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