Article Databases
Use these databases to search for articles related to your topic:
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles from art journals and museum bulletins. Coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994; full-text coverage for selected periodicals begins in 1997. Dates Covered: 1984-Present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full access to all journal, thematic and primary source collections on JSTOR which includes the full text of more than 2,600 journals in business, social sciences, science, and the humanities. Includes access to all journal, thematic and primary source collections including JSTOR Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Public Health Journals, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProvides full text from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Guide to current literature of architecture and design. Covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations.
Dates Covered: 1934-present. - Performing Arts Periodicals Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowCovers performance art.
- Bloomsbury Art Markets This link opens in a new window
A large collection of over 3,000 peer-reviewed scholarly articles on the art trade covering art galleries, auction houses, art fairs, dealers and selected individuals in Europe and North America from around 1900 to the present.
- Art IndexUse Art Index to locate articles from 1929-1988. Print Source.
- Bibliography of the History of ArtPeriodical index for art history scholarship (free online source)
- New York Times Historical Content This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the complete paper version of the newspaper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format going back to 1851.
Dates Covered: 1851-2017. - Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. It covers publications from 1906 to the present and over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion, in addition to conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.
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Featured Journals
- Art BulletinPublishes scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and critical reviews of the highest quality in all areas and periods of the history of art.
- Art JournalA peer-reviewed, scholarly journal containing scholarship and visual exploration in the visual arts.
- Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual CultureScholarly journal focused on the arts and visual cultures of global Africa, which encapsulates African and African Diaspora identities in the age of globalization.
- American ArtPeer-reviewed, scholarly journal dedicated to exploring the nation's visual heritage and cultural factors that have shaped American art from colonial to contemporary times.
- Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and EnquiryJournal of contemporary art that provides in-depth analysis of art and its social, political, and philosophical contexts. Each issue provides the reader with well-researched contributions that discuss each artist’s work from different perspectives. Contextual essays and other texts discussing events, works, or exhibitions further develop the thematic focus of each issue.
- OctoberOctober focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature.
- PAJ: A Journal of Performance and ArtPAJ offers extended coverage of the visual arts (such as video, installations, photography, and multimedia performance).
- Perspectives on In/stabilityEach peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary volume examines its theme through essays, interviews, and artistic contributions by individuals and teams from both within and outside the Art Institute. The contributions interrogate art, art history, and museum practice, prompting new, compelling conversations in dialogue with the museum’s collections and exhibitions.
- Perspectives on DataEach peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary volume examines its theme through essays, interviews, and artistic contributions by individuals and teams from both within and outside the Art Institute. The contributions interrogate art, art history, and museum practice, prompting new, compelling conversations in dialogue with the museum’s collections and exhibitions.