About Art History is a great starting place for readers interested in the complex field of art history. Curated by art historians and museum professionals Alexander J. Noelle and Chelsea Emelie Kelly, the content covers essential art history questions via accessible but nuanced essays and entries. The site may be browsed by Art History Categories such as Artists A to Z, Art History 101, Timelines...

Launched by Olga Harmsen in 2012 (and inspired by Julie Powell's blog about Julia Child), About Art Nouveau is a delightful and informative blog about all things Art Nouveau. Updated regularly, this blog explores Art Nouveau design and architecture around the globe and provides reports about recent exhibitions and events that may be of interest to Art Nouveau enthusiasts. As of this write up,...

Let’s face it: economia to those great heroes of the past are nothing new, and some might believe that there are too many out there in the first place. The Academy of Achievement website disproves this idea with its well-thought out tributes to those truly unique individuals who have made substantive contributions in the arts, the sciences, and a number of other areas of human endeavor. As its...

The Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) is the nonprofit historic preservation organization for New York State's Adirondack Park. Created in 1990, the organization protects a range of rustic buildings, along with a range of other places, including railroad buildings, quarries, and lighthouses. The 428 photos here are derived from an extensive slide collection which was digitized as part of...

The goal of the Afghanistan Digital Library at New York University is "to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan's published cultural heritage." This period, from 1871 to 1930, is of great importance as the earliest publications from this time frame are very rare and decades of war have not helped the situation. A team of scholars working at the National Archives in Kabul and...

By the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a number of African American musicians and bandleaders had garnered the attention of the music-going public, and names such as Eubie Blake and Scott Joplin remain familiar to this very day. This rather fine online collection offered by the Library of Congress's Performing Arts division brings together a number of so-called "stock" arrangements...

Basel: Bigger, better, busy as ever http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1343802.html Stephanie Adamowicz: An Artist-Direct Auction and Its Art Market Implications http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-adamowicz/an-artist-direct-auction_b_368545.html Art for whose sake? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/613045c0-da21-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0.html Artnet: The Art...

Munch's Scream, Madonna set for summer return in Oslo http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/03/04/munch-paintings-return.html Edvard Munch: The Dance of Life Site http://muse.calarts.edu/~rjaster/edvard-munch/index1.htm Edvard Munch Online http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/munch_edvard.html Munch Museum [Macromedia Flash...

Art history instructor Monica Bowen is the author of Alberti's Window, a blog designed to engage members of the general public, along with art students and art historians, with a number of fascinating and hidden tidbits and stories about art history. Bowen's frequent posts highlight a wide variety of lesser-known anecdotes about famous artists. Her most recent post, for example, explores the...

This exhibition from the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago pairs the work of Alexander Calder with that of seven younger artists: Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and Jason Middlebrook. Each of the younger artist's work exhibits Calder's influences in varying ways. For example, Martin Boyce also makes mobiles; Nathan Carter...