Art Museums/Galleries

• Australia:

  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

• Canada:

  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec.
• Colombia: ArtDealerGroup, Medellín, Colombia

• Finland: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In Finnish, English and Swedish.)

• France:

  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (In French and English.) National Museum of Modern Art.

  • Musée du Louvre, Paris. (In French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. See also Louvre.edu (in French), virtual visit, and here.

  • Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)

• Germany:

  • Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.

  • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. (In German.)

  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. (In German.)

• Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art.

• Iceland: National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik. (In Icelandic and English.)

• Ireland: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

• Israel: Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

• Italy: Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (In Italian and English.) Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).

• Japan:

  • National Museum of Art, Osaka. (In Japanese and English.)

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. (In Japanese and English.)

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. (In Japanese and English.)
  • National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. (Also in Japanese.)

• Korea: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. (In Korean and English.)

• Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (In English, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Spanish.)

• Russia:

  • Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. (In Russian and English.)

  • Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. (Not yet on-line.)

• South Africa: South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

• Spain:

  • Museo del Prado, Madrid. (In Spanish and English.)

  • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

  • Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. (In Euskara (Basque), Spanish, French and English.)

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona. (In Catalan, Spanish and English.)

• UK:

  • The National Gallery, London.
  • Tate Gallery, London / Liverpool / St. Ives. See Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
  • National Portrait Gallery, London.

  • Royal Academy of Arts, London.

  • Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.

  • National Galleries of Scotland.

• USA:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. One of the largest art museums in the world. See the collections and museum shop.

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Tour the collection.

  • National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

  • National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City. See current exhibitions and the permanent collection. 1998 Best of the Web competition winners.

  • J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.

  • Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.

  • Denver Art Museum, Colorado.

  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan.

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

  • Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California. Includes a large image database.

  • Foto Search Museum, Photography Museum on line

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.

  • The Art Institute of Chicago Museum, Illinois.

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

  • Seattle Art Museum, Washington.

  • The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti.

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

ART ARCHIVES

• Artchive by Mark Harden. Excellent on-line art collection. See galleries.

• WebMuseum. A pioneering virtual art collection including many on-line paintings, originally maintained by Nicolas Pioch. Winner of a Best of the Web 1994 Award for Best Use of Multiple Media. Still a useful if static resource.

   

• Guggenheim Museum, New York / SoHo / Bilbao / Berlin / Venice.

• La Trobe University Art Museum, Australia.

• St. Petersburg Pictures Gallery, Russia.

• Yale Centre for British Art, USA.

• The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Stuart Collection of Sculpture, University of California, San Diego, USA.
• Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture exhibitions.
• ArtServe - art history image collections and presentations, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. 27.000 images, requires registration and payment for full use.
• Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), University of Califormia, San Diego, USA. Aims to provide links to other art resources such as image and sound galleries.

• Art Work by John Jacobsen, 1993 onwards.

• @art gallery, an electronic art gallery affiliated with the School of Art and Design, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. The site includes "the place" by artist Joseph Squier.

• Kaleidospace Independent Internet Artists.

• Information on the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay, Paris (from USA) including images of the museums, listing of current expositions, as well as images of art and objects.

• On-line postcard collection at Cambridge, UK. Contributions welcome by post!

• Images for art history at the Australian National University including National Gallery of Australia information held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• MATLAB Image Gallery from Mathworks, USA. Still and moving images.

• Contours of the Mind, A Celebration of Fractals, Feedback and Chaos. An exhibition of Sonic and Visual Art at the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, 23 June - 24 July 1994.

• Reiff II Museum, Aachen, Germany (mostly in German). Realized Electronically Illustrated Fast Frame Interactive Information. Artists may submit electronic artworks for possible inclusion at the reception.

• Isaacs/Innuit Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

• Evolutionary Architecture exhibitions and Tokyo Guide from Ellipsis, UK.

• WILDCAT Gallery (Worldwide Internet Library Displaying Campus Artistic Talents), University of Arizona, USA.

• Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, USA.

• Virtual Gallery, Japan. Contemporary art, photographs, illustrations.

• Island Art Publishers - Art Online, British Columbia, Canada.

• 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project (mirrored in the UK). A round-the-clock posting of sequenced postmodern photographs by Brad Brace.

• Pixel and Paper Art Gallery, London Calling.

• Royal College of Art, London, UK. See exhibitions.

• Art on the Net, artists sharing works together on the Internet.

• The Cooker, an Internet site by the artist Jake Tilson, originally at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK.

• Hosokawa's Computer Graphics Gallery, Japan.

• AusArts, the ANU Institute of the Arts Library Server, Australian National University, Canberra. See Exhibitions, Galleries and Concerts and Australian Art Exhibitions and Web Sites.

• SITO artchives and collabspace collaborative art projects.

• Arthole, permanent and temporary galleries of photographs, paintings,and video.

• ProArts, East Bay Open Studios - images from artists living in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.

• Virtual Gallery: Art Meets Technology, Digital Research Centre, University of Derby, UK.

• Implicate Beauty - Computational Art by Brian Evans. Includes exhibition rooms of fracticals, a screening room, a hearing room and a guestbook.

• Find Arts Gallery: A Revolving Show of Artists, from Find Arts. See also artist search facilities.

• Dialogues of Peace, Palais des Nations, United Nations headquarters, Geneva. Also in the surrounding Ariana Park, from July 2 to October 26, 1995. Organized by the Association Française d'Action Artistique (AFAA). An international exhibition of contemporary art by 60 artists specially chosen by the Secretariat of the United Nations' 50th Anniversary.

• Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. Privately owned Artist-Society. Exhibitions, galleries and a virtual gallery.

• Absolut Access sponsored exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and elsewhere (available until September 1995).

• AAA Gallery, The Netherlands. Contemporary Dutch artists - works of art for sale, updated every 3 months. (Also in Dutch.)

• The Gallery Page, The Netherlands. A virtual gallery for exhibitions by contemporary artists.

• Museum of Bad Art, Boston, USA.

• Asian Arts exhibitions, articles and galleries, from Web Art Publishing.

• Cézanne and modern art (opening soon).

• Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House.

• The Electric Gallery, contemporary paintings, many for sale.

• ArtHouse, an alternative on-line gallery space and discussion forum, based in the UK. Includes other art links.

• The Sovereign Collection, Fine Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA. Paintings, sculpture, prints, objects d' art.

• Greg Manning Galleries, West Caldwell, New Jersey. Auction, purchases, sales, appraisals; established 1905. Classical Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Islamic antiquities, Asian art and antiques, Pre Columbian art, Coptic and religious antiques, militaria, rare coins, objects d'art.

• 7th Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A public art project, including links.

• Scope Art Gallery, New York, USA. Virtual gallery of new modern art.

• ARTscope, artists, galleries, classifieds, etc.

• Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany. Includes a live camera. (In German.)

• ARTEC Art Gallery, France.

• Webfelt Museum of Early Cyberart.

• Art on the Net, Japan.

• Open Art artists, galleries, etc.

• Barcelona Gallery, Spain. Contemporary art.

• Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK. Venue for new art.

• The European Cyber Gallery of Modern Art. (In English and German.)

• The Berlin Wall - 30 artists for freedom. (In French, English and German.)

• Copenhagen Art Gallery, Denmark. Danish contemporary art from expressionism to neo-realism.

• Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

• ArtSeenSoho, New York, USA.

• Kuri Hoshe Gallery, UK. Paintings and drawings by Gerald O'Connell.

• Virtual Exhibition from the Art Department, Bradfield College, UK. An example if what all schools should be attempting on-line.

• Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK.

• The Bridgeman Art Library, London, UK / New York, USA.

• Federation of Canadian Artists, Canada.

• Dave Archer Space Art Electric Glass Paintings, San Rafael, California, USA.

• Art by Jennifer Hathaway, New York, USA.

• Courtauld Gallery, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. (Reopening Autumn 1998.)

• Bowieart.com on-line gallery of art works by David Bowie and others. (Includes items for sale.)

• New exhibitions of contemporary art - listings for art galleries around the UK.

• The Gimp Gallery - using the freely available GIMP image manipulation program.

• Latin American Art "Museum", a virtual gallery by Fernando Urena Rib. (In Spanish.)

• Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art, USA.

• ArtistGuide: hundreds of contemporary artists and their work.

• Postcards from Iceland.

• The Cowdisley Institute, Australia. See the Fine Art Gallery.

• Printmakers Council, UK. See on-line PMC Gallery and Printmaker Studio Gallery.

• Roger Dean Gallery.

• WebMagick ~ Virtual Art, UK.

• The Art Historian's Circle Webring.

• Art-on-line from The Interactive Collector.

• Net-Art, Italy.

• Cambridge & East Anglian Artists Gallery, Vasari, Brameur, UK.

• Robert Downing, RCA. Artist-In-Residence, University of Toronto, Canada.

• German Galleries: index of galleries, cities and artists in Germany.

• Angst Art Arena, Australia. Virtual gallery of intense iconagraphy.

• Vatican Art, Pittsburgh, USA. Replicas from Vatican museums and Sistine Chapel for sale.

• Art Bank Old Master, Italy. Also in Italian: searchable databank of art and artists, including prices. 34,000 records (10th to 18th century).

• Ignat Bednarik (1882-1963), a Romanian painter.

• Easel.com on-line gallery of paintings and prints.

• Marine Art Information Center picture gallery.

• Museum of Web Art (MOWA). Art, technology and culture of the World Wide Web.

• Artwork Gallery, World of Escher.

• Museo Picasso Virtual, including Museums, Galleries & Collections, a Tour of Picasso's Life and a Chronology of Works (1889-1972). Wonderful!

• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. See also vanGogh.com, a commercial site on Vincent van Gogh.

• ArtWanted.com, on-line art gallery.

• Art Scene China, contemporary Chinese art gallery.

• Fondation Claude Monet á Giverny, France. See also Giverny-art.com including Dans les Jardins de Claude Monet.

• ArtMuseum.net, Intel Corporation.

• Artnet.com, a portal to the world of art.

• Galleries Magazine - Art Galleries on the UK.

• Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd, UK.

Auction houses

• Auction House Home Pages, Search Service and Calendar from Thesaurus, UK.

• Auctions On-Line, a database of fine art, antiques and collectibles for potential buyers.

• Bonhams.

• Christie's International. See Christie's Images.

• Phillips Auction House.

• Sotheby's.

ART NETWORKS

• LatinArtMuseum.Com Latin American Art Museum.

  Art Museum Network (AMN). Official Web site of the world's leading art museums. See:

  • ExCALANDAR, offical exhibition calendar.

  • Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO).

  • Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).

   

• Art galleries & exhibitions and art museums, World Arts Resources.

   

• Internet for the Fine Arts, on-line artists, galleries and resources for the fine arts.

   

• Fine Arts and the History of Art in the WWW Virtual Library.

• The Art Site on the World Wide Web. Not Waiting for the Information Highway: Art Galleries on the World Wide Web, an on-line article with hyperlinks by Margaret L. McLaughlin.

• ACM SIGGRAPH Internet Art Guide.

• Art sites from Websight.

• Art Planet, a commercial Internet Fine Art Directory.

• Art Galleries and Online Exhibitions list by subject matter from World Wide Arts Resources.

• artnetweb, New York City, USA.

• The UK's monthly arts guide, including Art on the Internet links and A to Z of Art list of UK art galleries.

• Lateral Arts - contemporary art available from leading young artists in Britain.

• Dia Center for the Arts, a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts organization, New York, USA.

• ADAM Project, an information gateway to selected resources on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media.

• National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

• The Visual Arts Obituary Page.

• Electroarts, Postmodernism in Cyberspace. Multimedia including frames, moving images and sound from the Fine Art Department, University of Reading, UK. See also BA Degree Show exhibition (26/6/96-1/7/96).

• Art Now Gallery Guide. See Gallery Pages and Artist Home Pages.

• Swissart Network, art guide to Switzerland.

• Computer Artworks Ltd., UK.

• The Virtual Museum of Art. (Large images.)

• Yunnan Art, Haarlem, The Netherlands.

• Lateral Arts - affordable contemporary art.

• Artistguide, an on-line guide to a selection of contemporary artists and commercial art galleries.

• Art Resource, New York, USA. North American representation of a number of major art galleries.

• D*A*M - WEB art by various dutch artists.

• WorldGallery, UK. Online prints, posters and picture framing.

• World Gallery by Image Exchange.

• Web Gallery of Art.

• Britart.com.

• The-Artists.com.

• Art Fund, UK.

• artnose "news" - sniffing around the art market (wonderful stuff! ;-).

• Artcyclopedia, guide to fine art of the Internet. Search engine scanning 1,200 cultural institutions.

• art-online ^TM, a fine art directory.

• Artprice, art market information (in English and French).

• ArtNewsLetter by David Coombes. Includes news and current exhibition information in the UK.