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Search this Guide Search Art and Art History Welcome to the UCLA Library guide for research on art and art history. This guide is intended as a starting place for researchers, pointing to tools for finding books, scholarly articles, reviews, and other topical and collection-related information.

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Streaming Video Collections: Art and Art History

• Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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  On-demand streaming video service for educational institutions with thousands of documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines. More information on Kanopy access and use is available on this guide.

• Google Videos: Advanced Video Search Search for open access/public domain videos under domain names .edu and .org
• Vimeo A video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos. You can search for names, keywords, etc. to find films on a topic.
• YouTube Search for artists by name, using a phrase in quotation marks: e.g. "Kara Walker."
• !Women Art Revolution Created by artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson over two decades (1990-2008) as she developed her groundbreaking documentary, !Women Art Revolution, this archive provides the first-person histories of the pioneering individuals who challenged the ways in which women were considered by the reigning art establishment. Available from this site are the videos, transcripts, and biographies on the interviewees as well as links to the Women Art Revolution collection finding aid, information on the documentary !Women Art Revolution, and other feminist studies.

• Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
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  UCLA subscribes to several dozen distinct databases hosted by Alexander Street Press. This interface allows you to search across most of them. Click on "My Collections" to see the list of subscribed databases.

• Art21 Videos Art21 provides unparalleled access to the artist’s voice to diverse audiences around the world, using the power of digital media to introduce millions of people to contemporary art and artists.
• BAMPFA videos (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)

• Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
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  Streaming video access to documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Includes access to the African American Classics collection from California Newsreel.

• DIA: Watch & Listen Audio and video recordings of DIA's public programming.
• Electronic Arts Intermix
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  Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a nonprofit arts organization that is a leading international resource for video and media art. A pioneering advocate for media art and artists, EAI's core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 3,500 new and historical video works by artists.

• Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
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  Online video collection featuring hundreds of documentaries covering a range of topics. Subjects include race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. UCLA subscribes to volumes I and II.

• Guggenheim Museum
• Hammer Channel Hammer Channel lets you watch, search, clip, and share videos from the Hammer Museum’s programs and exhibitions, from 2005 to the present.
• Hauser & Wirth
• ICA Boston videos
• Louisiana Channel: Louisiana Museum of Art (Denmark)
• MOCA
• MoMA: Museum of Modern Art videos
• SFMOMA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art videos
• Smithsonian American Art Museum videos
• The Studio Museum in Harlem videos
• Tate Gallery
• UbuWeb "All avant-garde. All the time." Film & video, sound, dance, papers, historical, visual poetry, conceptual writing, contemporary, Aspen Magazine, outsiders, /ubu Editions, 365 Days Project, Bidoun Presents, ethnopoetics, electronic music resources.
• Walker Art Center videos
• Whitney Museum of American Art: Public Programs

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