Patrick Boylan's
Cultural Policy and Management Information Service

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Visual Arts, including Design, Crafts etc.

Art Planet: The Internet Fine Art Directory - more than 800 galleries, dealers, museums and more worldwide
Development Gateway - Culture and Development (managed by Patrick Boylan for the World Bank)
AXIS on the Web and National Artists Register: - art information service and major multimedia database with aims to promote the work of contemporary British artists
Development Gateway - Culture and Development (managed by Patrick Boylan for the World Bank)
Art Museum Network
Public Art Online (South West Arts, UK): site listings, practical information, artists works, events, legal info. & links
Asian Arts Online: Uk-based service for Asian & cross-cultural arts organisations
International Association of Art Critics (AICA): UNESCO-linked non-governmental organisation for art critics, with special emphasis on critics and commentators on modern and contemporary art
International Committee for Exhibition Interchange - of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Smithsonian Guidelines on Accessible Exhibition Design: prepared by Jan Majewski, Smithsonian Institution Accessibility Coordinator, 1998
Evaluation & Visitor Research Group - Special Interest Group of Museums Australia
MLC - Museum Learning Collaborative: a research project studying learning in museums, Learning and Resource Center, University of Pittsburgh
Institute of Art and Law (UK): research institute producing important publications, conferences etc.
Bilbao's new Guggenheim Museum
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association [UK]
EuroARTchannel: includes European design, crafts and antiques
ArtDaily: - the world's first daily art newspaper
Museums On Line: data on and links to museum Web sites, plus a catalogue of over 200,000 on-line cultural images, a "museum shop" and an on-line cultural magazine focusing on major European exhibitions
Communication Arts: - Web version of the leading American graphic design journal, with catalogues of computer and Web graphics authoring equipment and software
Open Studio - a joint project of the Benton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, articles, good examples of creative art in cyberspace
Artcyclopedia - information on over 5,000 artists
Chris Jeffries' Fine Arts and Disabilities web site
Museum of Bad Art: - "Art too bad to be ignored"
Pixart: - practical guidance on using computers in the visual arts and especially graphics of all kinds
235 Media: - new Web site of 235 Media, a major European agency for media art, with large number of images covering media, art and culture
SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: - includes the Library Catalog of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Art Inventories Catalog (over 300,000 works of art) and the Archives of American Art collections. (See Libraries etc. section for more details)