cataloguing

Joseph Cornell’s Mail Art

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

Isabella Zuralski-Yeager | June 27, 2017

A Curio of the Late-20th-Century New York Arts Scene

A poster by Rea Tajiri signifies an important time in the video artist’s career

Mark Simon Haydn | May 5, 2016

Bringing Order to Harald Szeemann’s Unfiled Posters

How do you organize and catalog 1,200 posters?

Xiaoda Wang | August 31, 2015

Malcolm Lubliner’s Photographs of the L.A. Art Scene

Photographic portraits of some of the 20th century’s most notable artists.

B. Karenina Karyadi | May 4, 2015

Preventing Digital Decay

Digital files are fragile. What to do?

Teresa Soleau | October 20, 2014

Alphabet Szoup

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

Heather Courtney | June 26, 2014

Harald Szeemann, From Vision to Nail

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

Pietro Rigolo | June 26, 2013

The Man of La Belle Ferronière

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

Emmabeth Nanol | May 23, 2013

Getty Voices: Be a Photograph Sleuth

Meet Miriam Katz, solver of photographic mysteries.

Miriam Katz | May 6, 2013

Robert Mapplethorpe Papers and Photographs

The Robert Mapplethorpe archive is now available at the Getty Research Institute.

Annette Doss and Katie Duvall | January 28, 2013

Treasures from the Vault: Ray Kappe, Green Architecture Pioneer and SCI-ARC Founder

Researchers interested in studying post-World War II architecture in Southern California will be excited to learn that a new archive is now fully catalogued... Read More

Laura Dominguez and Suzanne Noruschat | November 16, 2011

Anticipating Mapplethorpe

Inside the Sam Wagstaff papers.

Laura Schroffel | July 25, 2011