Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
Related Resources for Art History and Humanities Graduate Students
This page contains references to associations, job listings, a discussion of current professional issues in art history, and links to some art history departments. Some study break material is also enclosed.
Index
Basic Professional Resources Links to CAA, CHE, H-Net, and more.
Pippin Michelli's Site on Art History
Art History Graduate Program Sites
Other Art History Sites of Interest
Things to
do while you're waiting for the award offers to pour in.
Basic Professional Resources
This is a modest collection of some basic information sources for Art History and Related Areas:
"Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age" Report on a Study Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This report is published by Rice University Press and CLIR.
Alternative Careers
for Art Historians
Charles Rosenberg's great resource.
Association of Art Historians "The Association was formed in the UK in 1974 to promote the study of art history. It represents the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of the discipline, including art, design, architecture, photography, film and other media, cultural studies, conservation and museum studies." From their Home Page. Also has links to some UK museums, the Times and other UK newspapers.
Art History Positions The low-down on what's happening in current searches by the candidates themselves.
Universities to Love Rationalizations from the rejected.
Unniversities to Fear Rationalizations from the rejected.
The Chronicle of Higher Education They seem to have a lot of jobs.
College Art Association Fewest jobs--apparently they are the most expensive place to post--but they are almost all full-time. Note that they frequently leave up announcements that have actually expired.
HigherEdJobs.com They seem to have the most jobs, but they include lots of part-time positions.
jobs.ac.uk Search here for jobs in the UK and Europe (sometimes posts US jobs but you'll see those first at the sites above this).
Art Dealer Is Charged With Stealing $88 Million I applied for a job with this fellow's gallery. Guess I was lucky to get turned down.
Pippin Michelli's Site on Art History
Follow the link to a discussion of art history and related fields.Art History Graduate Programs
I will list the web site of any art history graduate program willing to send me its address.
- University of California Los Angeles
- Concordia University Montreal, Canada.
- The Courtauld Institute of Art
- Indiana University Art History Association
- Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte Bern University.
- The Jewish Theological Seminary New York City. They have B.A. and M.A. programs in Jewish Art and Visual Culture.
- University of Notre Dame
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- University of Toronto Fine Arts Department.
- York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Special Florida Art History Graduate Schools Spot
- University of Florida Offers the M.A. and Ph.D. in art history.
- Florida State University Department of Art History An excellent site, by the way. Offers the M.A. and Ph.D. in art history.
Assorted Non-Western Art History (and Related) Sites:
General Non-Western Sites
- WorldImages Digital images of art from all over the world, free to use.
Arts of Africa
Asian Arts
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Asian Art.
- The Palace Museum, Beijing
- The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
- The Chinese Association of Museums
- Museum of Chinese in the Americas Caution: a huge site.
- Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Library Put together by Nixi Cura of the Institute of Fine Arts, this is a fine collection of information about, among other things, opportunities for graduate students in the areas of Asian Art.
- Black Moon A huge Web site devoted to Japanese art of all periods.
- Ainu -- Spirit of a Northern People Formerly an online exhibition, now an online tour that includes a virtual exhibition, music, and more.
Assorted Interesting Sites
- Art Museum Network A just-begun Web site; placed here temporarily.
- Bill Viola In need of some self-hypnosis? Try this.
- The Amazing BeeCam Remember that Bees Session at CAA in NYC a few years ago? Who was that art historian dressed up as a beekeeper?
- Africam Cameras set up at two watering holes in two national parks in South African.
- Simpsonizeme
- Arts & Letters Daily Read this instead of writing that chapter tonight.
- Angry? But years of research have depressed your verbal creativity? Try the Irish Curse Generator. Check under "What's Nua."
- The Postmodernism generator Just keep hitting the "reload" button to get another meaningless collection of jargon. Perfect for studying for those exams on critical theory.
- Random Quote Generator
- Lee's Useless Super-Hero [sic] Generator
- The Surrealist Compliment Generator
- George Says...
- Need a dissertation topic? How about the art of Deliberately Concealed Garments?
For Your Mood in the Seminar
Bad Mood
- Rude Person? Get Off of My Cloud
- Paint It Black Check out Brian Jones. This, I believe, is from the Ed Sullivan Show.
- Vaffanculo"Lo sa che cosa e' vero in un mondo di bugiardi."
- Sympathy for the Devil
- God's Gonna Cut You Down
Good Mood
- Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi meet Leonardo da Vinci In "quasi Mille Cinque."
- Massimo Troisi sings 'Yesterday'
- Buzzin' Fly
- I am Waiting
- All greet the professor thusly
- Waterloo Sunset The Kinks. Save me, save me from this squeeze...
- Lola That odd but interesting person in the seminar.
- The Wolf of Velvet Fortune The Beau Brummels. For years I tortured staff in many many music stores in Italy asking for this album (Triangle). Italy has been a good place to find old and out of print (press?) albums, you see...why this hasn't been picked up for one of those teenage vampire movies, I cannot say.
Not Doing All That Well?
- Sunny Afternoon The Kinks
- Zabriskie Point. Also: this is the only good part of the movie, so now you don't have to go see the rest of it. You're welcome.
Some Life Outside of Graduate School
- Once I Was
- Now that the Buffalo's Gone Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Randy Newman Before He Went Soft
- My Old Kentucky Home I think these singers are Dutch.
- Short People ...got no reason to live.
- Sail Away
- I Think It's Going to Rain Today. A bit over-produced in my humble opinion. Much prefer the version on the Smothers Brothers Show.
- God's Song "How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me."
Above all, Never Give Up
Other Art History Sites of Interest, if Not Renumeration
The Fabulous Ruins of
Detroit. "Come, travel with me, as I guide you on a tour through the fabulous and vanishing
ruins of my beloved Detroit."
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- Photos
from "The B**bie Sessions by David Levinthal Describes a touring photograph exhibition.
B**bie as fashion wench.
- B**bie Liberation
- More B**b**: B**bie Girl When you feel like dancing!
- B**bie in Gowns Dress up B**bie
online.
Please, what has happened to Dean Brown???
- The World's Strangest Museums. Includes info. on how to really make Ramen noodles, from the Ramen Museum.
- The Museum of Bad Art
- Why is Mona Lisa Smiling? Another Art History Mystery solved (or is it?)
- Golden State Museum Sacramento, California.
- The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum Includes live, web cam views from Cowell Beach.
- The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum San Jose, California.
- Victorian Preservation Association of Santa Clara Valley
- The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
- Art a GoGo An online art magazine from San Jose.
- The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
- The Kooks Museum And you thought you had problems.
- Relics for Sale Heads of John the Baptist, and other goodies.
Campaigns
"Don't vote--it only encourages them" : Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
"I can run the country or I can control Alice; I can't do both" : President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Good sites:
- The Political Graveyard : A Database of Historic Cemeteries "The Web site that tells where the Dead Politicians are Buried."
- Suggestion for more, please....
"Oh, How They Lied: No One's Hired a Specialist in Eskimo Architectural Theory to a Tenure-Track Position in the US in the Last Fifty Years!"
Or, another take on Alternative Careers for Art Historians
Too Many Critical Issues? Relax with Art History Quicktime
Movies
- The Piero Project Princeton University. N.B.: This is a new link to a "World Wide Web" version of this famous site.
- Pisa Looking towards the Church complex.
- Pisa Piazza dei Miracoli.
- Pisa Cathedral Inside.
- Pisa Inside the Camposanto.
- Pisa Views of the Triumph of Death.
- The Forum of Rome
- The Pantheon.
- Movie Trailers Hours of fun.
- More Movie Trailers Film.com: trailers, reviews, new releases.
- The Velvet Underground
New Stuff: Not Going to Italy this Summer? Bring a Bit into Your Home.
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The 2009
Biennale di Venezia In English. Incredibly boring site. (Often a criticism of the event itself.)
- Marco Masini.
Vaffanculo "Questa vita fa tutta da se'..."
- Zucchero The Official Web Site.
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- "La Vita e Bella" Benigni's movie.
