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Academic Info: The Arts Gateway

Academic Info is an online subject directory of over 25,000 hand picked educational resources including many useful internet resources on architecture, art history, museum studies, costumes and textiles, and Buddhist art.

http://www.academicinfo.net/subarts.html

ADAM (Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway)

Internet resources for the general areas of art, design, architecture and media, selected for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community.

http://www.adam.ac.uk/

ArchNet

An online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world being developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.

http://archnet.org/lobby.tcl

ArchNet (World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology)

Internet resources on archaeology, categorised by geography region and subject. Resources on Asia and Africa are well covered.

http://archnet.asu.edu/

Art History Resources on the Web

Covers Asian, African, and Oceanic art as well as Western art. Also includes ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern art and archaeology, directory of museums and galleries, online art journals, newspapers, news, etc. Quality resources.

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Art Index: a Guide to Asian Art on the Internet

Information about galleries and art dealers, forthcoming exhibitions and lectures, museums and auction houses.

http://www.artindex.com/home/index.asp

Art Links on the World Wide Web

1200+ links on art and architecture from Boston College.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_frames.html

Art-Online: the Fine Art Directory

Provides art history, list of museums and galleries, events, art market, etc. Include sections for Asian art, and African and Oceanian art.

http://www.art-online.com/category.aspx

ArtSource

Small and selective, but useful internet resources on art and architecture, submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc. Includes libraries, museum information, art journals online, electronic exhibitions, image collections, etc.

http://www.ilpi.com/artsource

Artifact

Artifact forms part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). It provides quick and easy searchable access to all arts-related subjects and creative industries subjects including music, performing arts, TV, radio, film and video.

http://www.artifact.ac.uk/

BUBL Link: The Arts

Excellent gateway for the arts (fine art, architecture, decorative arts, design, photography, etc.).

http://link.bubl.ac.uk/arts

Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online

Includes history of costume, images, links to costume museums and societies world wide and a section for Asian and African costumes with images.

http://members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html

Great Buildings Collection

Gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, etc.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html

Guide to Underwater Archaeology Resources on the Internet

Sections include: museums & sites, maritime history, underwater archaeology online, etc.

http://www.pophaus.com/underwater/

History of Art Virtual Library

Large collection of links relating to art history and computer applications in art history. Also includes Architecture Virtual Library and separate Virtual Library for Chinese and Japanese Art History and sub sections for Buddhist Art and Tibetan Art.

http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib

Mother of all Art and Art History Links pages

Art history links maintained at the University of Michigan.

http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

RIBA Links Library

Links to architecture resources including electronic lists, architects, awards and events, education and research, buildings and projects.

http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Links_2025.html

Resources on Architecture

A well organized meta-collection of professional and academic resources on the internet, from professional associations to museums and galleries.

http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/architecture.html

TribalArtsDirectory

A list of online resources, divided into sections: African; American Indian/North West Coast; Asian; Indonesian/Himalayan; Islamic; Oceanic; and Pre-Columbian, provided by ArtAreas.com in conjunction with Oceanic Arts & Books, and mainly covers galleries, dealers and organisations concerned with tribal arts.

http://www.tribalartsdirectory.com/TribalArts/home.nsf

Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History

One of the premier sites for widely-linked pages related to humanities research. Includes Museums, Galleries, Auctions, Artists and Works.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Women & Art sites

Collection of links to web-sites relating to women and art. Part of the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries web-site.

http://college.library.wisc.edu/~carrie/wss/womenart.htm

World Wide Arts Resources

Online gateway on artists, museums, galleries, art history, art education, antiquities, crafts, architecture, art exhibitions, etc.

http://wwar.com/

Yahoo - Arts : Art History

A useful gateway from Yahoo.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/art_history/

i page Webguides

Award winning resource of subject gateways for all areas of fine arts, decorative arts, architecture and design.

http://www.arts.ac.uk/library/

Internet ArtResources

Internet resources for the arts, including links to galleries, museums and artists.

http://artresources.com/