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About This Guide
This guide is a checklist of art and art history online resources that includes both subscription databases restricted to Boston University faculty, students, and staff as well as selected open access digital collections and websites.
Featured Journal Article
- Black, Charlene Villaseñor, and Tim Barringer. "Decolonizing Art and Empire." The Art Bulletin (New York, N.Y.) 104, no. 1 (2022): 6-20. (Taylor & Francis Online) This special feature brings into conversation two specialists, one in the art of the early modern Spanish Empire, the other in that of the British Empire of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. At a moment when art history seeks to identify and disavow colonial legacies, we propose a renewed, theoretically informed, and critical engagement with the historical imbrication of art and empire. Empire has been a presence in virtually all historical periods and all regions. We recognize that a
Exhibiting Slavery and Representing Black Lives: a virtual conference in four parts
- Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning FuturesCenter for Netherlandish Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Harvard Art Museums; and the Department of History and Architecture, Harvard University, April 9, 16, 23.
Dutch Merchant with Slaves, 1700-1725, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (public domain)
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- The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online CollectionsMCN (formerly, The Museum Computer Network) advancing digital transformation in museums.
