Artnet http://www.artnet.com/
Artnet.com is a place to buy, sell and research fine art online. Their "Online
Gallery Network" is the largest of its kind, with over 36,000 works and
13,000 artists from around the globe. The Network serves dealers and art buyers
alike by providing a survey of the market and its pricing trends, as well as
the means to communicate instantly, inexpensively and globally. Other services
include Artnet Magazine, a daily guide to the art market; the Fine Art
Auctions Database, the industry standard for illustrated auction price records;
and the largest fine art Bookstore on the web, with over 21,000 titles.
Artslynx http://www.artslynx.org
Artslynx is a massive, largely non-annotated International links database for
dance, theater, music, visual arts, film, writing and poetry, arts advocacy,
arts therapy/empowerment, arts education, arts administration, and arts employment.
Franklin Furnace http://www.franklinfurnace.org
Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 to serve artists who chose publishing
as an artistic medium. Franklin Furnace is a multifaceted organization with
a collection
of artists' books, a performance art program for emerging artists, exhibitions
of online and site-specific works, and exhibitions of historical and contemporary
artists' books. Franklin Furnace has served as a repository for archival materials
of presses that have gone out of business, catalogues of artists it has presented,
an independent film archive, a catalogue of indepenent publications, and the
MoMA/Franklin Furnace artist book collection—the largest collection of
artist books in the country.
NYFA Source http://www.nyfa.org
Free of charge and open to artists across America, the New York Foundation
on the Arts has created NYFA Source, the most extensive national database of
awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists,
arts organizations, and the general public can access information on over 2,600
arts organizations, 2,700 award programs, 2,100 service programs, and 700 publications
for individual artists nationwide, with more programs added every day. NYFA's
former Visual Artist Information Hotline, a popular information service used
by more than 38,000 visual artists last year, was expanded to create NYFA Source.
NYFA Source will also enable arts funders, researchers and policymakers to
acquire information about patterns and trends in artists' support.
