Archives
The National Gallery: a place of learning in its (public) archive
The London museum has a remarkable archive and library, available to all, and a research strategy that includes the opening of a new research centre in 2028
From Wornum's diary to EM Forster's fire-watching: tales from the National Gallery’s archive
Nick Smith, the gallery's archivist, tells three of his favourite stories from 200 years of records at the Trafalgar Square institution
Getty Research Institute acquires photography dealer Peter MacGill's archive
The extensive archive, which includes client correspondence and daily records, will be catalogued over the course of the next few years
New non-profit initiative will chronicle the legacies of influential New York galleries
The Independent art fair has partnered with Los Angeles’s Contemporary Art Library to launch the New York Gallery History Project
Gavin Brown donates gallery archive to Bard College
Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies will receive artist files, catalogues and more from the more than 25 years the dealer operated Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Archival efforts at an artist’s foundation and two New York non-profits get a major boost
Hauser & Wirth Institute is supporting processing of materials from New York’s Drawing Center and Dieu Donné, and the archive of Jesse Murry
A fragile resource: new Pattani Archives space offers rare glimpse into world of influential Indian royal family
The venue will bring together photographs, works of art, political documents and more that showcase art in the country as it transitioned through independence
'Gaza' spray-painted on world's oldest cultural institution dedicated to the Holocaust
The director of the Wiener Holocaust Library in London described the vandalism as “an action that can only make sense to antisemites and their enablers”
Getty acquires artist Maren Hassinger’s archive
The septuagenarian artist, best known for her large-scale wire rope installations, has experienced a resurgence of attention from institutions and curators in recent years
Kunstverein Munich shines a light on its dark Nazi past for 200-year anniversary exhibition
The storied institution has opened its archives—parts of which were untouched decades—to artists and historians
Maya Picasso, daughter of artist Pablo and important archivist of her father's legacy, has died, aged 87
Her relationship with her father is the subject of an ongoing exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris
Confiscated photographs showing preparations for Hitler's 1938 visit to Italy are made public
Pictures capturing Rome and Florence prior to the Nazi leader's arrival were recovered by Italy's art recovery hit squad and are now held in the historic Luce film archive
How can live art be held in museum collections? Tate conference to share its conclusions
An online conference backed by a research project will explore how institutions can care for time-based, live and organic art
New interactive encyclopaedia traces history of Palestinian art and culture
Digital project from the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut explores how the Palestinian people have used art to express their social and political history
Why endow a museum wing when you can fund archives? Hauser & Wirth Institute gives $700,000 in grants to preserving historical records
Newly announced funding for the Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute follow 2021 grants to small nonprofits in Chicago, British Columbia and Hong Kong
Cape Town wildfire 'guts' university library that houses anti-apartheid archives and one of the world’s largest African film collections
Blaze has ripped through the Reading Room of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town
Christie's closes access to historic archive due to staff cuts
The vast collection of auction catalogues dates back to Christie's very first sale in 1766 and has been an invaluable resource for dealers and academics
Art library and archives at London's Wallace Collection could close to public as part of cost-cutting plans
Petition against the move claims that management want to ‘orientate the museum to income generation’
Building a picture of the pandemic: Smithsonian curators capture Covid-19 in real time
Museum curators chart the human angle of the crisis, but collecting material on recent events comes with ethical considerations
The deaccessioning debate: 1990-2020
The disposal of objects from museum collections has been a source of controversy for decades. Did 2020 mark a turning point in the debate?
Oklahoma museum receives vast archive related to 'Black Wall Street' and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Gilcrease Museum has also received a $300,000 grant to conserve and digitise the ephemera collection "so that these atrocities would not be forgotten"
Theaster Gates, Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman: the best of artist interviews over the past 30 years
The Art Newspaper's Review editor Ben Luke picks his favourites from the archive
Tate Modern turns 20
To mark the London museum’s big birthday, we have searched our archive for our favourite articles on the institution, from a critic's take on the café’s cuisine to an interview with Tate’s former director Nicholas Serota ahead of the Switch House’s opening in 2016
Digital technologies allow us to create precise copies of artefacts—but what does this mean for the idea of 'authenticity'?
Online book demonstrates the groundbreaking work by Factum Foundation to create high-resolution facsimiles but also raises questions of value
Market forces still at work: why we need to look to our past to understand our future
Our first collection of archival stories looks at the major financial shifts and trends that have impacted collectors and those in the trade since 1990—and continue to be relevant today
Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum acquires major archive of African American cinema
Although its building is still under construction, the institution is partnering with Lacma on a one-day film programme in South Los Angeles next month
Secret papers on famous artists including Gauguin, Renoir and Monet to be revealed
New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes
Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook project expands
Collection of more than 45,000 artists’ sketchbooks is planning to become a non-profit, and help establish satellite venues around the country
Revealed! UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s arts policy ...from 2004
As shadow minister for the arts 15 years ago, Johnson laid out his plans in The Art Newspaper
British Museum to display hundreds of thousands of archived artefacts in new storage facility
BM Arc will provide the institution with 15,628 sq.m to show its objects in greater context and increase public access