What's New in Grove Art Online
Grove Redesign Coming Soon!
We are delighted to announce that Grove Art Online will be completely redesigned this January. Grove Art Online will form the centerpiece of an important new online gateway, Oxford Art Online—the new access point for new and forthcoming Oxford art reference subscriptions and products. Oxford Art Online will offer users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search Oxford reference and Grove content in one location.
Grove Art Online's many improvements and enhancements include a completely new and user-friendly interface, sophisticated advanced search capabilities, improved biographical searching, OpenURL compliance, an expanded cross-reference system, and more. At relaunch, your Grove Art Online subscription will also include the full text of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (4 vols), the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, as well as new Grove/MoMA learning resources, a world art timeline and thematic guides, and linking with ARTstor for mutual subscribers.
The new site further allows users to search for images and image links within Grove Art Online efficiently in a single place. This enhancement permits users to easily discover the more than 5,000 images from our many new image partners, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society.
For more information and updates on this exciting redesign, visit www.oxfordartonline.com
Get a sneak peek at the work in progress: http://www.oup.com/online/ppts/us/
Women Artists Update, October 2006
 Throughout history women have radically shaped visual arts practices ranging from established media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, design and architecture to more non-traditional forms such as performance art, collaborative art, body art, installation art, photography, video and digital art. The women artists update expands the broad coverage of women in Grove Art Online (now over 850 entries) by adding nearly 120 new articles and essays on women artists and designers, and over 120 new images of works by women. New entries include Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Hildegard of Bingen, Valie Export, Guerrilla Girls, Destiny Deacon, Sheila de Bretteville, Paula Scher and more. Essays cover crucial subjects such as Women and Collaborative Practice, Women and Performance, and Women and Transnationalism. In addition three seminal artists—Faith Ringgold, Kiki Smith and Jacqueline Winsor—reflect on their artistic development and the art world today in illuminating interviews, all freely available to Grove Art Online visitors. See update contents.
 We are delighted that Whitney Chadwick, distinguished scholar of women in art history at San Francisco State University, served as guest editor for the women artists update. We are also pleased that Aaris Sherin, graphic design professor at St John's University, guest edited the women designers portion of this update. We extend special thanks to the numerous artists, scholars, galleries and museums for their invaluable contributions of new scholarship and images. This update completes our special women artists project which also added new bibliographies to 370 biographies in the past two years. See Explore>People>Women for a complete list of articles.
 Finally I am happy to announce our landmark agreement with The Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2,000 images to be included in Grove Art Online by summer 2007 (see press release). The timing of this important collaboration could not have come at a more perfect moment as we celebrate The Dictionary of Art's 10th anniversary this month. The Dictionary of Art—published in 34 volumes in 1996 and created with the participation of over 6,700 scholars—is the foundation of this remarkable online resource. Today nearly 1,000 art historians contribute to Grove Art Online's editorial programme. We hope you will continue to find the growing diversity and depth of Grove Art Online valuable and enjoyable.
Christine Kuan
Senior Editor, Grove Art Online
October 2006
editor@groveart.com
Above images top to bottom details from: Ursula von Rydingsvard: For Paul, cedar and graphite, 4.37x2.74x1.63 m, 1990–92/2001 (Mountainville, NY, Storm King Art Center); © Ursula von Rydingsvard, photo courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York; Vanessa Bell: Mrs. St John Hutchinson, oil on board, 737x578 mm, 1915 (London, Tate); © Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy of Henrietta Garnett, photo credit: Tate, London/Art Resource, NY; Paula Scher: painted environmental graphics on the exterior of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), Lucent Technologies Center for Arts Education, 1998 (Newark, NJ); © Paula Scher, photo credit Peter Mauss/Esto, photo courtesy of Pentagram Design Inc.
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Since the publication of The Dictionary of Art in 1996, nearly 1,000 new articles have been added to Grove Art Online, and over 6,500 articles have been revised. You can now access a list of these articles by subject area by clicking on the links below.
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