ARCHITECTURE
About.com: Architecture - Catalogue of Internet Resources.
All Wright-Site - Internet Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright.
architecture.com is one of the world's most extensive built environment portals. Here you can find an architect, understand more about architecture, or learn how to become an architect, all courtesy of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
BUBL - Architects
Crystal Palace - modelling, design and animation of this great Victorian building constructed for the Great Expedition of 1851.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - material about the architect from About.com.
Great Buildings - This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Royal Institute of British Architects
Yahoo: Architecture - Catalogue of Internet Resources.

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ART HISTORY
Art history resources on the Web - Directory of art history resources divided into prehistoric, ancient and middle-ages; renaissance, baroque and eighteenth century; nineteenth and twentieth century and non-European art. Lists of museums and galleries and research resources are also included.
Timeline of Art History - The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Museum's curatorial, conservation, and education staff—perhaps the largest single core of art experts anywhere in the world—research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects.
Web Gallery of Art - The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are annontated and biographies of the significant artists are given...A number of guided tours make it easier to visit the Gallery and to understand the artistic and historical relationship between different artworks and artists included in the collection.

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ARTISTS
artnet.com: The Art World Online - a diverse array of artist information and artwork images: painters, sculptors, photgraphers, designers, architects, ceramics and graphic artists.
Antony Gormley across Britain - This guide tells you where to find Antony Gormley’s work throughout the UK, in public spaces (mostly for free), in museums, galleries and libraries and also provides some web links and teachers’ resources.

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CERAMICS
Yahoo - Ceramics - directory of Internet resources.

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DESIGN
Adflip.com - adflip.com is the world's largest searchable database of classic print ads...You can search by category, by decade, even by year.
Curtis Botanical Magazine - This digital presentation contains over one thousand plates and illustrations of plants and insects. Text and images in this presentation are not copyrighted, and may be used with attribution to the National Agricultural Library, ARS, USDA.
Google web directory - Design
New York City Signs: 14th to 42nd Street - This site intends to survey all of the signs in New York City from 14th Street to 42nd Street.
The Quilt Index - The Quilt Index is an online research and reference tool designed to provide access to contextual information and images of quilts held in private and public collections.
Snow Crystals - If you're looking for pictures, this is the place! The author has searched the world for the best snow crystal photographs, and has teamed up with Patricia Rasmussen to produce a new collection of super-high-resolution snow crystal images.
Yahoo - Design Arts - Catalogue of Internet Resources.
Decor8 - created by a writer and interior design consultant, decor8.blogspot.com catalogues beautiful finds.
Tom Eckersley archive posters - Eckersley is one of the foremost poster designers and graphic communicators of the last century. He used bold simple designs, often resembling collage, and the collection reflects the range of his work from propaganda posters to his post-war posters. This digitised collection comes from the University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre.

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DIRECTORIES, GATEWAYS AND RESOURCE GUIDES
Axis - Axis is a national contemporary visual arts service providing information about artists and makers living/working in Britain to a national and international audience via the largest interactive database of contemporary British art on the Internet.
BUBL - the arts- Catalogue of Internet Resources.
Islamic Arts and Architecture (IAAO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information on arts and architecture. With a strong commitment to research and service, IAAO strives to offer a Web presentation of the highest quality and to promote the awareness of Islamic arts as a humanistic study, recognising the interrelationship between the arts and other academic disciplines.
Virtual Libary - Art History - The History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History.
Visual Arts Data Service - provides a great collection of visual arts digital resources. Search for images and browse resources, including full online access to Design Magazine.
Yahoo - the Arts - directory of Internet resources.

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MEDIA
BUBL - Media Studies - Catalogue of Internet Resources.
NewMediaStudies.com - Full of information relating to new media, with a particular focus on the Web. Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds.
Stanley Kubrick and his legacy - the Archives Hub has highlighted ten items to illustrate the breadth, depth and richness of the Archive that covers disciplines such as set design, costume, photography and script writing as well as paperwork associated with film production.
Theory.org.uk: Media, gender and identity theory from David Gauntlett, Profesor of Media and Audiences at the University of Bournemouth.
Yahoo - News and Media - Catalogue of Internet Resources.

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MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

Near to West Cheshire College:
Grosvenor Museum - Chester's Local museum.
Lady Lever Art Gallery - This holds one of the most beautiful collections of fine and decorative arts in the country, displaying British 18th and 19th century painting, 18th century furniture and outstanding collections of Wedgwood and Chinese porcelain.
The Lowry - The Lowry at Salford Quays combines theatres, and the galleries, showing not only LS Lowry but other artists of regional, national and international standing.
Manchester Art Gallery - Manchester Art Gallery houses one of the UK's finest art collections in spectacular surroundings. The Gallery has recently benefited from a £35m transformation.
Tate Liverpool - Tate Liverpool opened in 1988 and was created to share the Tate Collection with the North of England.
Walker Art Gallery - the national gallery of the North of England situated in Liverpool.
Whitworth Art Gallery - Internationally famous for its collections of art and design, this Manchester gallery is home to an impressive range of watercolours, prints, drawings, modern art and sculpture, as well as the largest collections of textiles and wallpapers outside London.

Museums and galleries around the UK:
The Design Museum - The website of this London museum offers an excellent opportunity to discover more about the designers, architects and technologies featured in the museum with a tremendous online A-Z archive of modern and contemporary design.
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - Includes details of current exhibitions at the Bradford venue.
National Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Tate - Tate is a family of galleries and operates on four sites in different parts of Britain...The Tate galleries house the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art.
The Victoria and Albert Museum

Worldwide:
Guggenheim Museum
Louvre: English
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Website includes exhibitions and online photographs of the permanent collection.
Whitney Museum of American Art - The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs.

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COMMUNITY ARTS
The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) - a UK national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities.
Earlyarts - a network of practitioners and policy makers involved in developing creative practice for birth to fives. Includes an e-bulletin with the latest news and events.
littoral - Littoral is a non-profit arts trust which promotes new creative partnerships, critical art practices and cultural strategies in response to issues about social, environmental and economic change.
Mailout - Mailout on-line reaches out to people who are working creatively in community settings, giving them a voice, raising the profile of their work, and keeping them in touch with current developments and changes.
TASC - aims to provide a space for innovative thinking where dialogue between citizens, policy makers and politicians is facilitated.
University of California Press - University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the arts.
variant - Variant is a magazine of cross-currents in culture; this includes subjects as diverse as video, television & film, avant-garde music, new art initiatives, performance, cultural & media studies, philosophy, critical thinking, popular culture and social movements.
Wikipedia Community art - Wikipedia is an encyclopedia collaboratively written by many of its readers. It uses a special type of website, called a wiki, that makes collaboration easy. Lots of people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes an hour, all of which are recorded on article histories and recent changes. Inappropriate changes are usually removed quickly, and repeat offenders can be blocked from editing.This is their community arts page.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographers:
Bill Brandt - Official website owned and operated by Bill Brandt Archive Limited.
Jacques Mandé Daguerre - About.com's biography, including an explanation of the first practical photographic process, the Daguerrotype.
William Henry Fox Talbot - Robert Leggat's biography of the photography pioneer.
BBC History's William Henry Fox Talbot - The BBC's descriptive account of the photographer.
Laszlo Maholy-Njey - 71 selected images from Eastman House.
Man Ray - Official website developed by the Man Ray trust. Still in development but provides external links to biography, image archive and news on the artist.
Simon White - Official website with galleries, events, links and contacts.

Other recommended sites:
Nature Picture Library - the online service of the Nature Picture Library from the BBC's Natural History Unit. The library represents the photography of many top wildlife photographers from around the world. The online collection comprises some 14,000 scans from a collection of more than 120,000 photos.
Redeye - Redeye is the North West England Photography Network. It aims to make life easier for photographers and photography in the region and beyond, by providing information, opportunities, events, training and professional development. It is a voluntary sector non profit company. Anyone can become a subscriber free of charge.

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IMAGE LIBRARIES
AICT - Art Images for College Teaching (Royalty free images for educational use).
Art Resource - High quality images of works of painting, sculpture, architecture from most of the world’s major museums, monuments, and commercial archives.
Barry's Clip Art Server
Bradley W. Schenck's - portfolio of work including free Celtic images to download.
Cartoon Factory Animation Art Gallery
Pat's Web Graphics

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Links checked 24/08/09