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Art Journals A - I
Adbusters
An ad-free magazine that is 100% reader supported. Adbusters is concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.
African Arts
Devoted to the study and discussion of traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures.
For over 30 years, Afterimage has been an important voice in the photography, film, video and visual book community, featuring articles, books and exhibition reviews, essays and news.
American Art
Encompasses all aspects of the country's visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times.
American Craft
Celebrates the age-old human impulse to make things by hand, in order to communicate, learn, heal, and connect.
Ancient Mesoamerica
The international forum for the method, theory, substance and interpretation of Mesoamerican archaeology, art history and ethnohistory.
Antiquity
An international peer-reviewed journal of world archaeology.
Aperture
Features the work of the world’s most important photographers plus articles by prominent art scholars, critics, and writers.
Apollo
International in scope, it contains up-to-the-minute news from the art world with expert information on the market, and reviews and previews of exhibitions worldwide.
Archaeology
Published by the Archaeological Institute of America, each issue features the latest archaeological news and discoveries.
A peer-reviewed journal presenting issues surrounding the documentation of art and the use of visual resources in academic, special libraries and museum settings.
Provides an international forum for research relating to the historical and theoretical study of painting, sculpture, architecture, design and other areas of visual culture.
Artibus Asiae
A semi-annual publication of original scholarly articles, research notes, and book reviews devoted to the history of art and archaeology of Asia.
Art in America
Presents in-depth coverage of the global art scene.
Art Journal
Provides a forum for scholarship and visual exploration in the visual arts.
An open-access journal that publishes artist’s projects, scholarly essays, conversations and interviews, artifacts of materials and process, and news items.
Each day ArtsJournal features links to stories culled from around the internet, including blogs and more than 200 newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.
Arts of Asia
The world's leading magazine of Asian art.
Bomb
A print quarterly publishing in-depth interviews between artists alongside artists’ essays, literature, and portfolios.
Additional content online: http://bombmagazine.org
Border Crossings
A quarterly cultural magazine covering contemporary Canadian and international art and culture.
Provides an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond. The journal also features criticism of music, dance, film, and theater; and original fiction and poetry, covers contemporary visual art in particular depth.
Examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls.
Burlington Magazine
The world's leading monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts.
An international art quarterly devoted to promoting critical discussion about contemporary art through in-depth essays and art criticism, interviews, artist projects and reviews.
Ceramics Monthly
A publication on contemporary ceramic art, including artist profiles, practical technical information, topical presentations, exhibition reviews, and more.
Peer-reviewed journal that strives to strengthen the research base in clothing and textiles, facilitate scholarly interchange, and demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of the field.
Covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective, and one of the nation's most respected single-arts magazines, providing its readers with an eclectic mix of industry news, commentary, professional interviews, classic comics sections and more.
Communication Arts
The leading trade journal for visual communications, showcasing the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design.
Crafts
A UK magazine for applied and decorative arts which celebrates all craft forms from textiles to jewellery, architecture to ceramics, furniture, glass, metal and more.
Critical Interventions
A forum for advanced research and writing on global African arts that investigates African and African Diaspora identities in the age of globalization.
Peer reviewed journal that reflects the state of scholarship in the field of design and nurtures new or overlooked lines of inquiry that redefine our understanding of design.
Design Issues
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design.
An international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, and systems design.
A scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design.
Dress
Dress, the journal of the Costume Society of America, represents the highest level of scholarship and addresses many diverse areas of study including examinations of dress in art, social history, anthropology, and material culture.
Dwell
American magazine for modern interiors, exteriors, and furniture with a focus on innovative approaches to home design.
Publishes some of the most influential writings on art, film, history, technology.
Eye: the International Review of Graphic Design
A graphic design journal, published quarterly for anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic design and visual culture.
Fashion Practice
The first peer-reviewed academic journal to cover the full range of contemporary design and manufacture within the context of the fashion industry.
Fashion Theory
Fashion Theory provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing.
Flash Art
A contemporary art magazine featuring articles and interviews on new and emerging artists.
Frieze
A magazine of contemporary art and culture. Includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators.
Gesta
The major English-language journal devoted to the art of the Middle Ages, Gesta embraces all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 C.E., including the arts of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures in the European, Mediterranean, and Slavic worlds.
History of Photography
An international quarterly devoted to the history, practice and theory of photography.
Illustration
A magazine about illustration - the artists, the collectors, the collections, the exhibitions, the history, the philosophy and the key events relating to this subject.
The peer reviewed journal seeks to gather current developments in the field of Digital Art History world-wide and to foster discourse on the subject both from Art History and Information Science.
Peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields.
An international, online, open access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines.
Publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely reviews of books in aesthetics and the arts. The Journal takes a theoretical and interdisciplinary approach to the arts and aesthetic matters.
Journal of Artists' Books (JAB)
As a forum for the study of artists’ books, JAB publishes critical and theoretical articles, reviews of artists' books and exhibitions, and more.
Journal of Design History
This journal plays an active role in the development of design history (including the history of the crafts and applied arts), as well as contributing to the broader field of studies of visual and material culture.
A peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book, with the emphasis on comics in their cultural, institutional and creative contexts. Its scope is international, covering not only English language comics but also worldwide comic culture.
Journal of Modern Craft
This peer-reviewed journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations, from the mid-19th century through to the present time.
A quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. The journal aims to approach ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
With emphasis on artists' writings, Leonardo is the leading international journal for readers interested in the application of contemporary science and technology in their work.
Material Religion
An international, peer-reviewed journal which seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of arts and mass-produced artifacts.
Mechademia’s subject area extends from manga and anime to game design, fashion, graphics, packaging, and toy industries, as well as a broad range of fan practices related to popular culture in Japan.
A scholarly journal that provides a forum for scholars, artists, and practitioners to share their work and promote critical dialogue on new media art.
Metalsmith
Dedicated to documenting all forms of art and design as they relate to jewelry and metalsmithing.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
This bulletin is published quarterly by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Modern Painters
An international source for analysis of contemporary art and culture—from painting and sculpture to photography, film, architecture, design, and performance.
New American Paintings
New American Paintings is a juried exhibition-in-print. Each museum-quality issue results from a highly selective juried competition and presents the work of forty painters.
A monthly review of the arts that brings together a wide range of young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you the most incisive criticism being written today.
A scholarly e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
Focuses on publishing critical work that examines the newly developing field of contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience.
Addresses social and cultural issues at the fore of photography, with a particular emphasis on narratives from artists of color.
October
At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature.
Orientations
Focuses on the many and varied aspects of the arts of East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
A 25-year old international publication devoted to personal adornment, covering ancient, ethnic & contemporary jewelry, beads & historic and artist-made clothing.
Oxford Art Journal
Committed to the analysis of visual art and material representation from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
A daily online magazine for artists, curators, and art goers specifically interested in painting. Featuring original reviews, artist interviews, and commentary, Painters' Table also highlights online writing about painting from around the web.
A peer-reviewed e-journal published twice a year featuring original and qualified intellectual production in all area of design and arts research.
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
Offers coverage of the visual arts (such as video, installations, photography, and multimedia performance), in addition to reviews of new works in theatre, dance, film, and opera. Issues include artists' writings, interviews, and more.
Parkett
Published in direct collaboration with important international artists, whose oeuvre is explored in several essays by leading writers and critics.
Print
Dedicated to showcasing the extraordinary in design on and off the page, covering commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle.
Printmaking Today
Covers aesthetic, educational and theoretical matters as well as new developments in print technology and re-assessments of traditional printmaking methods.
Res: Anthropology and Aesthetic
A journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art.
Sculpture Review
Dedicated to the advancement, development and the appreciation of figurative sculpture.
Simiolus
Devoted to the history of Dutch and Flemish art of the 15th to 17th centuries, with occasional forays into more recent periods and other schools.
Smithsonian
Chronicles the arts, history, sciences and popular culture of the times.
Studies in Iconography
One of the premier journals to deal with iconography and covers every aspect of visual culture up to 1600.
Studio Potter
Promotes discussion of technology, criticism, aesthetics, and history within the ceramics community.
Surface Design
Each issue of this textiles journal is designed around a theme that may focus on a technique, a genre, aesthetic directions, or a part of the world.
Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture
Brings together research in textile studies in an innovative and distinctive academic forum for all those who share a multifaceted view of textiles within an expanded field.
Provides a forum for historical, critical, cultural, psychological, educational and conceptual research in visual arts and aesthetic education.
Visual Resources
Devoted to the study of images and their uses. While images of architecture and works of art constitute its main focus, it also includes other subjects and contexts in a wide range of formats.
vmsd (Visual Merchandising and Store Design)
Showcases the latest store designs and visual presentations, presents merchandising strategies and new products, and reports on industry news and events.
Vogue
Places fashion in the context of culture and the world we live in — how we dress, live and socialize; what we eat, listen to and watch; who leads and inspires us. Vogue immerses itself in fashion, leading readers to what will happen next.
Contains the backfile of Vogue magazine (US edition), spanning the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
West 86th
Focuses on the wider crossroads where scholarship in the decorative arts meets design history and material culture studies.
Woman's Art Journal
Articles and reviews cover all areas of women in the visual arts, from antiquity to the present day.
Word & Image
Provides a forum for articles that focus exclusively on the special study of the relations between words and images from all historical periods and perspectives, both theoretical and practical.