art history

The New Face of Provenance Research

More resources than ever exist for researching artworks’ ownership histories.

Kelly Davis | February 27, 2018

Crowdsourcing is not “free” labor, and other lessons from our first foray into citizen transcription.

Concrete art in Argentina and Brazil, as told through papers in the special collections.

Zanna Gilbert | February 5, 2018

“When it came to race in the 1930s, everyday people just got it wrong.”

Linda Kim | January 31, 2018

An art historian discusses a German realist painter more people should know about.

The last installment about an exhibition featuring postwar Latin American art.

Friends and colleagues share their memories of a leading 20th century museum maverick.

A 17th-century Roman cabinet and a Bernini bust of one of its former owners.

How painters influenced writers in 19th-century France.

On Venice’s postcard-perfect Rialto Bridge.

Nicole Block | September 5, 2017

Inside the storied history of a great antiquities collection.

Inside 33 collaged letters from Joseph Cornell to Susanna De Maria Wilson.