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Claudia Schiffer sitting at a table

What Does a 1990s Supermodel's Swimsuit Calendar Tell Us About Archives?

Connections between Colin de Land, the gallery space Four Walls, and Claudia Schiffer demonstrate how archival collections are interrelated

Detail of color screenshot of Judith Bernstein in front of one of her paintings wearing a black blouse and light-colored, chunky necklace holding her hand up in a fist as if making a point in conversation.

New Collections: Oral History

Painting sketch featuring a cardboard box in various shades of red, pink, orange, and blue, beside a small green can or jar with red and blue marks inside of it. Both objects are sitting on a green surface with a dark background, and various colors of pai

New Collections: Robert Bechtle Papers and Tom Wudl Papers

Grayscale image of Robert Hughes sitting on the sloping curve of a building examining something in his hands, with a modernist church in the background.

New Collections: Robert Hughes Papers

Cartoon for mosaic sketched on brown paper in various shades of brown, blue, terracotta, pink, and white, with stones in corresponding colors glued to the paper.

New Collections: Marjorie Kreilick Papers

Baseball cards with faces of artists superimposed on them fanned out on a desk above a blue box with text that reads ARTBALL, an image of a batter, catcher, and umpire, with a red circle that says set 1.

What If Major League Baseball Fielded a Team and the Players Were Duchamp, Calder, Marisol, O’Keeffe and Pollock?

Color image of white erasers in blue and white sleeves in front of a green and white mug full of pencils with a phone and jar of pens in the background next to a color image of a computer and microfilm scanner with images of scans on the screen.

The Tools We Use

Still from a video of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Smith wears a black shirt with her hair pulled back, gold wire glasses, and long beaded earrings. She is sitting in front of works of art depicting maps of the United States, several in color and one in blac

New Collections: Interviews with Native Artists

LEFT: Grayscale photographic contact sheet with images of Connie Zehr and assistants constructing a work of art. RIGHT: Page from a wire-bound sketchbook with a sample square of liquid polyester and notes made in pencil.

New Collections: Connie Zehr Papers and Cherie Raciti Papers

Grayscale image of Emanuel Martínez in a dark colored shirt and apron and light coloroed pants pondering a wall mural with two large faces.

New Collections: Emanuel Martínez Papers

Color image of various audio recordings, some with handwritten labels.

New Collections: Michèle C. Cone Papers

Composite image of four archival items: a photograph of a woman with her arms and legs crossed over each other, a red document with black text, a document with mineral samples and handwritten notations in ink, and an image of foil rubbings of a carpet.

How Playing With Failure Led Students to Archival Exploration

Benny Andrews sits at a table with a microphone, cups, and a pitcher of water with a yellow, green, and blue abstract painting hanging behind him. He is wearing a black button down shirt and raising his hands while talking.

How Artist Benny Andrews and an Archival Assignment Inspired an HBCU Student

A man points to a video screen in a classroom with students seated in the foreground.

How a Survey Course Assignment Connected Students With Contemporary Artists

Watercolor image of mountain scene with a cloudless blue sky, trees and boulders in the foreground, and the artist’s stamp in the bottom left-hand corner.

Chiura Obata's American Landscape Art

A photograph of a red book that reads, “Daily Reminders 1982” in white lettering. The book has yellow, green, blue, red, and orange strips of paint on it.

Join Us for On the Edge: An Event with the Archives of American Art and Bakersfield Museum of Art

Oil painting in dark brown tones, featuring a woman sitting in a chair wearing a dark dress and holding a young boy in a sailor suit.

Letters to Cecilia Beaux From Her Young Nephews Reveal Sweet Relationship

Detail of artwork with wayfinder symbol of family running with the word caution and machine stitching in various colors.

New Collections: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood

Detail of poster with grayscale image of storefront and blurry figures

New Collections: Art in General Records

Grayscale photograph of smiling woman dressed in a black top and pants with her right hand resting on her hip and her right hand next to her neck standing in front of an abstract painting on an easel.

New Collections: Nela Arias-Misson Papers

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