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Critical Theory: Internet Resources

Artists & Theorists

Theorists/Writings - Provides lists of theorists and artists (and their publications) relevant to critical theory and many of its branches. Compiled by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries 

Art21 - Premiering a new season every two years, focuses exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists

UbuWeb - Resource for avant-garde and hard-to-find material offering recordings of performances, video art, sound art, and visual, concrete, and sound poetry, as well as written work

Franklin Furnace Moving Image Archives - Provides access to audiovisual documentation of art events - including performance art - presented or supported by Franklin Furnace. Managed by Pratt Institute

Rhizome - Contemporary art site for born-digital art and culture, i.e. artists experimenting with technology and making new media art

Art History

Google Arts & Culture - Platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from cultural organizations throughout the world

Smarthistory - Provides access to information on all aspects of art and art history, including techniques, historical movements, and individual artworks. Partner to Khan Academy

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - A Metropolitan Museum of Art resource that pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the collectioncollection.

Rhizome ArtBase - An archive of digital "net art" and home for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games, and browsers

College for Creative Studies website