Subject Guide - Arts
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- Art and Architecture Complete: Full-text articles and e-books on art, artists, and architecture, plus over 63,000 images.
- Films On Demand: Search for specific topics or browse by:
- Art & Architecture
- Music & Dance
- Visual & Performing Arts includes Drawing & Painting, and Graphics & Design.
- Visual Communication: Graphic Design
- JSTOR - The Scholarly Archive: Articles from scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, humanities, business, etc.
- See JSTOR's collections of Primary Sources for journals, articles, images and more.
- Oxford Reference: Search for specific topics or browse collections of ebooks on:
- Art & Architecture
- Performing Arts (music, dance, & theater),
Find books and DVDs shelved in these call numbers. Be sure to check in Oversized also!
- N to NX – Fine arts.
- N – Visual arts.
- NA – Architecture.
- NB – Sculpture.
- NC – Drawing. Design.
- ND – Painting.
- M & ML – Music
- PN 2000 to PN 3307 – Theater
We also subscribe to these print magazines:
- Aesthetica
- Art & Antiques
- Art in America
- Explore the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online from the Univ of Michigan.
- MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). Go to Art and Artists to find digital collections, audio content, videos (go to Magazine), and art terms online.
- Find multimedia resources on visual & performing arts from PBS Learning Media: The Arts.
Some may offer discounted or free admissions to students and/or have online digital collections.
- Alexandria Museum of Art
- CAC: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
- LASM: Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge.
- Louisiana State Museum, is a network of nine museums in historic buildings around the state.
- LSU Museum of Art, in the Shaw Center, downtown Baton Rouge.
- Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University, New Orleans.
- NOMA: New Orleans Museum of Art, in City Park.
- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.
- Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, ULL, Lafayette.
Browse these collections from national galleries & museums. Some include free images to download.
- Getty of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Find images, videos, & more under "Explore Art;" select Open Content in Images for Download for free images.
- Library of Congress: Digital Collections includes Art & Architecture and Performing Arts content.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Met Collection.
- National Gallery of Art offers information on exhibits with images and other multimedia available online.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts; click “Art + Artists” to see collection highlights and artist profiles.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: Art + Artists includes online exhibits and multimedia resources.
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