Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Paint Splatters: Studio Art Resources

 Welcome to the Studio Art Resources section of the library!

This is an overview of some of the resources available to you and your students in our library.  The emphasis of this overview is online resources, which are readily updated and can be accessed from your office or home computer.  Many of them are freely accessible.  Please don't think this is a replacement of our print collection; the two collections complement each other.  We have included blogs and podcasts as well as image collections, databases, and links to some museum and art school library catalogs.  We have also included a section of Boston-specific resources, to assist you in staying updated on local events, and some career resources.

We do our best to make sure we link to current information.  Please note that the blog aggregators may include closed blogs.

We welcome our newest resource section, Apps, currently in beta.  Any feedback on mobile applications pertaining to studio art resources is encouraged.

We encourage you to post your class syllabus online.  We are piloting a program to have syllabi added as a library resource, and that information will help the librarians better understand your instructional emphasis and student needs, as well as being a resource for future faculty.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to email artlibrary@simmons.edu.

Online Image Collections

Many museums and other institutions offer extensive collections of images online, which may be used under fair use for educational purposes.  Image collections are a relevant resource, and can be overwhelming.  Below are some of the best in terms of depth, breadth and image quality.

Art Institute of Chicago
Getty Images
J. Paul Getty
Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collections
Museum of Fine Arts
MoMA Collections
National Gallery of Art Collection
NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Picture Collection
The Art Browser
The Walters Art Museum
Visual Collections
Web Gallery of Art 
Worcester Art Museum e-Museum
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Corbis
Art Resource

Bibliographies:

Valuable reference resources for artists, art history, and literature on art.

Looted Art - Bibliography of Nazi-era looted artworks
Degenerate Art - Bibliography of Holocaust-era artworks and exhibitions
Kathy Wayne's List - a definitive bibliography of art books, compiled in 2004.
Bibliography of the History of Art - European and American architecture, drawing, sculpture, painting, prints and decorative arts, industrial design, folk art and photography from 4th Century A.D. to the present.  Requires login.
Contemporary Culture Index  - free online collection of bibliographical information, assembled by librarians and updated regularly
Digital Public Library of America
International Bibliography of Art - scholarly literature for European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.  Requires login.

Databases:

We subscribe to several databases, providing access to hundreds of periodicals and images.  Many of these require the library login.

Art & Architecture Complete
Art FullText
ARTStor
Bridgeman Art Library Archive
arlis.net periodicals database (UK)
ERIC - US Department of Education
Film Literature Index - 1976-2001
JSTOR

Online Resources:

Area school art museums, museum collections

artlibraries.net - Online catalog for art history
WorldCat 
Artincontext  - information about artists and where to locate their work
Ryerson & Burnham Digital Collections  - Art Institute of Chicago
V&A Collections, including subject hubs, links to collections of articles
V&A National Art Library Catalogue
Watson Online (Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog)
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art
Amherst College Mead Art Museum
UMass Amherst University Museum of Contemporary Art

Blogs:

Smithsonian Studio Arts Blog
MFA in Studio Art (Maryland Institute College of Art)
Painter's Table
ArtBlot

Blog Aggregators:

Blog Metrics - top 75 art blogs by various metrics
Contemporary Art Top 100
Sustainably Creative
50 Incredibly Inspiring Printmaking Blogs

Podcasts:

Learn Out Loud - directory
Tate
National Gallery of Art Lectures
MoMA Talks - Curators, scholars and artists discuss modern and contemporary art.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Outside the Artist's Studio

Sources for Biographical Information about Artists:

Ask Art
Artcyclopedia
Dictionary of Artists
Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists

Allgemeines Kunsterlexikon

Career Resources:  

http://inside.massart.edu/Campus_Life/Career_Services.html
http://smartistcareerblog.com/
http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/careers/career-information
http://uncw.edu/career/artstudio.html

 Apps (DPLA):

Library Observatory
OpenPics

 

Miscellaneous:

Art Crimes -  valuable for its images of illegal artworks that may no longer exist
ChristusRex.org  - images of art preserved in churches, mainly religious themed
ArtNet - art auction information, prices and updates

Boston: 

http://bostonartists.blogspot.com/
http://blog.smfa.edu/
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/
http://blogs.massart.edu/library/
http://www.artsboston.org/
http://www.cityofboston.gov/ARTS/




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