Worried about where you would find information on art? We were! Now everyone can breathe a collective sigh of relief with the introduction of Arcade, a virtual art collection catalog with enabled access to over 800,000 records from the holdings of the Frick Art Reference Library, the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art.
The catalog includes a wide range of content, ranging from art and cultural history and spanning the spectrum from ancient Egypt to contemporary art. Searchable mediums include exhibition and art collection catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photograph collections, artist and vertical files, auction sale catalogs, artists' books, archival materials, digital resources and specialized databases.
"Arcade facilitates discovery of our collections in new ways and allows collective development of ever more useful access and services," notes Anne L. Poulet, Director of The Frick Collection. This new catalog search capability is expected to facilitate more research through the museums.
In terms of methodology, the catalog allows a user to search all three of the museums' catalogs simultaneously—Dadabase (MoMA's catalog), FRESCO (Frick Research Catalog Online), or Brookmuse (the Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives catalog)—or the search can be run on each individual museum's catalog.
For more information, visit www.frick.org.
