Visual Arts
Academic Film Archive of North America
Of the over 100,000 educational films made in North America between the early 1900s and approximately 1985, many of the best were in the subject fields of art, history, social science, literature, and science. These we refer to as academic film, as opposed to those made in health, safety, civics, and other non-academic educational subject areas." Free, monthly showings at: ciné 16 St. Louis
the-artists.org
Biographies, images, links to related sites for modern & contemporary visual arts
Artlex
An arts dictionary for artists, collectors, students & educators in art production, criticism, history, & aesthetics
Artnet
Virtual museums list
ArtSource (University of Kentucky)
An organized collection of diverse links to Internet sources in the arts, including new media, artists' projects, and image collections
AskART
A database about North American artists containing auction records, dealers, biographic and bibliographic materials, an image gallery, museums, exhibitions, & an artist bulletin board
FineArt Forum: Directory of Online Art Resources
"A resource ... for people interested in art, and in the possible relationships between art and technology."
Internet ArtResources
Listings for art galleries, studios, museums, exhibits, etc.
MUSEE
A not-for-profit organization which works with cultural institutions around the world to provide services to museums, schools, and the general public
Public Art in the St. Louis Region
This site includes photos fromWashington University and other area universities along with a map link to each work's location.
Queer Arts Resource
Exhibitions, image archives, and links to other sites on queer culture
Smithsonian Institution Research Information
Comprised of four main groups of catalogs: SI Libraries, Archives and Manuscripts (including catalogs of Archives of American Art, National Museum of American Art's Inventories and Research Bibliographies)
Timeline of Art History
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Indices by Special Topics, Artist and Subject have recently been added.
Visual Aids
The Visual Aids Web Gallery is part of the Visual AIDS' Archive Project. Six week exhibits are rotated and archived, curated by guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities.
Web Gallery of Art a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15.400 reproductions.
Art Exhibition Catalog Indices
BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art - indexes exhibition catalogs
University of California, Santa Barbara Art Exhibition Catalog Collection
A searchable collection of 86,000 titles ~ Using the MELVYL web version is recommended
Art History Web Sites
Copyright Term and Public Domain Chart Cornell University
Dictionary of Art Historians
Duke University's biographical dictionary of historians, museum directors and scholars of art
The Getty
Encompasses the JPaul Getty Museum, Research & Conservation Institutes, Grant Program & Leadership Institute
Pre-Raphaelite Critic Contemporary criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites from 1846-1900
Voice of the Shuttle (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Art Library Catalogs*
Art Institute of Chicago-Ryerson Library
Frick Art Library Online Catalog (FRESCO)
GABRIEL: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
The Getty Research Library Online Catalog (IRIS)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalog of the Libraries (Watsonline)
Museum of Modern Art (Dadabase)
National Art Library Catalogue - Victoria & Albert Museum
National Gallery of Art (U.S)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Catalog
*To find other art library catalogs, search the International Directory of Art Libraries database
Archaeology Web Sites
Beazley Archive (University of Oxford)
Perseus Project (Tufts University)
World Art Treasures (Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation)