Review: Art Journal Open (https://artjournal.collegeart.org/) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts published by the College Art Association. The journal produces scholarly essays, interviews, reviews, and projects focusing on topics related to post-1945 and contemporary art that are global in scope. It features contributions from…[Read more]

Review: Launched in 2015, #dariahTeach is an European based Open Education Resources (OER) platform for the digital arts and humanities. The target audience for this platform is higher education teachers, who can embed existing content or create new content for courses and learners, especially those who do not have access to formal courses or…[Read more]

Review: Digital Art History Journal (DAHJ) is a fascinating and unique resource. Futuristic in structure and classic in content it is a wonderful blend of what the internet could be in its most interactive format while maintaining a quality of content that one would expect from an academic journal. In fact, the initiative began in 2015 as the…[Read more]

Review: The Flora Scales Catalogue (https://florascales.com/) demonstrates the clear benefits of presenting a comprehensive catalogue of an artist’s work online. Whereas traditional printed catalogs may only reach a limited audience, Flora Scales is intentionally openly accessible, and overflowing with high-quality images. Some of the drawbacks o…[Read more]

Review: The online exhibition Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community – presented by the Morgan Library & Museum in conjunction with the in-person exhibition that took place from January 28 through June 5, 2022 and organized by Belle da Costa Green Curatorial Fellow Nicholas Caldwell – examines the social and political impact of Gwend…[Read more]

Review: The U.S. Civil War In Art (https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/civil-war-in-art/) is a curated collection of essays and videos focused on understanding artworks created during and about the U.S. Civil War period. Compiled and hosted by the non-profit organization Smarthistory, this collection continues the Smarthistory mission to…[Read more]

Review: In the spring of 2020, when many felt untethered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Crafting Communities emerged to address this alienation by “enabling hands-on learning in a hands-off context” within the field of Victorian material culture, as the site notes. From a pilot program of two online events, the project has expanded to comprise fur…[Read more]

Review: CollectionBuilder offers open source templates enabling GLAM (gallery, library, archive and museum) institutions to create digital collections and exhibits without proprietary tools. This project seeks to simplify designing infrastructures and interfaces for sustainable, static sites in alignment with collections as data principles. While…[Read more]

Review: Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, a library of 170 titles published by Bloomsbury Publishing, aims to provide students in the visual arts with practically minded resources for inspiration, technical advice, and career development. The digital resource library is organized according to major visual arts disciplines: fashion and textiles,…[Read more]

Review: Visualizing the Virus is a cross between an online repository of original content and bibliography of existing resources. The purpose of the international and interdisciplinary project is to showcase both how the COVID-19 pandemic has been visualized and the inequalities it has revealed. The project was founded and is led by Dr Sria…[Read more]

Review: Libraries are all about accessibility. One may have the most beautiful library in the world and yet, if no one knows about it, it is only available to those who can physically be in the space and experience the tomes tactilely. We now live in the exciting time of digital resources which has made a significant difference to scholarship, has…[Read more]