ART 708: Research Methods in Contemporary Art: Websites

Intended to support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum. Developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the U.S. Department of Education.

Online arts education resources from the Getty. Includes curriculum ideas, lesson plans, image galleries, and more. A content-rich site!

Promotes art education through Professional Development, Service, Advancement of Knowledge, and Leadership. NAEA is a non-profit, educational organization.

Artwork created from kids around the world

Online companion to the landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which "surveys the flourishing of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and surrounding regions — stretching from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Iran and Central Asia to the Indus Valley" 5,000 years ago. Viewers select themes such as death and burial, or clothing and personal adornment, to see annotated images of items.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Timelines about the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations, including: Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia, and the Middle East. Timelines pages are organized by civilization and period." Many of the linked sites include images. From an art history enthusiast.

This site offers a great source for preliminary information and leads on artworks and artists. A list is offered for the location of specific works of art by a particular artist with links to specific museums housing the works. It is a good resource for images. Links are also provided to the latest research and articles on particular works/artists.

This is a fairly comprehensive website that offers a complete guide and outline to all periods of art history. The resource offers historical data, biographical, bibliographical and links to resources from Prehistory to the modern world with accompanying timelines and links. Articles and journals can also be found through this website.

Perhaps not as comprehensive as some of the other websites, ArtNet does offer biographies, timelines, and a retrospective of exhibitions on a particular artist. ArtNet also lists art works for sale in case purchasing a Picasso will help with current research! (An expensive research paper).

As with any art research it is important to keep abreast on museum exhibitions taking place around the world. Art News offers the latest exhibitions and news from every city around the world. The directory offers a city by city guide at the top of the homepage.

Collection of links to web art resources, including research, image collections, academic departments, museums, and new media.

A wide-ranging index to sites of interest to researchers in humanities disciplines — art, literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural studies — with links to higher education and publishing sites. The site is maintained by Allen Liu and others in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.