Looking, researching and finding opportunities
Resources for Art Research and Creative Practice
Researching an artwork involves several different tasks: finding the work, understanding its setting and following the sources behind a description. A small set of well-chosen starting points can make those tasks easier.
Research a web artwork
Start with the artist's introduction and the sequence of pages making up the project. The guides on Artbrush label the relevant historical captures. For Welcome to the Met, for example, the daytime gallery and the night-time dialogue show different parts of the same work.
Use the Whitney Artport Idea Line catalogue and The NEXT's preserved trAce catalogue to look beyond a single project. Catalogue entries provide a wider setting, while the artist's pages provide the project's own wording and instructions. Our reading guide explains how to use those sources together.
Artist opportunities
The New York Foundation for the Arts maintains an artist-opportunities board covering open calls, residencies, awards and related services. Its filters include location, discipline and application-fee categories. Check the individual organiser's current terms and deadline when following a listing.
The historical Artbrush resources page covered art history, collections, teaching, jobs and funding. Its archived directory is linked below as a record of that earlier arts web; the current guide uses a smaller selection of starting points.