Arts and Humanities, generally

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Arts and Humanities, generally

• Artcyclopedia - Links to 125,000 works of art; search by artist, title, movement, nationality, medium, etc.
• Arts and Letters Daily - Excellent page of links to news on the arts, literature, philosophy (What's this?)
• British Academy Portal - Sites for research in humanities and social sciences
• EServer - Literature and related subjects (formerly English Server)
• Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities [jefferson.village.virginia.edu]
• Voice of the Shuttle home page
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Getty Museum)
• Art and Culture - Guides to design arts, film, literature, music, performing arts, visual arts (ArtandCulture.com)
• Arts and Humanities - Internet Public Library (no longer updated)
• Arts and Humanities Data Services - Home of several UK resources
• Culture Vulture - Reviews of the arts: books, dance, film, opera, television, theater
• EDSITEment - Curriculum resources on arts and culture, foreign language, history and social studies, and literature and language arts (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online - Features many discussion lists for teachers and scholars. H-Net Reviews covers scholarly and educational books
• Humanities Virtual Library
• Scout Report for Social Sciences and Humanities - No longer updated, but the archives are searchable (Internet Scout Project)
• Smarthistory - A multimedia timeline of art history (Khan Academy)
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Arts Web Directories:

• Arts, Fine and Decorative (Alcove 9, Library of Congress)
• ArtSource

Art Dictionary:

• ArtLex Art Dictionary

Humanities News and Journals:

• Aeon - "A world of ideas." "We ask the big questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on science, philosophy, society and the arts." Essays, ideas, videos
• Brain Pickings - "An inventory of the meaningful life." Essays on big topics drawing from great thinkers of the past.
• Humanities - "The magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities"

Arts and Humanities Books:

• Humanistic Texts - Great works of religion, philosophy, literature, and history "develop[ing] an understanding of what it is to be human"
• Recent Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences Cataloged at the Library of Congress

Art for Sale:

• World Wide Arts Resources

Art Museums

• Art Institute of Chicago
• Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Frick Collection, New York
• Getty Center, Los Angeles
• Getty Research Institute
• Guggenheim Museum, New York and elsewhere
• The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Louvre, Paris
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Musée D'Orsay, Paris
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
• National Gallery, London
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Prado, Madrid
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
• Smithsonian Institution art museums:
• African Art Museum
• American Art Museum
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
• Freer Gallery of Art
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• National Portrait Gallery
• Renwick Gallery
• Sackler Gallery
• Uffizi Galley, Florence
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• WebMuseum - Art from the Louvre and elsewhere

Virtual Art Museum:

• Google Arts & Culture - Art from various museums (formerly Google Art Project)
• Web Gallery of Art - Gallery of Western art from 1000 to 1900

Web Directories of Art Museums:

• Looking for Good Art - Article by David Mattison, Searcher, Sept. 2004
• Museum of Online Museums (MoOM)

Index of Art Museums:

• Art UK - Database of art works in British museums and other cultural institutions
• Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France - Find works of art in French museums

Art Libraries:

• Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution)
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, Williamstown, Mass
• Getty Research Institute Library, Los Angeles - The collection covers "a comprehensive representation of art and cultural production since antiquity"; significant holdings and database of art auction catalogs
• National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London - "A major public reference library of fine and decorative arts of many countries and periods"
• Winterthur Museum Library, Wilmington, Del.

Association:

• Art Libraries Society of North American (ARLIS/NA)

Art News

• ArtForum
• ArtsJournal - Daily art news