African American Art on the Internet
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm
Compiled by staff at Long Island University's B. Davis Schwartz Library, this extensive list provides links to collections of online African American art.
The American Museum of Photography
http://www.photographymuseum.com/
This site specializes in online exhibitions of daguerreotypes and early photographic works. See also a selection of "Masterworks of Photography," and a "Research Center" that provides links to photo history resources on the web.
American Photography: A Century of Images
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
The companion site to the PBS series of the same name offers a wonderful photographic resource, inviting us to view a century of images through cultural, social, and historical lenses. The site includes sections on art, photography and war, digital truth, presidential image making, persuasion, social change, and cultural identity.
American Strategy: Hearth and Home
http://www.americanstrategy.org/america/home3.html
Part of a national initiative to make everyone aware of federal and national resources, American Strategy has linked digitized collections of art around shared themes.
American Visions
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/
The online version of the PBS series American Visions includes Robert Hughes’s commentary on American art, artists, and the changing cultural landscape. Exhaustive resources at this web site include an exhibition of artwork from the series; a gallery that can be sorted by title, artist, date, and program; a "Current Visions" gallery featuring the work of contemporary American artists; and a bulletin board where interested browsers can post comments.
Art and Culture
http://www.artandculture.com
A combination magazine and visual arts encyclopedic reference, Art and Culture provides a well-designed environment for rich resources and commentary on a wide range of visual and performing arts disciplines: design, film, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.
Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/tours/selfport.html
Comprehensive art resource that includes Art Links, Galleries, Theory and Criticism, and JuxtaPositions.
Artcom
http://www.artcom.com/
Links to museums, art expos, art galleries, and more.
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
A simple and clear gateway to artists and artwork organized by galleries, image archives, museums, and more.
Art History Links Pages
http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
Aptly named, The Mother of All Art History Links Pages is produced by the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan.
Art in Context
http://www.artincontext.com
Compiled in 1995 by Art in Context Center for Communications, a publicly supported nonprofit organization, this online reference library has information about artists and where to find their work.
The Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org/
In their words, "The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not for profit association of institutions with collections of art, that have come together to enable educational use of the digital documentation of their collections. Together, AMICO members are building a joint digital library that is available to universities and colleges, public libraries, and kindergarten through 12th grade schools." The collection contains over 50,000 images of North American, European, Asian, and African art. Although you can’t gain access to full-sized images without a membership (check to see if your college or university is a member), the site is very useful as a search tool. You can search through thumbnail images in the collection by keyword, date, and category.
Art on the Net
http://www.art.net/Welcome.html
This site offers artists a place where they can have studios and gallery rooms that can be accessed on the web–visitors can visit studios and galleries, and explore other art-related sites.
Blind Spot: Photography
http://www.blindspot.com
The online site for Blind Spot, a photography magazine "committed to publishing visually enticing, unconventional, new and never-before-published work," shows numerous examples of artists who see the ordinary in extraordinary ways. The full text of the current and back issues includes interviews with and photographs by featured artists, as well as a choice selection of contemporary fiction. A gallery of "Artists A-Z" includes photographs by, among others, Chuck Close, William Eggleston, Richard Misrach, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
The Broad Art Foundation: A Collection of Contemporary Art
http://www.broadartfdn.org/01hmpg.htm
Assembled by the Broad Art Foundation out of a commitment to foster public awareness of contemporary art, this site includes over 650 works by "provocative and important artists working today."
Cartoon Art Museum
http://www.cartoonart.org/
Visit the Cartoon Art Musuem web site for a comprehensive list of online sources for cartoons.
Cartoons: The Thomas Nast Home Page
www.buffnet.net/~starmist/nast/main.htm
The home page for the father of political cartooning includes background and selections from Nast’s work.
Engravings, Lithographs, Political Cartoons
www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is182/assignment7hp.html
With a rich selection of full-page, or even double-page, spreads of lithographs depicting current issues, this overview of Harper's Weekly, 1876-1880, is an important source for the study of American culture in the late nineteenth century.
Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Visit the Guggenheim’s special exhibits at this online museum without ever leaving your computer.
Masters of Photography
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/index.html
Articles, photographs, resources, and summaries of the recognized masters of this genre.
Orazio Centaro’s Art Images on the Web
http://www.ocaiw.com/indexing.htm
Billing itself as "the most complete catalogue of art images on the web," this site includes collections of architecture, painting, photography, and sculpture, as well as special exhibits.
Sculpture Center
http://www.sculpture.org/main.htm
A comprehensive site with international information on: sculpture exhibits, graduate programs, online resources in sculpture, a discussion forum, and highlights from Sculpture magazine. This is an excellent site at which to see how professional writers and critics talk about contemporary sculpture.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/index.html
The Smithsonian American Art Museum currently offers over 3,000 works from its collections in digital form online, searchable by name of artist and medium. Note, as well, rotating featured exhibits such as "Posters, American Style" and "An Edward Hopper Scrapbook."
Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/art.html
This academic database provides myriad links to online resources in art and art history.
The Whitney Museum
http://www.whitney.org/
The Whitney Museum’s site is worth the visit for its most recent addition: "The American Century Online Exhibition," a multimedia version of the Whitney’s survey of American art and culture from 1900 to 2000. Special features include: additional commentary on selected artwork, a guided tour of the exhibit, and the option to create your own tour–by selecting works to return to or share with someone else.
World Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/index.html
"The definitive, interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on the Internet."
Yahoo’s listing of College and University Arts sites
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Museums__Galleries__and_Centers/Colleges_and_Universities/
Yahoo's links to galleries, museums, and special exhibits at colleges and universities around the country.
Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/home/
Uncommercials, campaigns, and the full text of the print magazine are all geared to help people become more critical consumers of advertisements.
Alt.Culture
http://www.altculture.com
An excellent resource for any quick search on cultural figures and phenomena of the 1990s, Alt.Culture describes itself as "both culture guide and online compass." From "dress down casual Friday" to "Queen Latifah," Alt.Culture contains over 900 encyclopedic entries.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
The Library of Congress has digitized a sampling of its Americana collections and compiled them in this thoroughly searchable site. Packed with photos, recorded sound, and full texts of historical documents, the site contains images and texts from such collections as: "By Popular Demand: ‘Votes for Women’ Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920," "Origins of American Animation," and "African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907," to name but a few.
American Studies Web
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
An excellent, well-written, and frequently updated resource maintained by the American Studies Crossroads Project. Contains reviews of new American Studies sites, as well as sections on: Art and Material Culture, Current Events and Legal Studies, and General Resources.
Arts and Letters Daily
http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/
"At this stage in its evolution the Web resembles a typical Australian goldfield, with vast mountains of low-grade ore," writes the editor of Arts and Letters Daily in a note of welcome to the site. "Precious nuggets are out there to be found, however, and it’s the mission of Arts and Letters Daily to extract them for our readers." If the links to essays and articles on current events and culture don’t entice you, the list of links to major newspapers, magazines, and journals, as well as a selection of individual columnists, will make it worth bookmarking this site.
The Arts Journal
http://www.artsjournal.com/about_aj.htm
Edited by Douglas McLennan, a former arts reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, this site offers annotated links to selected articles on arts and cultural issues on a daily basis. The site promises the best journalism chosen from "more than 180 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture."
Cultural Objects: An Anthology of American Studies
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/objects2/main.html
This anthology of hypertext projects by students taking a course on American icons at the University of Virginia includes research strategies and links for the study of icons and hypertext techniques.
FEED Media and Culture
http://www.feedmag.com/mediaindex.html
The media and culture section of FEED magazine, an online ’zine named after the media usage of the word, as in "television feed," or stream of data.
The Media and Communication Studies Site
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/advert01.html
A comprehensive list of links to articles and broadcasts on the critical analysis of advertising.
Media in Transition
http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media in Transition Project describes itself as "a kind of clearing house or discourse space for citizens, teachers and scholars who wish to exchange ideas, projects for research and teaching, fears, visions about the dangers and the promise of new media." The articles and archives sections are particularly rich, with a comprehensive cataloguing of works generated by past Media in Transition conferences.
Salon
http://salon.com/media/index.html
The media section of the online magazine Salon.
Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/index.html
Developed by Vanderbilt University, the Television News Archive provides abstracts for over "30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming." The archive includes a searchable database of the evening news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC since August 1968.
This American Life
http://www.thislife.org/
A weekly radio show produced by WBEZ in Chicago that weaves stories, interviews, and commentary on cultural themes and phenomena as diverse as childhood play and hospital diplomacy. The site allows you to read through transcripts of past shows or download Real Audio files.
TV Barn
http://www.tvbarn.com
The TV junkies’ heaven, TV Barn is a web site written and managed by Aaron Barnhart, television writer at the Kansas City Star. The site includes Barnhart’s TV criticism; "The Daily Digest," a listing of television events and daily notables; Nielsen ratings; and a comprehensive science fiction column.
Voice of the Shuttle: Cultural Studies Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/cultural.html
This academic database provides myriad links to cultural studies resources.
