Art

Guide to art online.

A bibliographic resource for people investigating issues of race, ethnicity, art, and visual culture.

From the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design.

A free online catalogue of institutions' art collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, Tate, and the Walker Art Center.

Complex, research-oriented overview of works at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Developed in cooperation with international media artists, researchers, and institutions.

Virtual repository of a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most significant collections. Since 2005, over 125 archival collections have been scanned and posted online in their entirety.

Festival catalogs, websites and programs let you browse more than 30 years of Ars Electronica.

Includes reproductions of print publications, websites presenting important collections in whole or in part in digital form and born-digital original scholarship.

In addition to individual publications, there are also hundreds of Art Institute exhibition catalogs that have been digitized and made available by year of exhibition.

Interactive database that showcases oft overlooked European avant-garde artists active after 1945, including information about the artists, their works, affiliations, and relationships to other artists.

Access to millions of artworks from museums in dozens of countries, as well as 3-D representations of World Heritage Sites.

Digital archive of every cover of i-D magazine.

Publicly accessible platform published by the Inuit Art Foundation. Features historical and contemporary artists from across Inuit Nunangat and southern Canada. Includes artist exhibitions, publications, achievements and more, with new artist profiles added regularly.

Specializing in access to art created for the internet, the Goldsen Archive maintains a combination of online and off-line access to a number of collections of internet art.

Includes links to the Tate Net Art Archive and Intermedia Art website.

Structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture, archival materials, visual surrogates, and bibliographic materials. Includes Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online.

Glossary of some of the techniques, mediums, movements, and other terms on MOMA's website, along with links to examples in the collection.

Online glossary is designed to explain and illuminate some of the art terminology found on their site.

Search or browse comics creators of color. Maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi.

A biographical dictionary of historic scholars, museum professionals and academic historians of art.

Search or browse comics creators. Maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi.

Search or browse queer comics creators. Maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi.

Advice column for visual artists. Ask a professional artist/educator your questions about being an artist, the creative process, career advice, etc.

Compilation of resources from Larry Ferlazzo, an award winning public school teacher.

Free materials and programs devoted to the exploration of contemporary art and artists, including through the production of films, books, multimedia and Internet-based resources, educational programs, and special events..

Smarthistory at Khan Academy is an open educational resource for art history, presenting introductory art history content freely available online. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise.

Includes online lectures, discussions of artworks and exhibits, conservation videos, and more.

Open-access digital art history project that maps hundreds of 18th-century artists' homes and studios. "With its two modes – Year and Artist – the website accommodates searches either by date or by person. For instance, visitors can explore where every artist was living at certain moments in time, or they can select individual artists and explore all the addresses lived at across their careers."