Art + Design

Modern art of Latin America

This photo sharing site is a great place to look for visual materials. Make sure to use the search tools to limit to material with a creative commons license or items without any copyright restrictions.

The Getty is making available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. Currently, the collection contains over 100,000 images.

Partnership between Google and over 250 institutions that contains works of art from more than 6,000 artists online, and more than 45,000 objects available to view in high resolution.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Over 1.3 million high quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. On Pixabay you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

Library of Congress. Photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings

The Public Art Archive™ is a free, online and mobile accessible catalog of completed public artworks worldwide. The PAA project, launched in 2010, represents a national effort to increase public awareness and stewardship of public artworks, including the continually growing database, a Tumblr blog, various educational initiatives, and local community engagement efforts.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.4 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Discover online collections and exhibitions about the history, locations and artists of street art. Part of the Google Art Project.

Booooooom features new contemporary arts scene and highlights emerging talents. Categories in art, design, film, photography.

Colossal an international platform for contemporary and visual art that explores a vast range of creative disciplines. Includes articles and featured artist websites.

Jealous Curator is a popular creative blog exposing the work of contemporary arts in a large range of mediums including ceramic, design, drawing, illustration, printmaking, sketchbook, photography and more.

MyModernMet articles on art, design, photography, architecture for talented artists of contemporary art.

Two Coats of Paint is an NYC-based art project that includes an award-winning art blogzaine emphasizing on contemporary painting and related issues.

HI + Fructose contemporary art

Studio Visit is a series of juried artist books produced by the publishers of New American Paintings.

Explore Museums and individual art pieces from around the world. A reallly nice "zoom" feature makes the art work come alive.

Smithsonian. Online tours, videos, podcasts

Smithsonian. Historical and contemporary Native American artwork

London. Room-by-room tour, in-depth information on artists and works

Travel around the world and across 5,000 years of history through 490,000+ works of art.

University of Michigan. Annotated list of links of image collections, art schools, online exhibits, and research resources

The Mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.

Profiles and displays art work from prominent artists.

Annotated art history link directory

Ethnic video from around the world covering a wide variety of cultural dance, songs, and rituals. Note: you have to create a free account to gain access. Create your account from on-campus.