The items listed below represent some of the best current sources for investigating various aspects of the art world. They contain numerous links to other websites relating to art topics.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus On Line -- Sponsored by the Getty Institute's Library the ATT indexes the Getty's extensive holdings through the use of a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global.
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine -- A remarkable comprehensive index of numerous artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art -- This site provides definitions for more than 2,600 terms, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.
Art Deadlines List -- A monthly email newsletter listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships & grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing & photo contests, residencies, design & architecture competitions, auditions, casting calls, fellowships, festivals, funding, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages.
Artchive -- Outstanding metasite with links to dozens of artists and art-related webpages.
ArtSites -- Provides access to sites on the visual, performing, media, and literary arts.
ArtSource -- "... a gathering point for 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, etc."
Axis: For Information on Visual Arts -- Axis is a national contemporary visual arts service providing information about artists and makers living/working in Britain to a national and international audience. It maintains a large interactive database of contemporary British art.
Internet ArtResources -- "A gallery, museum, artist, art publication or bookseller, art show, fair, event or exposition-- find any or all through Internet ArtResources ... created with the fine arts collector/admirer in mind."
Web Gallery of Art -- This site contains over 8,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750.
Women & Art Sites -- This page provides a selective, annotated list of links with information on women in the visual arts. Individual women artists' Web pages are not listed, although sites with lists of such links are included.
World's Women On-Line! Electronic Art Networking -- The World's Women On-line! is an electronic art networking project originally established to be presented at the United Nations' Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995. Utilizing the Internet as a global exhibition format, this site focuses attention on the challenge of bringing the vast resource of women's experience and culture into the rapidly developing field of information technology. The World's Women On-line! demonstrates the professionalism and achievement of women artists internationally; bridges language barriers through art imagery; and promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration between technologists and artists.
Yahoo: Arts -- Links to Internet sites related to the arts; with search engine.
Varo Registry of Women Artists -- The Varo Registry, named in honor of Remedios Varo, is an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists. The Varo Registry is designed to provide all women artists an opportunity to become part of today's electronic community. Each artist is provided with her own personal webpage of images, background information, and artist's statement.
Women Artists in History -- An extensive listing of significant women artists arranged chronologically.
About Johannes Vermeer Art -- This site is dedicated to Vermeer and contains electronic access to all 36 of his masterpieces.
Edward Hopper Scrapbook -- This scrapbook, compiled by the staff of the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, offers a glimpse into Hopper's life, his friends, and the paintings that have fascinated art lovers worldwide ever since Hopper first came to prominence during the mid 1920s.
Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery -- Developed by David Brooks, this sites pays homage to the life and work of Vincent van Gogh through biographical information and an extensive selection of Van Gogh's paintings. Additionally, Brooks has assembled a database of Van Gogh's paintings which interested visitors may download in number of different formats.
Russian Painting -- This site does not limit itself to posting reproductions of paintings alone, but combines them with artists' biographies and with discussions of particular works, schools, movements, and styles. In addition, it provides bibliographical references and links to related webpages.
World of Celtic Art -- Celtic art has its origins in the sculpture, carving and metalwork of the ancient Celtic peoples who dominated Continental Europe and the British Isles from about 1000BC onwards before becoming submerged in the growing Roman Empire. Only in Britain and Ireland did the Celtic traditions survive.
Mother of All Art History Links Page -- This useful site, affiliated with the University of Michigan, serves as a gateway to more than 400 sites: academic, museum, commercial, and studio.
Timeline of Art History -- This highly useful website represents a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
Yale Library History of Art Subject Guide -- Good general page with links to directories, professional organization, art history departments, museums and other electronic resources.
Art Studio Chalkboard -- These pages are a resource for artists and art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.
Ceramics Web -- The SDSU CeramicsWeb is an experimental web site for ceramics. It includes such things as databases of glaze recipes and material analyses, links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and a variety of educational materials related to ceramics.
Crafts Report Online -- This Internet source for craftspeople and crafts buyers offers national up-to-date news and information on industry issues, trends, and other items relating to the business of crafts and craft shows. In addition, there are full-text copies of selected articles from the current and past issues of the print version of Craft Report.
A History of Photography: From Its Beginnings Till the 1920s -- Includes "pen-portraits of many of the most important photographers of the period" and "information on some of the most significant processes used during the early days of photography."
International Center of Photography -- The International Center of Photography is a museum, a school and a center for photographers and photography. ICP's mission is to present photography's vital and central place in contemporary culture, and to lead in interpretation issues central to its development.
Museum of Photographic Arts -- The Museum of Photographic Arts is one of the only museums in the country dedicated exclusively to the photographic arts, presenting work by some of the world's most celebrated photographers and cinematographers.
Sculptor.org -- This web site provides a central place for documenting sculpture on the web, and provides resources for sculptors at all levels from the novice to the professional.
University Museums -- This site provides access to the individual Internet pages for the Brunnier Museum, Farm House Museum and the Art on Campus Project. In addition, the Collections section of the Art on Campus page, provides access to a search engine for locating images and details on specific artworks on the Iowa State University campus.
Art Institute of Chicago -- Access to information about the collections, exhibitions, and programs of the Institute.
Guggenheim.org -- This site provides electronic access to the Web pages of the Guggenheim Museums: Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Museum, Soho; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; and the Guggenheim Virtual Museum.
Museum of Modern Art, New York: MOMA -- Provides information on the museum and its collections, examples of art reproductions, and news of upcoming events.
National Gallery of Art. Index of American Design -- A visual archive of approximately 17,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative art objects from the colonial period through the 19th century.
Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Includes information about exhibitions and events, as well as general information about the museum.
Whitney Museum of American Art -- Features the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Contains a message from the director and includes information on the exhibitions. Highlights the hours of operation, seminars, and employment opportunities. Discusses the current, upcoming, and traveling exhibitions.
Louvre -- The Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilizations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation. The collects are divided into seven departments: Oriental Antiquities (with a section dedicated to Islamic Art), Egyptian Antiquities (with a section dedicated to Coptic Art), Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; and, covering the modern period, Paintings, Sculptures, Objets d'art and Prints and drawings.
National Portrait Gallery -- Electronic access to prominent London art gallery, which opened in 1856.
The State Hermitage Museum -- Site of the State Hermitage Museum containing information on the museum and its collections, including virtual exhibitions and digital images of some art projects.
WebMuseum, Paris -- A virtual museum, with many images. Includes biographical information on many artists.
Asianart.com -- Provides a collection of the on-line versions of exhibitions that feature color images of Asian art and scholarly text from various galleries. Also contains articles, a list of galleries and other Asian sources.
Fineart Forum -- Fineart Forum is a newsletter, a gallery, and other things as well, produced by the Art, Science and Technology Network. Because of this, there is a slight bias toward sites that work with the relationships between art and technology, but we welcome all visual art links.
Interiors & Sources -- Written and edited for contract and residential interior designers, specifiers, architects and facility managers. Article topics are carefully selected to deliver pertinent news, information, viewpoints, concerns and solutions to the business and personal issues facing today's design practitioners.
Journal of Contemporary Art -- This electronic journal includes the works of various contemporary artists as well as interviews and access to its archive of back issues.
N. Paradoxa -- An international feminist art journal which includes links to bibliographies of books and magazines on women's art, and to listings of women's art organizations, archives and Internet sites.
NYFA Current -- Includes a weekly digest of arts news, a database of cultural resources on the Web, and a subscription service.
