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Art image and video resources

Art images

Please check copyright restrictions before using images from these sites.

  • Art Resource - Digital art image collection. Subscription service available by IP address check from any College networked computer. No password
  • artincontext.org - good directory of contemporary artists, with images of their work, and links to their galleries. New York based, publicly supported nonprofit organization, started in 1995. Search or browse
  • ArtSTOR - Image database for art history and architecture. Subscription service. Register at Senate House Library, then sign on with your ULRLS library card number
  • Axis UK - online artists register, showing work. Supported by the Arts Council
  • BAPLA - information about picture libraries in Britain
  • Bridgeman Art Library - Digital art image collection. Subscription service available by IP address check from any College networked computer. No password
  • European Art Net - contemporary art archives search engine
  • Google Image Search - general images search engine
  • JISC review of image search engines
  • Olga's Gallery- Online Art Museum with digital images for educational use. 
  • VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) - access to digital image collections for higher education, and guides to creating them.
  • Review of available image collections - online article from Information Today

Video and film art

Organisations

  • AN Web publications, guides for artists - funding, professional practice, contracts, career information for artists, produced by AN Publishing. Password from enquiry desk, or subscribe yourself on the site (free)
  • Arts Council England - funding schemes, policies and reports to download. Has link to Arts Council England, London. Also at Arts.org.uk
  • Artangel's online commissions - includes work by Rachel Whiteread, Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon and lists related books, videos and CD's produced by Artangel
  • inIVA OnLine - site includes artists projects by Keith Piper etc. and inIVA's library catalogue, online commissions and site archive
  • Ars Electronica - annual conference and exhibition of digital art
  • V2 organisation - institute for the unstable media. Runs DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival)
  • CRUMB - (curatorial resource for upstart media bliss) website for those who exhibit, organise, archive or make new media art

Art galleries and museums

Selected arts listings

  • New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art - online version of the monthly NECA guide - a listing of contemporary art galleries in London, the Regions, Channel Islands, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -with the exhibitions and artists currently on show. An easy way to find the web site and e-mail for London galleries
  • artupdate.com - lists openings of forthcoming exhibitions, international
  • artnet.com - commercial, contemporary artists - site listing commercially successful contemporary artists and galleries. Founded in 1989 by a group of art dealers, and designed to be used to 'research, browse, bid and buy art'
  • Culture 24 - formerly 24 Hour Museum, a UK government gateway site to museums and galleries

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