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ArtLinks

Links to arts-related web sites

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General

Artcyclopedia: A fine-art search engine.
Artful Home: Commercial site offering fine art and crafts.
ArtNet.com: artnet.com is the place to buy, sell, and research fine art online. Our Online Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,300 galleries, 36,000 works and 13,000 artists from around the globe. The Network serves dealers and art buyers alike by providing a survey of the market and its pricing trends, as well as the means to communicate instantly, inexpensively, and globally. Other key services include Artnet Magazine, the insider's daily guide to the art market; the Fine Art Auctions Database, the industry standard for illustrated auction price records; and the largest fine art Bookstore on the web, with over 21,000 titles.
ArtSEENsoHo: Fun-to-use map of Soho in New York city. Content at ArtSEENsoHo is organized into three main areas: ART, STYLE, and LIFE - all of it accessible from the map. ART includes current exhibitions, an archive of exhibitions past, seasonal schedules, and projects. STYLE includes Design, Fashion, Food+Drink, and Travel+Services. STYLE now includes VIEWPOINTS in which real people pass along their recommendations. Thirdly, there's LIFE for readings from Pessoa to Picasso.
Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau: This site highlights Nashville's offerings for convention goers and visitors including information, Bureau services, links to Gray Line Tours of Nashville, and a listing of special events.
Nashville Convention Center: This site has event listings, current press releases, a map of Nashville, general information on the city, a listing of services offered by the Nashville Convention Center and the Chamber of Commerce, and much more.
Nashville Internet Directory: An Internet directory of Nashville web sites as well as web sites across Tennessee. This site contains links to sites about local organizations, goods and services, and general information.
Nashville-Area Chamber of Commerce: The Chamber's new Web site is a powerful tool for business information and resources. Current key features include: Member Business Directory; information about the Chamber, including contacts; Economic Development Site including important area economic and demographic information; Chamber Programs and Services; Nashville-Area Information and Tourism, featuring a hyperlink to our Convention & Visitors web site.
Open Studio: From 1996-2000, Open Studio: The Arts Online, a national initiative of the Benton Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts provided Internet access and training to artists and nonprofit arts organizations ensuring the communications environment of the 21st century thrives as a source of creative excellence and diversity.
Playbill on Line: Spot lists of plays and musicals, info on Broadway, articles on actors, plays, and Broadway happenings, etc. Huge amount of information!!! Cool site.

Artists

Art in Context: Art in Context catalogues and presents information added by curators, dealers, artists, writers, and others from around the world. Since 1995 the library has welcomed and assisted over 20 million international visitors. Today Art in Context is in the top 1% of the most linked-to sites on the Internet, providing information about over 10 thousand artists and where to find their work.
The Art Stand's World Artist Directory: The Artist Directory is the net's source for locating accomplished artists worldwide. Artist inclusion is based solely on quality of technique and presentation.
ArtistsRegistry.com Colorado: ArtistsRegister.com showcases visual art by artists who are US residents represented through many disciplines. The Web site serves to connect the artists and their work with private collectors, gallery owners, interior designers, corporate art buyers, public art administrators, and art enthusiasts in general. Produced by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) with other participating states.

Professional organizations

American Institute of Architects: The AIA is interested in partnering artists with architects, designers, and landscape architects to promote public art and art in public places. This site offers resources, general information about the AIA, conferences, media resources, a listing of over 59,000 architects, links to other sites, and much more.
Art Calendar Magazine Online: The only business magazine for visual artists, run by artists. From the main page, you will find an artist registry with over 90,000 artists, an online chat room, a magazine index, free help for artists, Art Calendar books, a new discussion forum, Art Calendar Monographs, Perils of Pauline audio tapes, Art Calendar Resource Directory, event listing forum, general information about Art Calendar and how to contact.
National Sculpture Society: Founded in 1893, the purpose of the NSS is to further the evolving tradition of figurative sculpture in America. Recent public commissions by NSS members include: the Korean War Memorial by Frank Gaylord, the Vietnam Women's Memorial by Glenna Goodacre, and the U.S. Navy memorial by Stanley Bleifeld. The NSS also offers on-going exhibitions, publications, scholarships, and resources.

Government - public art

Arts Council of Indianapolis

The Arts Council of Indianapolis is a not-for-profit local arts agency serving central Indiana. Our mission is to advance and promote the arts through funding, advocacy, business, artistic and technical assistance, public and private support, and technology.

Arts Council of Oklahoma City

Web site for the Arts Council of Oklahoma City. Links to their newsletter, mission, festival, etc.

National Endowment for the Arts

The NEA is an independent agency of the Federal government charged with supporting the arts in America for all Americans. The site contains arts community contents, a guide to the NEA, arts resource center, access information, news, and Chairman's column.

The Non-Profit Gateway

The Non-Profit Gateway is a network of links to Federal government information and services. Information on the site includes non-profit management resources, research and policy resources, a government directory including all three branches of the Federal government. There are numerous links from this site, including: The White House: commonly requested Federal services, Interactive Citizens' Handbook, and Virtual Library; GPO Access: search the Federal Register, Congressional Record, Unified Agenda, and US Code; FedWorld: search more than 130 government dial-up bulletin boards; CFDA: search the catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (grants, loans & contracts); LOC: search Library of Congress for legislative (Thomas), copyright, and catalog information; GSA: Federal government-wide information; and GIX: Government Information Exchange.

Phoenix Arts Commission

This web site of the Phoenix Arts Commission contains links to their Public Art Program, Other Programs & Services, Available Publications, Milestones Newsletter, Boards & Commissions, Arts & Culture, and City Grants and Grants Program, Guidelines and Application Form.

Public Broadcasting System

PBS offers an online news hour, services, programming, PBS Kids, history, and technology.

San Francisco Arts Commission

The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City Agency that champions the arts in San Francisco. We believe that a creative cultural environment is essential to the City's well being. Our programs integrate the arts into all aspects of City life.

Tennessee Arts Commission

Information on arts organizations, grants, arts education, arts advocacy, news on local, regional, and national arts, listings of fairs, festivals and other events. There is also a listing of opportunities for grants, artist residencies, juried exhibitions and more. Numerous links to other arts sites.

Resources and arts advocacy

Americans for the Arts

Site includes general information, publications, arts advocacy, upcoming events, research and information, arts in education, clearinghouse, and press releases.

Business Committee for the Arts, Inc.

A national organization that works with business to develop and advance alliances with the arts that meet business objectives. A champion of promoting the benefits of such alliances to business, the arts, and society.

Center for Nonprofit Management

Web site for the Center for Nonprofit Management, a joint venture between the Frist Foundation and United Way of Middle Tennessee. The CNM web site lists information about the organization, events, local links, sponsors, programs, and their membership.

Creative Capital

Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing, and visual arts, and in emerging fields.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. From the mission statement: "Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control - a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which "all rights reserved" (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy - a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation - once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally - have become endangered species."

The Foundation Center

The Foundation Center in New York City now offers a web site filled with resources for non-profit organizations. This site is a great place to begin your exploration for non-profit information on the Internet. Links are provided to more than 280 grantmaker sites, funding trends and analysis, literature of the non-profit sector, a searchable database of information on philanthropy and non-profit issues. You can also take an on-line orientation to the grantseeking process, the Foundation Center's proposal writing short course, query the on-line librarian, and read or subscribe to the Center's Philanthropy News Digest for abstracts of the latest news on major gifts, foundation grants, and the world of philanthropy. The Foundation Center's mission is "to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects."

Fractured Atlas

Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Their programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. They help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, health insurance, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit.

Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC)

Leveraging Investments in Creativity is a 10-year initiative to improve artists’ ability to make work, build social capital and contribute to democratic values. LINC builds on recent research by the Urban Institute (www.usartistreport.org) that identifies more than 5,000 programs and services for artists but points to the need for new efforts that:

Expand financial supports for artists’ work;
Improve artists’ access to essential material supports such as live-work space and insurance;
Bolster knowledge, collaborations, and public policies that affect the work of artists and their contributions to communities.

NYFA - New York Foundation for the Arts

NYFA continues its history of serving artists, the arts community, donors, and the broader public, following 36 years of responding to the changing needs of the arts community in New York State. NYFA is proud to provide organizational strength and a record of solid leadership in its many roles as grantor, fiscal sponsor, community leader, and professional resource for the extensive constituency of artists, arts organizations and communities in New York and beyond.

Regional Arts & Culture Council

The Regional Arts & Culture Council is a publicly funded, non-profit organization with a mission to provide leadership, funding and advocacy for arts and culture throughout the tri-county Portland, Oregon, region. RACC's four primary services are Grants and Technical Assistance, Public Art, Arts Education, and Arts and Culture in Communities. RACC is funded by the City of Portland, Metro, and Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties.

The Western States Arts Federation

WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, is a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. The site offers extensive links to literary, visual arts, folk life, media, and resources web sites.

Museums - galleries - exhibitions

Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY

Contemporary fine art gallery established 1984, located in Chelsea, New York art galleries district. The public is invited to the gallery art openings receptions. Sponsor of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition and publisher of ARTisSpectrum magazine. Painters, sculptors and photographers are welcome to submit their portfolios for review.

Artcom Museum Tour

This site lists 1700 museums, galleries, special events, botanical gardens, zoos, planetariums, aquariums, expos.

ArtScene

Welcome to ArtScene! We cover fine art in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California. In addition to articles about selected current exhibitions and viewable works of art, the ArtScene site houses a complete list of fine-art gallery and museum sites and pages (over 400 of them).

Crown Point Press

A publisher and print work shop described as "the most instrumental American printshop in the revival of etching as a medium of serious art." Located in San Francisco, Crown Point Press has a gallery open to the public and two large etching studios. With a staff of ten, the press currently publishes etchings by five or six invited artists a year. It also holds summer workshops open to all artists.

Dadart Virtual Gallery

Italian visual arts web site. Very hip.

David Zwirner

A contemporary commercial gallery. Featured artists include On Kawara, Gordon Matta-Clark, John McCracken, Thomas Ruff, Luc Tuymans. Good images.

Dia Center for the Arts

For over twenty years, Dia Center for the Arts (formerly the Dia Art Foundation) has played a vital and original role among arts institutions in New York, as well as nationally and internationally, by initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving projects in nearly every artistic medium, and creating a primary locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. The name Dia, taken from the Greek word meaning "through," suggests the center's role in enabling the realization of extraordinary artistic projects. The site has extensive information and images about artists and exhibitions.

German Galleries

German Galleries provides information about current art exhibitions in Germany. Images and texts published in German Galleries were made available courtesy of the galleries, museums, and institutions.

Guggenheim Museums

Covers the New York and Bilbao museums.

Kunstmuseum Basel

The main site is available in English. The site inlcudes a very good Virtual Museum (in German).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LACMA is the premier visual arts museum in the Western United States. Its holdings include more than 110,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A fine museum web site featuring information on the collections, events, education, the Met Store, membership, and more.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The Modern Art Museum is the oldest art museum in Texas and is one of the oldest museums in the western United States. The Modern maintains one of the foremost collections of postwar art in the central United States, consisting of more than 2,400 significant works of modern and contemporary international art.

National Archive On-line Exhibition Hall

Documents, art work, and photography from the collections of the National Archive.

The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States of America. European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper are displayed in the permanent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from countries and cultures throughout the world are presented on a regular basis.

National Museum of American History

Part of the Smithsonian Institution. Offerings include: Virtual Exhibits, Not Just For Kids, The Music Room, Timeline, and What Is It. Be sure to check out HistoryWired, an experimental program through which you can take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History.

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television

Founded in 1983 as part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television quickly became the most visited national museum outside London, attracting approximately 750,000 visitors each year. The Museum's renowned collection includes more than three million items of historical, social and cultural value.

National Museum of Women in the Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. This site contains information about the museum, selected artists, a video tour with the founder, the collection, museum shop, and the many services offered by the museum.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Devoted soley to contemporary art.

Smithsonian Institution

Features sections on the museums and organizations of the institution, events and activities, resources, tours, shops, and memberships.

Art history

Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Mark Harden's Artchive: An incredible resource for images and articles on art from the last several centuries.
Web Gallery of Art: The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 10,100 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available. Guided tours, free postcard and other services are provided for the visitors.

Architecture

Archniect: "The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines." Site includes excellent articles ranging over many subjects, from profiles of contemporary architects and artists to the Prison Design Boycott.

New media - digital - sound

äda'web: An experimental Web-art site hosted by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
e-felix: This is the electronic version of the media journal/book FELIX: A JOURNAL OF MEDIA ARTS AND COMMUNICATION. FELIX encourages exchange within the media arts community, analyzing questions of aesthetics and current political issues, and furthering the development of radical and experimental images.
EPC Sound Room: Electronic Poetry Center, State University of New York at Buffalo. A collection of sound poetry, audio art, audio hypermedia, and arts radio broadcasts.
Furtherfield: Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, and criticism of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing, experience, and interaction.... Furtherfield was founded in 1997 by artists Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow and is a London based, non-profit organisation.
Music, Mind and Machine: The Music, Mind and Machine Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is developing new audio technologies for future interactive media applications. This ranges from automatic sensing of features in existing audio content to extremely compact representations of sound for efficient transmission and control in a networked future.
New Media Encyclopedia: The New Media Encyclopedia is the first trilingual English-French-German catalogue of its kind freely available on-line. It is intended as a source of information, a tool for documentary research, and a scholarly work, but also a locus of debate on artistic practices related to the new media. For this first phase of the project, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum Ludwig, and the Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine have pooled information on their respective holdings in order to provide the international public with a reference work bringing together three major European collections.
rhizome.org: "Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1996 to provide an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs and services support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Our core activities include commissions, email discussions and publications, this web site, and events."
UbuWeb: An incredible collection of sound art, concrete poetry, readings, and papers. "Freed from profit-making constraints or cumbersome fabrication considerations, information can literally 'be free': on UbuWeb, we give it away. We publish in full color for pennies. We receive submissions Monday morning and publish them Monday afternoon. UbuWeb's work never goes out of print. UbuWeb is a never-ending work in progress: many hands are continually building it on many platforms."

Photography

Alternative Photography: “AlternativePhotography.com is about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn about the art, the processes and the techniques of alternative photographic processes. And if you have something to share, don't hesitate.”
Bright Bytes Studio: This web site is a celebration of a thirty-year collaboration in art, photography, and collecting: camera obscuras, the history of photography, stereo photography, character cameras, computers, mysteries, postcards, optical toys, toaster collectibles, photographica, Eugen Sandow and other strongmen/women, and more.
Galerie Johannes Faber: Austrian commercial photography gallery with lots of images from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Mary Ellen Mark Photographs: An excellent Web site featuring black and white and color photographs.
Masters of Photography: This site is a great resource for articles about and examples of the work of great photographers.
PhotoArts: Extensive site dedicated to the international community of collectors, dealers, professionals and enthusiasts of fine art and documentary photography.
Photobetty: Photobetty is an e-zine created to be a resource for women photographers. Highlights include interviews with women photographers, examples of their work, a message board, and history.

Video - film

Canyon Cinema: Begun as a "floating cinematheque" in 1961, Canyon Cinema has developed into one of the principal distribution sources for independent cinema today. Its collection of films constitutes a history of the movement from the 1950s to the present. The Web site includes statements by the filmmakers, critical commentary, and still images.
Ciné-Tracts: Ciné-Tracts was founded in 1977 and edited by Ron Burnett until it ceased publication in late 1982. During that time, the journal published seventeen issues (1,247 pages). Ciné-Tracts helped to solidify the growing Film/Cultural Studies area by working from an interdisciplinary orientation. A variety of people worked for the Journal and contributed to it. These include, Martin Walsh, Teresa de Lauretis, Stephen Heath, Raymond Williams, John Berger, Hart Cohen, Peter Harcourt, Zuzana Pick, Martha Burnett, Saul Landau, Bruce Elder, Peter Ohlin, Patricia Mellencamp and David Bordwell. Ciné-Tracts had over two thousand subscribers and Indiana University Press published a selection of essays from the journal in 1991, under the title Explorations in Film Theory. All seventeen issues are on line in PDF format.
Screening the Past: Part of La Trobe University, Austrailia. An international, refereed, electronic journal of visual media and history.
Video Data Bank: The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collections feature innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. The collections include seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960's and continuing to the present.

Theory - philosophy - aesthetics

Modernism: Ever wondered what modernism is? Postmodernism? This in-depth essay attempts an answer in five sections: 1) Roots of Modernism; 2) Art for Art's Sake; 3) Modernism & Politics; 4) Modernism & Postmodernism; 5) The End of Art.
Words of Art: An exhaustive glossary of art terms (still in development). Part of the Okanagan University College Web site, British Columbia, Canada.

Study - teaching - research

The J. Paul Getty Trust: The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic organization serving both general audiences and specialized professionals. Educational in purpose and character, the Getty weaves the presentation and enjoyment of art together with its study and conservation.
Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge: The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge exists to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. ArtsEdge was established and continues its development under the John F. Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts (with additional support from the U.S. Department of Education).
National Art Education Association: Serving more than 20,000 active members, the National Art Education Association is the leading professional organization for art educators in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 as well as college and university professors and researchers, administrators, and museum educators. The mission of NAEA is to promote art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership.
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts: This web site contains information for individual visual and performing artists. The NFAA offers scholarships, cash awards, internships, career advancement, presidential scholars, and residencies. From the home page, you may access general information about the NFAA, a news calendar, employment opportunities, information on grants and other programs of the NFAA, and opportunities for young artists.
Tennessee Art Education Association: TAEA's mission is to advance quality visual arts education, promote professional development, and influence the direction of Art Education.