Art Research, Art Search Engines, Arts Sponsorship

Research : Art research websites

Art and architecture resources
from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Bellaterra, Catalonia. Recorsos a internet d'art i arquitectura.

ArtLex
A Dictionary of the Visual Arts

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, libraries, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Libraries
Arts libraries on the internet, a directory.

Suite 101.com
A 'best of the web' directory, edited by people with a specialist interest and knowledge in each of the subjects categorized.

The Voice of the Shuttle
An extensive web index for humanities research.

Schools, art schools   See also: Art Education, Art Schools

All Art Schools
Students can use our free comprehensive database of U.S. art schools to search for everything from associate’s to doctoral degrees in over 50 business-related concentrations, including painting, theatre, music and art
history.

Art School
A website that provides people who are interested in pursuing a career in art or design with the information they need to get started. They cover many different topics including different types of art degrees, careers, schools, certification programs and financial aid. They also have started a featured artist series which allows artists to showcase their work on our site and give advice to other aspiring artists.

Find Your Artschool.com
FindYourArtSchool.com makes it easy for students to find exactly the right art schools & programs they may be interested in.  Prospective art students can search schools through a variety of criteria, including programs offered, degree types, and locations, as well as access a library of content relevant to art programs and the process of applying & choosing an art school.

Search engines

Art.sy
Art.sy is a way to discover art, featuring work from leading galleries, museums and private collections around the world.
"Art.sy is powered by The Art Genome Project, an ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art. Art.sy evaluates artworks along 700+ characteristics (we call them genes)—such as art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities—to create a powerful search experience that reflects the multifaceted aspects of works of art."

Findthatfile.com
Findthatfile.com's mission is to provide the most comprehensive file search on the Internet. Common searches are for PDFs, Documents, Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more. They search as deeply as possible to identify the most relevant data from over 300 million files.

Quora
Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.
One way you can think of it is as a cache for the research that people do looking things up on the web and asking other people. Eventually, when you see a link to a question page on Quora, your feeling should be: "Oh, great! That's going to have all the information I want about that." It's also a place where new information- that no one has written about yet - can get pulled onto the web.

Dramba
Dramba is a searchable directory that provides users with the best internet resources. The directory offers wide range of carefully selected websites divided into thematic categories and subcategories.

Google Book Search
Search the full text of books in major university libraries around the world.

Google Image Search

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, libraries, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Search engines directory

Search engines

Semantic search engines, the semantic web

The Semantic Web. Semantic Search Engines

Sponsorship of the arts

Arts and Business, UK.

Arts-connexion.com
An international information bank of art patronage.The International Directory of Art Patronage is an informative tool designed for artists and art professionals. It groups together all forms of international grants and patronage for artists. It showcases many financing sources, whether private or public.

Crowcroft and Partners, UK.
Specialists in business sponsorship of the arts.

English regional arts boards.
An information service, where artists, arts organisations and administrators can communicate, share information and work together.

NYFA. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
helps artists turn inspiration into art by giving more money and support to individual artists and arts organizations than any other comparable institution in the U.S.

Stolen art  See: Stolen Art

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Xrefer
A web reference search engine providing free access to the  world's largest collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and quotations. Art history, British history, encyclopedias, dictionaries.

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Your Paintings
Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country. Your Paintings is a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK.