Treasures from the Vault

Frozen Bureaucracy: The Politics of Joyce Cutler-Shaw’s Ecological Ice Monuments

The surprising story of a monument's navigation through the government

How do you organize and catalog 1,200 posters?

Xiaoda Wang | August 31, 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.

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

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

A failed bid for Renaissance masterpieces is revealed in a collection of newly catalogued letters.

Silvia Caporaletti | December 29, 2014

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.

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