Gallery websites tend to vanish when dealers close their doors, taking decades of exhibition history with them. The New York Gallery History Project, a collaboration between the Contemporary Art Library and the Independent art fair, exists to stop that erosion. This week the project released eight new online archives of shuttered commercial galleries, adding to its inaugural archive devoted to the storied Jay Gorney Modern Art space. The newly published archives cover Real Fine Arts, Murray Guy and Orchard, among others — names that still carry weight for anyone who followed New York's downtown scene in the 2000s and 2010s. The project's aim is to preserve the records of respected commercial spaces in a form that art historians and researchers can consult freely, reconstructing exhibition histories that would otherwise survive only in scattered press clippings, old press releases and personal memory. The effort speaks to a wider anxiety about the fragility of the art world's digital memory. As galleries close at a steady clip, their websites — often the only public record of their programs — are left to lapse and disappear. By partnering with a fair that itself grew out of the downtown gallery ecosystem, the project is betting that the commercial sector's history deserves the same archival care traditionally reserved for museum collections. For researchers, the payoff is practical rather than sentimental: complete exhibition listings, installation views and ephemera from the spaces that shaped generations of artists, all in one searchable place. The project indicates that further archives are on the way, and its open model means anyone who watched these galleries disappear can start digging through their afterlives right now.