special collections

The Ruins of Palmyra, Captured in Vintage Photographs

A glimpse at Syria and Lebanon in the mid-1800s.

Annelisa Stephan | October 1, 2015

A tour of the early printed page.

Sarah Sherman | September 23, 2015

In Early Modern Europe, sugar became its own art form.

Darra Goldstein | September 22, 2015

Inside the papers of the innovative and controversial curator.

How do you organize and catalog 1,200 posters?

Xiaoda Wang | August 31, 2015

A summer with the special collections.

Kevin Cruz | August 7, 2015

J. Paul Getty, the mysterious art hunter.

Sarah Glover | July 28, 2015

A life’s work devoted to the unique art of festival books.

Jasmine Larkin | June 25, 2015

Booker T. Washington makes an appearance in the M. Knoedler & Co. archive.

An old fishing boat inspires a fantastic tale of heroism and disaster.

Wine, meticulous receipts, and reimagined police tape in the curator’s files.

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