Critical and Curatorial Studies

This research guide provides resources, including print books and ebooks, article databases, images, streaming media, and digital resources, on critical curatorial studies.

Looking for general art history & visual art resources? Start by exploring resources in:

• the general Art History & Visual Art guide

Listed below are a few key resources. See the Databases section of this guide for more curatorial studies and art-related and multidisciplinary databases.

• Getty Research Portal

  Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.

• Getty Vocabularies (Thesaurus)

  Structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, conservation, and bibliographic materials.

• BCIN

  The Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) is a bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property. 

• Art History & Visual Art

• Canadian Art

• Art History & Visual Art - Specialized Topics

• First Nations and Indigenous Art

• Visual Literacy

• Canadian Studies

• Images - Finding and Using

• Film - Finding and Using

• Anthropology

• Decolonization & Anti-Racism

• Design / Thinking Strategies 

• Cultural Studies

• Hospitality & Tourism Industries 

• Copyright at UBC: Image Sources

• Copyright at UBC: Image Citation Guide