General Resources:
Smart History:
Smart History is a free, multimedia "web book," modeled after, but seeking to
improve upon traditional art history textbooks. It includes scholarly essays on
artists, artworks, and periods in art history; video interviews with scholars
and artists; and (VERY RARE for this kind of site) highly reliable authors and
information concerning art history. Highly recommeded as a companion to
our art history textbook. (And one--like ANY source students utilize, be
it print or Web--that requires
citation should one use it in one's research!)
The
Artchive:
A phenomenal source for online images (both canonical and
marginal) by artists from the Renaissance to the present. A great site for
viewing images from class up-close-and-personal, as they have excellent quality
enlargements and zooms of many works. Check it out to help you with your
studying, or just for an easy way to browse more works by artists you like from
lectures or the textbook.
The
Art Newspaper:
A daily newspaper on international art, for up-to-the-second
news on museums, artists, and the art world.
ArtSource:
Another
good site for links to online resources in art history.
Art
Museum Network:
Fairly
self-explanatory...and useful for getting exhibition schedules for museums
and galleries around the world! Also includes a searchable database,
so that you can go right to the museum, artist or city that you happen
to be interested in finding out about.
Renaissance to
Impressionism:
Art
History Resources on the Web:
This site has organized extensive
links relating to:
17th
Century Baroque Art
18th Century Art
19th Century Art
...all of which include links from technique to countries to individual artists!
The
Triumph of the Baroque:
Website designed to accompany the National Gallery's
exhibition of the same name. An excellent resource for more information on
Baroque architecture.
Loggia
Art History Forums:
An online encyclopedia for research on art and the
humanities. Contains brief but succinct descriptions of periods and
styles, as well as links to related images and movements.
Catholic
Encyclopedia:
Considering the insane number of popes, nobles, and
monarchs we deal with in my classes, it's nice to have a one-stop source for
straightening out who's who in the world of Catholic art and history! (Not to mention excellent entries on
religious matters that affect politics and art of the period we're
studying.) Also has some nice entries on artists and art movements
considered relevant to the Church.
Web
Gallery online's Guided Tours:
These "guided tours" are interactive
"chapters" relating to subjects from our studies. These tours
show key objects and sites from different periods/places in art history
alongside historical information relating to these works and places.
Researching
Your Art Object:
An online guide
designed by an art librarian to help you research objects/artists that you are
writing about. Very helpful to guide students through all the intimidating
resources at your disposal!
Orientalist
Art:
A website dedicated to the art of European artists who
specialized in "Orientalist" paintings of North Africa and the Middle
East. (Also see the excellent, scholarly "Orientalism
and the 'Other'" website!)
Post-Impressionism to Postmodernism:
The
Surrealist Server:
A fun site that, in
addition to lots of good info on Surrealist art and literature, allows you to
generate "Surrealist compliments" (such as "I relentlessly desire
your custard tongue between my eyelids") as well as read your Dada fortune.
Surrealists
and Surrealism:
A beautiful site that gives a chronological history of Surrealism's
development out of Dada philosophies. Very insightful and scholarly.
Tout-Fait:
Marcel Duchamp studies online journal:
This excellent, scholarly e-journal is dedicated entirely
to studies of the work of Marcel Duchamp
My Data: portraiture "by
numbers:"
Ever wonder what your portrait would look like if painted by
Piet Mondrian? Well, now you can plug in your personal data and find out
what in De Stijl you look like!
Jackson Pollock "paintbrush:"
By clicking and dragging your mouse, this site allows you to
make a pretty amazingly reasonable facsimile of a Jackson Pollock painting.
Do
It:
A Fluxus-inspired site that combines "art instructions"
for audiences to perform. Includes contributions from artists like Matthew Barney, Pipilotti Rist, Yoko Ono, Gilbert &
George and Mike Kelley. (Also encourages participants to document and send
in photos of their performances...so if you "do it," you can get on
the site!)
@rTMark:
Aid in or just read about the wacky hi-jinx of the
international art terrorists, @rTMark. Home of The Barbie Liberation
Organization, Deconstructing Beck CD, and other pranks toward the common good.
(Collaborators include the brilliant DJ Spooky: That Subliminal Kid and
legendary copyright infringers, Negativland.)
Komar
and Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings:
Among
my contemporary art students, the most popular conceptual artwork ever! Talk
about "paint by numbers"--peruse a virtual gallery of paintings
created according to objectively gathered data on the tastes of countries around
the world. Find out what "America's Most Wanted" painting looks
like! (Calculated down to the size, subject, and colors "most
wanted" by Americans surveyed.) Very funny and very revealing.
Voice:
The AIGA Journal of Design:
This is the official publication of the American
Institute of Graphic Arts, and features up-to-the-minute information, ideas, and
research on contemporary design as well as design history.
3d&i:
A PBS-designed site that teaches kids how about design
history, "branding," and all that other commercial stuff that we take
for granted--but definitely fun and educational for grown-ups, too. Kids
can deconstruct and demystify the commercial world, designing their own
products, logos, and learning about great designers.
Guerrilla
Girls online:
Look into the recent doings of feminist avenging angels of
the art world, the Guerrilla Girls! Lots of collectible (and affordable) posters for sale,
as well as free image and sticker downloads so that you can join in the
cultural protests!
Rhizome.org
The New Museum of Contemporary Art's web journal dedicated to
news from the world of New Media art.
Pipilotti
Rist online:
A very kool, animated site (requires Flash plug-in) that
presents the work--videos, installations, and even music--of brilliant Swiss
artist Pipilotti Rist.
Dia
Center for the Arts: Web projects:
Komar and Melamid's project is just one of many sponsored by
NYC's Dia Center, which presents past, present, and constantly evolving web
projects by artists around the world.
Eli
Broad Family Foundation Resources:
An excellent
website for information on contemporary art, artists and the museums that
exhibit them!
The
Whitney Museum Artport:
The Whitney Museum of American Art's showcase for internet
and digital art. Also check out the Whitney's site for its 2008
Whitney
Biennial, the famous exhibition that spotlights avant-garde developments in
art across the United States.
Webart
from the Tate Modern:
London's Tate Museum of Modern art's new site for web
art. Includes not only art projects but critical writing pertaining to the
relevance of digital art and communication.
The
Alternative Museum:
An online "museum" of work by cutting-edge digital
artists.
Gallery
9:
The new media site for Minneapolis' Walker Art Museum.
Excellent digital projects, often produced in conjunction with their spectacular
contemporary art exhibitions.
New
Museum of Contemporary Art:
New York City's premier center for exhibiting contemporary
art by artists/curators interested in political and cultural issues.
P.S.
1 Contemporary Art Center:
Always on the cutting edge of contemporary art, the website
for Queens, NY's P.S. 1 galleries includes excellent interactive versions of
their current shows.
Journal
of Contemporary Art Online:
Online version of the Journal of Contemporary Art.
Includes excellent and thought-provoking interviews with artists making news and
influencing new generations.
Shameless plugs and feminist propaganda:
Women:
Shadow Story of the Millenium:
The New York Times'
excellent online "synopsis" of feminism and feminist issues, leading off with
Naomi Wolf's essay on the future of the women's movement.
Varo
Registry:
Looking
for information on any female artists, past or present? There's a
pretty good chance that you'll find her biography and/or examples of her
work here! This site also includes lots of great, cutting-edge scholarship
and criticism on women artists.
Women
Artist's Archive:
Site dedicated to sharing information on women artists in
history, developed by Sonoma State University.
n.paradoxa:
Self-described
international feminist art journal based in London, published by the
British art critic Katy Deepwell.
thirdspace:
a journal of third wave feminist thought
An academic journal out of Canada that focuses
on the work of young feminist scholars. Articles range from legal analysis
to literary reviews to pop cultural studies.
[Read
Maria's article on punk rock and feminism: "Oh! Dogma (Up Yours!"]
Bust
Magazine:
The same
"Voice of the New Grrrl Order" you know and love on the newsstand (and to which
I happen to be a frequent contributor). Their online version also includes a travel guide,
chatrooms, and one of
the largest 'zine links pages that I've ever seen.
Genders:
The
venerable journal on gender issues has gone completely digital!
Cutting-edge scholarship and cultural criticism on art, literature, and pop
culture.
Feminist.com:
Pretty self-explanatory. Not a terribly fancy site, but
loads and loads of links to and information on both academic and practical
issues related to women's lives.