Projects & Initiatives

Creating resources, opportunities, and communities for faculty and students

Exploring how journalist Ada Louise Huxtable introduced architecture to new audiences

Making African American art history more visible to the public and accessible to the scholarly community worldwide

Bringing international attention to the life and career of Venezuelan art critic, photographer, and art historian Alfredo Boulton

Exploring how art dealers and collectors transformed America into a major player in the global art market

Highlighting the impact of alchemy on art history

Reconsidering cinema within mainstream art historical discourse

Contextualizing the earliest known photographs of Qandahar to promote new scholarship

Inquiry into the Bauhaus and how its design principles continue to resonate globally

Interdisciplinary look at the innovative work of choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings

Interdisciplinary exploration of Russian futurist book art

Reconsidering the history of Brazilian art on its own terms

Updating the Getty Provenance Index® with 17th- and 18th-century British art transactions to better understand the European art market

New research on materials, techniques, and processes used by the most influential abstract modern artists in Latin America

Introducing HBCU students to the field of photographic conservation working with material from the Johnson Publishing Company Archive

Digitizing Diego Rivera’s 1931 sketchbook of California miners

Making Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s apocalyptic drawings digitally accessible

Transforming Pietro Mellini’s Inventory in Verse, 1681 into a critical digital edition for art historical research

Broadening access to Elie-Honoré Montagny's illustrated manuscript Recueil d’Antiquités

Making Ed Ruscha’s photo archive publicly accessible for the first time