Re: Outsider Art Resources (Current Awareness, blog post #2)

To: Dr. Calvin Hobbes, Professor of Art and the Other, Falkor College

From: Jonah Santiago, Art Librarian/Archivist, University of Hyrule

Subject: Re: Outsider Art Resources

Dear Dr. Hobbes,

Thank you for contacting the Termina Library for the procurement of outsider art resources.  As part of the Consortium of the Hoenn Region, we at the University of Hyrule are always more than happy to assist a sister institution.  I would first like to congratulate you on the establishment of your new course, Art and the Other; it will certainly be a wonderful addition to Falkor College's Art History program.

With regards to the information you had requested, I thought it best to focus on online resources for more current examples and criticisms of the genre.  With that in mind, I hope the following websites suit your needs.

•  l'Art Brut -- It would be remiss of me to feature links about outsider art without referencing the museum dedicated to the man who 'started it all,' Jean Dubuffet.  This is the official website for the museum housed in Lausanne, Switzerland and it contains tens of thousands of pieces generated from over a thousand different creators.  Of particular note is the website's informational pages dedicated to its publications and films.

• Raw Vision Magazine -- The self-proclaimed "only international journal of the art of the 'unknown geniuses' who are the creators of Outsider Art," Raw Vision is a quarterly publication of global accounts.  The website offers information for access to both hard and digital copies of their issues, both current and past.  It also provides a handy page on videos they find worthy of note.

• Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art -- This website offers insight into the non-profit organization's extensive collection of over a thousand pieces of outsider art.  Of special interest is one of its permanent installations, the Henry Darger Room, which is the actual living and work space of Henry Darger, a well-known outsider artist of the 20th century.  Intuit also features information about its yearly magazine.

• Cavin Morris Gallery -- While this gallery doesn't exclusively feature outsider art, it still possesses an extensive collection of "self-taught" contemporary outsider artists which would be ideal for visual references in your course.  A great feature of the website is its collection of catalogs fully available online.

• Henry Boxer Gallery -- This particular organization functions as both a gallery and a third-party dealer, facilitating the sales of the artists featured within their site.  The gallery's extensive compilation of artists (complete with biography/professional information) is easily searchable and categorized into sections such as "outsider," "naive," and "self-taught" for great ease.

• Museum of Everything -- This website features information on the Museum of Everything, a British charity and wandering institution that focuses on contemporary outsider art.  It features an extensive gallery, interviews with artists/curators/thinkers, videos, and self-created films available entirely online.

• Outside In -- Despite being a relatively new organization, Outside In has become one of the leading names in providing access for both struggling artists and the public that wishes to discover them.  The website not only features over 2,000 artists, but provides insight into their world with exclusive stories.

• Spaces -- Spaces is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the identification, documentation, and preservation of large-scale art environments, a subset of outsider art.  The website features a regularly-updated blog, as well as a comprehensive list of archives for further research and reference.

• ARTnews' outsider art tag --  ARTnews is one of (if not the) most widely-circulated art magazine in the world.  Looking through ARTnews' tag archives can provide some insight into the changes the genre has undergone within the past few years.  The tag goes as far back as 2003, featuring (as of now) 88 articles.  (Alternatively, if you feel like making a gamble, you can look into the Huffington Post's attempts to compile current news about outsider art.)

• Flavorwire's list of 10 intriguing outsider art documentaries -- This particular resource is a bit of a deviation from the others listed.  However, should you ever feel the need to break routine within the classroom, you can always feature or discuss one of these documentaries.  Each item on the list contains a brief and helpful overview of the documentary itself.

I hope you find these resources helpful.  Of course, I would be more than happy to provide more options should they be insufficient.  Best of luck with your new course and I hope you have a wonderful school semester.

Regards,
Jonah Santiago

Art Librarian/Archivist

Termina Library, University of Hyrule

101 Narnia, Neverland BT 00420

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ROLE: (1) Art librarian in a large university offering a PhD in art history

TASK: (2) Identify, describe and provide links to 10 essential current awareness websites for a new professor or curator who is researching for an exhibition on outsider art

Outsider Art Exhibition

Hello Dr. Jones,

Thank you for contacting the Modern Art Museum for research assistance in regards to  your upcoming outsider art exhibition. I have put together a list of diverse resources that will give you up to date and varied selections of  outsider art online resources. They range from art news aggregators, art auction and art market news, as well as sites that offer a look at specific aspects of the outsider art culture.

1.) Outsider Art Fair
The Outsider Art Fair has been in existence for 24 years, it is currently owned and operated under Wide Open Arts, LLC. It is a highly regarded fair that is held in both New York and Paris “to recognize and champion art brut and self taught artists”. This site gives access to ticket information, background on outsider art, and previous fairs. There are links to OAF’s facebook, twitter, and instagram. Of particular note is their Tumblr. This is a valuable site that is updated fairly often with alerts about exhibitions, images, and articles & reviews.

2.) Raw Vision Magazine
The only international journal of outsider art where you can view the latest issue, back issues, subscribe, view galleries, and even buy books. Raw Vision also provides their definitions for outsider art and related topics, articles, videos, and links to other helpful resources, along with many other offerings.

3.) ARTnews

A leading source of art coverage since 1902, now in a digital format. Can easily search the site for “outsider art” and view their archived pieces, as well as track new updates from the site directly or its various social media outlets (instagram, facebook, twitter, and rss feed).

4.) Modern Art Notes Podcast

Weekly podcast series hosted by Tyler Green, where he invites artists, art historians, and authors to come and discuss their work. A great way to find out about artists and hear what they have to say about their own work. Offers numerous social media links, where you can track the new episodes, twitter, facebook, reddit, tumblr, and pinterest.

5.) beinArt Collective

beinArt Collective is an international network for artists who create surreal and imaginative themes known as “visionary art”. Included is their blog where news, articles, and interviews are featured; artist information; beinArt Publishing; their store to purchase original works; links to galleries and additional blogs and magazines; and the choice of staying up to date with their various social media platforms.

6.) Detour Art

A site dedicated to “outsider, folk, visionary, self-taught, vernacular art and environment discoveries found all along the back roads (and side streets) around the world”.Their blog posts are regularly updated and highlight places of interest, their artist section is updated and added to on a weekly basis. Detour Art also provides a very extensive Resources page that includes museum and gallery news, additional links and books; it also has a Reference page with useful definitions, user generated lists, and even how to help save a site.

7.) artnet

An online resource for the international art market for auctions done online. It offers numerous art market resources to aid in the selling, buying, and researching of art, from the Old Masters to Contemporary art. These in depth resources include, their valuation tool, Price Database; Market Alerts; Art Gallery which promotes over 1,700 galleries with over 170,000 works by 35,000 artists; Artnet Auctions an online auction platform for Modern and Contemporary art with over 23,000 registered buyer and sellers from 120 countries; Analytics Reports to track the market performance of artists, art categories, against leading financial indices; and artnet News, their platform for event, trend, and development news in the global art community.

8.) Outsider Art News

This is a relatively new online resource but since it started it has regularly been updated every few days. It mainly offers links to news, events, and commentaries from the worlds of Outsider Art, Art Brut, Folk and Contemporary Art.

9.) Ricco-Maresca Gallery
This New York based gallery has showcased and promoted self taught artists for over 35 years. Their site offers a comprehensive lists of new and established artists, as well as access to their current and archived collections. Of note is their media section where they link to articles that not only mention the gallery but also outsider art, self-taught art, art brut, etc. from respected news outlets. They also have Fluence Magazine, which is a "quarterly online magazine that serves as a dynamic educational overview of the current dialogue and exhibition of Outsider, Crossover, and Contemporary Art”.

10.) Open Culture
Dedicated to finding the best free cultural and educational media from around the web. Offers free online, movies, e-books, audio books, textbooks, lectures, recordings, art & images, and music; as well as a very expansive tagging  system that is key word searchable. This site is great place to find current updates/alerts in numerous fields and topics; it has the option of receiving the updates through their facebook, twitter, rss feed, and email. While there is no specific “outsider art” tag, the other tags and search feature provide access points to relevant links.

I hope these websites help you in your research. Please let me know if you have any further questions or if there is anything else I may be able to help you with.

Kelsey Sawyer

Reference Librarian

Modern Art Museum

Etching Revival

Dear Mrs. Roberts,

                Thank you for email of Monday, November 2. You seemed to be having trouble locating sources to aid your writing about the print revival, specifically the American and British facets, if I remember correctly. I have spent this week searching for sources which I believe you will find quite useful. I chose some general ‘antique print’ websites, as well as some particularly good exhibition records or catalogs to cover a broader range for your work. As you may know, this University offers a PhD in the field of Art History, so we subscribe to a wide variety of academic art journals which you may find helpful in addition to what I have included. I have added brief descriptions of each resource so that you may better determine which will supply the most beneficial information. I hope you find this useful, please do not hesitate to contact me again should you have further questions.

Thank You,

Chandler E. Parker

Art Librarian, XYZ University

http://gildedage2.omeka.net/exhibits/show/highlights/movements/etching

This resource is the second phase of a project by the New York Art Resources Consortium called Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20^th Century. It is helpful for the brief overview of the etching revival, and its players in the New York Scene, but its most useful features are the wide range of hyperlinks it offers that will take you to various collections and offer high-resolution digital images of many of these etchings and prints. The materials focus on the years between 1875 and 1922, and the records included in the exhibition detail ninety-seven different galleries, clubs, and associations represented on the New York art scene. There are also five additional sources to be found at the bottom of the first page, several of which you may find useful.

http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/georgetonian/2013/02/american-women-and-the-etching-revival/

This is a review of an exhibition held at Georgetown College two years ago entitled American Women and the Etching Revival: Works on Paper from the Payne Collection. It gives a brief overview of the exhibition, its contents and its features, as well as describing several key works on display. Georgetown College’s archive may have a digitized exhibition catalogue upon request. If you wish to pursue this source further, you can contact Sandy Baird, who is the archives and special collections manager at Georgetown College. I have included her school contact information below.

Sandy Baird – Archives and Special Collection Manager, Georgetown University

sandra_baird@georgetowncollege.edu

(502) 863-8410 – office phone

http://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-etching-club-r-swain-gifford.html

This is Neil Philip’s blog, Adventures in the Print Trade. This specific post concerns Robert Swain Gifford and the New York Etching Club, which was founded in May 1877. Philips’ blog in its entirety is a source worth exploring, but I thought this post in particular would offer some excellent background into the origins of this New York organization so heavily involved in the American etching revival.

http://www.printquarterly.com/

Print Quarterly is a journal which covers the history of prints and printmaking from its inception, through the present day. It is a subscription-based scholarly journal, however this University holds a subscription. A wonderful aspect of their website, however, is that one can click on a particular issue (1-32) and obtain a list of what appeared in that particular issue, including notes and catalogue and book reviews.

http://www.drawingsandprints.com/

Drawings and Prints offers “One of the world’s largest stocks of original prints and drawings from the late fifteenth through the mid-twentieth century”. Here you will find a wealth of information on different artists and styles, as well as old catalogues, past and current exhibitions, and a large number of high quality images of hundreds of prints from the last several centuries.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/whis/hd_whis.htm

This is the Met’s biographical page on James McNeill Whistler, who was an influential printmaker in London, as well as being a well-respected painter. You can also find on this page a PDF download of a piece by Nancy Dorfman Pressly from the Paul Mellon Center for British Art and British Studies entitled, Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings. It is also worth your time to browse around the Met’s website, as they have a huge number of prints from the Etching Revival, and a lot of other information available that may aid you in your writing.

http://www.ahpcs.org/

The American Historical Print Collectors Society was founded in 1975, based out of Farmingdale, New York. They are a non-profit group who encourages the study, collection, and preservation of American prints that are 100 years old or more. They publish a scholarly journal called Imprint twice each year, of which issues can be purchased for a relatively cheap price. The Society also maintains several blogs concerning specific artists or time periods for American prints.

http://www.antiqueprintclub.com/

This website is a company that specializing in appraising and selling antique, rare, and decorative prints and maps. They also host several blogs concerning artists or periods in printing history. Derek and Katheryn Nicholls have over thirty years of experience in this field, and they are constantly adding new works for sale. The valuation of the particular prints from the etching revival may be of some use to you here, also which artists are in the highest demand from that period, and what subject matters are the most popular amongst buyers of these prints.

https://printinghistory.org/

The American Printing History Association is a membership group which encourages the study of the history of printing. They publish a semi-annual journal entitled Printing History, which can be ordered online for a fee. The Association’s website also contains several useful research guides, such as a timeline for the history of printing, the North American Handpress Database, and a list of printer’ and publishers’ marks.

http://www.wolseleyfinearts.com/catalogues/Etchings%20Revival.pdf

This sale catalogue entitled The Etching Revival in Britain 1850-1950 by Wolseley Fine Arts may prove to be a tremendous reference resource for you, as it is setup one artist at a time, with their included works following. Each listed work also includes a price (in £) and where it was originally published or printed, and where the signature appears if it is signed. 

Re: Research on outsider art for new exhibition

Dear Dr. Cats,

Thank your for contacting the library for more information about outsider art. As you begin your research process for the museum’s upcoming exhibition on outsider art, I would like to offer you several resources that will keep you up to date with the outsider art world. All of these resources are updated regularly, so I would suggest that you look at these blogs, magazines, and websites at least once a month.

There are other resources representing the outsider art world of which you should be aware, including the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne website, the American Folk Art Museum’s Folk Art magazine, and the American Visionary Art Museum website. While these resources represent important institutions in the outsider art world, they are either not updated frequently or contain information specific to the institution. You can review those three resources as needed, while I would suggest looking at the following resources more frequently.

 

1. Raw Vision: Raw Vision is an international quarterly journal on outsider art. The journal explores international artists, as well as the environments and studios in which outsider artists create. Excerpts from each issue can be read online. The website also has a “News” section with information about upcoming exhibitions.
2. KD Outsider Art: British blogger Kate Davey received an MA in Art History and Museum Curating, and now works at several institutions dealing with outsider art including Outside In and the National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice. Her blog discusses theoretical and practical issues concerning outsider art. The blog also has a section with information about artists. You can sign up for e-mail notifications about new blog posts.
3. Outside In blog: Outside In is a British platform for outsider artists to display their artwork. The Outside In blog discusses the outsider art world as well as news about the Outside In organization. The blog also presents an artist of the month, which is a helpful feature for learning about current artists in the field.
4. The Folk Art Messenger: This journal is published three times a year by the Folk Art Society of America. The journal contains information about self-taught artists, international events in the outsider art world, and other relevant news.
5. Outsider Art Fair Tumblr: The Outsider Art Fair is an annual fair with artwork and speakers, and exhibitors such as galleries that represent outsider artists. The Outsider Art Fair Tumblr provides information about events in the outsider art world, including the fair itself, and highlights the work of individual artists.
6. art from the margins: A blog written by Jennifer Gilbert, manager of Outside In at the Pallant House Gallery. Her blog posts are about exhibitions of outsider art, and the blog features images of outsider art.
7. Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage: This institution aims to preserve cultural knowledge and artistry from cultures around the world. While the center does not specifically curate visual art by outsider artists, the website frequently has information about visual artists working outside of the mainstream art world. There are several resources produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and you may like to start by following the center’s Online Exhibitions and its blog.
8. Christie’s department of American Folk Art and Outsider Art: This web page has information about American folk art and outsider art sold by Christie’s, including future auction dates and the values of pieces that have been sold.
9. Carl Hammer Gallery Website: The gallery represents historically important outsider artists such as Henry Darger. The gallery participates in outsider art world events such as the Outsider Art Fair. The site has information about the gallery’s recent acquisitions and exhibitions.
10. Ricco Maresca Gallery Website: The gallery represents folk and vernacular artists, including Bill Traylor and Henry Darger. The website contains information about upcoming exhibitions, and the gallery blog has information about self-taught artists. The gallery also has a magazine, Fluence, with information on outsider art and artists.
     

Please contact me again if you have more questions as you continue your research. I would also be happy to schedule a research consultation with you, where we could have a more in depth discussion about your research process and available resources.

Best,

Eliana Fenyes

Current Awareness

Dear Captain Butler,

                I am writing to respond to your reference request, and as I understand it you are currently in the stages of writing a book on the print revival in Britain and America in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. In your email you expressed an interest in researching more current resources on the topic and were having a difficult time finding the most up-to-date information on current research, projects, and trends. As a librarian at a large university, I highly suggest that you take a look at different university library’s LibGuides, particularly at universities, such as mine, that offer a PhD in art history. LibGuides can be filled with rich resources to help guide you through your research process and are frequently updated so that they can stay abreast on new publications and other helpful resources.

                To assist you in your research pursuits I have outlined below and included links to 10 current and scholarly online sources for you to peruse. I have included websites and blogposts that are constantly posting new information and updated frequently, as well as a few scholarly journal publications that have multiple volumes published throughout the year. Some of the sources I have listed are broader in scope, but include information that may be of particular interest to you and your research.

1.       The Old Print Gallery Blog

https://oldprintgallery.wordpress.com/

http://www.oldprintgallery.com/

               The Old Print Gallery Blog—An Exploration of Prints and Maps could not be more useful! I highly recommend taking a look at this blog as it is updated constantly and features a wide variety of postings. Each posting is categorized and you are able to search all of the posts and also browse each category. Specifically for your research, I recommend taking a look at “19^th Century Prints,” “American Views,” “Early 20^th Century,” “Foreign Views,” “Prints,” as well as each category for a specific printmaking technique. While each of these categories does not have individual monthly postings, they have all been updated within the last year. The Old Print Gallery is one of the largest and most diverse print and map shops in the United States. In addition to their blog, they also publish a semi-annual journal entitled Showcase, in both traditional and digital media forms, which features a wide variety of articles on historic prints and maps in the gallery’s current collection with beautiful illustrations.

2.       Antique Prints Blog

http://antiqueprintsblog.blogspot.com/

               Written by an independent prints scholar and dealer, this blog began strong in 2009 with dozens of posts published monthly. While the posts slowed down a bit in frequency during recent years, the author seems to be picking up momentum again and has published several posts each month over the past year. Antique Prints Blog is about original prints from the 17th to the early 20th century, with a primary focus on historical prints from the Western tradition of the 18th and 19th centuries. The information the author publishes in each blog entry is geared towards anyone interested in the subject of antique prints; including, novices, dealers, collectors, and scholars. This blog may be of great use to your research as it provides contemporary commentary on your research topic by a scholar and is updated frequently. 

3.       Art in Print

http://artinprint.org/

                Published six times each year, Art in Print is an excellent resource filled with critical and scholarly writing about historical and contemporary prints and acts as a centralized resource on print information, news, and events for the museum, collector, artist, scholar, and print dealer communities. This is a subscription journal available in both print and digital formats. This journal would be useful to you as it publishes articles and contemporary scholarly research on historical printmaking.

4.       INK Blog

https://artinprint.org/ink-blog/

                Written by an independent print specialist and critic, INK is published as an open access blog by the journal Art in Print. The blog is updated bi-monthly and provides broad observations and synthesis of trends, current research, and events related to the print world. This blog may be of interest to your research as it publishes current trends and upcoming events related to the print world.

5.       Picture This—Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress

http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/

                Picture This is the official blog of the Prints an Photographs Division at the Library of Congress. The archive for the blog goes back to 2011 and is filled with posts right up to the current month. This resource is updated very frequently, with 2-6 posts every month. The posts feature images, commentary, and information on current research and projects from the Prints and Photographs Division’s vast holdings, which contain more than 14.5 million photos, posters, cartoons, architectural designs, and historical and fine art prints. While the information published on this blog is broader in scope than your research topic, as the posts discuss the wide range of collection objects in the Prints and Photographs Division, information and commentary on British and American 19^th and 20^th century prints within the collection’s holdings can definitely be found. 

6.       Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/

                Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, e-journal dedicated to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide publishes 2-3 issues per year and also frequently publishes book and exhibition reviews on their website. The journal’s goal is to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the artistic achievements of different nations across the globe. The chronological scope of the journal exceeds the 19^th century, with content coverage stretching from the American and French Revolutions, to the outbreak of World War I. While Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide covers more than just printmaking, this journal may be of use towards your research as its articles can provide insight on global printmaking and its possible influences on the British and American print revival and the extent of the journal’s chronological coverage centers on exactly the time period in which you are focusing your research.

7.       The British Museum Blog

http://blog.britishmuseum.org/category/prints-and-drawings/

                Updated frequently with a constant flow of new blogposts ranging in topics, the British Museum’s Blog allows you to search by category, with a specific category designated for prints and drawings. The posts listed under the category “prints and drawings” are as current as last month, and while there are not many postings specifically under the prints and drawings categories as of yet, it seems to be a promising resource for information.  This blog can provide you with the latest news on current research, upcoming exhibitions, and diverse projects relating specifically to historical printmaking in Britain.

8.       Printed Editions Blog

http://www.printed-editions.com/blog/

               With several posts each month, Printed Editions is a website dedicated to fine prints by Old Masters, Modern Masters, and contemporary artists. This resource, geared towards collectors and dealers, seeks to inform their audience about the world of prints—categorizing their blogposts by subject. For your research purposes, I would suggest reviewing the recent posts in the category “Prints by Movement” as there are definite postings relating to your research. Each post displays images of prints with added scholarly and critical commentary, as well as outside links.

9.       Print Quarterly

http://www.printquarterly.com/

               Print Quarterly is a subscription journal dedicated to the art of the print with chronological coverage from the time of the prints origins to the present day. Unfortunately, this journal is only published once a year, so it may not be as current as you are looking for; however, the articles within each volume published over the last few years may be of use to your research.

10.   Professional Organizations

               A great way to stay current is through professional organizations, such as The American Historical Print Collectors Society, The American Antiquarian Society, and American Printing History Association. Professional organizations are constantly promoting current awareness through their published journals, annual conferences, and social media accounts. While I have only listed three here, there are so many professional societies and organizations that can provide you with current resources and great research tools.

·         The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS)

               http://www.ahpcs.org/

Membership to this society includes a subscription to their newsletters, journal, and imprint; however, current awareness on trends in the historical printmaking community can be gained without a membership. AHPCS’s website includes the organization’s blog and links to their Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts.

·         The American Antiquarian Society

               http://americanantiquarian.org/

                http://pastispresent.org/

The American Antiquarian Society’s library houses the largest and most accessible collection of printed materials up until 1876. This chronological scope only briefly covers the time periods to which you are focusing your research, but the digital collection, research tools, programs and events information, and posts on their blog, Past is Present, may be of use to your research on late 19^th Century American print revival.

·         American Printing History Association

               https://printinghistory.org/

The American Printing History Association is an international membership organization that encourages the study of the history of printing and related arts and crafts. Resources that the association offers includes an annual three-day conference and a lecture series, a scholarly journal entitled Printing History and other special publications and programs.

I hope you find these sources helpful. Good luck with your research and please feel free to contact me if you need any more assistance.

               

                Sincerely, 

                                      Abby 

Welcome to the University Art Library!

To: Dr. Fan C. Pants

From: Lena

Subject: Welcome to the University Art Library!

Dear Professor Pants:

Please allow me to extend a warm welcome to you as you join us at our esteemed University, on behalf of myself and the entire University Art Library Reference Department staff. I would like to take this opportunity to point out some resources that may be helpful to you as you begin your tenure.

First of all, our Reference Department creates excellent guides, commonly known throughout this and other universities as LibGuides. You will find them listed on the Reference page of our Library website. We have long had one dedicated to Latin American art, which you will find on the list, and we have been updating it busily in anticipation of your arrival. Everything I am about to list you will find there, along with some more basic database links that you and especially your lower-level students might find useful. Here is a screenshot of some particularly relevant ones:
 

 

However, since your focus is on 19th- and 20th-century works, we have also made sure to include some current awareness websites and blogs that should be helpful, not only to your students but also to you. They are updated frequently as of this summer when we compiled the list, so they should provide the most cutting-edge and up-to-date information in your field about artists, exhibitions, and forthcoming scholarly publications. Here are ten highlights, to give you an idea:

1) The incredible Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) contains a vast array of Modern Latin American art. The collection's Modern Art webpage includes links to the most current debates, exhibitions, and events posted about any topic in your field.

2) The website of Fundación TEOR/éTica contains a wide variety of information, available both in English and Spanish, about events and exhibitions around the world that bring attention to non-Euro-centric artists. The foundation focuses mainly on Costa Rica, where it is centered, and includes information about Modern art. It has links to a calendar of events, as well as publications and information about its flagship museum, library, and archives.

3) The International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has a digital archives and publications project called Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art. The Press Room page of this project's website contains a wonderfully diverse but simply organized and frequently updated list of CFPs, award applications, touring exhibitions, publications and talks, and other resources for people in your field. 

4) A page to watch will be that of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a just-launched initiative by the Getty in cooperation with other Southern California institutions to display Latin American and Latino art as it relates to Los Angeles, California. The website already has details of past and present events leading to the exhibition at the heart of the initiative, which may be helpful for coursework since videos and small publications are sometimes included in the announcements.

5) The Americas Society has a page dedicated to visual arts, which details upcoming exhibition tours, publication launches, and other events of interest dealing with Latin American art from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.

6) The news page of the Association for Latin American Art contains CFPs and other news that may be relevant to you, and which is frequently updated.

7) The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin contains a magnificent collection of Modern Latin American art, with high-quality photos of their artworks online that may be useful for your coursework.

8) The Archives of American Art has a page dedicated to its collections related to Latino and Latin American artists. A sidebar on the webpage gives links to recently digitized collections, which may be helpful resources to you and your students, especially as the numbers of digitized collections grow.

9) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has a blog called Unframed about its most recent collection-based news. Its posts are easily searchable and contain frequent mentions of the museum's Latin American art, which spans several centuries in scope.

10) Lastly, the Getty's Iris online magazine has a page that aggregates news about Latin American art, such as a recent announcement about a rare group of photographic negatives, by Chicano artists, to be digitized.

Please feel free to email me with any questions, and I hope we can schedule a time for me or one of my colleagues to come in for an orientation session with you and your freshman classes.

Best wishes,

Lena

Head of Reference

Queen of the Universe

The University Art Library