Nancy Um

@nancyum.bsky.social

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Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities

Bar graph in purple and green, showing career stage of grant recipients, according to institutional affiliation.
Map of United States that shows the affiliation locations of art history scholar grant recipients, with blue dots of varying size and intensity. Note concentration in California and New York.
Eight bar charts which show awarded scholar counts by institution, including Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, UT Austin, Pittsburgh, Emory, and UCSB.
Swatch of white with a label (in another shade of white) that reads Pantone 11-4201 TCX Cloud Dancer.
White sign for the fall meeting of ARIAH - the association for research institutes of art history, held in Mexico City in November 2025
Getty Research Institute L3 level on the occasion of the summer solstice 2023. Overlooking what used to be an installation project by Andy Goldsworthy
Photograph of the city of Kyiv with buildings in the background and tanks in the foreground. Below is text on a coral pink background that announces the lecture “Ruined” on November 22 2025, held at the Getty Center
View of a white modernist building with a rounded facade, overlooking green hills, a view of the Pacific Ocean in the background.
View of an artificial pond with Chinese inspired buildings and lotus flowers
The print depicts the funeral procession of Pamphilj Pope Innocent X, which proceeded from the Palazzo di Monte Cavallo to Saint Peter's. The artist has identified various participants and objects of tribute involved in the processional including five pieces of artillery pulled by horses, German guards with pikes, members of the Palafrenieri family, trumpeters and others. A small portrait in the upper right hand corner displays the likeness of the late Pope. With Pecci-Blunt collector's marks in the lower left corner, which suggests transfer from another print's verso and a second, faint and illegible mark of the collector in the lower right hand corner.
View of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean, a sizzling orange disk descending in the distance over a ridge of clouds, taken from the Kona coast, Hawaii
Square promotional image with a black and white photograph of a ruined building with an arch in the background. It reads "Extinction" at the Getty Center and calls for applications for scholar grants in 2024-25.
View of a sun-filled room with people seated around a long wooden table. Papers, laptops, and water bottles are strewn across the table's surface. The group looks toward the camera, smiling.
Map of New England, with 5 dots in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. These indicate colonial era sites where late 17th C Yemeni coins have been found.
Screenshot of the Apple weather app with the forecast for Los Angeles for the next ten days - showing sunny days through next week
Evening scene of a smoldering landscape with lights and a smoky sky with a bright moon in the corner
Smoke rising in the distance and birds of paradise in the foreground
View of distant trees and cloud with a travertine patio in the foreground- smoke rising in the distance
View over a hilly landscape toward the west as the Sun goes down over the Pacific Ocean lighting up the sky with flashes of orange, yellow, and purple
Cover for the book "Mocha City," featuring a view of a Middle Eastern port city with a Dutch ship in the harbor. The image is rendered from the deck of another ship.
A closeup view of a worn-out metal stovetop coffeepot with a black handle and top, sitting on a table top.
A glass bowl full of brown pudding on a background of light brown panels and branding for Pantone's 2025 color of the year Mocha Mousse
View of a stone chamber with an open oculus revealing blue sky above
Black ceramic teacup with lines of golds across its surface. The text reads repair, Getty, Grants for Scholars and Professionals 2025-26, Due October 1, 2024
View of an exhibition at the Computer History Museum, featuring a wall panel entitled "Solving the Riddle of AI," along with a display of an old computer and more museum labelling.
A sign at the Getty Research Institute with a band of images at the top and white text on a red background below. Advertising the lecture "Going Viral in the Renaissance featuring Stephanie Porras."
Madonna with the Long Neck, an oil painting by Parmigianino. Large woman with flowing robes holding a very big baby. Figures looking on, crowded around the two figures.