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2018

  • Oct. 24, 2018 | Press Release

    Archives of American Art Announces Pivotal Gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

    The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, today announced it has received a $5 million gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation to create an endowment to process and digitize material on art and artists from historically underrepresented groups in the Archives’ collections and the American canon, making them broadly available online. African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and women are typically underrepresented in U.S. museum collections.

  • Oct. 17, 2018 | Press Release

    Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Announces Winner of 2018 Graduate Research Essay Prize

    Michaela Rife, a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Toronto, has been awarded the 2018 Archives of American Art Graduate Research Essay Prize. This prize recognizes emerging scholars who advance the understanding of American art history through the innovative use of primary sources at the Archives of American Art.

  • Jun. 13, 2018 | Press Release

    Call for Essay Proposals: Special Issue of the Archives of American Art Journal on Feminism and Archives

    In support of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, the Archives of American Art Journal is planning a special issue showcasing new approaches to feminism, American art, and its archives. We invite proposals for manuscripts that ask: What constitutes a feminist reading of an archive? In what ways do archives serve or challenge feminist art histories?

  • Jun. 11, 2018 | Press Release

    Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic

    On July 13, the Archives of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art will present a symposium funded by The Keith Haring Foundation focused on memories of the AIDS crisis in the 1980's and 90's.

  • Jun. 6, 2018 | Press Release

    Archives of American Art Announces Major Promised Gift From the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

    The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art announced that it is the beneficiary of a major promised gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation: the expansive Roy Lichtenstein Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers comprising over 500 linear feet. The gift constitutes the most complete research resource anywhere on the art and life of the artist and his times, illuminating Lichtenstein’s wide-reaching influence and legacy. The foundation will support the digitization of the collection in collaboration with the Archives and will gift the papers in stages.

  • May. 29, 2018 | Press Release

    Archives of American Art Announces Digitization of Material Donated by Artist Matt Mullican

    The Archives of American Art announced the digitization of 77 notebooks created by the multi-faceted artist Matt Mullican (b. 1951) that the artist gifted to the Archives from 2014 to 2017. Available on-line at the Archives’ website, the notebooks’ depth of content include hundreds of drawings and sketches, conceptual frameworks, notes, lists, calendars, travel logistics, and diary entries. It is the first major collection from a Pictures Generation artist to be donated to the Archives.

  • Mar. 13, 2018 | Press Release

    Archives of American Art Announces Erin Jenoa Gilbert as Curator of African American Manuscripts and Rayna Andrews as Archivist for its African American Collecting Initiative

    The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art announced two recent appointments today: Erin Jenoa Gilbert assumes a new position as Curator of African American Manuscripts and Rayna Andrews has been appointed Archivist of its three-year African American Collecting Initiative.

2018

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