Artcyclopedia

Artcyclopedia is an online fine art search engine and "guide to great art on the internet." The site focuses mostly on painting and sculpture, but also includes some decorative arts, textiles and other artistic media. The site contains brief biographical sketches of artists and the movements they are associated with as well as links to other resources about each artist, including gallery and museum sites. A nice place to start when looking for information about an artist and artwork. The site does not contain pricing or auction information; artnet.com has a database of auction and gallery pricing information.

Example entries:

Malcolm Morely

Artists by movement: Dada

Arthur Lismer

The Art and Technology Program: 1967-1971 at LACMA

LACMA has put together a retrospective of the Art and Technology Program: 1967-1971 spend an afternoon on. Not that I did spend my afternoon looking at this site. I spent the afternoon working. But if I did have a free afternoon I would spend it looking at this mind-blowing catalog of the pairings of major California artists and technology corporations during the late '60s. Soo relevant on so many levels...

Jean Dupuy and Ampex

Larry Bell and the RAND Corporation

Robert Rauschenberg and Teledyne

Karlheinz Stockhausen and AT&T

For me, it's not too early to call this the best digitization project of the year.

Jurn.org: Open Access Arts and Humanities Ejournal Search Engine

Jurn.org is a search engine that indexes and delivers results from over 3,000 full-text English language ejournals and scholarly websites in arts and humanities. Most of the journals indexed are open access or provide mostly free content. Jurn is a welcome addition to the range of tools for searching the ever-increasing amounts of open access and other free scholarly resources on the web. Sites such as the Directory of Open Access Journals, OAIster and Google Scholar do a laudable job of tracking and searching much open access literautre, there are still many sites not indexed by those engines. Google Scholar also mixes up free and paid resources- many of their search results are locked behind subscription databases like EBSCOhost and JSTOR who make their bibliographic records findable by Google Scholar. While that strategy is wonderful for article discovery, it is a hinderance for students who don't have access to those resources.

Jurn is a Google custom search engine. As such, the full range of Google search modifiers can be used to limit and refine queries in the Jurn search box.

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