Contemporary Art: WWW Resources

General

• Electric Art Gallery: Contemporary Wing -- commercial site, with free previewing of art prints. Nice variety.
  
  
• Art on the Net -- "Join fellow artists in sharing works together on the Internet. Enjoy visiting artists studios and roaming the gallery."
  
  
• ArtSource -- " gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historian"
  
  
• Yahoo's Arts Links -- Including categories for Artists, Art History, Design Arts, Criticism and Theory, Art Therapy, Museums & Galleries, and more.
  
  
• World Wide Web Art Resources -- Including a very good searchable database.
  
  
• Art Deadlines List -- Monthly newsletter providing -- "information about juried exhibitions and competitions, call for entries/proposals/papers, poetry & other writing contests, jobs, internships, scholarships, residencies, fellowships, casting calls, auditions, tryouts, grants, festivals, funding, financial aid, and other opportunities for artists, art educators, and art students of all ages."
  
  

Galleries & Museums

• New York City Art Galleries -- Lists art galleries in NYC, including links to art galleries with websites.
  
  
• The Louvre -- Includes a history of the museum, information about collections, a virtual tour, and more.
  
  
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
  
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Site designed to "give visitors an overview of the collections on display in the Museum's galleries."
  

Artists

• Getty Union List of Artists Names (ULAN) -- Searchable database. Covers many contemporary and living artists. Brief information, including references.
  

Computer Art

• Yahoo's Computer-Generated Art Links -- Includes links relating to 3-D Art; Animation; ASCII Art; Exhibits; Journals; Organizations; and more.
  
  
• ACM SIGGRAPH -- Special organization related to computer graphics.
  
  
• Art on the Net: Digital Artists
  
  
• artnetweb Projects -- "Independent and collaborative projects done specifically for the Internet. Rather than a curated exhibition think of this area as an on-going creative laboratory for artists to experiment and explore mapping their ideas to a new terrain.".
  
  
• RHIZOME Internet -- RHIZOME is a " non-profit organization dedicated to fostering communication and community in the field of new media art". This site is described as a "resource for information and critical writing about what's going on at the intersection of emerging technology and contemporary art".
  
  

Scholarship and Journals

• Oversight The magazine of community & alternative arts-- Including contemporary art theory; art gossip; and more.
  
  
• Parnassus (University of Louisville) -- Includes Table of Contents, but does not give access to articles.
  
  
• ArtsJournal.Com
  
  
• NYFA Current
  
  
• n.paradoxa -- A feminist art journal, with access to issues back to December 1996
  

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