Art, Design, and Art History

Global contemporary art events and news.

Keep on top of the latest art news, reviews and opinion with free daily blogs. The Apollo 40 Under 40 is a selection of the most talented and inspirational young people who are driving forward the art world today. he Macdonald-Kelce Library also subscribes to Apollo via several databases (sign into MyUTampa first to access).

Architecture news, including articles, contests, interviews, and more.

Art21 produces award-winning documentary films about the world’s most groundbreaking contemporary artists.

"The first art newspaper on the net." Features tons of content about current openings.

New York art news, reviews and culture commentary.

Offers video workshops on art techniques, events, and competitions.

The global art market news wire.

UK based online publication featuring news from museums and galleries around the world, with useful event guides and exhibition calendars.

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.

"Launched in 2010 by writer and curator Christopher Jobson, Colossal is one of the largest visual art, design, and culture blogs on the web."

A daily journal of international exhibitions.

An online journal of exhibitions and programs. "e-flux spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world."

Website for the biannual magazine covering the contemporary international art world, with a focus on emerging artists, designers and photographers.

A definitive resource for contemporary art and culture with an international exhibitions calendar.

Contemporary art and culture criticism .

A global independent think tank for museum and heritage professionals.

A blog about new media art, affiliated with the New Museum in NYC.

Art world news hosted by the Walker Art Center. Includes current discussions on design, education, film/video, performance art, and visual art.

"Abduzeedo is a collective of individual writers sharing articles about architecture, design, photography, and UX (user experience design)."

"Adweek is the leading source of news and insight serving the brand marketing ecosystem."

The blog published by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Website of the print graphic design journal that features a blog, essays, and events.

A blog and professional resource for illustrators.

A popular design magazine with news, events, essays, and criticism.

A curated blog of innovative typographic works.

"An inclusive framework for an open, equitable art history." Explore modern and contemporary artists and works by decade.

"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.

Provides good text and video overviews covering the major time periods of art history, arranged chronologically and by location.

A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives. Includes books, journals, posters, and more.

A directory of artists, artworks, and museums. See which museums house an artist's work.

"The leading marketplace to discover, buy, and sell fine art." Browse by artist, artwork, or show.

Art collections from 3,200 UK organizations featuring podcasts, online exhibitions, and engaging stories.

Artist database featuring biographies, price valuation reports, articles, photographs, audio and video clips.

Founded in 2019, the BCDA brings together scholars, students, museums and archives professionals and the public to collaborate and spread the story of Black craftspeople. Explore hundreds of collected records documenting the lives and experiences of Black craftspeople.

"Do you know Isaac Newton’s Theory of Colour? Or maybe Goethe’s? We present you with a total of 59 easy-to-understand, richly illustrated colour theories from the Antiquity to modern times: in short, a complete cultural history of colour written by Prof. Narciso Silvestrini and Prof. Ernst Peter Fischer."

A biographical dictionary of historians of western art written and maintained by scholars for the benefit of the public. This site seeks to compile the documented facts of an historian's life in order to serve as a background for understanding a specific text and the historiography of art.

A list compiled from the library at Carnegie Mellon University of artists' book collections in the US and Canada. Some universities have online exhibits and digital collections.

An online catalog of artists' books and publications.

Explore millions of artworks, artifacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

A portal to explore the world's museum collections online.

Collection providing virtual access to a premier collection of historic depictions of Rome amassed by Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929)

Open access Mexican culture portal (in Spanish).

"Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists who contribute because they believe that high-quality art history should be available to everyone. Smarthistory takes you inside museums and outside to ancient temples and engages in conversations about how to interpret and understand the images you’re seeing. "

Experience 360 walkthroughs of virtual gallery tours.

The Warburg Institute of the University of London houses an impressive manuscript collection, some of which is digitized. Search for specific iconographies, symbols, or key words, or browse by century/manuscript.

"Shazam for art." Take a photo of an artwork and instantly know the artist, title and price. (Free)

Smartify is a free app that allows you to scan and identify artworks, access rich interpretation and build a personal art collection in some of the world’s best museums and galleries.