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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

The personal papers of art critic Robert Hughes offer insights into his seminal series "The Shock of the New"

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

The papers of artist and educator Marjorie Kreilick highlight her contribution to mosaic and public art

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?

A collection of artist baseball cards, “Artball, from the artist Don Celender, arrive in the collections just in time for the World Series

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

For American Archives Month, Archives of American Art Staff are sharing tools, both analog and digital, they use to make collections accessible

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

Recent interviews conducted with Native artists are now part Archives of American Art's Oral History Collection

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

Gerald and Bente Buck West Coast Collector Matthew Simms reflects on two new collections of women artists now at the Archives of American Art.

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

Josh T. Franco writes about the large addition to the Emanuel Martínez Papers, now in the collections of the Archives of American Art, illuminating Martínez'a work with incarcerated youth and involvement in the Chicano movement

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

New Collections: Michèle C. Cone Papers

The papers of art historian, critic, and curator Michèle C. Cone are now at the Archives of American Art.

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

An assignment created in the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop proved that playing with failure and be fruitful, fascinating, and fun

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

For an assignment created in the Archives of American Art's Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop, Professor Elizabeth Hamilton had students use archives of artists with connections to HBCUs

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