The Internet offers a whole new world for the art student and the art lover. You can access images of the work of favorite painters, photographers or decorative artists right from your computer. If you can’t visit the Louvre in person, you can take an interactive online self tour and see why it is such a popular Paris destination. In addition, find the online art resources you need for inspiration and to fuel your creativity.

General Art Resources

• National Endowment For The Arts: An independent agency of the federal government established to support the arts in the United States.
• American Council for the Arts: Celebrating its 50^th anniversary, their main goal is to advance arts in education.
• History of Art: Brings together art from every age and from every corner of the world.
• Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities: About the museums exhibitions, scholarly research, and studies. Educational resources for teachers.
• ARIAH: Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Yale Center for British Arts.
• RIHA: International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art. Promotes education and research in art history and related disciplines.
• ArtCyclopedia: The guide to great art on the Internet. Browse by artist, medium or subject. Lists most popular artist of the month with links to their work.
• WebMuseum, Paris: General art history online. Explore the work of famous periods of art in time.
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages: University of Michigan School of Art & Design resources. Access art research resources, image collections, online art, and art museum listings.

Museums, Institutes, and Galleries

• Smithsonian American Art Museum: Washington, DC—The nation’s first collection of American art. Home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world.
• National Gallery of Art: Washington, D.C.—Created in 1937, by a joint resolution of Congress given to the people of the United States by Andrew W. Mellon. Key works of the Gallery’s collection are from the 20^th century.
• National Museum of Women in the Arts: Washington, DC—The wonder of women in the Arts.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, NY—Features 5000 years of art from around the world. Access a collection database, timeline of art history and learn about study and research being done at the museum. Find out about the collections and research and education programs offered by the museum.
• The Louvre: Paris, France—Take a self guided tour of the museum, watch close to 250 films and documentaries, access information about current exhibitions, visit the kids and teachers area online.
• LA County Museum of Art: Los Angeles, CA—The largest art museum in the western United States, it has over 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present.
• Whitney Museum of American Art: New York, NY—Dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art. Visit the kids and teachers online. See what collections are up.
• The Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY—Created to fuel creativity, ignite minds and provide inspiration; MoMA has one of the world’s finest collections of modern and contemporary art. Provides lots of online activities, free audio and video programs and online projects for adults and kids.
• Guggenheim: New York, NY – An internationally renowned art museum is a cultural center, educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. The Museum offers a wide range of hands-on art activities for adults and kids alike.
• Museum of Fine Arts: Houston, TX—The grounds hold two museums, two art schools, two decorative arts centers and a sculpture garden.
• Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago, IL—Still committed to the works of arts themselves, the Institute recognized the importance of digitized access to the collections and works of arts themselves and created a newly redesigned website to accomplish this.

Art Journals and Magazines

• Art Forum: Online edition of Artforum International Magazine. Offers articles, reviews, video and a book forum online
• Exposure: Journal of the Society for Photographic Education. Access back issues of the journal, provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight.
• Juxtapoz: Online version of the monthly Juxatapoz Art and Culture Magazine. Read articles about modern art and artists and join in the conversation on the forum.
• Journal of Contemporary Art: Text version of numerous interviews with contemporary artists.
• Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians. Publishes essays and reviews on all aspects of the history of art access many online.
• Artnews: Online home of the magazine that touts itself as the oldest art magazine in the world. Read online articles and reviews about all aspects of art.
• Oxford Art Journal: One of Oxford's Humanities Journals. Request permission to read articles online. Has an international reputation for innovative critical work in art history.
• Journal: Smithsonian Archives of American Art publication since 1964. Published for the benefit of scholars, collectors, artists, researchers, and the interested public.
• American Art Review: A chronicle of American art and its history. All about American art: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and decorative arts.
• NY ARTS: Online home of NY Arts Magazine. Has the fastest growing art portal in NYC with over 20 million annual hits. Information is updated daily and the archives include 2,000 galleries, 10,800 shows, 40,000 artists and 35,000 images.