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| Art Abstracts (formerly Art Index) | An index to key international journals covering the fields of art, architecture, graphic arts, photography, and others. Reproductions of art are indexed as well as exhibition reviews. Covers articles published from 1984 to the present. | |
| Art Index Retrospective | Complements Art Abstracts by indexing citations for articles published from 1929 to 1984. | |
| ARTbibliographies Modern | One of the most comprehensive databases for modern and contemporary art including design, photography, and graphic arts. New and lesser-known artists, and foreign language literature are also emphasized. Indexes articles published from 1974 to the present. | |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. This database can be used to find books and articles on your research topic and to trace who is citing who in academic literature. Covers materials published from 1975 to the present. | |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals | Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Covers articles published from the 1930s to the present, with selective coverage dating to the 1850s. | |
| Bibliography of the History of Art | Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Indexes and abstracts art-related articles, books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs from more than 2,500 periodicals. Indexes works published from 1973 to the present. | |
| Index of Christian Art | From Princeton University, the premiere source for medieval art and iconography from early apostolic times to A.D. 1400. Covers manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, and more. | |
| Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals | An online index with nearly complete coverage of the entire contents of art journals from the 19th century. Use this resource to find articles, illustrations, advertisements, brief editorial notes, and more. | |
| Grove Dictionary of Art, The | Contains 45,000 essays on all aspects of visual arts from prehistory to the present. Includes 20,000 biographies and essays on western and non-western artists and patrons, articles on art forms from Afghanistan to Zambia, and image links pointing to art works held in public museum collections. Bibliographies appear at the end of each essay for further study. | |
| SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs | SCIPIO is an index to art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to today, including auctions that are scheduled for the near future. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works. | |
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| ADAM | A searchable catalogue of 2546 Art, Design, Architecture & Media Internet resources that have been selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community. | |
| Art History Resources on the Web | Maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College. Covers Prehistoric to 20th Century art, including photography. | |
| Arts in Victorian Britain, The | Created by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, at Brown University, England. Includes survey of Victorian art institutions, and information on design, painting, sculpture, illustration, architecture, popular arts, art criticism, bibliographies and related web sites. | |
| ArtSource | A compilation of networked resources on art and architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians. | |
| AskART | Art-market-oriented resource that supplies data about thousands of visual artists, historical and contemporary figures alike, including relevant dealers and museums, surveys of recent auction prices, reproductions of significant works, and bibliography. | |
| Colección Cisneros |
This multimedia, interactive website showcases more than 160 works from the Latin American art collection of the Fundación Cisneros (Cisneros Foundation), a Caracas-based philanthropic organization. The core strength of the collection lies in abstract art produced in Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina from the 1930s to the 1960s, yet the collection also includes objects of Colonial Latin American art, international decorative art, and nineteenth-century Latin American landscapes executed in the traveler-reporter tradition. |
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| Digital Librarian | An enormous, selective site of "the best of the web" of image resources. Site is maintained by by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York | |
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Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture |
Organized by the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Contains document facsimiles, primary source materials, image databases,
virtual exhibits, listings of associations, libraries and archives,
museums, and guides to the decorative arts, and more.
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| Fineart Forum: Resource Directory | This directory is meant to serve as a resource and jumping-off place for people interested in art, and in the possible relationships between art and technology. Links to over 1,000 art resources including: websites, gophers, ftp sites, mailing lists, exhibitions, etc. Produced by Mississippi State University. | |
| Getty Center Home Page | Web site for the Getty Center including the Museum, Research Institute, Conservation Institute, ArtsEdNet, Leadership Institute, and Grant Program. | |
| Impact Museums Home Page | Provides access points for web pages produced by museums. They are organized by topic, museum location and regional content. | |
| Librarian's Index to the Internet | A
searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,900 Internet resources
selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public
libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as
a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
From the Berkeley Public Library.
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| Mark Harden's Artchive | Contains images of popular artists' work. Organized by artists last name and genre. | |
| Mother of All Art History Links | Contains listing of Academic Art History Department web sites, online research resources, image collections, online exhibits, etc. Maintained by the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. | |
| New York Foundation for the Arts | Web site for The New York Foundation for the Arts. This foundation supports contemporary artists of New York in the creation and sharing of their works, as well as providing the broader public with opportunities to experience and understand the arts. It supports programs in three major areas: Grants, Education, and Services and Technology. | |
| Search Engine Watch | Supplies much helpful information about web search engines, especially how to use them to find data efficiently. Section called "web searching tips" is particularly useful. Within it, be sure not to miss "Search engine math," which explains how to apply Boolean operators to search engine operation. | |
| UCLA Art Web Sites | Contains links to academic art libraries, meta-indexes, organizations, museums, image databases, research guides, reference sources, and sites by area, period and genre | |
| Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), The | ULAN is a directory of names and biographical information for two hundred thousand artists and architects. Produced by The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. | |
| University of Michigan Slide Distribution | Offers slides of art objects from exhibitions, distinguished private collections, and the permanent collections of major American and European museums at an affordable price. Also includes major Architectural sites and sculptural monuments. | |
| Vassar College Art Library: Virtual Resources Space | Research guides for art and architecture by topic, historic periods and specific media. Includes: museum and gallery listings internationally and in the New York area, and links to information about artist resources, museum studies, arts education, organizations, libraries, book resources, and employment. | |
| Voice of the Shuttle Home Page | Web page for humanities research produced by the English Department of the University of Santa Barbara. Includes art, architecture and photography. | |
| Yale Library Selected Internet Resources : Arts | Covers architecture, arts of the book, film, fine arts, history of art, and theater studies research guides. Each discipline contains links to directories of resources, professional organizations, electronic discussion groups, exhibitions, archives, libraries and museums. | |
| Yahoo! Arts:Institutes | A meta-site covering institutes from a broad range of disciplines in the Humanities and Arts. | |
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| Art and Design - Career and Employment | Designed to provide access
to numerous art/design career and employment internet resources. Indexed resources are provided for graphics, new media, teaching, photography, and more. Produced by Northern Michigan University Department of Art and Design. |
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| Art Deadlines List | A free email newsletter listing art competitions, art scholarships, art grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing & photo contests, residencies, design & architecture competitions, auditions, tryouts, fellowships, festivals, funding, financial aid, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages. | |
| Arts Employment Index | Contains links for career development and job listings ranging from academic to museum, to studio art positions. Created by World Wide Arts Resources, Corp. | |
| Arts Wire Jobs | A national database of job listings in all arts disciplines in the nonprofit, commercial, academic, and public sectors. The web site also features information about fellowships, grants, residencies, and other artist and art-related opportunities. | |
| JobStar S.F. -- San Francisco Bay Area Job Banks | Offers job search information, community resources and job listing links in a wide range of occupations and industries for the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Area, Sacramento Region, and the San Diego Area. Produced by California State Librarians. | |
| Visual Nation/Art Jobs | A listing of web pages where you can search for art related jobs. Most are general employment pages. A few are art specific. | |
| Visual Nation/Arts/Careers In Art | A listing of web pages where you can find information about choosing an art career. |
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| Alfred University Art Images | A meta-site of art image links produced by Alfred University Libraries. | |
| Bridgeman Art Library | Features images from collections found in museums and galleries around the world, with coverage from ancient through contemporary periods. Access through the Grove Dictionary of Art online. | |
| Getty Center Artsednet | Images and biographical information about artists geared towards a general museum audience. Search by artists, title, and date. Indicates where images can be found in print. | |
| Google's Image Search | A fine search engine for images. Shows you the image and its context within a web page. | |
| Image Database for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | Image database for over 110,000 objects found at the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums. | |
| Image Search Engines | A listing of image search engines that allow you to search selected sites rich in images. Produced by Boston University Libraries. | |
| Medical Image Databases | A paper by Nancy Scherer of the University of Michigan that reports on medical image databases on the World Wide Web. Also includes an annotated list of web sites containing medical images. | |
| NAIL Homepage | National Archives and Records
Administration's (NARA) Archival Information Locator (NAIL). NAIL is the
working prototype for a future online catalog of holdings in Washington,
DC, the regional records services facilities, and the Presidential libraries. |
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| SILS Art Image Browser | A database of art, architectural, and museum object images from four collections: University of Michigan Museum of Art Kelsey Museum of Archeology Slide and Photograph Collection, Department of the History of Art Los Angeles Chicano Murals, Private Photograph Collection, Susan Atkins. Produced by the School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan | |
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| Architecture Resources on the Internet | Contains information about selected architects and a list of links relating to theory, ideas and works in architecture. | |
| Architecture and Building | A guide to Internet sites on architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture. Compiled by Jeanne Brown, University of Nevada Las Vegas Architecture Studies Library. | |
| Architronic homepage | A scholarly refereed journal, exploring the new ranges of architectural communication available through digital media. It is a platform for both presenting and reviewing research as a journal, and a forum for stimulating dialogue on emerging ideas. | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | The official site of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. | |
| Internet Sources in Architecture and Architectural History | A very comprehensive listing of resources organized by the architecture librarian at the UCLA Arts Library. | |
| Renaissance and Baroque Architecture | An image collection scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History. | |
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| ArtSource Museum Index | A selective, international, A-Z listing of museums | |
| Internet ArtResources | An international listing of galleries, organized alphabetically. | |
| Virtual Library museums pages | An international directory of online museums | |
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| Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou | Paris. | |
| Dia Center for the Arts | New York, NY. | |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | The M.H. de Young Museum and the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA. | |
| George Eastman House | International museum of photography and film. Rochester, NY. | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA. | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | |
| Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | |
| National Gallery of Art | A search page for the National Gallery of Art collection with an artist index. Doesn't contain images, but information can be found about the artist's school, style, the creation date of the piece, it's medium, and provenance. | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, CA. | |
| The Smithsonian | The entry point for all the Smithsonian Museums, including the National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, etc. | |
| University Art Museum - Pacific Film Archives | Berkeley, CA. | |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY. | |
| Yerbe Buena Center for the Arts | Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts presents art and entertainment reflecting the San Francisco Bay Area's
diverse cultural populations. Presentations by local, national and international
artists. San Francisco, CA. |
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| AAH (Association for Art History) | A professional organization
for art historians, museum professionals, critics, and scholars, including
graduate students dedicated to the study of the history of art. |
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| Americans for the Arts | The national organization that strives to make arts more accessible to every adult and child in America. To this end, Americans for the Arts works with cultural organizations, arts and business leaders and individuals to provide leadership, education and information that will encourage support for the arts and culture. | |
| ArtSource Arts Related Organizations | A listing of links to many art related organizations. | |
| CAA (College Art Association) | Open to all individuals with an interest in art, art history, or a related discipline. Among other functions, CAA promotes excellence in teaching, offers awards, career development, advocacy, and facilitates the exchange of ideas in art and art history. | |
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| American Art | The Journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Features a mix of commentary, research articles, tributes to individual artists, and analyses of single works of art in public collections. Also includes a comprehensive index of content from all previous issues. Covers images and text from 1997 to the present. | |
| Art a GoGo | A site providing information and news about art and the art world including current art events, reviews, and interviews with artists, art historians, docents, dealers, and other art players. | |
| Art Book | A journal dedicated to the review of books on art and artists, art education, photography, architecture, style, etc. Also includes reviews of exhibition catalogs, and lists of the top ten art book bestsellers in London and New York. Coverage from 1997 to the present. | |
| ARTCULT | A commercial site produced by French company Holbein & Hilliard that also contains interesting news articles about art. | |
| ArtDaily | Art newspaper about the worldwide daily art scene. | |
| Art History | The journal of the Association of Art Historians. An international forum for research on all aspects of the historical and theoretical study of painting, sculpture, design and other areas of visual imagery. Coverage from 1997 to the present. | |
| ArtSource Art Journals Online | Links to a wide variety of international online art journals | |
| Design Issues | An internationally-oriented journal published by MIT on design history, theory, and criticism. Issues from March 2000 to the present year. | |
| Design Studies | A journal devoted to understanding design from its applications in many areas, including industrial design, engineering, architecture, and planning. From 2000 to the present year. | |
| Eighteenth-Century Studies | Published by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) covering many aspects of 18th century culture, including visual art. Also features exhibition reviews. From 1995 to the present. | |
| eSpectra | eSpectra is the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network. Primarily a listing of online resources and news of importance to MCN members and the museum, archive, and library computing communities at large, the site also features job listings and analyses of how digital technologies are transforming the art world. Edited by Leslie Johnston at the Harvard Design School. | |
| Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | Featuring current research articles, symposia, special issues, and book reviews in aesthetics and the arts, including developments in visual art, architecture, decorative arts, film, popular culture, as well as dance, literature, and music. Covers Volume 59 (January and February 2001) onwards. | |
| Journal of Art and Design Education | Journal with scholarly articles on art and design education. Includes book reviews and notes on contributors. With coverage from 1997 to the present. | |
| Leonardo | An international journal on the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music. Published by the MIT Press. From February 1999 on. | |
| Museum International | Journal focusing on museums and museology. From Volume 49 (1997) onwards. | |
| Museum Management and Curatorship | A journal with authoritative, up-to-date analyses of key issues in the field of museum studies. Volume 17 Issue 4 (December 1998) onwards. | |
| PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art | Features reviews of new works in theater, dance, film, and opera, artists’ writings, essays, interviews, reports of performances abroad, and book reviews, as well as articles on the visual arts (video, installations, photography, and multimedia works). 1996 to the present year. | |
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