Six Questions for Art Detective Victoria Reed
What does a provenance researcher do? And how does she do it?
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What Makes an Artist Great? Curator Scott Schaefer on Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer is a beloved artist. Is he also a great one?
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Field Report from the Art History Olympics, the 33rd CIHA Congress
The International CIHA meeting is the scholarly Olympics of the art history world.
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Why Have There Been No Great (Wikipedia Articles on) Women Artists?
What’s the top hit when you google Louise Nevelson, Dorothea Lange, or Betye Saar? Wikipedia, of course. The online encyclopedia anyone can edit, Wikipedia... Read More
What Is 砂金石? The Art & Architecture Thesaurus Publishes Chinese Terms
The big news in the Getty Vocabulary Program is that around 3,150 records in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus with one or more Chinese-language... Read More
Research Institute Launches New Search Interfaces for Library Catalog and Photo Study Collection
We’ve just made it easier to find research resources in the collection of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, one of the... Read More
Creating an Online Collaboration Tool for Scholars
Last month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an online... Read More
Symposium on Latin American Art: Live Online This Weekend
Update—videos of this event have been archived here. The three-day symposium Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century is... Read More
Rethinking Orientalism, Again
It’s been 27 years since art historian Linda Nochlin published her essay “The Imaginary Orient,” a critique of sexist and racist depictions of “brown... Read More