marx and the worker in exile." 000
