Erin Migdol

Stories

  1. Made to Fade

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    Two photos side by side: the left is a sepia-toned screenshot of a web browser showing a hand facing palm out and the webpage title Artform; on right is of a negative on desk under lamp with red light

    For Phil Chang, the art of these photographs is in their disappearance

  2. Photography Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three

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    Four women wearing dresses and bonnets sit around a small table in a garden, next to trees and a high stone wall

    How we decided whether it was safe to display 150-year-old photos

  3. The 19th-Century Selfie Pioneer

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    Two images side by side; both are photographs of a man standing in a garden surrounded by tools and plants

    Before Instagram influencers, there was Hippolyte Bayard

  4. What Exactly Does a Registrar Do?

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    Person wearing a white lab coat takes a large work of art on paper out of a drawer in a storage facility

    As senior registrar at the Getty Research Institute (GRI), Lora Chin Derrien keeps track of the “treasure trove” of archival collections that come through its doors

  5. Why So Blue?

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    Dozens of sheets of handmade paper, some blue and some white, hang on beams in a wooden loft

    Inside the French mill where blue paper is still made the old-fashioned way

  6. What Makes This Statue of Hercules So Great, Anyway?

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    statue of hercules in a museum gallery, from knees up, in front of a blue stone background surrounded by stone Greek style columns

    Get up close and personal with a Greek god

  7. From Super-Nerd to Medievalist

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    A person looks at a medieval manuscript in a large, well-lit room filled with bookshelves

    Jump-started by her love of Renaissance faires and fantasy books, assistant curator of manuscripts Larisa Grollemond shares her passion for the Middle Ages with 21st-century audiences

  8. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Women in Ancient Rome

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    Four female figures in various dress, two holding instruments

    Podcaster and historian Emma Southon shares what you probably didn’t learn in history class

  9. 50 Years of the Getty Villa Museum

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    Vintage photo of the Getty Villa Museum building and pool, with people walking alongside the pool

    As it evolved from a private estate to a vibrant hub for antiquity, the Getty Villa Museum became a beloved Los Angeles institution

  10. Five Conservation Projects That Safeguarded Art in 2023

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    A person sits in a lab and uses tools to clean a small sculpture of a person riding a horse.

    From a tiny horse to a 13-foot bronze