RESEARCH RESOURCES (page 2) Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources RESEARCH RESOURCES (page 1) African & African American Studies | American Studies | Archaeology | Art History on the Web | Asian Studies | History on the Web | Medieval Western Sources | Middle East and Islam | Philosophy | Women's Studies   Art Links Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   Art Deadlines List A monthly newsletter (email & paper versions) providing juried exhibitions/competitions, jobs, internships, call for entries/proposals/papers, writing contests, scholarships, residencies, design & architecture competitions, auditions, fellowships, casting calls, tryouts, grants, festivals, funding, financial aid, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages. FREE monthly email version available on request. Also includes a vast resource of art related links. http://artdeadlineslist.com   ArtNetWeb A collaborative dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the Web as an art tool. Artists include: Annette Weintraub, David Schafer, Adrianne Wortzel, Kevin Clarke, Douglas Davis and others. http://artnetweb.com   AskART.com Artists Bluebook, American Artist Reference - Free information on 23,000 American artists including biographies, bodies of work, valuation and appraisal techniques, auction records, publications, and artists representatives as well as literature and museum information for american painters, sculptors and artists of all mediums, subjects and genres. http://www.AskART.com   Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Essays on art on the web, by Margaret L. McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Anneberg School of Communication at USC. http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/     Art Education Art Links | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   Arts Edge Intended to support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. Developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the U.S. Department of Education. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ ArtsEdNet Online arts education resources from the Getty. Includes curriculum ideas, lesson plans, image galleries, and more. A content-rich site! http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/   Artistic "Styles" Art Links | Art Education | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   Futurism An excellent site dedicated to this short-lived style of 20th century art. Created and maintained by Kim Scarborough. Includes translations of many of the major manifestos of the movement and some great paintings. http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/ The Arts and Crafts Movement in America A collection of links and information about the Arts and Crafts Movement. Includes background info, classifieds, and galleries. http://www.dscweb.com/AandCintro.html Yahoo! Home > Arts > Art History >Periods and Movements An ever-changing group of links, more than can be included here! http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements/   Commercial Services Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   Christie's One of the famous auction houses. Includes info on how to buy and sell, a calendar of upcoming events, sales results, and images available for sale. http://www.christies.com EndNote: Niles and Associates The homepage of the company that makes EndNote. Download a trial version. http://www.niles.com Finn's Fine Books Located in Australia, provides facsimile books of old manuscripts and books on art and the arts. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~finns/ Luna Imaging Applies digital image technology to visual resource collections. Luna offers services for the conversion of visual source materials into digital form and provides systems to manage, access, and use images and associated text in electronic environments. Check out examples of their projects online. http://www.luna-imaging.com/ Saskia: Services for Historians of Art A commercial service that offers visual materials (slides and digital images) for teaching and research. Includes a "Digital Image How-To" page and an online catalog. http://www.saskia.com Sotheby's Provides auction results and coming sales, notes on collecting, urbane stories to involve young collectors, catalogue-ordering info and useful graphics. http://www.sothebys.com   Governmental Pages Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   American Arts Alliance An advocate for professional nonprofit arts organizations before Congress and other branches of the Federal government. Site includes Legislative Updates, Advocacy Materials and a Grassroots Advocacy Kit, Factsheets, and related links. http://www.artswire.org/~aaa/ French Ministry of Culture (MinistËre de la culture et de la francophonie) Includes a great deal of information on French museums and French art in general. Includes info and some links to libraries in France. http://mistral.culture.fr/ International Cultural Property Protection Produced by the U.S. Information Agency, includes text of U.S. and International laws, and the Image Database of restricted objects (which currently includes only Cyprus, Guatemala and Peru, but there are plans to add other countries). Important for anyone interested in art to know what is and is not legal to bring into this country. http://usembassy.state.gov/ National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) A membership organization of the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies. Includes a State Arts Agency Public Art Directory. http://www.nasaa-arts.org/new/nasaa/ NEA on-line Includes information about nonprofit organizations, artists, and the general public, including Endowment news, funding opportunities, arts and research resources, and general interest articles. http://arts.endow.gov/ NEH on-line A federal agency that supports research, education, museum exhibitions, documentaries, preservation, and activities in the states. http://www.neh.fed.us/ United Nations This is the place. http://www.un.org/ U.S. Federal Government Agencies on the Internet A searchable list of federal agencies on the internet, maintained by the libraries at Louisiana State University. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html United States Information Service An independent foreign affairs agency within the executive branch of the U.S. government. USIA (or USIS) explains and supports American foreign policy and promotes U.S. national interests through a wide range of overseas information programs. http://www.usia.gov/usis.html White House includes info on the President, White House history and tours, Commonly Requested Federal Services, and a searchable Archive of All White House Documents (Press briefings, radio addresses, Executive Orders, and all other publicly released White House publications). http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html   Maps and Geographical Resources Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Organizations | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names An automated source of hierarchically arranged geographic data that is global in scope, the TGN comprises records for approximately 900,000 places. Provides vernacular, English, and historical names, as well as additional information about the places. Developed primarily for the field of art history. http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/ Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Housed at the University of Texas, Austin, a massive online collection of maps from countries and cities around the world. Includes a list of other sources for maps online and available for purchase. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html USGS Publications and Data Products The place to go to order USGS topo maps and aerial photographs. Includes online map lists, software, and a catalog. http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/   Organizations Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Subject Areas | Travel Resources   ARLIS/NA The Art Libraries Society of North America promotes the continuing professional education of its members and the general knowledge of the public concerning all aspects of art librarianship and visual resources curatorship. Includes conference, publication, and membership info, in addition to job postings. http://www.arlisna.org/ Art History Webmasters Association An international list art history webmasters, departments, and art history courses on the web. Includes links and a useful FAQ. Hosted by the Département d'histoire de l'art, Université du Québec à Montréal. http://www.unites.uqam.ca/AHWA/ Arts Wire Arts Wire is a national computer based network for the arts and a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts. http://www.artswire.org/ Association for Art History A professional organization comprised of art historians, museum professionals, critics, and scholars, including graduate students. Provides an online newsletter, conference announcements, job listings, and related links. http://www.indiana.edu/~aah/ College Art Association The premier organization of artists, art historians, and art critics dedicated and committed to the practice of art, teaching, and research of the visual arts and humanities. Site includes info on publications, membership, and related resources. http://www.collegeart.org/ CultureNet (Canadian) A central resource with access to a wide variety of cultural organizations and individuals across Canada. Includes postings from an electronic conferencing system, and "Cultural Connections," a set of inter-connected, bilingual databases containing information on over 4000 English and French artists, cultural workers and arts organisations in Canada. http://www.culturenet.ucalgary.ca/cnet/ Dia Center for the Arts A multi-disciplinary contemporary arts organization. Site includes artist's projects, long-term installations, exhibitions, forums, programs, and publications. http://www.diacenter.org/ International Council on Monuments and Sites ICOMOS is an international organization of professionals dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. In English and French. http://www.icomos.org/ International Institute of the University of Michigan Responsible for the coordination of research, training, and study in international, comparative, and area studies across the University. http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/ Scholarly Societies and Scholarly Communication The University of Waterloo (Canada) maintains a Scholarly Societies Project, which now lists over 1400 organizations worldwide, in all fields http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html Visual Resources Association A non-profit organization for the visual resources professions. Membership includes slide and photograph curators, film and video librarians, media professionals, photo archivists, slide and microform producers, rights and reproduction officials, photographers, art historians, and others concerned with visual materials. http://www.vra.oberlin.edu/default.html   Subject Areas Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Travel Resources   Argus Clearinghouse Provides a central access point for value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources. Searchable, and includes a rating system. http://www.clearinghouse.net/ eserver: collections in the arts and humanities The English Server is a student-run cooperative, out of the English Department at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy. It has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990, and distributes over eighteen thousand works, including classics and new writing, representing a wide range of topics in the arts and humanities including anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis. http://eserver.org/ Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Intended to explore the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research. Includes several online publications, works in progress, research and technical reports, and the online journal, Postmodern Culture. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ Political Science Resources on the Web Part of the Federal Publication Document Center at the University of Michigan. Includes sections on Area Studies, Class Assignments, Dissertations, Foreign Politics, International Relations, Internet Guides, News, Periodical Indexes, Periodicals, Political Science Profession/Education, Political Theory, Publishers Catalogs, Reference Tools, Statistics, and U.S. Politics. http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/polisci.html   Travel Resources Art Links | Art Education | Artistic "Styles" | Commercial Services | Governmental Pages | Maps and Geographical Resources | Organizations | Subject Areas   Foreign Exchange Rates A table of the exchange rates for most of the major currencies as reported by CNN Financial News. Includes an online currency converter. http://www.cnnfn.com/markets/currencies/ InfoHub: Specialty Travel Guide A travel guide for adventure, art, learning, and sport vacations. Includes virtual traveler, transportation, travel agencies, accommodations, etc. http://www.infohub.com/ National Weather Service Everything you ever wanted to know about the weather, including tomorrow's. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ Paris Pages Just about everything, including museums, tourist information, and calendar--more than 7,000 pages to wander. http://www.paris.org/ Rough Guide - U.S.A. On-line version of the popular travel books. http://travel.roughguides.com/ Subway navigator Find your way around the world's major subway systems. Choose your departure station and destination and it will tell you the best way to get there with all transfers and station names. It can even give you rough estimates of the travel time on some systems. http://metro.jussieu.fr:10001/bin/cities/english USA CityLink Project A comprehensive listing of World Wide Web pages featuring U.S. states and cities. Includes housing and moving resources. http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/default.html Virtual Tourist Tourist information from all over the world. Want to know how much boat rental is in Amsterdam, or the hours of the Maori exhibit in the Auckland Museum? Check here. http://www.vtourist.com/     RESEARCH RESOURCES (page 1) African & African American Studies | American Studies | Archaeology | Art History on the Web | Asian Studies | History on the Web | Medieval Western Sources | Middle East and Islam | Philosophy | Women's Studies   Back to Mother If you have any additions, suggestions, or contributions contact: patyoung@umich.edu Thanks!