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Updated 04/12/05
Resources - NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery is a free service from The New York Public Library offering hundreds of thousands of digital images of historical materials from the Research Libraries' original, rare and specialized holdings. NYPL provides free and open access to its Digital Gallery and images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only. Spanning a wide range of visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. This website works beautifully, you can search a subject, and when you click on a thumbnail it brings you to a page which gives a larger version of the image (you can sometimes even flip it around and look at the back), a "card catalog" list of info, and the ability to search for more images by the artist, subject, or collection. A great image reference resource. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org
 
Updated 03/10/05
Symposium Books
Go into most bookstores, yes, even Borders, and the art section will consist of the same tired impressionists, Andy Warhol and Rembrandt. OK, so they're not tired, but you probably already have seen very similar books in every chain bookstore. Why not browse a bookstore which bills itself as being "For serious thinkers, readers and writers"? Symposium Books, recently established at 240 Westminster Street in Providence, has a collection of focused and scholarly books, including an extensive selection of art and and art theory. All books are usually 40-90% off the publishers' price. So put aside a little time to browse, buy a book and go next door to Tazza to sit down with a coffee and a book that makes you think. It's also a chance to look around and catch up with big things happening smack in the middle of downtown! Symposium has a website too, at http://www.symposiumbooks.com/catalog/

Updated 01/05/05
Everything you wanted to know about artists and the Internet
The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. On January 5th they posted a a 61 page report on how the internet has affected artists and musicians. Numerical data on artists was gathered through telephone interviews of 2,755 adults who consider themselves artists. Among their findings; American artists have embraced the internet as a creative and inspiration-enhancing workspace where they can communicate, collaborate, and promote their work. They are considerably more wired than the rest of the American population. While they have embraced the internet as a tool that helps them create, promote, and sell their work, they are divided about the impact and importance of free file-sharing and other copyright issues. Read the report

Updated 11/22/04
artnet.com
Artnet.com is an art commerce site that also offers some nice features for research. Search results show artworks, galleries, exhibitions and magazine articles for over 18,000 artists from around the world. You can also search over 1000 galleries by name or location.
Artnet also provides access to the Grove Dictionary of Art (which, although a paid subscription site, offers short biographies of over 21,000 artists for no charge). If you want to subscribe, you can read more extensive bios written by expert scholars from all over the world.

Daily news, reviews, and features make up the artnet Magazine which is also part of the site.

All in all, artnet.com offers a very professional, up-to-date collection of artists and news and allows you to poke around in upper echelons of the art world.
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