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ART

Search all Best of the Web Art Sites on this page:

• General Art
• Art Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
• Art History
• Museums

 

General Art:

• Art Images for College Teaching
  Public domain images of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture.
  
  
• Art News- absolutearts.com
  Art news and artists' portfolios.
  
  
• ArtIndustri
  Promotes the work of students, amateur & professional artists and art galleries.
  
  
• Artnet.com
  News, galleries, events.
  
  
• The Arts in Every Classroom: A Video Library
  A fourteen part online video series for K-5 classroom teachers and art specialists from Annenberg/CPB.
  
  
• The Arts in Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers
  An eight part online video workshop providing new ideas about working with the arts for K-5 and art specialist teachers from Annenberg/CPB.
  
  
• ArtSource
  A selective guide to art resources on the web.
  
  
• ArtStor
  Database of art images. (Note: You must log in to use this from off campus. This is a subscription database limited to NOVA students and staff.)
  
  
• AskART.com
  American artists database of painters, sculptors, illustrators, including biographies.
  
  
• British Library Online Gallery: Turning the Pages
  Browse through historical books, manuscripts, and other documents.
  
  
• Communication Arts
  The online complement to Communication Arts magazine.
  
  
• Digital Archive of Art
  Online Images from Boston College.
  
  
• Digital Imaging Project
  Art Historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.
  
  
• Figure Drawing LAB
  Drawing tips.
  
  
• Google Art Project
  View art from museums around the world.
  
  
• LatinArt.com: an online journal of art and culture
  Arts, issues, exhibits.
  
  
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links
  University of Michigan School of Art & Design. Web resources including list of art schools by state.
  
  
• National Endowment for the Arts
  Public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts. Site includes news, opportunities for grants.
  
  
• National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts
  Mission: Identify emerging artists and assist them in their educational and professional development
  
  
• Digital NYPL
  Created by the New York Public Library, provides access to hundreds of thousands of images.
  
  
• Pictures Catalogue
  National Library of Australia.
  
  
• Planet Typography
  A portal entirely dedicated to the art and science of typography.
  
  
• Sculptor.org
  Resources for sculptors.
  
  
• Smarthistory: Art History Conversation
  Multi-media resources to enhance the traditional art history textbook.
  
  
• The-artists.org
  Major contemporary visual artists, art news, the Art Weblog.
  
  
• Webmuseum, Paris
  Cezanne and other artists.
  
  
• World Art Treasures
  Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation - 100,000 slides. Play with the puzzle feature.
  
  
• World Wide Art Resources
  Contemporary art, artists, galleries.
  
  
• Yahoo! Art
  Yahoo's selection of art sites.
  
  
  
  

Art Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
  From the J. Paul Getty Trust.
  
  
• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
  
  
• ArtLex- Art Dictionary
  
  
• Glossary for Medieval Art and Architecture
  Illustrated glossary from the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  
  

Art History:

• Archives of American Art
  Smithsonian Institute.
  
  
• Art History Resources on the Web
  Maintained by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Professor, Dept. of Art History Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
  
  
• Art of the Western World
  A nine-part online video series on art history from Annenberg/CPB.
  
  
• Timeline of Art History
  Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  
  

Museums:

• MuseumStuff.com
  Find museums easily using indexes.
  
  
• American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
  Art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training. Sometimes called "outsider art."
  
  
• Art Institute of Chicago
  
  
• CODART
  Dutch and Flemish Art in Museums Worldwide.
  
  
• Guggenheim Museum
  New York.
  
  
• J. Paul Getty Museum
  Pacific Palisades, CA
  
  
• Louvre Museum, Paris, France
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  
  
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  
  
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
  
• Museum of Online Museums
  Museums, galleries, shows.
  
  
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery -- London
  
  
• Smithsonian
  Links to the Smithsonian's art museums: Hirschhorn,National Portrait Gallery, Freer, Renwick, etc.
  
  
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
  
  
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
  
  
  

This collection is maintained by Sandy Beeson and was last updated in October 2010.