Monday, November 30, 2015
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Gardner Museum in the News
So I was watching the evening news last night, and there was a story about the Gardner Museum. Considering we talked a bit about the theft last class I figured I would post the story here. :)
Gardner Heist Video Brings in Tips, But No Solid Leads
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| Screen Shot of the Story |
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Leval On Fair Use And Google Books: A Sketch Of A Story | Techdirt
Very helpful article related to what we were talking about in class -and much clearer than I was -
Leval On Fair Use And Google Books: A Sketch Of A Story | Techdirt
Leval On Fair Use And Google Books: A Sketch Of A Story | Techdirt
Friday, November 13, 2015
Current Awareness -- 19th and 20th century Latin American Art & Architecture
Dear Professor Javier-Maria Dos Santos,
Speaking on behalf of the librarians and staff of the Harvard University libraries, and especially on behalf of all of us here at the Fine Arts Library,
Welcome to the Department of History of Art & Architecture and Congratulations on your recent appointment to the HAA faculty! We are eager to serve and support your research and teaching endeavors at Harvard. As the Latin American Art & Architecture History subject librarian, my primary focus and priority is to assure that you -- and by extension, your graduate students and PhD candidates -- have access to the latest, highest quality scholarly resources available! So in anticipation of your arrival, I put together a list of recommended resources that recently have caught my eye:
1. Smarthistory, a newcomer to the Kahn Academy's constellation of educational resources and services,
and
2. Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) are two relatively new pedagogical resource websites that have developed a set of prepared lessons/suggested lesson plans that guide users through the entire art historical canon spanning the ages from prehistory to the present day. Each lesson is painstakingly curated using a combination of scholarly essays, selections of representative art works usually with an online digital image, links to audiovisual materials providing further knowledge enhancement, and bibliographical lists of recommended supplementary reading. While not appropriate to your or your students' more advanced and expert research needs, these websites equip teachers of undergraduate-level introductory art history survey courses with many useful and necessary state-of-the-art resources and tools; for example, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jacqueline Barnitz' standard-setting college textbook -- an updated version available as of October 30, 2015 --
Twentieth-century art of Latin America: revised and expanded edition
The lessons that are relevant to the teaching of 19th and 20th century Latin American art history:
Art of the Americas After 1300
Outcomes
Workshop: forthcoming
Conference: forthcoming
Exhibition: forthcoming
Publications: forthcoming
Speaking on behalf of the librarians and staff of the Harvard University libraries, and especially on behalf of all of us here at the Fine Arts Library,
Welcome to the Department of History of Art & Architecture and Congratulations on your recent appointment to the HAA faculty! We are eager to serve and support your research and teaching endeavors at Harvard. As the Latin American Art & Architecture History subject librarian, my primary focus and priority is to assure that you -- and by extension, your graduate students and PhD candidates -- have access to the latest, highest quality scholarly resources available! So in anticipation of your arrival, I put together a list of recommended resources that recently have caught my eye:
1. Smarthistory, a newcomer to the Kahn Academy's constellation of educational resources and services,
and
2. Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) are two relatively new pedagogical resource websites that have developed a set of prepared lessons/suggested lesson plans that guide users through the entire art historical canon spanning the ages from prehistory to the present day. Each lesson is painstakingly curated using a combination of scholarly essays, selections of representative art works usually with an online digital image, links to audiovisual materials providing further knowledge enhancement, and bibliographical lists of recommended supplementary reading. While not appropriate to your or your students' more advanced and expert research needs, these websites equip teachers of undergraduate-level introductory art history survey courses with many useful and necessary state-of-the-art resources and tools; for example, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jacqueline Barnitz' standard-setting college textbook -- an updated version available as of October 30, 2015 --
Twentieth-century art of Latin America: revised and expanded edition
The lessons that are relevant to the teaching of 19th and 20th century Latin American art history:
Art of the Americas After 1300
illustrate all too well the paucity of scholarly recognition and/or documentation of the contributions of Latin American artists in the 1800s and 1900s, with the scant coverage that exists focusing almost exclusively on Mexican artists! These omissions certainly provide fuel for lively discussion and debate!
In the category of New Additions to the WDL collections, I'd like to call attention to the February 18, 2015 contributions by the National Library of Colombia (Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) from their Colección Comisión Corográfica of 19th century watercolors by Manuel Maria Paz (1820-1902) (17 items: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9096-http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9112) and by Carmelo Fernández (1809-1887) (8 items: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9113-http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9120).
Another fascinating collection that's new to WDL are the 966 political cartoons and caricatures drawn from the pages of the El Mosquito Newspaper Collection contributed by the National Library of Argentina (Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina).
4. Boundless Reality: Traveler artists' landscapes of Latin America An ongoing exhibition at Hunter College as part of the Cisneros Initiative for Latin American Art, supported by the Fundación Cisneros, Collección Patricia Phelps De Cisneros
5. Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
This self-described "Trusted Internet portal for Latin American Studies content since 1992" is veritably encyclopedic in scope and provides users three research pathways by which to navigate its vast holdings: Resource Guide by Subject, Resource Guide by Region (interactive map), and Digital Initiatives. Art, Architecture and Museums appear among the options listed under the Resource Guide by Subject's Humanities subcategory. The lengthy list of institutions and their links displayed under each of these headings are organized into three further groupings: Countries, Regional Resources, International... Although most of the links work and the comprehensive institutional directory is still up-to-date and authoritative as of this writing, LANIC's visitors are greeted with this disclaimer:
This self-described "Trusted Internet portal for Latin American Studies content since 1992" is veritably encyclopedic in scope and provides users three research pathways by which to navigate its vast holdings: Resource Guide by Subject, Resource Guide by Region (interactive map), and Digital Initiatives. Art, Architecture and Museums appear among the options listed under the Resource Guide by Subject's Humanities subcategory. The lengthy list of institutions and their links displayed under each of these headings are organized into three further groupings: Countries, Regional Resources, International... Although most of the links work and the comprehensive institutional directory is still up-to-date and authoritative as of this writing, LANIC's visitors are greeted with this disclaimer:
Please note that as of July 2015, this page is no longer being actively updated or maintained. The page remains at this address as an archival and research resource. If the page is updated in the future, this notice will be removed. You can view the history and evolution of this page by copying and pasting the URL above into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. You may also wish to consult the list of currently supported
6. LLILAS Benson Digital Collections.
6. LLILAS Benson Digital Collections.
7. International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas -- Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publication Project The ICAA@MFAH, like LANIC and LLILAS, is an invaluable and almost exhaustively comprehensive font of the representative 20th century art historical documentation from practically every country and region of Latin America and the Caribbean! Two of the latest News items that furnish good examples of this remarkable resource are:
- Now on view: The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the MFAH at Google Art Project! As of July of this year, this enormous collection
Perhaps the most exciting ongoing ICAA@MFAH project is the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art (Book Series). The ICAA projects an ambitious 13 volumes of this anthology series comprising all the most seminal documents written by and/or about 20th century Latin American artists and the critical issues, aesthetic philosophies, manifestos, reviews, etc. that informed their art. The first volume, Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino? was published in 2012; volume II, National Imaginaries/Cosmopolitan Identities, is scheduled for immanent publication at the end of 2015; and volume III, New World Geometric and Constructive Utopias, anticipates publication in Winter 2017. A PDF of the Table of Contents for volume I, Resisting Categories is available for download.
8. The constellation of institutions that make up The Getty have a couple of interesting projects from the last 5 years and many still in the offing:
Introduction by Dawn Ades
and
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
Edited by Dawn Ades, Rita Eder, and Graciela Speranza
This past exhibition (@Getty Research Institute -- GRI -- October 2, 2012-April 14, 2013) examined and celebrated three Parisian ex-patriot Surrealist writers and artists who founded the Dyn journal in Mexico City, and the Mexican Surrealists with whom they collaborated on the six Dyn issues that appeared from 1942 to 1944. You are invited to browse the exhibited works via a slideshow, and to take a virtual tour of the gallery. In addition, the webpage provides links to two related publications:
Annette Leddy and Donna Conwell
Introduction by Dawn Ades
and
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo MuertoEdited by Dawn Ades, Rita Eder, and Graciela Speranza
and a plethora of multimedia links to material related directly to the exhibition or related to the broader theme of Surrealism in Latin America.
And two further Active Projects at the GRI piqued my interest:
Brazilian Art History
Reframing the narrative of art history in ways that respond to the specific conditions of Brazil, this project emphasizes the country's dynamic cultural encounters both internally and beyond its borders, as opposed to an older model that sought to identify what was essentially Brazilian about Brazilian art. Project participants are scholars of different periods of Brazilian art, ranging from precontact through the 20th century, and they specialize in media as diverse as feathers, architecture, painting, and new media. Outcomes Publication: The Art and Art Histories of Brazil: Reconnecting Traditions (forthcoming) |
The Material of Form: Abstraction and Industrialism in Mid-Century Argentina and Brazil
Outcomes
Workshop: forthcoming
Conference: forthcoming
Exhibition: forthcoming
Publications: forthcoming
9. These two Yale University LibGuides really stand out for the superior guidance, coverage, and usability they offer researching scholars:
and
Home - Arts Research in International Collections - LibGuides at Yale University / Latin America, Caribbean, & Iberia - Arts Research in International Collections - LibGuides at Yale University
A guide to international arts resources, with a focus on contemporary art and architecture.
10. MoMA Multimedia | Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 - The Poetics of Development, pt. 1
and The Poetics of Development, pt. 2
A 2013 film project on 7 screens, simultaneously depicting architectural and cultural developments in 7 major Latin American cities:
and The Poetics of Development, pt. 2
A 2013 film project on 7 screens, simultaneously depicting architectural and cultural developments in 7 major Latin American cities:
Buenos Aires, Montevideo, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, Havana, and Mexico City.
And there is so so much more still to evaluate, share, and discuss! I look forward so very much to working with you in the coming years!
Sincerely,
Teresa Peacock, Harvard Fine Arts Librarian
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Current Awareness: Outsider Art
Dear Mr. Indiana Jones,
Thank you for your query regarding outsider art. There are many excellent resources available online to supplement your research for the upcoming exhibition, and I have assembled ten of the most helpful for you to look over and serve as a jumping off point. Please let me know if you have any questions, or would like to pursue a particular area, since the field of outsider art is quite broad!
1. INTUIT is a non-profit organization based in Chicago whose mission is to collect, exhibit, and educate the public about outsider art. Established in 1991, they have a collection of over a thousand works of art, present exhibitions, publish The Outsider magazine, and frequently hold events. They are a wonderful institution, passionate about outsider art and artists.
2. Raw Vision Magazine is a high-quality quarterly magazine first published in 1989 with the intention of bringing outsider art to a wider audience. They take an international focus, and feature new discoveries of outsider artists and explore exhibitions and publications of note in the field. The museum library even has a subscription, so if you'd like any particular issues, I'd be happy to make them available to you.
3. The Outsider Art Fair has been exhibiting outsider art and artists in New York City for over twenty years. Despite a somewhat rocky history of relocations and changing ownership, the fair remains a staple of the New York art scene, giving artists the chance to have booths to display and sell their art and interact with their audience. A resurgence in the past couple of years has even inspired an Outsider Art Fair in Paris in 2013.
4. Detour Art is a blog showcasing outsider artists and locations of displays, with new artists and sites added weekly. Each artist gets their own blog post, describing their art and the context of it, as well as giving a biography of the artist and pictures of the art. The same is done for sites, describing and photographing the location and the art display and the artists involved, if available. Detour Art also collects links to outsider art in the news, reference websites, museums, galleries, and books on the field of outsider art.
5. The Archives of American Art is a part of the Smithsonian institution and features over 20 million records and papers focusing on visual art in America. Though it does cover all visual arts, not just outsider art, the Smithsonian is an important resource and loan out documents and other items for exhibition. They also have many resources on particular artists available online.
6. Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne is the brainchild of Jean Dubuffet, the inventor of the term "l'art brut," to refer to art outside the mainstream, or art created by artists without formal training. It is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, with a collection of over 63,000 works by 1000 artists. The website also provides links to news on research in the field, as well as information on their collections and exhibits.
7. Outside In is a UK-based organization that works to create a platform for artists who have found it challenging to enter into the art world, whether because of health, disability, social circumstance, or isolation. They provide training for artists as well as organizations, and maintain a gallery featuring artists from across Sussex. They also provide links to further reading, and publish a blog and newsletter.
8. American Folk Art Museum is a museum in New York City dedicated to research, exhibitions, and education centered on American folk art, a subset of outsider art. Their collection features over seven thousand works from the eighteenth century to the present, and cover all mediums, from quilts to sculpture to portraits. Their online resources include digitized artwork, the library and archives, Folk Art Magazine (their publication), and various educational resources.
9. SPACES, or Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments, is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying and preserving what they call Art Environments, which they define as immobile constructed works of any medium that are intended to be viewed as a whole, not in discrete pieces. Some exist indoors and some out, some are created by trained artists but many are not, and they seek to preserve as many as they can, through photography and description as well as the actual preservation of the space itself. Their website features many online resources, such as their digital archives of preserved spaces, a blog, and preservation resources.
10. Out of Art is a Dutch and English magazine recently translated into English in the hopes of reaching a wider audience. They publish twice a year, each issue on a different theme, and have articles on artists, exhibits, collections, other publications, and inspirational locations.
I hope these resources are helpful to you as you research for the exhibit. Again, if you have any questions, or would like further resources on a particular topic, do let me know.
Sincerely,
Kyle Huck, Librarian
(Current Awareness assignment, Librarian in a museum of Modern art for a curator seeking to do an exhibit on outsider art.)
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Twitter Outreach!
I came across this neat Twitter (is that what you call a singular handle??) today and thought I'd share with the class: a Twitter user has created a bot with its own handle whose sole purpose is to randomly tweet open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. While it has no official Met affiliation, it's an interesting way to encourage people to connect with the collection.
Check it out @museumbot!
Dear Dr. Rust,
1.
Arte
al Día
b.
Arte
al Día is a bilingual quarterly magazine that publishes four times a year and
provides content that includes artist profiles, exhibition reviews, interviews
curators as well as collectors, and general articles revolving around Latin
American art.
2.
Art
Nexus
b.
Art
Nexus website itself is a great starting point as it has many resources such as
news articles on recent and upcoming exhibitions on Latin American art as well
as auction results. Art Nexus also has a quarterly magazine containing
additional articles and resources that would be of use.
3.
Arts
Journal
b.
Arts
Journal is a good resource in general for current articles involving the art
world. While it is not specifically dedicated to Latin American art there are
some good articles regarding it that I think it should be checked out as they
stay quite up to date.
4.
Latin
American Art Journal
b.
The
Latin American Art Journal provides information on Latin American Visual Arts
through articles covering exhibitions, interviews with artists and collectors,
recent developments in the field, and more.
5.
Artstor
b.
Artstor
is a very large online image database that could be a great resource. You are
able to search specifically for Latin American art and limit it down to
specific countries if desired. As there are so many items within the database
it should aid in finding specific materials you may be searching for.
6.
Colección
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
b.
The
CPPC was founded in the 1970s and deals directly with Latin American art. Their
website has news on current and upcoming exhibitions and programs as well as
host live debates for discussion.
7.
Museum
of Fine Art Houston
b.
The
Museum of Fine Arts in Houston has some great collections of Latin American art.
They have a core collection of modern
and contemporary art with more than 550 works from Mexico, Central and South
America, and the Caribbean, as well as by Latino artists from within the United
States.
8.
International
Center for the Arts of the Americas
b.
The ICAA
is the research institution with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The main
project of the ICAA is “Documents of
20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art” with this program they provide access
to more than 10,000 primary sources and documents tracing the development of
20th-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United
States. Since it is free access this is definitely a great resource.
9.
Survey of Archives of Latino and Latin
American Art.
b.
The Museum of Modern Art Library conducted
a survey of archives that documented Latin American art in New York. This
website provides “researchers with an overview of each archival collection
surveyed and highlights their particular assets in order to facilitate access
to materials and promote research on Latino art.” On the site there is a PDF
version available for download with the results. This could be a great resource
to know which institutions have information specifically on Latin American art.
10.
Latin
American Art
b.
This
site promotes Latin American galleries,
artists, museums and events. Their events and exhibition sections are very up
to date and a great resource for current events.
All the best,
Stephanie Schaff
Art Librarian
Monday, November 9, 2015
More about Iconclass
Hello class!
When I was researching the Rijksmuseum and the Iconclass system, I found a blog by Matthew Lincoln that has a great explanation and history of Iconclass. He also breaks down, by year, the number of images the Rijks uses Iconclass on. It is an interesting to poke through and check through the information.
You can find it here: http://matthewlincoln.net/2013/09/18/iconclass-and-charting-the-rijksmuseum.html
Enjoy!
Rebekah
When I was researching the Rijksmuseum and the Iconclass system, I found a blog by Matthew Lincoln that has a great explanation and history of Iconclass. He also breaks down, by year, the number of images the Rijks uses Iconclass on. It is an interesting to poke through and check through the information.
You can find it here: http://matthewlincoln.net/2013/09/18/iconclass-and-charting-the-rijksmuseum.html
Enjoy!
Rebekah
Latin American art exhibition (current awareness)
Dear Ms. Estevez, Curator of Latin American Art
I am excited to hear
that you are interested in curating a show on Latin American art in the 19th
and 20th centuries. I have provided some useful current resources to
assist in your planning. Of course I realize this will be a huge undertaking,
so I have included a range of materials to get you started. When you have more
specific information on the details of the show, or if you need more of a
particular kind of resource, I will be happy to give you a more focused
selection. As always, the library’s print collection is available for your use,
and can be searched via our online catalog and if there are materials you would
like us to acquire, please just send a request.
General art news
sites with relevant articles:
Art News
Art News is a great source for current articles. I would
especially point you towards the article “Are U.S. Art Museums Finally Taking
Latin American Art Seriously? http://www.artnews.com/2014/05/15/latin-american-art-in-u-s-museums/
This article from last year includes a well-researched list
of recent exhibitions of Latin American art in respected U.S. museums, and
could serve as a starting place to see what has been done, and where there is
room for more scholarship.
Arts Journal
Arts Journal also has some good articles for current news on
Latin American art in museums, notably an article from the LA Times gives a
very thorough review of the Latin American Architecture show at the MOMA in New
York. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-modernism-moma-latin-america-architecture-show-20150505-column.html
Online open access
journals specific to Latin American art
Latin American Art
Journal
The Latin American Art Journal is a frequently updated site
with news, exhibitions, interviews, and information on Latin American artist
showing now. This journal could be an invaluable resource in collecting
contemporary criticisms of previous shows of a similar nature.
Arte del Día
Arte del Día is an international bilingual journal that
publishes four times a year and has some good online content as well, including
museum exhibitions and collections and artist profiles
Art Nexus
Art Nexus provides news, gallery and exhibition guides, and
possibly most valuably, auction results for Latin American art that has been on
the market recently. Art Nexus publishes 4 times a year, and will provide great
up to date information.
Latin American
artistic Organizations and museums
Latino Art Inc.
This organization may be based in Milwaukee, but it provides
programming information and current news on Latin American Artists in more than
just the visual arts. Certainly good for a perspective provided from within the
Latin American community and for diversity of media
Museum of Latin
American Art
This west coast museum could be a potential lender to the
exhibition, I have included this as a resource so that you can peruse their
collection, which is not entirely available online. There are, however, images
and information on current and past exhibitions that you may find helpful.
Books (including
exhibition catalogs)
New territories : laboratories for design, craft and
art in Latin America, by owery Stokes Sims; Mari Carmen Ramírez; et
al.
For some information on modern Latin American Craft
movements, this could be a good resource. If you decide to focus on crafts, I
can find more resources that deal with that more specifically
Our America: The
Latino Presence in American Art by E Carmen Ramos (exhibition catalog)
This book was published by the Smithsonian and discusses
Latino influence on American art, or rather how it has been integral to the
development of American National artistic culture.
Order, chaos, and the
space between : contemporary Latin American art from the Diane and Bruce Halle
Collection by Beverly Adams and Vanessa K Davidson of the Phoenix
Art Museum (exhibition catalog)
This catalog comes from an exhibition of Latin American
Artists that play with the creative process. This catalog may be more
contemporary than you are looking for, as it deals with 20th and 21st
century artists, instead of 19th, but it could be useful to look at
how more recent art has been presented.
Permission to be
global: Latin American art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection by
Jen Mergel et al. (exhibition catalog)
This catalog for the first Latin American exhibition held at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston focuses on cultural exchange between several
dozen Latin American artists as well as the power dynamics of globalization.
Please be in touch with any questions or requests for more information.
Best,
Allie Copeland
Librarian at a large encyclopedic museum.
Current Awareness Blog Post
For the purposes of this assignment, I chose to be an art librarian in a large museum, writing a letter to a new curator who specializes in Latin American Art.
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
November 9, 2015
Ms. Amelia Jones,
As the Head Librarian here at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, I
would like to congratulate you on becoming our newest curator. Since you
specialize in Latin American art from the 19th and 20th centuries, I thought I
would take the initiative and provide you with a list of resources you might
find helpful. The resources listed below provide a general overview and
highlight current issues in the world of Latin American art, but if you ever
need help on a more specific topic for a future exhibition, please let me know
and I will be happy to assist you.
Sincerely,
Donna Marchessault
ARCHIVES
This archive houses over 150 collections from artists, art critics,
writers, gallery records, artist files, art historians, and curators of Latin
American art. All of their finding aids are available online, and while only a
few of the collections have been digitalized, a majority of them are on
microfilm and are available through interlibrary loan.
Supported by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at
the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, this is an ongoing project to create
a digital archive to address the lack of primary sources available on Latin
American art. Currently the archive houses almost 7,000 digital records
from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, and Latino USA and covers such topics as artistic movements and
writings by artists, critics, and curators. The archive is completely open
to the public.
ARTIST AND GALLERY LISTINGS
Art-Collecting.com is an online resource that provides gallery
guides and listings of art services, museums, and non-profit art organizations
so as to showcase information on the collection, buying, and selling of visual
art. They have over 4000 gallery guides with a special section on Latin
American art galleries. It includes galleries from Argentina, Bolivia,
Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela, to name a few. Additionally, they provide
resources in the form of links to a variety of art fairs, articles, books,
blogs, and magazines on Latin American art.
This site is committed to promoting Latin
American art through the listing of artists, galleries, museums,
auction houses, and exhibitions. They have over 6,000 artists on their site and
provide a brief biography on each as well as images of all their know works and
current exhibitions. Their lists of galleries and museums total almost 13,000
and are located all over the globe.
BLOGS AND
COLLABORATIVE WEBSITES
Artstor, a nonprofit with a mission to use digital images and media to
enhance scholarship and education, runs a blog in order to highlight new
additions to their services. While this blog deals with fine art in general,
one can search the blog by category, in this case Latin American art, to find a
virtual treasure trove of information.
CPPC is a foundation that was founded in the 1970s that hopes to nurture
an international dialogue about Latin American art and ideas. They highlight
various exhibitions and publications, while providing grants for research and
artist production. Additionally, the site is specifically designed to create a
live online community for discussion and reflection on Latin American art. To
this end, they host live debates. The two most recent debates were: "Does
the Public have a Right to Culture?" and "The Tropical: Resistance or
Cultural Tourism?"
PUBLICATIONS
Arte al Día is a bilingual quarterly magazine that features profiles on
current artists, reviews of current exhibitions on Latin American art
worldwide, and interviews from both curators and collectors of Latin American
art. They are currently on issue 149, and their website has digital copies of
the magazine since their July 2001 edition. Also on their website are a current
news blog and videos of some of the exhibitions featured in their
articles.
Universes in Universe, or UiU, proclaims itself to be one of the oldest
and most well-known art websites in the world.
UiU was developed by Gerhard Haupt, a German curator and art critic, and
focuses on bringing attention to art from Latin American, Asia and Africa. They
publish reviews on current exhibitions from around the world, an online magazine,
and guides to the 'art world' for various international cities.
INDEXES AND
DATABASES
HAPI is an index of scholarly journals from Latin American and the
Caribbean dealing with a variety of issues including the arts and humanities.
They have over 380 current journals and access to over 675 out of print
journals dating back to the 1970s. While this is a paid service, they do offer
a free trial.
Redalyc, which stands for Red de Revistas Científicas de América
Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal or the Network of Scientific Journals of
Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal is an open access journal
and article database with access to over 100 journals on the Arts and
Humanities.
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