Subject Guides: Studio Art: Find Articles & Exhibition Reviews

Finding Articles

To find articles, try the library databases listed below. Many other databases, however, can be found on the Libraries datab ase page. NOTE: If you are searching off-campus, you will need your AU global ID and password.

Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage of more than 240 periodicals and more than 150 books. Art & Architecture Complete also provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications as well as for over 150 books. The database also provides selective coverage for more than 50 additional publications.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window Conduct a cited reference search for your artwork.
Avery Index This link opens in a new window Comprehensive index of journal articles on architectural design, the history and practice of architecture, historic preservation, interior design and city planning. The Index currently produces 15,000 citations per year from approximately 800 journals published in more than 40 countries. Seventy-five percent of the journals are not covered elsewhere.
Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR provides access to several collections of backfiles of scholarly publications covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. JSTOR includes the full runs of each journal, generally up to 1-7 years from the present. Note: Auburn University subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I & II Collections and the Life Sciences Collection.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window Project MUSE offers journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers and covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Google Scholar

Art exhibit reviews

Search the New York Times for exhibition and installation reviews.

Use keyword "art review" or "art in review" combined with your artist's name or keyword to return results.

Search Nexis Uni for exhibition reviews in the New York Times and other newspapers

Use keyword "art review" or "art in review" combined with your search term to return results

History articles

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window A bibliographic reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered. Historical Abstracts includes citations from a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Also, citations to useful historical books as reviewed by the most prestigious journals in the field and citations to abstracts of dissertations completed worldwide of particular interest for historical research.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.