Researching contemporary art: Free online resources
Discover social media and other online resources to learn the latest about contemporary art and artists
Free online resources
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Social Media: Check whether your artist has a website, uses social media and/or has gallery or personal contact information. Use Instagram, X, Vimeo and YouTube to investigate whether your artist has an account/content and follow them, see who else admires them, even post something! Again, you can be updated in real time without any effort on your part.
It may be that you won't find any books about your artist (yet) but you may find some news articles or art criticism/reviews in searching several databases. Click on the Databases tab to learn more.
- ARTnews NewslettersFree daily e-newsletters, Breakfast with ARTnews and ARTnews Today.
- Art21 MagazineFormer blog is now a bimonthly newsletter on contemporary art and artists. last issue is from Fall 2019.
- E-fluxJournal/website for contemporary art.
- FriezeCovers contemporary art. Subscribe to the newsletter for the latest news. The latest issue is in the library.
- HyperallergicOnline news source for contemporary art published in Brooklyn, NY.
- RhizomeProvides an online platform for the global new media art community to support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. The ArtBase archive includes net art, software art, computer games, and documentation of new media performance and installation. All of the art and documentation is available online in the form of Web pages or downloadable files.
- Last Updated: Jan 8, 2025 2:18 PM
- URL: https://guides.library.stanford.edu/contemporaryartsocialmedia
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Subjects: Art, Art history, Film and media studies, Photography