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Art Links

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.
http://artdeadlineslist.com

Artfact

Artfact, along with British partner site Invaluable.com, offers a
variety of services relating to art and antiques collecting. Artfact provides access to the world's largest and most comprehensive fine auction database service including unabridged upcoming and past auction catalogs and price results for over 2,000 prestigious international art, antiques, and collectible auction houses. http://www.artfact.com

Artvalue

This international Internet portal dedicated to art was launched in 2007. Artvalue.com offers free and unlimited on-line access to art auction results, illustrated with pictures from auction houses around the world. http://artvalue.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

FindartInfo

Search art links. Fine art, Art news, Auctioneers and more.
http://www.findartinfo.com/ artlinks

Kunstpedia

Kunstpedia is a knowledgebase containing articles and essays on the fine and decorative arts, popularly stated arts and antiques. The articles are both in English as well as in Dutch.
http://www.kunstpedia.com/

theartcareerproject

A website that plans to encompass virtually every art career that users can imagine. The intention is to show young artists what is possible, how they can accomplish it, and what to expect in the industry. http://www.theartcareerproject.com

Web Gallery of Impressionism

The Web Gallery is a virtual world of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, offering a wide collection of pictures from different artists and periods in time.
http://www.impressionistsgallery.co.uk

Art Education

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.getty.edu/education/

Artistic "Styles"

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/

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

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

FindArtInfo.com Free Auction Records. FindArtInfo.com contains price info on all sorts of art, oil paintings, etchings, engravings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures and much more from the 14th century up until now.
http://www.findartinfo.com

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

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/

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.humanities.gov/

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/ index.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.usis.com

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

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://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

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

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/

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/

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.ii.umich.edu/

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.vraweb.org/

Subject Areas

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.virtualref.com/ abs/181.htm

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/ government-documents-center/explore/browse/political-science/254/search/

Travel Resources

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://money.cnn.com/data/ 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/

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/

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RESEARCH RESOURCES (page 1)

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Art Links

Art Education

Artistic "Styles"

Commercial Services

Governmental Pages

Maps and Geographical Resources

Organizations

Subject Areas

Travel Resources

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