Women in the Arts

A branch of the Smithsonian with the world''s largest primary source collection of the visual arts in America.

Current art history news, comments, updates, pictures, videos, reviews, and information

ARTnews reports on art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world.

"e-flux announcements are press releases for current exhibitions of art from all over the world. Selective content presents programs at leading art institutions: museums, biennials, and art centers, as well as notable artist-run spaces and experimental venues. The announcement archive documents some of the most significant exhibitions that have taken place since 1999."

This is a digital archive dedicated solely to feminist art. Profiles of some of the most prominent and promising contributors to the field. This digital resource was created in 2007 and actively expanded through 2014; the database remains available for researchers as an archive of activity by artists from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Biographical sketches with brief critical assessments of illustrators and other practitioners of interest, primarily for students, from the blog, Notables: American Illustration circa 1900-1970.

"The Smithsonian Libraries’ collection of artists’ books spans numerous formats, styles, and countries, and the works are available to researchers for study and inspiration."

Online resource on preparing for a career in the arts. Art careers are described. Schools for obtaining art education are profiled.

"Provides online access to a growing collection of visual images contributed by universities, libraries, museums and archives from across the UK, which can be used freely for education."

Providing information regarding ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others.

"A multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution, and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women."
Entire catalog of films can be searched via the site