Art Resource Links
Web Databases & Resources

VRC has assembled a series of links to high quality image and multimedia databases, podcasts, and portals related to the visual arts. Many of the links provide immediate access to the images and multimedia content. If you are unable to locate an image, the VRC offers research and production services for UMassD faculty and students. For assistance please contact Allison Cywin, Visual Resource Curator or Linda Zieper, Art Reference Librarian.

Art, Design, & Architecture - (Categories)

Please help VRC expand this list by submitting your favorite database link to the Visual Resource Curator. Thanks!

Portals to Images & Multimedia (top)

• 250-plus-Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
• Art Daily.Org - art news & events
• Art Info - Online destination site of Louise Blouin Media, the world�s leading cultural media group.
• Arts Journal - Online Journal of Arts, & Culture
• Art Net - 20th/21st centuries art, galleries, auctions
• Art Renewal Center - database
• Artcyclopedia - all mediums
• AskArt - artists, galleries, auctions excludes 20th century works
• Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) - ancient - renissance European Art
• Art Links on the World Wide, created by Dr. Jeffery Howe, Boston College - comprehensive
• Daily Serving an international forum for contemporary artists
• Flick -The Commons - museums and archival digital collections
• Google - Art Project
• Massachusetts Board of Library Commissions - Digital Collections - material culture
• MIT Visualizing Cultures Image Database - Japanese art (19th - 20th centuries)
• NOTCOT - contemporary industrial, functional, graphical, digital art
• Science & Society Picture Library - all disciplines
• Web Gallery of Art - excludes 20th and 21st centuries
• Universes in Universe - art of Africa, Asia, & Americas

Museum Podcasts & Virtual Tours (top)

A-L

• 360 Cities - panoramic architecture videos tours
• Art Babble - art discussions, interviews, videocasts
• Art Institute of Chicago - artists videocast interviews & collection video tours
• Asia Society Collection - virtual gallery tours
• Confederation Centre of the Arts - virtual gallery tours
• Courtauld Institute of Art - virtual gallery tours
• Courtauld Gallery - collection video tours
• Dallas Museum of Art - collection video tours
• deYoung Kimball Gallery - Meso American - interactive collection tours
• English Cathedrals - virtual video tours
• Cleveland Museum of Modern Art - exhibition audio tours
• The Frick Collection: Virtual Tour - virtual gallery tours
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection - virtual gallery tours
• Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA -TV artists videocast interviews
• J. Paul Getty Museum - collection video tours
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - videocast interviews, & discussions with artists and gallery tours
• Lourve 3D Tours - virtural tours
• Lourve Virtual Tours - virtual tours

Museum Podcasts & Virtual Tours (top)

M-R

• Medieval Art and Architecture France Chartres (Cathedral of Notre-Dame by Dr. Alison Stones - virtual tours
• Met Podcasts - collection audio tours
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan - interactive Japanese Art
• Museo Galileo, Institute and Museum of the History of Science - virtual gallery tours
• Museart Musee d' Art Contemporain Virtuel - virtual gallery tours & virtual art
• Red Studio - MOMA - collection video tours & artists interviews
• MOMA Interactive Resources - teaching resources
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - artists audiocast interviews
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston - collection virtual tours
• Museum d' Orsay - collection interactive tours
• Museum of the Moving Image-Pinewood Dialogues - artists audiocast interviews
• National Endowment for the Arts - artists audiocasts and videocasts
• National Gallery of Art, US - artists audiocast interviews & collection tours
• National Gallery (England) - collection video tours
• National Museum of Australia (culture,history & anthropology) -
• National Music Museum -The University of South Dakota - virtual gallery tours
• Norton Simon Museum - collection video tours
• Palace of Versailles - virtual gallery tours
• Palace of Versailles interactive gallery tour
• Palace of Versailles - live gallery tour
• Philadelphia Museum of Art - collection video & audio tours
• Oriental Institute - virtual gallery tours

Museum Podcasts & Virtual Tours (top)

S-Z

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - artists videocast interviews
• Smithsonian American Art and the Renwick Gallery - video conferences
• Smithsonian American Art and the Renwick Gallery - virtual gallery tours
• Smithsonian American Art and the Renwick Gallery - collection video tours
• Smithsonian American Art and the Renwick Gallery - videocasts on the history of art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery - artists videocast interviews
• Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - artists videocasts interviews & collection video tours
• Smarthistory - videocasts on the history of art
• St. Peter's Basilica - virtual tours
• Tate Channel - artists videocasts interviews & collection video tours
• Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel - virtual tour
• Vatican Museum Virtual Collections - virtual tour
• Victorica & Albert Museum - collection video tours & lectures
• Victorica & Albert Museum Contemporary Art of China
• Virtual Architecture Project, Williams College - European Churches, Cathedrals - panoramic videos tours



Videocasts,Podcasts & Virtual Tours (top)

• Museum Podcasts - portal to museum podcasts
• museumpods the social media network - portal to museum podcasts
• Global Podcasts - portal to museum podcasts
• Vimeo - artist videocasts
• You Tube Videos - Google Art Project

Museum/Libraries Digital Image Collections (top)

A-L

• Art Images for College Education created by Art historian, Allan T. Kohl -ancient, medieval, and renaissance European art
• Art Institute of Chicago ~ 45,000 works
• Asia Contemporary Art art resources & collections
• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco ~ 7,000 works
• British Museum ~ 525,000 images
• Brooklyn Museum ~ 91,000 works
• California State University - WorldImages Kiosk ~80,000 images
• The California Institute of World Archaeology - database
• Carnegie Museum ~ 75,000 works
• Cartoon Museum - highlights
• Cincinatti Art Museum - highlights
• Clevland Museum of Art - database
• Contemporary Art of Cincinnati - highlights
• Cooper Hewitt: National Design Museum - highlights
• Corcoran, Washington, D.C. - highlights
• Corning Museum of Glass - database
• Dallas Museum of Art (~ 6,000 images)
• Denver Art Museum- highlights
• Detroit Institute for Art - database
• Five Colleges, Amherst Massachusetts - database
• Frick Musuem (database)
• Guggenheim Museum, USA~ 700 images
• Hammer Museum - database
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - database
• J Paul Getty Museum - database
• Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) - database
• Kyoto National Museum - database of Japanese Art
• Kimbell Art Museum- database
• Library of Congress -American illustrations, photographs, graphics
• Los Angeles Museum County Museum of Art ~ 50,000 images
• Louvre - databases

M-P

• Medieval Art and Architecture France Chartres (Cathedral of Notre-Dame by Dr. Alison Stones - database
• Metropolitan Museum of Art ~6,000 images
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts - highlights
• Musee d'Orsay - database
• Museum of Fine Art (Boston) ~346,000 artworks
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - database
• Musuem of Modern Art (MOMA), New York - database
• Guimet Middle East & Asia antiquities
• Museum of Picasso, Francehighlights
• Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)- -around the world - database
• National Gallery of Art, United States ~ 6,000 images
• National Gallery London - database
• National Gallery of Scotland - highlights
• National Museums Tokyo - database
• National Museum of Women Art - database
• The Archives of Ontario Visual Database - database
• National Portrait Gallery Britain ~ 16,000 images
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection - database
• Philadelphia Museum of Art ~ 33,000 works
• Prado Museum ~ 1,000 images

R-Z

• Rice Gallery - highlights - contemporary art
• Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art - highlights
• Saatchi Gallerycontemporary art
• Smithsonian Museums - database
• Smithsonian American Art - database
• SIRIS Smithsonian American Archives - database
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - interactive database
• Tate - database
• Tokyo National Museum - database
• University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) - database
• University of Maryland Digital Collections - database
• University of College for the Creative Art - Visual Arts Data Service ~ 100,000 images
• University of Maryland Digital Collections - database
• University of Virginia Digital Collections - database
• University of Washington - Digital Collections - database
• University of Maryland Digital Collections - database
• Vatican Museums - interactive database
• Victoria and Albert Museum - database
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - database
• Walker Art Center - database
• Worcester Art Museum - highlights
• Whitney Museum of American Art - database
• Yale Center for British Art - database

Areas of Study

Architecture Images (top)

• ArcSpace - 20th & 21st century architecture
• Archnet - ancient to contemporary a
• The Great Buildings Collection - ancient to contemporary & 3D
• Historic American Building Survey - drawings & photographs of 17th - 20th centuries United States architecture
• Mary Ann Sullivan Bluffton University ~ 18,000
• Boston College - Digital Archive of American Architecture - database

Art History Images (top)

• American Association of Museums Directory - professional site
• Art History Today
• Art History Resources on the Web by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia - portal related to art history including databases
• Art Libraries Society of North America - professional site
• Associations of Art Museum Curators - professional site
• CODART - International Council for Curators of Dutch and Flemish art - professional
• Dictionary of Art Historians - professional site
• International Council for Museums - professional site
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Bookmarks excellent art history research sites
• Smarthistory - history of art


• Resources in Art History for Graduate Students GREAT!

Artisanry (top)

• American Craft Council - resource portal
• Craft and Folk Art Museum - exhibition highlights
• University of Wisconsin - Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - database
• Fuller craft Museum - exhibition highlights
• International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art - artist interviews, resources, contemporary works
• Houston Center for Contemporary Art - exhibition highlights
• Mingei International Museum - database
• Mint Museum of Art - exhibition highlights
• Museum of Art and Design, New York - database
• Museum of Contemporary Craft - exhibition highlights
• Museum of Craft and Folk Art - exhibition highlights
• Museum of Glass - exhibition highlights
• Racine Art Museum - exhibition highlights
• Society of Contemporary Craft - exhibition highlights & exhibition opportunities
• Society of Art & Crafts - exhibition highlights & exhibition opportunities
• Worcester Craft Center - exhibition highlights & exhibition opportunities
• Worcester Center for Crafts - Worcester State College -portal to all artisanry disciplines

Ceramics (top)

• Gardiner Museum, Canada - database
• Japanese Pottery Information Center - Japanese pottery
• Museum of Modern Ceramic Art - Who's Who Japanese Ceramic Artists - images & video
• Schein Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University - highlights

Fiber Arts (top)

• Fiber Art Center resource portal
• Fabric Workshop and Museum - highlights
• Textile Society of America - professional
• American Textile History Museum -early American textiles through 1920's
• Fiberart International - professional
• World of Wearable Art Award Show, New Zealand -international opportunity

Visual Design

Digital Media (top)

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery - portal to new media & digital art
• Art of Digital Show highlights & opportunities
• ASIFA Hollywood -cartoon/animation
• Association of International of Film Animation - professional
• Austin Museum of Digital Art - highlights
• CACHE - computer art archive
• Digital Art. Org - virtual museum of digital art
• Digital Art Museum - virtual museum of digital art
• Electronic Arts Intermix - video art
• Guggenheim and You Tube -A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase -new media
• International Database of Virtual Art - database
• Internet Archive - movies, new media, audio resources
• ISEA Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts - professional
• Japanese Animation on U.S. television - listing
• Museart Musee d' Art Contemporain Virtual - new media art
• Museum of Digital Art - virtual museum of digital art
• New York Digital Salon - interviews & exhibition images
• PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography - terms
• Society for Animation Studies - professional
• Thailand New Media Art Festival - professional opportunities
• Waybackmachine- recording & archiving the web since 1996
• Vimeo - artist videocasts

Graphic Design/Letterform (top)

• AIGA design archives - database
• Chicago Design Archive
• Graphic Design Museum - highlights
• Phillip Meggs History of Graphic Design, 4th Editor, Instructor Companion Site -survey
• Unseen Hands; Women Printers, Designers and Book Designers - highlights
• Yale Art Book Collection - database

Photography (top)

• American Museum of Photography - historic/contemporary
• American Society of Media Photographers - professional
• California Digital Library - general image
• Center for Creative Photography - historic/contemporary
• Cinematic Terms A Film-Making Glossary - terms
• Connecticut History Online ~15,000 historic
• George Eastman House International Museum - database
• International Center of Photography - database
• Historic Photographs from 42 collecting institution in Pennsylvania - historic images
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs - historic
• Library of Congress Photographic Collections - historic
• New York Public Picture Collection - historic
• LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google -1860's to 1970's
• Museum of Photographic Arts - highlights
• Photo Central (.com)
• Photocollect Virtual Photography Gallery (.com)
• Vintage Works Fine Photography(.com)

Image Stock Houses (top)

• Art Resource - museum licenses
• Corbis - images
• Creative Commons - images
• Bridgman Art Library - historic
• Getty Images - images
• iStockphoto - royal free photographs
• Science and Society Picture Library
• Stockxchng - royal free photographs

Film (top)

• Art 21 - PBS art documentaries
• Icarus Films - documentary films in North America
• Rotten Tomatoes - trailers, reviews
• Vtape - Online Catalogue - rental
• Films Media Group - arts, humanities & science (FFH)
• BollywoodSARGAM - commercial
• TVU Networks - worldwide television
• Video Data Bank -art films
• Vimeo