Hiddingh Hall Library Guide: Journals for the Visual Arts

The following list is sourced from Google Scholar's Top Publications metrics page for Visual Arts. If you experience difficulties with access from this page, please go to Primo's Journal Search, enter the journal title, and select an appropriate database from which to access the journal.

1. Studies in Art Education
2. Art Education
3. International Journal of Art & Design Education
4. Leonardo
5. Digital Creativity
6. Journal of Visual Culture
7. Design and Culture
8. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
9. The Senses and Society
10. Third Text
11. The Art Bulletin
12. International Journal of Education Through Art
13. Museum Worlds
14. Art History
15. Visual Arts Research
16. Artforum
17. Journal of Design History
18. History of Photography
19. Art Journal
20. Visual Inquiry

Journals with South African and African coverage:

1. ADA: Architecture Design Art. Johannesburg, from 1989 to 1996. Founded by Jennifer Sorrell
2. Africa e Mediterraneo 
3. African Arts
4. Afriche e Orienti
5. Africultures
6. Afrik'Art. Dakar, from 2005 and associated with the Dakar Biennale.
7. Art Africa (was Art South Africa)
8. Art nègre. Namur, Belgium. 
9. Arts d'Afrique Noire, then "Arts Premiers". Arnouville, France.
10. ArtThrob
11. Atlantica Revista de Arte y Pensamiento
12. Black Art. Claremont, USA, from 1976.
13. Chimurenga
14. Critical Arts 
15. De Arte 
16. Drum Magazine (Print Journal) Website: http://www.drum.co.za/
17. Image & Text: a journal for design 
18. NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art
19. New Culture: A Review of Contemporary African Arts. Founded by Demas Nwoko, New Culture Studios Ibadan, Nigeria, from 1978.
20. Revue Noire
21. Savvy: Art, Contemporary, African
22. South African Art Times
23. South African Journal of Art History  
24. South African Journal of Cultural History 
25. South African Museums Association Bulletin 
26. Staffrider (Print journal)
27. Third Text Africa 
28. Transitions Magazine: a journal of the Arts, Culture & Society

For a full list of journals approved by the Department of Higher Education (DHET)  refer to our Accredited Journals page.