He said he was particularly proud of MoMA's acquisition of the Frank Lloyd Wright archive, together with the Avery Architectual & Fine Arts Library at Columbia.
"I spent almost every Sunday for a year putting the archive together," Mr. Saretzky said.
And we go into the archive together for the first time.
I tried to put an archive together, but nobody wanted to house it.
All you can do is stack movie clips from your video archive together into one bigger production.
Polanski, himself a survivor of the Krakow ghetto, and Harwood, a fellow Jew, spent time researching archives together in Warsaw.
It's an ambitious exhibit, drawing from more than 80,000 items in the library's own archives, together with loans from the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.
Last month, eight hundred and seventy thousand photographs, illustrations, movies, maps, and other media from the New York City Municipal Archives were made public in an online archive, together forming a remarkable visual survey of the city from 1858 to the present.
By contrast, Updike pieced his archive together himself and delivered the material several times a year, driving down to Cambridge from Beverly Farms, Mass., and carrying in tidily packed cartons.
"When we were originally putting the archive together, the Louis Armstrong programme was one of those we thought 'if only that existed somewhere', but despite our best efforts it just didn't turn up.
But by 2006 the security situation had deteriorated, and the foundation, which had been storing the archives together with other salvaged documents in a house belonging to Mr. Makiya's family in the Baghdad Green Zone, abandoned immediate plans to build a Baghdad museum or archive.
