Websites by Subject - Art

Artdaily.org The First Art Newspaper on the Net
Art news from around the world, since 1996

ArtLex Art Dictionary
“You will find definitions for more than 3,100 terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.”

Ask Art
The subtitle of this site is “The Artists Bluebook™ Extensive Information about 26,000 American Artists.” The entries include titles of books that mention the artist. Ask Art also includes museums, auction houses, and dealers.

Mother of all Art and Art History Links
From the University of Michigan, a comprehensive guide to some 400 Internet sites that includes an excellent listing of Image Collections and Online Art. See Also: Art History Research Centre (AHRC), from Concordia University.

Archives of American Art
From the Smithsonian,...essential.
National Gallery of Art - The Collection
Just that!

American Museum of Beat Art An on-line museum of the art of the American Beat Generation.

Fine Arts Library: Web Resources Page
From the University of British Columbia, includes "material on art history, architecture, community and regional planning, dance, costume, artistic photography and design."

The Getty
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tate Gallery, England
These fine arts museums present art on the Internet!

National Museum of Women in the Arts
In Washington, DC, “...the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.” Find biographies and representative works of women artists throughout the ages. See also: WSSLINKS Women & Art Sites.

National Museum of American Illustration
American Illustration of the later 19th through the middle of the 20th Century.

Sculpture.org; a Comprehensive Resource for Sculptors
“The central place for documenting sculpture on the web.”

UCLA Arts (Architecture) Library
A great Library with lots of links to art and architecture sites as well as access to databases.

Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library at USC
Another comprehensive Art and Architecture Library site, also provides access to Homer the USC Library Catalog.

Daniel Hanne
dhanne@csupomona.edu
February 2008