Links & Resources
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Organisations
- The ADAM Project
"ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community." - ADM-HEA
"ADM-HEA is the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Art, Design and Media. Established in 2000 to support and enhance learning and teaching in higher education art, design, media theory and practice, the history of art and design and cultural studies subjects.
The ADM-HEA works with people in further and higher education institutions, subject associations and professional bodies, to explore and identify opportunities to develop effective practices in learning and teaching in art, design and media. " - Art History Webmasters Association (AHWA)
"AHWA is a tool for all art historians and not only for the ones who webmaster a digital site." - Arts and Humanities Data Services (AHDS)
"Working on behalf of the academic community to collect, catalogue, manage, preserve and promote the re-use of scholarly digital resources." - BUBL (a catalogue of selected Internet resources) - Arts
- Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
"Providing, preserving and promoting quality digital resources for the visual arts." - Visual Resources Association
"The Visual Resources Association is a non-profit organization established to further research and education in the field of visual resources and to promote a spirit of cooperation among the members of the profession." - The Getty Center
"The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and the humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation." - CTI Art and Design
"Computing in Teaching Initiative in Art and Design." - CHArt
"CHArt is a society open to all who have an interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design." - College Art Association
"Promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art." - CIHA
- Arts Council of England
"Developing, sustaining and promoting the arts in England." - Design History Society
"The Society seeks to encourage the development of a strong design history community within which awareness of new research can be heightened." - Design Council
"The Design Council identifies, develops and promotes the best use of design to improve competitiveness, fuel economic growth and stimulate British success." - Varo Registry
"The Varo Registry is an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists." - Museum Documentation Association
"MAD gives advice to people who want to know how to document their objects and the information that goes with them." - Association of Art Editors
"AAE provides a forum for the exchange of information among authors, art editors and others involved in art-related publications." - HOGARTH (Helpful Online Gateway to Art History)
"Aims to facilitate research access to major exhibition and sales catalogue collections in History of Art in the UK." - The Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA)
"A professional network and membership body that campaigns to place the visual arts at the heart of people's lives and at the centre of public policy, in the belief that everyone has the ‘right to art’." - The Low Countries Sculpture Society
"The Low Countries Sculpture Society aims to increase communication and foster discussion between sculpture historians, conservators, collectors, curators, custodians, creators and all those interested and enthusiastic about this medium." - The National Art Collections Fund
"The National Art Collections Fund is the UK's leading art charity. It will be celebrating it's centenary in 2003 with major exhibitions, concerts and evernts throughout the UK." - Understanding British Portraits Network
"Understanding British Portraits is an MLA Subject Specialist Network that aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of portraits in all media in British collections, and to facilitate future dialogue and debate around research methodologies, interpretation, display and learning programmes. To achieve this, we are engaged in mapping portrait collections of every size and nature throughout the UK, both private and public; mapping research and expertise in portraiture and associated disciplines; providing three online toolkits to assist in the research, display, and interpretation of portraits."
Libraries
- National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (UK)
"a major reference library and the Victoria and Albert Museum's curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book." - British Library, Portico Search Service (UK)
"The British Library provides reading room, bibliographic, document supply and information services, as well as exhibitions, publications and events." - M25 Consortium
"Linking over 125 college and university libraries in the London area. ." - Library of Congress (USA)
- National Library of Canada
- National Library of France
- The Bridgeman Art Library
- Greater Sudbury Public Library
Copyright
- General information about copyrights from an American perspective.
- The Copyright Website
- SUL: Copyright & Fair Use
- Artist Rights Society
"Artist Rights Society Represents and monitors US copyright interest on behalf of major museums and artists estates."
Publishers and Booksellers
- Amazon.co.uk - online bookseller
- Blackwell Publishers
"The world's largest independent academic publisher of books, journals and educational software." - JustBooks.uk
"JustBooks.uk is a leading European marketplace for used, rare, second-hand, antiquarian and out-of-print books." - ABE Books - online bookseller
Film
Photography
- BUBL (a catalogue of selected Internet resources) - Photography
- The Royal Photographic Society
- International Directory of Photography Historians
- A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat
- Art Resource
"Art Resource is America's largest art photograph archive, licensing authorized fine art images to all media."
Online Networks and Services
- Introduction to Mailing Lists
- Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
- H-Net, Humanities OnLine
- Dataware (Subscriber.NET)
Museums and Galleries etc.
- British Museum,
- Barbican
- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
- Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
- Design Museum
- De La Warr Pavilion
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
- Kettles Yard Gallery
- Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
- National Gallery,
- National Portrait Gallery
- Nottingham Castle Art Gallery and Museum
- Tate Britain
- Tate Liverpool
- Tate Modern
- Tate St Ives
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA),
- Imperial War Museum,
- Walker Art Gallery
- The Whitworth,
- Wolverhampton Art Gallery
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- The Royal Holloway Collection
- Musee d'Orsay
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Hayward Gallery
- Rodin Museum,
- Louvre
- Getty Museum
- MOMA
- R.W Norton Art Foundation (Louisiana)
Newspapers, Magazines and Journals
- Arts Journal
- The Guardian / The Observer
- The Independent
- The Telegraph
- The Times
- Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
- Apollo Magazine
Auctioneers