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~ 2025 ~
"What Was Behind David Bowie’s Genius? His Archive Holds the Answers" - by Alex Marshall, New York Times, Sept. 16, 2025
"I’m getting old, I want to sell my collection, but I don’t know how" - by Susan Halas, Rare Book Monthly, August 2025
"New York Historical Acquires Bill Cunningham Archive" - by Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, July 25, 2025
"From Roman London, a Jigsaw Puzzle for the Ages" - by Franz Lidz, New York Times, July 22, 2025
"Is Biography the One A.I.-Proof Genre?" by Parul Sehgal, New York Times, June 13, 2025
"Finding the Pope's Roots" - by Henry Louis Gates Jr., New York Times, June 11, 2025
"John Steinbeck Letters and Inscribed Copies Among New Huntington Acquisitions" - Fine Books & Collections, April 30, 2025
"How Art Stars Are Made" - by Zachary Small, New York Times, April 27, 2025
"Piercing the Shadows of the Pope’s Favorite Painting" - by Jason Farago, New York Times, April 24, 2025
"Trump’s American History Revolution" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, April 19, 2025
"How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government" - by Jeremy W. Peters and Andrea Fuller, New York Times, April 18, 2025
"Pittsburgh’s Contributions to the World, Pt. II" - Pittsburgh Quarterly, April 17, 2025
"The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation" - by Michael Kimmelman and Lila Barth, New York Times, March 15, 2025
"Library Shines in Frick Renovation" - Fine Books & Collections, Spring 2025
"Rifling Through the Archives With Legendary Historian Robert Caro" - by Chris Heath, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2025
"The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It" - by Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2025
"TikTok Appears to Be Here to Stay. What Does That Mean for Us?" - by Brian X. Chen, New York Times, March 26, 2025
"Why do Companies Buy Memorabilia Like the Ohtani Ball and Skenes Card? It Goes Back to Babe Ruth" - by Brooks Peck, New York Times, March 25, 2025
"Angelina Jolie Wants to Pick Up Where Warhol and Basquiat Left Off" - by Melena Ryzik, New York Times, March 24, 2025
"A Guided Tour: Inside the Splendor of the New Frick" - by Holland Cotter and Adrianna Glaviano, New York Times, March 19, 2025
"Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements" - by Peter Ross, Smithsonian, January/February 2025
"Inside the Struggle to Preserve Georgia’s Butler Island, Home to a Notorious Plantation" - by Melissa L. Cooper and Sheila Pree Bright, Smithsonian, January/February 2025
"Inside of Herculaneum Scroll Seen For First Time Since 79 AD" - Fine Books & Collections, Feb. 5, 2025
"LA Wildfires Destroy Important Archives, Libraries, Historic Sites & Cultural Resources" - by Susan Halas, Rare Book Monthly, February 2025
"The California Historical Society Bows to Reality" - by Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Monthly, February 2025
"Lorne Michaels Archive Going to the University of Texas" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Jan. 15, 2025

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