Bridging the Distance: Teaching and Curating with Mail Art from the Archives of American Art by Miriam Kienle

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Teaching with Primary Sources by Liza Kirwin

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Looking for What’s Not There in the Marcel Breuer Papers by Andrew Wasserman

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Dating <em>Miss Maude Adams, as “L’Aiglon”</em> by Leslie Anne Anderson

“…While organizing the 2017 permanent collection reinstallation at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, <em>Mythmaking and Truth-Telling: American and Regional Art</em>, I made discoveries in the artist’s papers at the Archives of American Art that allow us to precisely date <em>Miss Maude Adams, as “L’Aiglon”</em> and to better contextualize the painting within the intellectual milieu of its creation.…”
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Joseph Cornell. La modernità del marginale by Kevin McManus

“…The article is based on the analysis of materials from the Joseph Cornell fund at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Series 3 and 4 in particular (“Diaries” and “Sources”) reveal Cornell as a possible theorist for “plan b”, in several ways: the marginal, the obsolete, the stories of forgotten individuals and the newspaper scraps with “alternative” accounts on the lives of famous personalities. …”
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Pontus Hultén and the Quest to Bring Andy Warhol’s Pop Art to the Moderna Museet during the Cold War by Elena Sidorova

“…Based on the archives of the Andy Warhol Museum Archives in Pittsburgh, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington D.C., and the Centre Pompidou Archives in Paris, this paper reveals how and why Hultén exhibited Warhol’s Pop Art in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, by first including his works in the American Pop Art group show in 1964 and later organizing the Andy Warhol retrospective in 1968.…”
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