Useful web sites for Art and Design
Gateways
Artcyclopedia A fine art search engine
Art In Context Art in Context Centre for Communications, a publicly supported non-profit organisation, has maintained this site since 1995 as an online reference library for the publication and dissemination of information about artists and where to find their work.
Art History Focuses on art resources on the Web and also has a country directory of museums and galleries, plus links to research resources (image finders, artists, art history and so on).
Art Navigator World Wide Arts Resources.
Art on the Net Look at other artists works and visit their studio.
BUBL Information service Catalogue of selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas. Try searching in the: subject menu, A-Z menu or the Dewey menu 700s.
Intute: Arts and Humanities Previously known as Artifact, this site provides a guide to internet resources for the arts and creative industries. Also hosts online tutorials to get you started on the web, try the Internet for art, design and media.
World Wide Art Resources World Wide Arts Resources is an American gateway of arts information and culture on the Internet. It includes information on artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts and discussion forums.
Yahoo Art This site is a major gateway and is well worth a browse. Some of the key areas you will find are: art history, artists and museums.
General
Artupdate Listings of galleries and museums
AHDS Visual Arts A UK national service funded by the Joint Information and the Arts & Humanities research Board.
Artsigns An online glossary for art and design in British Sign Language.
AXIS For information on contemporary artists.
Google Image Search A comprehensive guide to images available on the web. Access Google's Image Search by selecting the "images" tab.
Open University Free resource material from the Open University openlearn website
Exhibitions & Museums
The Museum of Modern Art New York
New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art Neca is Britain's most popular on-line listing of contemporary art exhibitions in London, English regions, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Channel Islands. It's up-to-date, searchable, comprehensive - and it's free.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
Web Gallery of Art A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800).
WebMuseum network The ever-expanding Web Museum network is now welcoming 200,000 visitors every week, delivering over 10 million documents.
WWW Virtual Library Museums around the UK.
Primary and Secondary Resources
Access Art Presents new ways of learning about art through online workshops.
Arts Ed Net Getty's Art Education Web Site.
Arts Edge Supports the place of arts education at the centre of the curriculum through the creative use of technology.
Becta This site provides selected links to quality assured resources on the internet, for use in teaching and learning.
London Association of Art and Design Education This site contains information and resources for Art Educationalists as well as information for members. You will also find listings of all up and coming events.
National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD) The leading National Authority in the UK.
For an eLearning tutorial that teaches critical evaluation of information found on the Internet then try the Internet Detective website. The website also includes sections on copyright matters, plagiarism and citation/referencing.
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