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A color photograph shows Diana Thater standing in front of a wall where projected light and shadow form large abstract shapes across her white blouse and the surface behind her.

How Artist Diana Thater and CMACC’s Cass Fino-Radin Are Rebuilding an Archive After Disaster

"Out of over 200 artworks, I’ve identified 55 that need to be located. We’re now working to find those pieces in institutions and private collections and digitize them so that I at least have a digital copy of the work."
By Dan Duray

With Soft Network, the Experimental Artists of the Past Get a New Life

In short, the organization supports artists and artist estates with challenging legacy needs.
By Elyssa Goodman

The Museum of Chinese in America is Bringing Its Archives to Google Arts & Culture

One year after a devastating fire nearly wiped out its archives, MOCA is reintroducing visitors to its vast collection digitally.
By Helen Holmes
The Paris Review Podcast.

The Paris Review’s New Podcast Proves Storytelling Isn’t Just for Kids

By Margaret Carrigan
Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland. Project, 1924–25. Perspective.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Archives Still Hold Mysteries Left to Solve

By Alanna Martinez
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 26: Joe Corre, the son of Vivienne Westwood and Sex Pistols creator Malcolm McLaren burns his entire £5 million punk collection on November 26, 2016 in London, England. Joe Corre burnt the rare punk memorabilia in protest saying punk has no solutions for today's youth and is 'conning the young'. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

Sex Pistols Archivist Johan Kugelberg on ‘Punk Rock Jabroni’ Joe Corré

By Justin Joffe
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - AUGUST 28: Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra and his team paint a 60 foot by 150 foot mural of musician Bob Dylan on the side of a building on August 28, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over the next two weeks, Kobra and his team of three Brazilian artists and two from Minnesota, will finish the painting of Dylan, a Minnesota native.

How Bob Dylan’s Analog Artifacts Have Powered the Digital Frontier

By Brady Dale
installation of photos, Kahn lobby

A Rare Glimpse Into American Photography’s Quirky History

By Daniel Grant
(Photo: Courtesy of Evie Borthwick)

Digging Data Out of Dinosaur Journals

By Brady Dale
CyArk uses light to scan and recreate the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium (Waikiki Natatorium, Flickr)

Nonprofit Makes 3-D Digital Archives of Endangered Heritage Sites

By Abigail Rowe
The Los Angeles Times is embroiled in First Amendment issues after a judge forced the paper to remove information from a story.

Tribune Writer Tweetstorms About Saving Newspaper Archives

By John Bonazzo
Mr. Alterman (right) (Photo by Richard Orjis / PMc)

From the Archives: The Avenging Alterman

By The Editors

Getty Acquires Robert McElroy Archives

By M.H. Miller
Wojnarowicz. (Courtesy Fales Library)

You Can Read David Wojnarowicz's Journals Online

By M.H. Miller

Bill de Blasio Has Fuzzy Memory on ‘Transcendental Meditation’

By Jill Colvin

Photographic Memory: Soho Photographer, Closing After Almost Four Decades, Seeks Home for Archive

By Andrew Russeth

Sontag’s Media List: NYRB, The Times, Penthouse

By Molly Fischer
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