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Photographs of Africa from the Late 1800s

Six albums by French explorer Edouard Foà reveal African society at the turn of the 20th century.

Educating French children to value colonialism.

Isotta Poggi | February 24, 2014

A key reference database on art and architecture now available for free download.

James Cuno | February 20, 2014

Arresting portraits that evoke Africa's colonial past.

Isotta Poggi | February 17, 2014

“You’re only rewarded by any encounter with an artwork if you get something out of it.” How to approach Werner Herzog.

Arpad Kovacs and Anne Martens | February 12, 2014

Rare documents and photographs in the Research Institute’s collections tell the real-life story of key Monuments Men (and Women).

Museums and libraries have digitized millions of works of art. Now what?

James Cuno | January 29, 2014

A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Juliane Wattig | January 24, 2014

How did a 19th century scholar misidentify an Aztec sculpture as Egyptian?

Peter Bonfitto | January 13, 2014

New acquisitions provide researchers crucial context for two key international art movements—Jugendstil and Concrete Art.

Kim Sadler | December 19, 2013

Maps document the cultural encounters of the Spanish Conquest.

Kim N. Richter | December 5, 2013

6,500 newly digitized images depict the development of Los Angeles architecture across decades.

Laura Schroffel | November 25, 2013