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Fine Arts Internet Resources
Peter Szabo is the librarian liaison to the Fine Arts Department.
Indexes and general resources are good starting points for exploring the visual arts on the Internet
- Atsource: a thorough and well-organized index to art resources.
- FineArt Forum: a comprehensive guide to art resources with particularly good information about online journals.
- WebMuseum Network: compendium of artists' biographies with numerous examples of their work.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library Museums Page: an excellent source for locating museums and online exhibitions.
- Yahoo's Arts: Museums: hierarchical subject-oriented guide for Internet resources, including a wide range of museums and exhbitions.
Artists and artistic movements
- Fluxus Online: information about this avant-garde movement, including performance art.
Online exhibitions by individual artists have proliferated on the Internet. Many individual artists have seen the Internet as a way around the gallery system. Here are some of the major sites devoted to individual artists:
- Artnetweb: a space for artists that includes a slide registry and brief biographies of artists.
Museums have flocked to the Internet. Large museums complexes such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution have significant presences, but smaller museums are also available. University museums and galleries in particular have taken advantage of campus Internet expertise to put themselves on the Internet.
- Art Institute of Chicago: information about both the museum and its associated art school.
- Art Tower Mito: Japan's premier venue for contemporary art.
- Dia Center for the Arts: this contemporary arts organization's site maintains a wealth of information about the Center and contemporary art, including online exhibitions and a special Web project by the idiosyncratic artists Komar & Melamid.
- Emory Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum: focuses on the museum's collections of art from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Americas, and Asia.
- Heard Museum: Phoenix museum with a large collection of Native American art.
- Kurashiki Home Page: an interesting collection excellent images of pieces on exhibit at arty places in Kurashiki, Japan -- including the Ohara Museum of Art and the Museum of Folcraft.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: information about the museum and its collections.
- The Louvre: the world's most renowned art museum.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: information about the collection and current exhibitions.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Philadelphia Museum of Art: exhibitions and visitor information about this eclectic museum.
- Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco: a searchable databaseof more than 60,000 images from its collection of artwork.
- Smithsonian Institution: information about the programs and collections of the Smithsonian's art museums (Freer-Sackler Gallery; National Portrait Gallery; Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design; National Museum of African Art; Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden). Of particular interest is the National Museum of American Art which maintains its own extensive Web site. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services allows a browser to find the nearest Smithsonian exhibit.
- The Andy Warhol Museum: guide to the museum dedicated to the pop art maven.
- Wexner Center for the Arts: contemporary visual performances and media arts located in nearby Columbus, Ohio.
- Whitney Museum of American Art: access to a wealth of information about the museum.
Governmental agencies
- National Endowment for the Arts: news about the arts; grantmaking programs, including links to state and regional organizations; catalogue of publications and a library of online publications.
Organizations and associations
Electronic journals
Discussion lists and newsgroups (Note: addresses subject to change)
- AMART-L: moderated discussion list for scholars of American art. Subscribe: listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- ARLIS-L: official discussion list of the Art Libraries Society of North America. Subscribe: listserv@ukcc.uky.edu
- ARTCRIT: forum for general discussion of art criticism. Subscribe: listserv@vml.yorku.ca
- ARTIST-L: serves the needs of student artists. Subscribe: listserv@uafsysb.uark.edu
- ArtNEWS: daily headlines in the print media's coverage of the art world. Subscribe: artnews-request@arttrak.metronet.com
- CLAYART: discussion of all aspects of fine art ceramics. Subscribe: listserv@ukcc.uky.edu
- FINE-ART: major list for the discussion of fine arts. Subscribe: listserv@rutvml.rutgers.edu
- ALAA: discussion group for the Association of Latin Amewrican Art Subscribe: listserv@listserv.arizona.edu
- MEDART-L: discussions on Medieval art history. Subscribe: listserv@utoronto.ca
- PAINT-L: for painters to discuss all aspects of ther art including technical and aesthetic issues. Subscribe: majordomo@charliek.coe.edu
- TEACHART: serves the art teacher's community. Subscribe: listserv@sivm.si.edu
The resource guide adapted from an article entitled "Internet Resources in the Visual Arts" by Martin R. Kalfatovic, information access coordinator for Smithsonian Institution Libraries, in the May 1996 issue of College & Research Libraries News and revised by Thomas A. Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services.
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