InfoGuides: Art and Design: Find Articles & Journals

Important Art & Design Databases

What's in these databases?

These databases index content from most of our art journals, including citations and full-text articles, and can help you conduct research for your studio art and art history classes.

Art and Architecture Source
Find articles on a broad range of art and design topics, as well as images and art reproduction records. Includes articles published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Find citations for modern and contemporary art publications, including digital art, design, photography, and craft topics.
*Note: Use the "MasonLink" button to find full-text article option through online or print sources.
ProQuest Arts Databases
Provides access to various art databases, including Alt-Press Watch, ARTbibliographies Modern, and Design and Applied Arts Index.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
Find citations for design and commercial arts subjects, including graphic design, sustainability, and applied art or craft topics. Also contains references to exhibition reviews and art news.
*Note: Use the "MasonLink" button to find full-text article option through online or print sources.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934 covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
Art & Architecture Archive
Full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography.

Selected Art & Design Journals by Topic

Artforum International
Monthly magazine with focus on contemporary art, including exhibition previews, reviews, and artist features. Online and print versions available at Fenwick Library.
Art in America
Features articles on major achievements & events throughout the art world, particularly in painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking. Available online and in print at Fenwick Library.
Afterall
Peer reviewed journal of contemporary art, providing a forum for in-depth analysis of art's context and seeking to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change.
ARTnews
Reports on the art, people, issues, trends, and events shaping the international art world.
Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal for research and scholarship on 20th and 21st century visual culture and fine art.
Art Journal Open
Publishes artist’s projects, scholarly essays, conversations and interviews, artifacts of materials and process, and news items. (open access, available online)

Print Quarterly
Peer reviewed journal covering to printmaking traditions all across the globe. Includes scholarship on printmakers, social and cultural history, printmaking techniques and more. Most recent issues available in print at Fenwick Library; issues from 1984-2012 available online through JSTOR.
Modern Painters
English magazine of the arts featuring painting, photography, sculpture, architecture and exhibition reviews.

Visible Language
Peer-reviewed design journal that advocates the potential for the research and practice of visual communication, including interface and interaction design, typography, and design education.
Journal of Illustration
Despite its cultural significance and rich history, illustration has rarely been subject to deep academic scrutiny. The Journal of Illustration provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration.
Print
Portfolios, profiles, thematic issues, technology, historical perspective and provocative articles in all areas of the field of graphic design for designers, illustrators and photographers. Available online and in print at Fenwick Library.
Design and Culture
Reflects the state of scholarship in the field of design and nutures new or overlooked lines of inquiry that redefine our understanding of design.
from 2009 to present
Visual Communication Quarterly
Peer-reviewed journal of theory, research, practical criticism, and creative work in all areas of visual communication.
Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design
Design magazine for professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about design and visual culture.
3x3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration
Focuses on contemporary illustration. Available online.

Afterimage
News, reports, essays, and reviews that discuss and analyze independent photography, film, electronic imaging, alternative publishing and telecommunications. Available online & in print at Fenwick Library.
British Journal of Photography
The world's longest-running photography magazine. Includes reviews of new photo technology, interviews and reviews of photographers, and an investigation of the medium of photography.

animation: an interdisciplinary journal
Peer-reviewed journal covering all animation made using all known (and yet to be developed) techniques - from 16th century optical devices to contemporary digital media.
Animation Magazine
International magazine covering the business, art, and technology of animation.
American Cinematographer
Covers feature films, television, commercials, music videos, digital video, new equipment, DVD, book releases, and much more.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Peer reviewed journal for artists and scientists; covers topics including computer animation, embodied agents, virtual environments, augmented reality, virtual life and visualization.

Art News & Criticism

Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today.
frieze
Frieze covers modern and contemporary art, written for artists, gallery dealers, and art lovers alike.
BOMB Magazine
The BOMB website publishes writing on artistic practice including interviews, literature, portfolios, and essays. The print edition of BOMB is held in Fenwick Library and publishes in-depth interviews between artists alongside artists' essays, literature, and portfolios.
ArtAfrica
ART AFRICA captures and reports on the latest developments around contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora through insightful positioning pieces, in-depth interviews, features, profiles, and reviews.
Aesthetica magazine
Aesthetica is an art and culture magazine with in-depth features that foreground innovative practitioners across art, architecture, photography and design.
e-flux
Covers many different critical conversations in art, architecture, design, and more.
ArtAsiaPacific
Peer reviewed journal - promotes fresh dialogue on the contemporary visual arts of the Asia/Pacific region & provides analysis & comment on the contemporary issues & art practices of the region.