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  • The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove® Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists
  • Includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures

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Latin American Art

Read Groves new guide to Latin American art and architecture by Prof. Tom Cummins of Harvard University, which accompanies the multiyear project he supervised to update and expand Grove’s 1,300+ articles this field, spanning Pre-Columbian to contemporary art.

Beatriz González

Reinterpreting images from local media and newspapers, Colombian artist Beatriz González created works that comment on social and political issues throughout her country’s history.

In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 231 articles with updated structure, as well as related emendations.

Explore the full list of what has been recently published and revised on Oxford Art Online.

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Letter from the Editor

Read a letter from the Editor in Chief of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Dr. Valerie Cassel Oliver, discussing her editorial approach and the work underway to expand Benezit’s coverage of emerging artists, varied media, and artists of diverse social and cultural backgrounds.

Pronunciation Guide for Artist Names

Pronunciation Guide for Artist Names

Explore the new Grove Art pronunciation guide to the names of modern and contemporary artists.  Listen to recordings of scholars pronouncing a selection of names from Ann Demeulemeester to Cai Guo-Qiang to Francisco Zúñiga.

Dulwich Pink Gallery

Collection Guides

Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.

Latin American Art

Latin American Art

Grove Art continues a major initiative to revise and expand Grove’s content on Latin American art and architecture. Led by Tom Cummins at Harvard University, this project includes scholarship on topics from the Pre-Columbian period to present day. 

News

JANUARY 7, 2025

What's new in January 2025

In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 231 articles with updated structure, as well as 283 emendations as part of a related corrections process.

DECEMBER 9, 2024

What's new in December 2024

In this update, Grove Art publishes 2 new articles, 21 revisions, and a new guide to Latin American art, as well as 16 emendations as part of our regular corrections process.

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

What's new in November 2024

This month, Grove Art published 215 articles with updated structure as part of a project to increase discoverability and navigability of the dictionary, as well as 348 emendations as part of a related corrections process.