James Duffield Harding, Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence, before 1832. Watercolor. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.

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At the opening of Anthology Film Archives, November 30, 1970. Michael Chikiris, courtesy Anthology Film Archives.

A conversation with Kevin Bone, Architect, and John Mhiripiri, Executive Director, on preservation, popcorn, and the future. Read More

Auguste Renoir, Study for The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Photo: The Morgan Library & Museum.

An overview of a major exhibition examining Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s works on paper, opening at The Morgan this fall. Read More

Thomas Pynchon in 1955, before he disappeared from public view. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

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The Spinning Room. Photo by Adam Stech.

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