The Crocker Art Museum of Sacramento, California - the oldest U.S. art museum west of the Mississippi River - is home to an extensive permanent collection of art from around the world. On its website, the Crocker has digitized a portion of its permanent collection and provided artist biographical information for these digitized items, allowing art fans to easily explore this collection. Visitors...
The Demos group in Britain describes itself as "the think tank for everyday democracy", and they have published a number of intelligent research reports and briefs as of late. One of their recent reports, released in February 2007, deals with the world of cultural diplomacy. Authored by Kirsten Bound, Rachel Briggs, John Holden, and Samuel Jones, the paper's central premise is that "the huge...
The University of Oregon's arts and administration program is highly regarded, and they also happen to put out a visually compelling broadside for arts and culture workers called "CultureWork." As its mission statement notes, the primary goal of the publication is "to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts, education, policy, and community." The first issue appeared...
Named after Moody Currier, a 19th century governor of New Hampshire, the Currier Museum of Art was established by Currier's estate in 1915 and is located in Manchester, New Hampshire. Today, the Museum is a bedrock institution within the Manchester cultural milieu, and their website has materials that will engage both young and old. At the "Exhibitions" area, visitors can read up on their current...
MoMA presents this web site on the style of art known as Dada to accompany an in situ exhibition at the museum. One of the main components of the site is a selection of Dada art from the museum's permanent collection, with works by artists such as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Jean Arp. There are some interactive features as well - visitors can make a Dadaist poem, by...
Daily Art Fixx is a blog dedicated to introducing members of the general public to art "for education and inspiration." Created in 2009 by Canadian-based artist Wendy Campbell, this blog features profiles of artists of all genres and mediums, contemporary and historical. New profiles are posted approximately every month, and visitors are welcome to browse artist profiles by genre (including...
Daily Heller is an insightful blog from Steven Heller and Print, a magazine that has been covering design history and culture since 1940. On this blog, Heller writes about everything from typography to textiles to vintage men's fashion and features tidbits of both recent design history as well as design history far into the past. These short entries - updated, as the title suggest, daily -...
DailyArt is an app developed by Zuzanna Stanska, an art historian who heads Moiseum (a company she founded in 2012 to help museums and cultural heritage institutions use technology). Once downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play, users have options to customize DailyArt to use any of its 16 languages and select a time of day (morning, afternoon, or evening) to get notified about content....
The 03-05-2021 Scout Report introduced DailyArt the app. Now, readers can indulge in its companion magazine. Launched in 2016, a few years after the app, DailyArtMagazine.com creates a "place where art history gains the voice it deserves." Though the entire online publication is bursting with interesting art and art history content, the Women's Art section is particularly relevant and exciting....
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