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Web Gateways for Art

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These selected gateway sites (sites that "open up doors" to hundreds of web links) can help steer you in the right direction when navigating the Web for art related information:

Meta Sites

ADAM: The Gateway to Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information on the Internet. (Surrey Institute of Art & Design on behalf of the ADAM Consortium)
An excellent, easily searchable subject guide to arts internet resources. Links are carefully selected by a team of librarians for site quality and content.

AHDS Visual Arts (Arts and Humanties Data Service)
A rich archive of digital resources in the visual arts. There are additional sections in AHDS for peformance, archaeology, history, and literature/language/linguistics as well.

World Wide Arts Resources
A vast meta-site of arts links; contains an especially long list of links to musems and galleries. Created in 1994 by World Wide Arts Resources Corporation.

Yahoo!: Arts
One of the oldest web subject directories, Yahoo allows searching arts information by general topics.

Artists

art:21: Art in the 21st Century (PBS)
Gateway site related to the national television series about twenty-one major artists of the 21st century; airing first in September 2001.

Artcylopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine (John Malyon, Alberta, Canada)
Thousands of links to artists and their work with introductory biographies for each artist. Includes a handy gateway to museum
links worldwide.

Community Arts Network
Run by the non-profit organization Art in the Public Interest and the Consortium for the Study of Theater and Community; promotes and documents international community based arts and art for social change in areas including education, politics, health, environmental protection and community regeneration. A growing site, it includes a monthly newsletter, discussion area, and an informative reading room of links, articles and essays.

FineArt Forum Resource Directory
Events and news, exhibitions, artist information, organizations and institutions, newsgroups and miscellaneous visual arts links with a bias toward art and technology. Contains "Fineart Forum: Art and Technology Netnews". Driven by an international academic and organizational venture called the Art Science and Technology Network.

Art Organizations

Art in the Public Interest
A non-profit organization founded in 1995 to promote socially conscious, community-based art practice. Co-directs the Community Arts Network; publishes API News online. Co-directors Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland published the highly acclaimed, but now discontinued journal High Performance. Highlights from the hey-day of the journal are published in their book, The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978-1998.

ArtsNet: Arts Management Information Service
Created by the Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon University. Especially useful for finding information about arts organizations and institutions in Pittsburgh and nationwide.

ArtsWire: Online Communications for the Arts
Managed by the New York Foundation for the Arts; a network of artists, arts organizations and arts funders. Includes current arts news and opportunities for artists. Much of this information is available for free.

Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY)
A non-profit organization funding individual artists. Their website is rich with information on artists and art topics.

Art History

ArtSource
Especially good for art history; a diverse but selective resource with original sites by librarians, artists and art historians.

The English Server
An excellent interdisciplinary site originally developed through the English Department at Carnegie Mellon for information, links and full-text publications in the arts and humanities.

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
"Woven" by Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A substantial compilation of resources covering all disciplines in the humanities. The Art and Art History Page includes museums and galleries, art theory and politics, art and technology, image resources, journals, zines, art history department programs and syllabi, and conferences.