Produced by UK-based charity Culture24, this is a “whimsical and witty site . . . which showcases curiosities in collections up [and] down the land,” according to Culture24’s former board chair. Serving as a guide to current exhibits and lesser known collections in a wide variety of regional museums and London institutions, the website’s home pag…[Read more]

Maintained and hosted by Princeton University, the Index is a comprehensive database of iconography from the Middle Ages that has been cataloged and indexed to allow users to browse and search images based on subject, location, medium, and other facets. While the Index’s original emphasis on the Western European canon of early Christian art is e…[Read more]

The People’s Graphic Design Archive (PGDA) is a crowd-sourced repository of, by, and for enthusiasts of graphic design. Started by design educator Louise Sandhaus in 2014 to celebrate and make accessible a vast variety of graphic design examples by a range of designers and design collectives, the website launched in September 2022. The project has…[Read more]

The Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné (MWCR) is a direct access online project that documents the body of work produced by Martin Wong (1946–1999), an artist from the United States who came of age on the West Coast and whose best-known paintings are of life in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Book review of Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin by Aglaya K. Glebova. Yale University Press, January 2023. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25403-7 (h/c), $65.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254037/aleksandr-rodchenko/. Reviewed May 2023 by Bridget Nowlin, Director of Library Services, Cornish College of the Arts,…[Read more]

Book review of No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria edited by Marcela Guerrero. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023. 127 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26673-3 $45.00. Reviewed May 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, crosa@calarts.edu.

Review: Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s by Mindell Dubansky and Sidney E. Berger. Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, January 2023. 188 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26619-1 (h/c), $65.00. https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2022/pattern-and-flow.…[Read more]

Review: Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design by Ida Engholm. Intellect Books, January 2023. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-78938-715-5 (pbk.), $34.95. Reviewed May 2023 by Lauren Haberstock, Director of the Genesis Lab Maker Space and Librarian for Emerging Technologies and Digital Projects, Pepperdine University,…[Read more]

Review of Forever Saul Leiter by Otake Akiko et al. Thames & Hudson Inc., March 2023. 296 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-29643-1 (pbk.), $27.95. Reviewed May 2023 by Alfonso Huerta, Director, Access & Outreach, ArtCenter College of Design, alfonso.huerta@artcenter.edu.

Book review of Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America by Maggie Taft. The University of Chicago Press, April 2023. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-55032-9 (h/c), $22.50. Reviewed May 2023 by Anina Rossen, Librarian, Academy of the Holy Angels, arossen@holyangels.org.

Review of Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès by Sarah Herring and Emma Capron. Yale University Press, November 2023. 120 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-85709-688-0 (pbk.), $20.00.
Reviewed May 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Review: Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making by Ying-chen Peng. Yale University Press, January 2023. 208 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26343-5 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed May 2023 by Katie Edmiston, Arts, Media & Design Librarian, Central Michigan University, Park Library, edmis2k@cmich.edu.

Review: StreetLife: The Street in Art from Kirchner to Streuli, edited by Astrid Ihle et al. Hirmer, February 2022. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3697-5 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed April 2023 by Mackenzie Williams, Art & Architecture Librarian, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, mackenzie.williams@cooper.edu.