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Criticism & Curating

Criticism & Curating Resources

ArtBabble
Provides access to  videos, interviews, background information on artists and the art world.  Hosted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and includes material from the Museum of Modern Art and the PBS series "Art:21.”

Dictionary of Art Historians
Provides access to full text biographies and information on the most important scholars, museum professionals and academic historians of art for classic and contemporary art history research. Duke University.

Canadian Heritage Information Network
Offers comprehensive information on conservation, curating, and collecting. Includes tools such as Artefacts Canada Database, an online Reference Library, Centre for Exhibition Exchange etc.

Mouseia
This "online resource centre for museologists and museum professionals" offers access to research, papers, news, e-museums, and the MERT (Museum Education Roundtable Toronto) Journal.

Resources for Curatorship and Community Interactions
Provides a guide to online essays, Web sites, and articles on topics such as "Knowing the Visitor", "Working with Communities", "Evolving Roles of Museums/Curators", etc. University of Victoria.

E-Journals

Applied Semiotics
Provides articles on literary and sociological theories. Many articles are in French. University of Toronto.  Started 1996

C Theory/C Net
Canadian journal of social and political theory technology and culture with an international scope. Resources include  articles, interviews, free e-books, "ctheory.net" for essays and commentaries, and a "multimedia" art site.  Started 2004.

First Monday
Topics include technology, culture and popular culture. Started 1996.

Postmodern Culture (PMC)
The "leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures."  Select "Text-Only Archive" to browse back issues of this important scholarly journal.  Johns Hopkins University.  Started 1990.

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Research & Scholars Newsletter
Offers full text articles on issues in archive and museum studies. Also links to blog Eye Level.  Started 2007.

Transformations
The Transformations project consists of a fully refereed electronic journal and an online exhibition space.  Transformation journal "is dedicated to the exploration of ideas, issues and debates emerging out of contemporary global culture." The art space "encourages visual and artistic endeavour within regional areas, and provides an opportunity for artists working at a professionally skilled level to have their work seen publicly on the world wide web." Started 2002.

Other Voices
An  electronic journal of cultural criticism .  Each volume is thematically based and covers topics in cultural and literary theory, philosophy.  University of Pennsylvania Started 1997.