Objects of Affection Collection
A database of human emotion.
Recent studies
- Objects in Limbo: A Museum Coined a Term for What It Could Not Prove, and It Is Sharper Than the Standard
- A Full Stop Is a Declared Gap: Provenance Already Has a Grammar for Absence, and Almost Nobody Reads It
- A Cancellation Documents Itself: Four Withdrawn Exhibitions, the Record Each One Left, and the Quieter Ones That Leave Nothing
- One Author for the Object and Its History: The Dealer Who Furnished Los Angeles, and the Archive That Convicts Him
- The Title Is the Gap: A Klimt With Thirty Five Years Missing, a Record Bid, and the Absence Nobody Declared
- The Brackets Came Off: Six Hopper Copies, a Title Invented After He Died, and a Catalogue That Marked Its Own Doubt
- A Date Nobody Wrote Down: The Starry Night, a Catalogue More Certain Than Its Own Prose, and a Finding Already Losing Its Hedge
- The First Network of Researchers in France: Joining Culture(s) de Mode
- Compassionately Sustain: What a Hundred-Year Library Asks of People Who Will Not Be Alive to Do It
- A Seat Where the Model Is Written: Objects of Affection Collection Joins the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group
- Of Whatever Geographical Origin: The Field a Standard Made Optional, and the Money That Stayed In It
- A Record That Discloses Nothing: Monet’s Iris, Four Lines of Provenance, and a Century Out of Sight
- Three Greens on One Bracelet: What a House Calls a Rock That Has No Species
- Art Basel Paris 2026: The Arithmetic of Who a Fair Is For
- The Clause Probate Breaks: An Instrument With No Reader at the Only Certain Moment
- A Bolt of Cloth Has No Custodian: Loro Piana's Other Channel, and the Record That Stops at the Invoice
- A Logo Is Not a Record: What the October Riots Cost, and What Nobody Counted
- A Project Is Not a Custodian
- High Line Art 2026: Public Commission, Private Capture
- A Replica of a Witness: Selva Aparicio's Childhood Memories
- The Museum With the Best Provenance in the World, and the Sentence It Cannot File
- Nine Fields. None of Them Is Provenance.
- The Audit File Is a Provenance Record of Labor
- The People Who Darned It