Outside the Box

Heinrich Geissler’s Groundbreaking Archive

A newly catalogued archive sheds light on how art history was written in Germany after the war.

Why did art professionals put on gorilla masks and take to the streets?

Pietro Rigolo | November 11, 2014

A look inside the artist files of legendary curator Harald Szeemann.

Inside the archive of one of the greatest 20th-century writers on architecture.

What drove artist Harry Smith to collect paper airplanes on the streets of New York?

Jan Bender | November 12, 2013

“The album narrates multiple stories that together provide new insights into the rich history of Persia.”

Frances Terpak | October 30, 2013

A peek into the sketchbooks of the controversial founder of Viennese Actionism.

From Leningrad to Washington D.C.: the complexities of an exceptional art sale

A five-person team at the Research Institute has finished cataloging Harald Szeemann’s monumental Project Files.

Pietro Rigolo | June 26, 2013

As director of the Venice Biennale, curator Harald Szeemann created new ways of showing art—and new places to show it.

Melanie Tran | May 31, 2013

A fake Leonardo? The scandalous court case of art dealer Joseph Duveen.

Emmabeth Nanol | May 23, 2013

The glamorous owner of the Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan was key to the careers of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, among many others.

Annette Leddy | March 28, 2013