paper conservation

Curating Prints and Drawings in a Changing Field

A Paper Project seminar participant shares what they have learned about the collecting and care for works on paper.

Jamie Gabbarelli | August 23, 2018

Trainee becomes trainer.

Inside the process of digitizing a vast collection.

In the digital world, what will happen to the photo archive?

Rebecca Peabody | February 10, 2016

How a drawings show takes shape.

Ashley Medina | February 9, 2016

How do you organize and catalog 1,200 posters?

Xiaoda Wang | August 31, 2015

From reference tomes to textile cuttings, a collection for every query.

Sheila Cummins | June 30, 2015

A handheld magnifying loupe helps conservators study historic photographs with the naked eye

Christine Lee | March 24, 2015

Why is contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto taking pictures of 175-year-old prints?

Annelisa Stephan | April 14, 2014

From Egypt to the 1960s, our Virtual Library offers art titles for free.

James Cuno | January 21, 2014

The artist’s remarkably detailed records offer a huge boon to conservation science.

Anna Zagorski | November 13, 2013

Studying a precious manuscript, page by page, illumination by illumination.

Kristen Collins | October 7, 2013