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Art & Design: General
Resources
Subject Specific
Pages:
Ceramics
& Glass Design Fashion
& Textiles Fine Art & History of Art
Jewellery/Metalwork/Horology Media &
Communication
General
Resources & Gateways
Grove Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art) inside Birmingham
City University; Grove Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art) off-campus ;
On-Line edition of the
monumental and authoritative Dictionary of Art which includes links to the
Bridgeman Art Library (images) and to hundreds of other relevant sites.
Art Full
Text (on-campus) ; Art Full Text
(off-campus) offers full-text articles from 1997 as well as
indexing and abstracts. Also included are links to relevant web sites and
subjects now covered include Asian & other non-Western arts, exhibition
review and feminist criticism. (Click 
for user
guide)
ArtisanCam : Education
information for Schools, teachers, pupils, children, links to good educational
websites
Advertising World (US) : The "ultimate marketing communications directory" for advertising and
marketing professionals, students and teachers.
AHDS Visual
Arts (Formerly VADS)
Part of the JISC-funded Arts & Humanities Data Service providing, preserving
and promoting quality digital resources for the visual arts. Includes a
searchable on-line archive of digital resources.
ARLIS.net is
the union catalogue of a wide number of UK based art and design libraries, and
aims to help users locate art, architecture and design publications, plus
related materials. It includes approximately 18,000 magazines and journals
from over 90 libraries. This site also includes a directory of art and
design libraries, contact information, and any special collections they might
hold.
Art Guide
"The art lovers' guide to Britain & Ireland."
ArtSource
Huge collection of art-related sites.
Artcyclopedia
An excellent first-stop site for searching artists, art
movements, subjects, etc. with links to sites where the artists work can be
seen.
Artifact Guide to information
in the arts and creative industries. Incorporates data and information once
provided by ADAM. Artifact forms parts of the Resource Discovery
Network.
Artists' Papers
Register
Register of holdings
for archival papers related to British artists and craftsmen.
Artists' Videos information
Axis
The website features profiles of professional artists and
curators, interviews, discussions, art news, debates and showcases the artists
to watch.
BIAD
main
website
BIAD Archives
contains the art and archival collections of
Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. This website gives brief collection
level descriptions of some of their collections. It also explains how to contact
them and make an appointment to visit the collections.
BUBL
Link: Creative Arts Huge
collection of internet resources arranged by category.
The Culture
Show BBC's weekly magazine arts
programme.
Designing Britain
1945-1975 a JISC funded project led by Brighton
University.
International Directory of Art
Libraries
Internet ArtResources [US]
Internet
for the Fine Arts [US]
London Art Magazine and listing for the London art world including
reviews of shows and archives.
London Fashion
Week
Lookupdesign.com
Design portal directory from Janvier Publishing
listing services within the creative, art and design industries. Basic
information is free, but further detail has to be paid for on-line.
MACE - Media Archive
for Central England A public sector moving image archive for the Midlands.
Includes a searchable database and updates are available via a
newsletter.
MAD.co.uk
is an invaluable resource for marketing, media, new media, advertising
and design professionals. It brings together content from 8 leading publications
including Marketing Week, Precision Marketing, Design Week and New Media Age as
well as providing breaking news throughout the day. Other services include an
online directory, the events diary and jobs database. (Username and Password required for access, available on
Username and Password page).
MoCo Loco
(Modern contemporary design & architecture) : MoCo Loco is a web magazine
featuring modern contemporary design news and views.
National Fine Art Education Digital
Collection An online resource of art works offering
clear and simple ways of searching - includes collections from the Royal Academy
and leading British Art Schools. Birmingham Institute of Art and Design -
(BIAD) - have contributed a number of works from the School Archive showing the
influence of Pre-Raphaelitism and the Arts and Crafts movement on the teaching
in Birmingham at the end of the Nineteenth century. A high proportion of
Birmingham's prize winners in the national competitions were female - works by
Florence Camm are included in this online collection. Work on this project has
been carried out by VADS.
New Exhibitions of Contemporary
Art A monthly guide to current art
exhibitions in the capital, listed A-Z by gallery
Style
Birmingham
TimeLife
Pictures Time & Life Pictures
represents some of the world's most recognizable imagery.
Time Out The online version of
the capital's listings magazine provides a monthly guide to what's on in the
city and a guide to restaurants, bars and shopping
Virtual Library:
Museums Page "a distributed
directory of on-line museums."
Visual Arts Data Service - Now known
as - AHDS Visual Arts
Worth Global Style
Network Education-orientated
version of the vast and splendid Worth Global Style Network. Every aspect of
Fashion & Textiles, and related areas covered. A personal User name and
password is required to register, available from the Enquiry Desk
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Galleries & Museums: UK
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Birmingham Museum & Art
Gallery
Barbican Centre, London
The British Museum
Courtauld Institute
Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge
Garman Ryan Collection,
Walsall
Hayward Gallery,
London
Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham
Institute of Contemporary Art
[ICA]
Institute International Visual Arts
[inIVA]
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Manchester City Art
Galleries
Museum of Domestic Design &
Architecture
Museum of London
Museum of Modern Art,
Oxford
National Art Library,
V&A
The National
Gallery
National Galleries of
Scotland
National Museum of Film, Photography
& TV
National Museum of Wales
The
National Portrait Gallery
Royal Academy of
Art
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts
The
Science Museum
Serpentine Gallery
The Tate
Gallery: London, St.Ives, Liverpool & Bankside
Victoria
& Albert Museum
Wallace Collection
Whitworth
Gallery, Manchester
William Morris
Gallery
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Galleries & Museums:
Abroad
France
Georges Pompidou
Centre, Paris
The Louvre, Paris
Musee
d'Orsay, Paris
Picasso Museum,
Paris
Rodin Museum,
Paris
Holland
Rembrandt House
Museum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art,
Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum,
Amsterdam
Italy
Uffizi Gallery,
Florence
Vatican Museums, Rome
Poland
The National Museum In
Cracow
Russia
The Hermitage,
St. Petersburg
Spain
Museum
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
United States
DIA
Center for Art, New York
Frick Collection, New
York
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
Smithsonian Institute
Walker Art
Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
Other
Guggenheim Museums:
Bilbao, New York, Venice, Berlin
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Galleries & Museums: Commercial
For the latest information on commercial galleries, both home & abroad, try:
24 Hour Museum
Art Diary
Contemporary Applied
Arts
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Organizations
Arts Council of Great
Britain
The British Council: Arts
British
Film Institute
The Crafts Council
Department of Culture, Media &
Sport
The Design Council
Museum Association
National Campaign for the
Arts
Regional Arts Boards
Scottish
Arts Council
Visiting Arts
Joint venture from the Arts Council, Crafts Council,
Foreign Office, et al for the promotion of foreign arts into the
UK
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Electronic Journals
Full Text
Journals are available / offered elsewhere. Listed under the
relevant subject
guides are just a few commercially available electronic journals.
For the full range of electronic journals provided through Birmingham City
University, arranged by title, subject and service provider, see Electronic
Journals.
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Send comments to john.ridgway@bcu.ac.uk