Art in Cyberspace

General Art

• Aesthetics On-Line (AE)
  The American Society for Aesthetics and its counterpart, the British Society for Aesthetics, present themselves. The site contains articles about philosophy and the arts, information about aesthetics events worldwide, and links to other arts, philosophy and aesthetics-related resources on the internet (including the aesthetics email list). Editor: Dominic M. McIver Lopes.

• African Arts: Aesthetics and Meaning
  Exhibition of African art ranging from masks to figurines. Summaries outlining the cultural and artistic significance of the pieces is included. Presented by the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia.

• The Age of Enlightenment in the paintings of France's National Museums
  Includes a historical introduction (on the period between the death of Louis XIV, in 1715, and the coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire 1799, when the future emperor Nepoléon Bonaparte took power), a short graphical genealogy, paintings, and an index of artists

• Alamkara: 5000 years of Indian art [MOVED TO ..?]
  The National Museum of Singapore has created a beautifully rendered version of its 1994-95 exhibit on Indian art. Alamkara is a Sanskrit word meaning ornamentation or decoration, and this exhibit explores this in the context of objects made for use in domestic, religious and courtly settings. The site is divided into nine categories, each prefaced by an introduction, while the images themselves are accompanied by descriptive paragraphs.

• American Photography Museum
  Only in cyberspace you can find this museum. William Becker gives you a great opportunity to see thousands of photographs from the first 75 years of photography. If you get tired of surfing around, take a break at the museum café.

• ANU Art History
  Over 120,000 images mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. Users can see only one image from each page, until you register and pay for the secure server. Somes of the images are organizes by country. You can also view a large project dealing with Borodudur, with more than 2.500 images and a VRML model.

• Archives & Museum Informatics
  Archives & A&MI is the start-up of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), a not-for-profit association of insitututions with collections of art, that are creating a digital library of their holdings for licensing to educational users. One of their activiteits is to evaluate the best new museum sites on the Net.

• Archives of American Art (AAA)
  The AAA is a branch of the Smithsonian Institution. It provides researchers with access to the largest collection of documents on the history of the visual arts. The collection includes more than thirteen million items in 5,000 collections. It includes personal papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators and the records of art dealers and museums. In addition, the AAA holds over 3,000 interviews conducted for its oral history program and about 1,000 photos of artists' collections.

• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
  Pictures of graffiti all over the world. You can search for special artists, or read interviews and articles on these 'art crimes'. The listing of the best graffiti sites is very useful.

• Art History
  A guide from about.com, edited by Andrea Mulder-Slater. Includes a beginners guide to the history of art: Art History 101. It outlines major Western art styles and periods with non-west styles included when appropriate. From Pleolitch, Msopotamian, Roman and Renaissance tot Expressionis, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Minimalism and Post-Modern.

• ArtLex - Visual Arts Dictionary
  A glossary of more than 3,300 art terms with definitions, articles, illustrations, and links authored by Michael Delahunt (Arizona, USA).

• artnetweb
  An attempt to establish an art colony in cyberspace. A surprisingly and well-designed site that contains a collection of projects, readings, and exhibits. A place where you can stay for hours. Artnetweb is a network of people and projects investigating new media in the practice of art.

• ArtsConnectEd
  An easy to use search engine, with a good design, an ability to search all types of museum resources and integration of different media (books, images, objects, etc). Ability to zoom in the pictures.

• Arts Wire
  An extensive collection of art resources, a weekly digest of arts news and conferencing opportunities.

• Celtic Art and Cultures
  This site was originally created for art history students at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and can now be used by any would-be student of Celtic Art with access to a newer Web browser. A multimedia database of Celtic-related images, maps, timelines, and vocabulary aids with spoken pronunciations. Images can be viewed by period, material, object, or country. The site was created for use in the Art History course Celtic Art and Cultures at UNC.

• Communication Arts
  A site of the world's largest magazine on creativity for graphic designers, art directors, copywriters, illustratorss and multimedia designers. A great site for all graphic designers.

• Cubitt, Sean (Slade School of Fine Art, UK)
  Digital Aesthetics
  A companion to the book of the same name, written by Sean Cubitt and published in 1998. One of the purposes of the site is to provide images discussed in the book.

• CultureFinder
  A guide to find classical music, opera, dance or theater performance. Includes weekly columms, news about the arts, an artist showcase, and a library of arts information.

• CyberAtlas (Guggenheim Museum)
  Charts of the evolving cultural geography of cyberspace. The aim of CyberAtlas is to commission and collect a series of maps of cyberspace, with a particular focus on sites related to visual art and culture. The "Electric Sky", by John Ippolito, maps art web sites. The "Intelligent Life", by Laura Trippi, is a thematic map that traces connections between recent scientific developments and art, theory, and popular culture. It demonstrates that digital technology has given rise to a new conception of what constitutes intelligent life.

• Eckard, Donald P.
  Artists' Income and Gender: Schooling, Sexism, and Self-Sorting
  In: Journal of the Sociology of Art.

• EMAF - European Media Art Festifal (Osnabruck).

• euroARTchannel
  The most comprehensive resource system for the European modern art. Dedicated exclusively to the coverage of the whole European Modern Art scene from 48 Western and Eastern countries. (English and German version). In "Cyber Community" you will find information on modern art arranged by country or by subject; in "Cyber Museum" you'll find some nice examples of modern european artists; "Global Villages" provides information on art prices and special projects; "Cyber Gallery" provides information on the artists in the cyber museum; and the "Community Forum" give users a chance to communicate with each other.

• Exit to Art
  The whole repertoire of classical master painters at your service. Information on the main streams of the painting art, from the prehistory to the 19th century, including pictures of art pieces and biographies of the masters. Editor: Fernando Corrente.

• EXPO
  A collection of images from the Library of Congress organized as museum exhibits. Tickets to the EXPO terrain are free.

• Gallery Guide
  Overview on what art is and where to find it. Great site with good services (such a the gallery highlights).

• Great Art from the Western Tradition
  Links listed chronologically by period (from Antiquity to Modern). Created by Russell McNeil.

• Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum (HVAF) - UK.

• Institute of New Media (INM)
  A virtual space exploration: scientific research in the visual environments of simulated model worlds an new media art. Frankfurt (Germany). Germnan and English version.

• Mark Harden's Archive
  View thumbnail or large file formats of a long list of artists.

• Paul, John[2005]
  Art as Weltanschauung: An Overview of Theory in the Sociology of Art
  Electronic Journal of Sociology, 2005.

• Photography Collection - New York Public Library
  The collection contains almost 300,000 original photographic prints representing an international range of photographers. The collection's documentary focus encompasses social documentation, portraits, topographical views, cityscaps, and events in suubject areas that complement the bibliographic strengths of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (CHSS).

• A Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan
  An annotated bibliography, compiled by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto for the Asia Society, It contains over 450 references to print resources about Japanese art.

• Ruane, Joseph W.
  Mobilization of the Arts
  In: Journal of the Sociology of Art.
  Sociologists have studies the world of art in identifying role differentiation, the deviance within jazz subcultures, the structures within which the artists survives, or the art world itself as the unit of analysis. This article concentrates on the commercial elements surrounding art.

• Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery
  A site that aims to be the most thorough and comprehensive Van Gogh resource on the internet. It contains more than 1900 pages and more than 1900 graphics. And that's just the beginning. The site currently contains information about all of Van Gogh's paintings, but this is really just the tip of the iceberg. The site includes biographical and chronological information, FAQs, a bibliography, related links, and an on-line forum. Editor: David Brooks.

• Walker Art Center
  Experience an interactive statement conveying that this site is about creating a mentality of how to experience and perceive a virtual space. The collage of "Bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole" hints to the fact that the space to be entered is an experience of bringing together scholars and creative performers who have already taken a path that leads to multidisciplinary presence. The visitor is invited to participate in a dialogue between different attitudes, and to integrate the more relevant insights into a new perspective. All The "Bit & Pieces" of the site have a special space for Introduction, Interviews and reactions. Walker Art Center is one of the online resources that is definitely a different approach.

• Web Design (SocioSite)

• World Art Treasures
  100,000 slides of the J.-E. Berger Foundation are used to build a specific approach for each itinerary, emphasizing a specific and original trait in order to give birth to a true experience through the new technology.

• World Wide Books
  Exihition Catalogues and Other Books on Art. A searchable and browsable database of more than 37,000 titles on art, architecture and photography systematically selected. It includes international museum and gallery catalogues published form the 1960 to the present and American trade and university press art books published since 1992.

Museums     Anthropological Musea     Science Museums

General Guides

Internet ArtResources: Museums
Alphabetically ordered list of museums.

Museum Computer Network
A nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies. Includes links to over 1,700 museum-related sites.

WebMuseum Network
Find a museum next door, or on the other side of the globe. More than 10 million documents under your finger tips. Explore the famous paintings exhibition with great examples from all art art school from the Gothic Painting (1280-1515), the Italian Renaissance (1420-1600), the abstract expressionism, Pop Art and the Japanese Art.

Art Network: World Wide Museums

WWW Virtual Library: Museums

Africa and Middle East

Egypt

WWW Virtual Library: Egypt

Israel

WWW Virtual Library: Israel

Kuwait

WWW Virtual Library: Kuwait

Mauritania

WWW Virtual Library: Mauritania

South Africa

World Wide Art Resources: South Africa

Directories of Museums in Africa and Middle East

Museums in Africa and Middle East - National History Museum of Los Angeles County

WWW Virtual Library: Africa

Antarctica

Museums in Africa and Middle East - National History Museum of Los Angeles County

Asia

India

World Wide Art Resources: India

Japan

World Wide Art Resources: Japan

WWW Virtual Library: Japan

Korea

WWW Virtual Library: Korea

Korea (South)

World Wide Art Resources: Korea (South)

Singapore

National Heritage Board of Singapore - Includes the the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Singapore History Museum, and the National Archives of Singapore.

Taiwan

World Wide Art Resources: Taiwan

Australia

World Wide Art Resources: Australia

WWW Virtual Library: Australia

Canada

Art Gallery of Ontario
Don't forget to visit the Research Library and Archives.

Canadian Heritage Information Network
The gateway to museums, galleries, and heritage information in Canada and around the world. The "Great Canadian Guide" allows visitors to search by keyword ('what'), by location ('where'), and by event ('when'). It even contains a FAQ about museums and events.

Civilizations.ca - Online resources for Canadian heritage
A collection of resources pertinent to Canadian heritage in the disciplines of history (including military and postal history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, folk culture and popular culture).

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Contains some great virtual exhibitions.

National Gallery of Canada

Royal Ontario Museum

Directories

• Virtual Museum of Canada

Europe

Austria

webmuseen.de: Austria

World Wide Art Resources: Austria

WWW Virtual Library: Austria

Belgium

World Wide Art Resources: Belgium

Croatia

World Wide Art Resources: Croatia

Cyprus

World Wide Art Resources: Cyprus

Denmark

World Wide Art Resources: Denmark

Estonia

World Wide Art Resources: Estonia

Finland

World Wide Art Resources: Finland

France

Art4Net: France Art Channel

World Wide Art Resources: France

Germany

webmuseen.de: Germany

World Wide Art Resources: Germany

WWW Virtual Library: Germany

Greece

World Wide Art Resources: Greece

Hungary

World Wide Art Resources: Hungary

WWW Virtual Library: Hungary

Iceland

World Wide Art Resources: Iceland

Ireland

World Wide Art Resources: Ireland

Italy

Art Channel: Italia - Art4net

World Wide Art Resources: Italy

WWW Virtual Library: Italy

Lithuania

World Wide Art Resources: Lithuania

Luxembourg

World Wide Art Resources: Luxembourg

WWW Virtual Library: Luxembourg

Netherlands

Amsterdam by Bite: Museums in Amsterdam

Art4Net: Holland Art Channel

World Wide Art Resources: Nederlands

Museumserver

Nederland Museumland

Norway

World Wide Art Resources: Norway

Poland

World Wide Art Resources: Poland

Portugal

World Wide Art Resources: Portugal

WWW Virtual Library: Portugal

Romania

World Wide Art Resources: Romania

WWW Virtual Library: Romania

Russia

museum.ru (in English and Russian)

World Wide Art Resources: Russian Federation

WWW Virtual Library: Russia

Slovenia

World Wide Art Resources: Slovenia

Spain

World Wide Art Resources: Spain

WWW Virtual Library: Spain

Art4Net: Spain Art Channel

Museumserver.nl: Spanje

Sweden

World Wide Art Resources: Sweden

WWW Virtual Library: Sweden

Switzerland

Museums in Switzerland - webmuseen.de

World Wide Art Resources: Switzerland

WWW Virtual Library: Switzerland

Turkey

World Wide Art Resources: Turkey

Ukraine

World Wide Art Resources: Ukraine

Odessa museum of western and eastern art
More than 5.000 images. Paintings from Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (" Taking Christ into Custody"), Frans Hals, Teniers the Younger, Juan Carreno de Miranda, Pierre Mignard, Alessandro Magnasco, Christoffel Bischop, Jozef Israels, Mihaly Munkacsy, Albert Gustaf Edelfelt, Susanna Savary, Rockwell Kent, and others. The museum collection of Oriental art contains works by masters spanning several generations from Central and Southern Asia, the Near and Middle East. Exhibitions of the modern artists on-line. Is monthly adding about 200-300 pictures.

United Kingdom

Museumserver.nl: Groot Britannië

World Wide Art Resources: UK

WWW Virtual Library: UK

New Zealand and Oceania

Museums New Zealand and Ocenia - National History Museum of Los Angeles County

World Wide Art Resources: New Zealand

South America

Argentina

World Wide Art Resources: Argentinia

Brazil

World Wide Art Resources: Braziil

Chile

World Wide Art Resources: Chile

Colombia

World Wide Art Resources: Colombia

Mexico

World Wide Art Resources: Mexico

Urugay

World Wide Art Resources: Urugay

Directories of Museums in South America

• Museums South America - National History Museum of Los Angeles County
• WWW Virtual Library: Latin America

U.S.A.

Chrysler Muserum of Art and Historic Houses - Norfolk, Virginia, USA
An encyclopedic collection of 30,000 objects spanning nearly 4,000 years of art history.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF)
The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the FAMSF. The image collection (110,000+) is one of the largest imagebases in the world.

Getty, The
Provides glimpses into permanent collections as well as current exhibits, plus the usual menu of pertinent data -- hours, location, and transportation options. The J.P. Getty Museum is dedicated to the visual arts and humanities. You'll find short descriptions and some pictures of the permanent collections, and of temporary and special exhibitions. The Getty Research Institute provides information on several research projects. You can browse the publications of the institute, or search the collections using the Research Library's online catalog (IRIS) that contains records of archival and special materials, monographs, serials, media, and auction catalogs. The Collections Integrated Catalog (CIC)displays links to all public databases and provides access to subject and alphabetical lists of subscription databasesand internet links.

Guggenheim Museum
Encompassing the activities of the four affiliated museum: New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and Las Vegas. The site contains some excellent online exhibitions.

Lastpoint
A virtual web art museum. Includes the 1st India International Digital Art Exhibition. Presented by Pygoya (a.k.a. Rodney Chang), Honolulu, Hawaii.

MOWA - Museum of Web Art
The Museum of Web Art is dedicated to presenting the art of the Web in its own environment. It primarily shows graphic design and commercial art. In the North Gallery you'll find "things that work": buttons. The West Gallery is a place for "things that move": communication in motion. The Sout Gallery contains "things that are constant": patterns, motifs, and textiles ("wallpaper") And the East Gallery contains "things that change": time and counters. All the exhibitions are accompanied by guides, which you can open in another browser window, to keep handy while you view. The museum also has a special exhibition and a kids wing.

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) - New York
An impressive overview of modern art. Provides information on the collection, exhibitions, programs & events, publications, and more. You can take take an historical look an three periods in the evolution of modern art. "Modern Starts" focuses on seminal people, places, and things from the formative years [1880-1920]. "Making Choices" is a web sketchbook highlighting 24 exhibitions from the dynamic, disturbing mid-century [1920-1960]. The "Open Ends" period [1960-present] is still under construction. Each historical cycle is interspersed with works from other periods, creating a dialogue between various historical moments.

National Gallary of Art - Washington D.C., USA
You can look at the collection and special exibitions. There's a very good resource section were you can visit the Art Research Library, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, many Education Resources, the Gallery Archives, and more.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Directories of Museums in the U.S.A.

• AMICO - Art Museum Image Consortium
  A public index to thumbnail images and information from over 30 major art museums in America.
• World Wide Art Resources: USA
• WWW Virtual Library: USA

Journals & Magazines

• Aesthetics and Arts Criticism (JAAC) [table of contents]
  Established in 1942 by the American Society for Aesthetics, JAAC publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and book reviews in aesthetics and the arts.

• British Journal of Aesthetics [table of contents]

• Études photographiques [table of contents]
  Edited by the French society of photography, Études photographiques is the only Francophone reference review in the field of visual studies. Thanks to the contributions of the best French and foreign scholars, subjected to the rules of scientific publication, it testifies to the most recent research developments among specialists and the educated public alike. The site presents summaries of published issues, a large choice of articles that can be consulted online, as well as texts of issues that are out of stock (n° 1 to 7), editorials and published review articles.

• Globe Journal of Contemporary Art [full text] - Australia

• Journal of Contemporary Art [full text]
  Editor: Klaus Ottmann.

• Journal of the Sociology of Art
  The journal has a particular interest in examining what is an art world and who or what are the significant players. Attention to issues related to race, gender, class, or power are also of interest. Full text articles. Editor: Robert Moore.

Directories

• Art & History
  List of art and art history related sites, collected by Michael Kearl.

• Internet ArtResources
  A guide to the visual arts. With reviews, feature articles, and image catelogue, galleries, artists, museums, art schools and more.

• World Wide Arts Resources
  Claims to be the biggest gateway to the arts on the Internet. Links to art galleries, museums, exhibitions, art for sale, art schools & agencies, art history, film resources, theatre resources, dance resources. If you don't want to browse the categories, you can use a search engine with a database of over 100,000 arts related pages:
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