Review: The website of The Imitation Game is an intellectual entry point to and an artifact of an exhibition of the same name, staged at the Vancouver Art Gallery in British Columbia in 2022. Deriving its title from mathematician Alan Turing’s famous test of computer intelligence, the project delves into utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in t…[Read more]

Review: Project Himalayan Art is an interdisciplinary resource created by the Rubin Museum of Art that seeks to encourage educators to incorporate materials relating to Himalayan, Tibetan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into their curricula. This initiative has online, print, and in-person components, including the book Himalayan Art in 108…[Read more]

Review: Focus on Japanese Photography (FJP) is a digital publication from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sharing recent research on Japanese photography from the post-war era onward. The publication features eleven photographers from the SFMOMA collection. Edited by curator emerita of photography, Sandra S. Phillips, contributors include…[Read more]

Review: Missouri Remembers, Artists in Missouri through 1951 is a free online resource funded the Missouri Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, launched to coincide with the state’s Bicentennial in 2021. Three institutions–Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; the Kansas City Art Institute; and the St. Louis Public L…[Read more]

Review: Digital Benin is a stunning example of a centralized digital platform for displaced, translocated collection objects. The clearly articulated interface and robust, well-researched content powerfully reconnect “objects looted by British forces from the Kingdom of Benin (now Edo State, Nigeria) in February 1897,” representing  over 5000 obje…[Read more]

Review: The Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral Project utilizes both visual and acoustic modeling to offer a new dimension to understanding historical public worship within the Church of England in real time. The multi-year project developed at North Carolina State University utilizes computer-based models aimed to accurately depict the cathedral a…[Read more]

Review: Secondary Archive is a web-based platform documenting information about women artists from central and east Europe, from the 1930s through the present. The site’s name references Simone de Beauvoir’s monograph The Second Sex, which states that women are secondary to men in their very existence. There is a second secondary meaning in whi…[Read more]

Review: The Virtual Shchusev State Museum of Architecture website is a free digital annex of the Russian State Museum of Architecture, named after Alexey Shchusev, designer of Lenin’s Mausoleum in 1930 and one of Russia’s most well-known 20th century architects.

Review: Chryssa & New York by Michelle White et al. Dia Art Foundation and The Menil Collection, May 2023. 184 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-27198-0 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Scott R. Davis, Substitute Visual & Performing Arts Librarian, Assistant Professor, Queens College, City University of New York, scott.davis@qc.cuny.edu.

Book review of One Site-One Space-One Work: 30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue edited by Synagoge Stommeln—Stadt Pulheim. Hirmer Publishers, March 2023. 333 p. ill. ISBN978-3-7774-3787-3 (h/c), $35.00. Reviewed July 2023, Morgan Yanni, Reference and Collection Development Graduate Assistant, Pratt Institute, myanni@pratt.edu.

Book review of Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez by David Pullins et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2023. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-756-0 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Keli Rylance, Head Librarian, Richardson Memorial Library, Saint Louis Art Museum, keli.rylance@slam.org.

Book review of Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery by Rosalyn Deutsche. The University of Chicago Press, December 2022. 304 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-81960-0 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Annie Sollinger, Visual Archivist, UMass Amherst, annies@library.umass.edu.

Book review of Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s by Claudia Calirman. Duke University Press, April 2023. 264 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1940-4 (pbk.), $26.95. Reviewed July 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, crosa@calarts.edu.