A skill your agent uses when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue.

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Install The Art Bulletin

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-art-bulletin -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills the-art-bulletin --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/the-art-bulletin .claude/skills/the-art-bulletin && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
the-art-bulletin
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
834 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue.

  • Targeting The Art Bulletin
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue

What it does

The Art Bulletin is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the CAA generalist flagship across all periods and regions, the original-argument and close-visual-analysis bar, primary-source command, Chicago house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Targeting The Art Bulletin
  • Deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/the-art-bulletin”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

The Art Bulletin loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 834 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~97
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 834 words, ~1,924 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/the-art-bulletin/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
the-art-bulletin
description
Use when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the CAA generalist flagship across all periods and regions, the original-argument and close-visual-analysis bar, primary-source command, Chicago house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

The Art Bulletin (the-art-bulletin)

Journal positioning

The Art Bulletin is the College Art Association's flagship scholarly journal and the leading generalist venue for art history across all periods, media, and world regions — from antiquity to the contemporary, painting to architecture to material and visual culture. Its defining expectation is a substantial, original scholarly argument whose significance reaches beyond the single object or local specialty: work that art historians in other fields will find consequential, grounded in close visual and material analysis and full command of primary sources. A descriptive object study, a connoisseurial note, or an attribution claim with no larger art-historical stake is a poor fit here, however sound. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Art Bulletin / CAA author instructions and style guide.

When to trigger

  • The author names The Art Bulletin for an art-history manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
  • A close study of a work, monument, or corpus must be re-framed to show its discipline-wide art-historical significance.
  • The author is choosing between The Art Bulletin and a period/area or theory-driven art-history journal.
  • The author needs the journal's original-argument bar and desk-reject heuristics.

Scope & topic fit

  • Major scholarly articles in any field of art history — ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, contemporary — and any region or tradition.
  • Studies that reframe an art-historical problem or open a new line of inquiry, not merely add an object to an established account.
  • Architecture, sculpture, painting, prints, photography, decorative and material arts, and broader visual and material culture.
  • Iconography, patronage, workshop and reception studies, and the historiography of art, when the argument carries beyond the case.
  • Cross-period or cross-cultural arguments and methodologically reflective work legible to the whole discipline.
  • Object- or archive-based research put to conceptual work, not description for its own sake.

Method & evidence bar

  • The contribution is an original, clearly stated art-historical argument with significance beyond the single object or local specialty — name the intervention.
  • Close visual and material analysis of the work(s) is central and does real argumentative work, not illustration of a thesis settled elsewhere.
  • Command of primary sources and documents — visual, archival, textual — is deep and read critically, with attention to their conditions and silences.
  • The piece is framed historically and, where apt, theoretically; the framing earns its place rather than ornamenting the case.
  • Engagement with relevant scholarship reaches across (not only within) the subfield, demonstrating the broader art-historical stake.
  • Interpretive claims are proportionate to the evidence and alert to what the objects and documents can and cannot support.

Structure & house style

  • Long-form scholarly article with a sustained argument; re-check current word limits and article types (articles, shorter formats) on the live guide.
  • Chicago notes-and-bibliography style with full footnotes; archival and visual citations follow the journal's form.
  • Double-blind review: anonymize the manuscript (remove self-identifying citations and acknowledgements) per current policy.
  • Image rights are central: secure reproduction permissions for every illustration and budget for fees and embargoes well before acceptance.
  • Figures must meet the journal's specifications (resolution, format, captions, credit lines); a separate illustration list and permissions documentation are typically required.
  • Foreign-language sources are quoted and translated per policy; prose is accessible to art historians outside the subfield.
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Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the CAA anchors, then cite the current Art Bulletin page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "The Art Bulletin submission guidelines" and follow the current CAA version.
  • Re-check article types and word limits, the Chicago citation/footnote form, and the abstract requirement.
  • Confirm anonymization requirements for double-blind review.
  • Re-check image-reproduction permissions, figure specifications, the illustration list, and any subvention/illustration-cost policy.
  • Re-check competing-interest, funding (if applicable), and AI-use disclosure, plus any translation policy for non-English sources.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • The argument's significance is legible to art historians outside the subfield, not only to specialists.
  • Close visual/material analysis carries the argument rather than illustrating a thesis settled elsewhere.
  • Primary sources and documents are read critically and support the claims, including their limits.
  • The manuscript is anonymized for double-blind review per current policy.
  • Chicago footnotes/citations and any required abstract follow the current style guide.
  • Reproduction permissions are secured and figures meet specifications, with translations handled.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • A descriptive object study or catalogue-style note with no broader art-historical argument.
  • An attribution or connoisseurial claim presented without a larger interpretive stake (better placed elsewhere).
  • Thin or uncritical use of visual evidence and primary documents, or claims out of proportion to the objects.
  • No explicit positioning in the art-historical literature beyond the immediate case.
  • Missing or unsecured image permissions, or figures below specification.
  • Wrong venue: a piece pitched to one period/area community a specialist journal would serve better.

Re-routing decision

  • Theoretically and methodologically reflective art history → art-history.
  • Contemporary art, criticism, theory, or the avant-garde → october.
  • Connoisseurship, attribution, provenance, or museum/exhibition scholarship → the-burlington-magazine.
  • Interdisciplinary theory across the humanities → critical-inquiry.
  • Aesthetics / philosophy of art is the core contribution → the-journal-of-aesthetics-and-art-criticism.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] The Art Bulletin
[Field/period/region] <closest field, period, region>
[Argument] <the art-historical intervention in one line — what it changes>
[Objects/images] <what works are analyzed and how the visual analysis carries the argument>
[Sources/scholarship] <does the primary research + positioning clear the broad-significance bar?>
[Image permissions] <are reproduction rights and figure specs in hand?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <word limit / Chicago style / anonymization / image permissions / translation>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/the-art-bulletin of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about The Art Bulletin

What does The Art Bulletin do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue. The Art Bulletin is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue.

When should I use The Art Bulletin?

The Art Bulletin fits situations like: targeting The Art Bulletin; deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue.

How do I install The Art Bulletin in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-art-bulletin -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/the-art-bulletin in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/the-art-bulletin in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install The Art Bulletin in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-art-bulletin -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/the-art-bulletin in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/the-art-bulletin in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use The Art Bulletin in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-art-bulletin -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/the-art-bulletin, .gemini/skills/the-art-bulletin, .github/skills/the-art-bulletin and .opencode/skills/the-art-bulletin in your project.

What does The Art Bulletin need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: The Art Bulletin is instructions for the agent only.

Does The Art Bulletin access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is The Art Bulletin safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does The Art Bulletin use?

The Art Bulletin is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does The Art Bulletin use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.