Elise N.
Hofheimer
Art Library

Additional Art Resource Guides

Think of these as bibliographies of art-related materials on the Internet, with hypertext links to cited items.

Dictionary of Web Sites in Contemporary Art

Sponsored by the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, this directory is an index of websites for artists, art movements, works of art, virtual works of art, museums, galleries, periodicals, and discussion groups.

Voice of the Shuttle: Art

This site has extensive art history-related links to artist biographies, individual artists' homepages, and works of art, as well as links to museums worldwide, art organizations, magazines, and career-oriented sites for the professional artist. It is maintained by University of California, Santa Barbara.

Internet for the Fine Arts

A network of primarily online artists, galleries and museums.

Getty Information Institute

Contains a cultural information database, including the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, and the International Repertory of the Literature of Art 1975-1989 (RILA).

ARTNET WEB

A site presenting artists' web projects, a slide registry, press clippings on art subjects, directories of arts organizations and galleries, classified ads and catalog sales.

Artsource

Lists many art-historical sites, bibliographies and links to places such as the Smithsonian Institution's libraries and archives.

ArtsWire

Program of the New York Foundation for the Arts. It is an online network of artists, arts workers, arts organizations and arts funders, providing current news and information relating to discussions of arts-related issues. ArtsWire also contains the latest listing of grants, exhibition opportunities and jobs in the arts.

FineArt Forum

Contains an extensive index of art schools, scholarly resources, a long list of art-related sites, events, associations, publications and commercial services.

World Wide Art

World Wide Art is an extensive network of arts-related sites ["The Internet's Largest Art Links Resource"], including auction houses, artists' sites, brokerages, galleries, museums, and other organizational and governmental and miscellaneous sites around the world.

Art History Research Centre

The Art History Research Centre contains nine searchable categories pertaining to various fields within art history and its research: search engines, newsgroups, mailing lists, library catalogs, article indexes, university departments, online art collections, a page detailing electronic citing sources, and links to other art history Web resources.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Artists Index

Offers access to imagery from over 8000 registered artists, divided into over 100 categories.

Words of Art: An Online Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts Archives of American Art

Contains documentary materials on the history of the visual arts in the United States. The collection consists of over thirteen million items, including the papers of artists, dealers, critics and art historians, as well as the records of museums and other arts-related businesses, institutions and organizations.

Gateway to Art History

A Website mirroring chapters from the 10th edition of Gardner's ART THROUGH THE AGES. An outline of each chapter is provided, with detailed art headings under each chapter.

Artscape 2000

On-line art magazine.


This resource list attempts to provide a sample of art-related resources available on the Internet. It reflects only a small cross-section of accessible resources. The WWW Virtual Library provides numerous online art-related resources. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo can also be used.