LibGuides: Visual Arts: Web Resources

Critical Thinking

The CRAAP Test
A list of questions to consider to help evaluate the information you find.
Thinking Critically About Web Resources
Article discussing points to consider when analyzing web resources.

Online Journals

Bibliographies

Bibliography of the History of Art
Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals covering European and American art from late antiquity to 2009.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
"The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection."
Smarthistory
Smarthistory provides access to essays that cover art and cultural heritage ranging from the paleolithic to the present. It is a collaboration between art historians, archaeologists, curators, academics and major collecting institutions. It is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org.
The Art Story
"We believe in a world where the ideas and aspirations behind wondrous art works are accessible to everyone to explore and be inspired by. TheArtStory.org helps millions of people each year understand and enjoy every style of art, from Classical Greek statues, to Dali’s Surrealist concoctions, to Contemporary Conceptual explorations."

Contemporary Art-Art21

"A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists."

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Between the Earth and the Sky

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Organizations with Online Exhibitions or Virtual Tours

The Curator Chats Series at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. These are video portraits from the curators themselves discussing exhibitions and upcoming museum projects.

Wikipedia

Opinions vary about academic use of Wikipedia as a reliable scholarly resource. Depending on content and editorial oversight, material can differ but can be a good starting point for research. Always check & verify the resources the article quotes.

Black Arts Movement
"The Black Arts Movement (or BAM) was an African American-led art movement, active during the 1960s and 1970s.[3] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride.[4]..."
Caribbean Art
"Caribbean art refers to the visual (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as plastic arts (such as sculpture) originating from the islands of the Caribbean (for mainland-Caribbean see Caribbean South America). Art in the Caribbean reflects thousands of years ..."
Harlem Renaissance
"The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement..."

Museums

Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) chartered the Barnes Foundation in 1922 collecting impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, including works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. He displayed them alongside African masks, native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork.
Hampton University Museum
Founded in 1868, the Museum is the oldest African American museum in the United States. The collections feature over 9,000 objects including African American fine arts, traditional African, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island, and Asian art; and objects relating to the history of the University.
Smithsonian-National Museum of African Art
Founded as a private educational institution in 1964 to promote cross-cultural understanding in the social sciences and arts, the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) became part of the Smithsonian Institution in August 1979, by enactment of Public Law 95-414.

Featured Site: Smithsonian Libraries Digital Collections

Archival Collections

The Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives
Assembled over forty years, the Billops-Hatch Archives at Emory University's Rose Library provides a major resource for research in African American arts and letters of the 20th century.
New York Public Library Digital Collection
"This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more."
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
As part of the New York Public Library System, it is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.