Art and Design Schools

• Artschools Web Directory - US and Worldwide listings.
• California Institute of Art
• Chelsea College of Art & Design
• Central St Martins, London
• Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design
• Glasgow School of Art
• Goldsmiths College, University of London
• New York State College of Ceramics
• Novia Scotia College of Art & Design
• Royal College of Art, London
• Slade School of Fine Art, London

Art Directories and Gateways

• ArtLex Art Dictionary - provides basic definitions of art terms, quotations etc.
• Artmuseum.net  - Links to online exhibitions of contemporary art.  Artmuseum.net is a not-for-profit project and is part of the Art and Culture Project.
• ArtNet - US based art web directory.
• Artchive - Web gallery of digital images of artworks for private non-profit use only.
• Artsource - A collection of networked resources on Art and Architecture.
• Artcyclopedia - Web gateway to 'museum-quality fine art on the Internet'.
• BUBL Link  - U.K. This site includes a catalogue of over 10,000 selected Internet resources covering all subject areas. Indexed by resource type (e.g. dictionaries, images, sounds, etc.), broad category (e.g. arts, music, etc.) and specific subject menu.
• Contemporaryart.com - Directory of websites from US, UK and Europe featuring contemporary art.
• HOGARTH (Helpful Online Gateway to Art History)  - Web gateway that aims to facilitate research access to major exhibition and sales catalogue collections in the UK. 
• IAR - Internet Art Resources- US-based gateway to artists on the web 'working in every medium, including wood, glass, metal and stone'.
• Internet for Art, Design and Media - UK- based guide to Internet resources in art and design for the UK university community.
• Internet Public Library Online Art Books- -Gateway to art & design online texts from the Internet Public Library.
• Mother of all art and history links.  - General gateway to web sites from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design
• Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians
• Pinakes- -A "Subject Launchpad" to web resources in all disciplines. Hosted by Heriott-Watt University, Scotland.
• Public Art Research Archive - Gateway to websites on public art in the UK. From the Sheffield Hallam University.
• SunSITE Arts Directory  - Art section of the 'Librarian's Guide to the Internet'.
• UCLA Art & Art History Web Directory - Directory of websites for art research from the University of California
• Universes in Universe: Worlds of Art   - is a non commercial information system on the visual arts of Africa, Latin America, Asia within the context of international art processes.
• Voice of the Shuttle Art & Art History Web Directory  - Directory of websites for art research from Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• World Wide Arts Resources - Metropolitan Museum of Art. Index to Artists, Galleries, Exhibitions and much more.

Art Book Vendors

• Amazon Books
• Artext, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  - Books on Modern Art, Women Artists and Film Studies.
• Fowler Museum of Cultural History. UCLA  - Catalogues, books, and monographs in areas of Africa; Asia and Oceania; Cross-Cultural; Europe; Latin America; United States.
• Worldwide Books Online.  - Exhibition catalogues and other books on Art, Architecture and Photography.

Art History

• Art History Research Centre - University of London. 
• Art History Resources on the Web - Mostly Euro-American art history resources, grouped according to period.
• Dutch Institute for Art History. - Florence (Italy). Part of Utrecht University, promoting research on Italian Art, & Dutch & Flemish artists in Italy. 
• Getty Information Institute -  Major sources for research in the history of art.

Art Libraries

• International Directory of Art Libraries. IFLA
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture  - Collection of digitised facsimiles of beautifully illustrated Early American books on the decorative arts. Produced by the Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madigan.
• Getty Research Library
• Metropolitan Museum of Art NY - Libraries
• Museum of Modern Art.(N.Y.)  - Dadabase, the online catalogue of the Museum of Modern Art's research resources.
• National Art Library, London  - Research and Reference Library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• National Gallery of Art Research Library (Washington)

Arts Organisations, Councils and Associations

• APD  - Artists Professional Development Network - a network of organisations for information and professional development for UK visual artists.
• ARLIS/NA  - Art Libraries Society, North America.
• Art & Design Associations  - Directory of art and design associations (from University of Florida).
• Art Libraries Society, UK & Ireland
• Art Organisations  - Links to arts organisations and associations from the Artsource web directory.
• British Council
• College Art Association
• Federation of Canadian Artists
• Getty Information Institute
• Institute of International Visual Arts
• Visual Resources Association

Digital Media

• Resource Centre for Cyberculture Studies

Galleries and Museums

• The Art Institute of Chicago
• Art Museums Network - Website for art museums in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Provides access to exhibition dates and museum profiles.
• ArtsConnectEd - Searchable directory of art museum resources in the US.
• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
• The Dia Center for the Arts, NY
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Getty Art Museum
• Guggenheim Museums - New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin, Las Vegas
• Institute of Contemporary Art, UK
• Louvre Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York.
• Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
• Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimete (Paris)
• The Musee d'Orsay, Paris
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Musées de Paris.
• Musee Rodin.
• National Gallery, London .
• National Museum of American Art
• National Portrait Gallery, London
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - An excellent site including a tour of the Gallery, information on the Gallery, plus a searchable database of the permanent collection. You can search simply by title or artist, or by expanded searches including school, style, subject or theme. Searches can be limited to those works where an image is available.
• Pierpont Morgan Library - A museum and centre for scholarly research in New York.
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Serpentine Gallery, London - The Serpentine Gallery was founded in 1970 by the Arts Council of England. It is one of London's most visited exhibition sites for modern and contemporary art.
• Sistine Chapel
• Smithsonian American Art Museum  - Apart from the usual museum information, this site includes the addition of the periodical American Art, with online links to articles. The collection is searchable by a variety of criteria and results can include good quality images.
• State Hermitage Museum, Russia
• Tate Gallery, London
• The Uffizi
• The Venice Biennale
• Virtual Library - Art Galleries - International online directory of art gallery websites.
• Virtual Library - Museums Worldwide - International online directory of museum websites.
• Yale University Art Gallery

Photography

• American Museum of Photography
• Photo study collection database

Prints

• Print Council of  America -   This site features the index to Print Catalogues Raisonne (IPCR).  Select 'Search Oeuvre Catalogues' for information and bibliographic citations on over 13,000 printmakers and their work, from the 18th century to 2001.

Women and Art

• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• The World's Women On-Line: Electronic Art Networking