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The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to announce Between Artists: In Conversation with History, a six-episode series from its podcast ARTiculated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art. This special series presents significant intergenerational dialogues between artists of the present and voices from the past.

The Archives of American Art is pleased to invite applications from college-level art history faculty to participate in a six-month virtual teaching fellowship that will run from October 2022 through April 2023. Anyone teaching art history at the college or university level, including part-time and adjunct instructors, is invited to apply. The fellowship will support the development of course syllabi and assignments that make central use of primary sources for teaching undergraduate art history.

The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the papers of noted critic, writer, and broadcaster Robert Hughes. Measuring approximately 28 linear feet, the collection documents Hughes’s life and multifaceted career through extensive personal and professional correspondence; notebooks; drafts of articles, lectures, documentaries, and book projects; audio and video recordings; photographs; press clippings; and other personal records.

The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to announce the election of George Frederick Mead Merck as the new chair of the Archives’ Board of Trustees, effective March 1, 2022.  Merck will succeed Bridget Moore, who served as chair of the board since October 2018 and has been named trustee emerita, also effective March 1.

The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution is pleased to announce that the recently acquired four volumes of diaries by art conservator and World War II Monuments Man, Lieutenant Commander George Leslie Stout are now fully digitized and available online.

The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, has acquired the archival materials of Jerry Dreva, the noted contemporary artist and founding member of conceptual rock band Les Petites Bon-bons.

The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to launch episode five of Articulated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art, highlighting the voices and stories of artists who participated in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, otherwise known at ACT UP, a grassroots group formed in 1987 to fight AIDS.

The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to announce Articulated: Dispatches from the Archives of American Art, a new podcast series showcasing one of the oldest, largest, and most respected oral history collections in the world.

The Archives of American Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Jenny L. Williams, as associate director for advancement. Williams will be based in the Archives’ Washington, D.C. Headquarters. For the time being, she will work remotely in Washington, as the Archives’ research centers remain temporarily closed due to COVID-19.

The papers of Nancy Holt (1938–2014), a founding member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, will now be a part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. Holt’s papers document the development of her art and ideas over the course of more than four decades, her network of artist peers, her personal life, and her care for the legacy of Robert Smithson.