special collections

First Release of Getty’s New Research Collections Viewer Offers Digital Access to Vast Archives

A newly launched online tool provides a central access point for Getty's vast archives.

Nathaniel Deines | September 2, 2020

The archive documents her entire career as a pioneer of performance art and feminist art.

Amy Hood | May 14, 2020

Archival detective work will shed light on the pre-Hispanic past.

Annelisa Stephan | November 14, 2019

Creating an online experience from the archives.

Avant-garde pedagogical approaches are the subject of the exhibition Bauhaus Beginnings.

Lela Urquhart | April 1, 2019

Inside a book that is also a puzzle.

Marcia Reed | October 15, 2018

A summer intern dives into the origins and potential of photocopy art.

Juan Silverio | September 25, 2018

How a book on artists' books came to be.

Zoe Goldman | June 26, 2018

Photographs as memorial holders of an obliterated past.

Hande Sever | June 25, 2018

Twenty years of scholarship and collecting at the Getty.

Inside a newly catalogued conservation archive.

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