Arts and Artists
 
  • Art and Art History Links.
    From the University of Michigan Museum of Art, this site has links to research resources in all aspects of art.

  • Artcyclopedia.
    Keyword search for museum-quality fine art on the internet by artist name, title of the work, or by location. Browse by movement, medium, subject or nationality.

  • Artists.

  • Artists and Writers Contests.
    Links to contests, competitions, and opportunities for writers and artists.

  • Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
    BHA on the Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules and can be searched by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and more. The database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l’art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1, 2010.

  • Cave of Lascaux.
    Explore cave art and understand how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas.

  • Chrysler Museum of Art.
    Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, collections, events, exhibitions, library, and general information.

  • Dance.

  • Drawing and Sketching.

  • Dictionary of Art Historians.
    A biographical dictionary of historic scholars, museum professionals and academic historians of art (some entries are partial or incomplete).

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  • National Gallery of Art.
    Locate works of art by artist, title, subject, and other criteria. You can access images of more than 4,000 objects in the National Gallery's collection and approximately 9,275 related details. More images are constantly being added. Text and/or data on all of the more 100,000 objects in the Gallery's collection can be found using the search capabilities. The "Tour of the Week" includes beautiful pictures and detailed information about chosen subjects.

  • Picturing America.
    This site provides high-quality reproductions of great American art to enhance the study of history, social studies, language arts, literature, and civics.

  • Photography.

  • San Francisco Fine Arts Museum.
    Has over 60,000 digitized images from its collection available for viewing, by far the largest collection of exhibits of any art museum on the Internet. Access through a simple search interface that allows Boolean searching.

  • Theater.

  • World Wide Arts Resources.
    A comprehensive gateway to the arts on the Internet. Includes everything from employment, art indices, galleries, exhibitions, art schools, theatre, dance, literature, and much more.
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