Art, Art History & Museum Studies

PBS mega-site on contemporary art. Features video interviews with artists, a critical blog, and a encyclopedia of artists and related information.

Serious + playful art commentary.

A Tumblr mash-up of contemporary art blogs. This site is all over the place, but will expose you to the many facets of the contemporary art world.

Index to theses completed at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. "Access to the Corcoran Alumni Thesis collection in CANVAS is restricted to the George Washington University community. Authorized users of the GW Libraries may access the collection from on or off campus."

Search more than 21,000 records of individual objects in the Georgetown University Art Collections. They include predominantly works on paper in addition to paintings, sculpture, and decorative objects. About a third of the records have accompanying images, with more added over time. The images are provided for study and academic use only.

Run by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). "A tool for pre-Columbian studies and the principal source for research of ancient cultures."

Website of the journal Arqueologia Mexicana. In Spanish; not full text.

In particular, see their online digital collections.--http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/digitalizacion-de-las-colecciones.html

The Yale Center for British Art is a public art museum and research institute for the study of British art and culture. The Center houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom.

National collection of British art from 1500 to the present day. Tate is a leading centre for research in visual art, collection care, learning and museum studies.

Major London gallery for modern and contemporary British art. Whitechapel has hosted crticial 20th century shows such as This is Tomorrow (1956).

The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. Annually four shortlisted artists present works in a show normally held at Tate Britain.

The Archives collects, preserves, and provides access to sources that document the history of the visual arts in America. Its website includes interviews, digitized materials, and images.

Starting point which links images from many authoritative sites, often to museums and exhibition sites. Also offers browsing by Artist, Movement, Medium, Subject, and Nationality; includes a directory of world museums.

Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archives

The Getty Research Institute has just launched the Getty Research Portal, an unprecedented resource that will provide broad, free access to digitized texts in the field of art and architectural history.

Combines essays and works of art with a timeline to situate art and global culture.

A portal to resources from three New York City art museum research libraries: The Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Collection, and the Museum of Modern Art. Search their combined library collection catalog, Arcade, and digital collections such as the Frick Digital Image Archive.

Smarthistory is a Western art history website containing videos of famous works of art narrated by artists, critics, and art historians. Search by time, style, artist, or themes.

Provides links to a variety of resources available on the Web. Choose categories like Architecture, Art (Modern and Contemporary), Art History, and Photography.

Browse the History of Medicine and Medical collections or the Digitized content."The Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war."