Art, Art History & Architectural Studies: Podcasts, Magazines & Web Resources

Online architectural library, including the International Journal of Architectural Historians, with a focus on Muslim cultures

Art book reviews from the Art Libraries Society of North America

Combines many of the country’s most successful art organizations, museums, local galleries and artists into one comprehensive internet resource, offering up-to-date listings of exhibitions, events and calls for entry of galleries and museums.

The Commercial Pattern Archive database provides a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1847 to present. Collections from the US, Canada and the UK are represented in the database which functions like a Union Catalog of pattern collections. The Pattern Archive is a project of the US Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Costume Commission. The cornerstone of CoPA is the Betty Williams Collection. Betty Williams, a theatrical costumer in New York City, pioneered research on commercial patterns in the early 1980s.

This website is devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital modelling technologies can be applied to the capture, representation and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures.

An internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. More than 2,000 institutions across Europe have contributed to Europeana.

The Timeline of Art History presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool. Authored by the Met’s experts, the Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.

Reviews of arts-related online platforms and resources by the Art Libraries Society of North America

Smarthistory is a platform where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise, offering over 300 essays and over 600 videos, which are being translated into dozens of languages.

The Archive contains the world's largest collection of photographs of ancient Greek painted pottery.

An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data.

Covers the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman world, providing access to digital copies of many ancient texts in translation.

An international initiative whose goal is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550).

A web-based, open-access, peer-reviewed annual, devoted to progressive scholarship on medieval art.

With a database of images, texts, charts and historical maps, Mapping Gothic France explores the parallel stories of Gothic architecture and the formation of France in the 12th and 13th centuries, considered in three dimensions: space, time, and narrative.

An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data.

An interdisciplinary collaborative research resource created by nine partner institutions to provide access to art historical, technical and conservation information on paintings by Lucas Cranach (c.1472 - 1553), his sons and his workshop. The repository presently provides information on more than 1,400 paintings including 13,000 images and 850 PDF documents, as well as 345 digitized and transcribed archival documents.

Exploring Rembrandt is a proof of concept developed by the Labs teams from Artstor and JSTOR. With it, you can view the high-resolution images from the Artstor Digital Library of five of Rembrandt’s most-studied works, as well as explore articles from JSTOR about the painting.

Electronic journal of peer-reviewed articles focused on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. 1400-c.1750), and in other countries and later periods as they relate to Netherlandish art.

Contains descriptions, extracts, and synopses of around 10,000 letters and 200 volumes pertaining to the Medici family, the Grand Dukes & Duchesses of Tuscany from 1537-1743.

Contains information from 1,280 inventories of goods (paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, etc.) owned by people living in 17th century Amsterdam. Drawn from the Gemeentearchief (now known as the Stadsarchief), the actual dates of the inventories range from 1597-1681.

The Yale Center for British Art holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, presenting the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period to the present day; however, the collection is particularly strong in the 18th century.

A scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.

Contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others.

The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)—a collaboration between the libraries of The Frick Collection, Brooklyn Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art—has extensive holdings of materials relating to artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). This online exhibition presents digital copies of the full run of Vienna Secession catalogs 1-23 (1898-1905) along with photographic postcards illustrating some of the exhibition installations.

Provides links to scanned images of original Dada-era publications in the International Dada Archive.

Provides links to various resources about the Fluxus Group in New York in the 1960s, as well as information about the New Fluxus movement. Here you will find bibliographies, videos, original scores, soundtracks and radio interviews.

Browse or search MoMA New York's extensive online collection.

Starting in March 2012 and lasting for 24 months, Partage Plus will digitize Art Nouveau objects, artworks, posters and buildings to create more than 75,000 items - including 2,000 3D models, of content for access through Europeana.

Publishes interviews, essays, blogs, podcasts, and reviews devoted to contemporary art, with an additional, non-exclusive focus on the region formerly known as Eastern Europe.

Inaugurated in 1995, Dia’s Artist Web Projects series is the longest-running program in the United States commissioning artists to create original projects for the internet. The series invites artists that do not typically work in the digital realm to realize projects that explore the aesthetic and conceptual potentials of the medium.

Features over 20 principle collaborators and is a weekly podcast, a series of objects, events, and a daily blog produced in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and New York City that features artists and art worlders talking about art and the community that makes, reviews and participates in it.

Parallel Studios has been producing, curating and designing small- and large-scale video exhibitions in Santa Fe since 2002. In 2010 they launched CURRENTS: Santa Fe International New Media Festival as an annual, citywide event. The Festival brings together the work of established, unrecognized and emerging New Media artists for events showcasing interactive and fine art video installations, multimedia performances and web-based art forms.

The official website of the Guerrilla Girls group, their projects and activities.

News articles on the latest events and artists in European New Media design

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. The Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art containing over 2,500 art works.

An online repository dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

A digitized selection of textual and visual documents related to Stewart Culin's important 1923 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, "Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly from the Belgian Congo." Includes correspondence, an exhibition catalogue, newspaper and magazine clippings, images, and other textual resources.

A research and reference center with over 300,000 still photographic images documenting the arts, peoples and history of Africa over the past 120 years.

An online database offering extensive biographical information about American artists, as well as international artists' auction records and images.

Collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities. The site was created and is maintained at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

The Yale Center for British Art holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, presenting the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period to the present day.

Publishes interviews, essays, blogs, podcasts, and reviews devoted to contemporary art, with an additional, non-exclusive focus on the region formerly known as Eastern Europe.

Video discussions of Russian works of art by Professor of Art History Marie Gasper-Hulvat at Kent State University.

This collaboration represents a virtual museum bringing together a representative selection of Islamic objects, monuments and historical sites from Portugal, Spain and Italy on the northern shores of the Mediterranean; Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt on the southern shores; and Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Turkey on the eastern coast. Relevant Islamic collections from museums in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom complete the virtual museum’s collections.

Over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history

The open-access Journal of Islamic Architecture (JIA) is a scientific publication for widespread research and criticism topics in Islamic architecture studies.

An open access, searchable web site featuring video and audio interviews, photographs, biographies, and professional resumes by and about Caribbean artists, RSS feeds of prominent Caribbean art critics, and other information on and by Caribbean artists, critics and research centers.

The International Center for the Arts of the Americas' (ICAA) digital archive provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.

A digital community and collaborative online forum for reflecting on issues of teaching, learning, and experimental practice in the field of art museum education.