Few free online literary magazines can top the emotional depth and intellectual vigor of Blackbird. A joint project from the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and New Virginia Review, Inc., Blackbird presents poems, stories, essays, and other beautiful examples of written work. The Spring 2015 issue, posted on the landing page at the time of this writing, starts with a...

Edited by Douglas McLennan, formerly an arts columnist and arts reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly, Arts Journal is a daily digest of some of the best online arts and cultural journalism. Each weekday beginning at 5AM PST, McLennan examines and posts stories from over 180 English-language newspapers, magazines, and publications featuring writing about arts and...

CAA Reviews is an online publication "devoted to the peer review of new books relevant to the fields of art history." Published on a continual basis, CAA Reviews covers a variety of resources, including new major museum and gallery exhibitions, conferences, electronic media, as well as print books on a range of art topics (the latter constitute a clear majority). Articles appearing in CAA Reviews...

If you've ever thrown some clay around or experimented with different glazes (and even if you haven't), you'll want to turn the electronic pages of Ceramics Monthly. Published ten times a year, the magazine focuses on all things ceramics, and visitors to their site can read selected articles about exhibitions, installations, ceramics techniques, and those ceramicists who are making their mark in...

The University of Oregon's arts and administration program is highly regarded, and they also happen to put out a visually compelling broadside for arts and culture workers called "CultureWork." As its mission statement notes, the primary goal of the publication is "to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts, education, policy, and community." The first issue appeared...

Launched in 1947 by Denis Glover and Charles Brasch, Landfall is a New Zealand literary and art magazine that is still in publication today. The journal is currently published by the Otago University Press. For readers interested in the history of this journal, Otago University Press has digitized all issues of the journal published between 1947 and 1966. Collectively, these issues include work by...

Tate Etc. is the online and off-line magazine of the Tate Collection, Britain's national collection of British art from 1500, and international modern art. The Tate Collection is housed in four museums in England: the historical collection is at the Tate Britain, on the banks of the Thames in London; modern art at Tate Modern, in a former power plant; Tate Liverpool, and Tate St. Ives, on the...

Published since 1990, the Art Newspaper is written for "keen exhibition viewers, museum professionals, collectors, artists," and others who are "in the game a little" while striving to "know and show where the power lies in the art world." The most journalistic art periodical this reviewer has seen, The Art Newspaper reports on a wide range of events and trends in worldwide art, including...

The Millions is an online magazine that covers books, art, and culture. Founded in 2003, the site boasts an enormous backlog of essays, reviews, excerpts, lists, and other wonders. While readers can choose to support the Millions with a monthly donation, the content is free, and ads are minimal. Readers could start anywhere on this playful and intriguing site. Recent essays have included a look at...