Fine Arts

A comprehensive wiki of Fine Arts from classical masters to contemporary artists. Includes advanced search options such as limiting search to museum, artist, or even period.

This site features gallery news and art auctions for those interested in the sale and purchase of fine art and antiques. Includes catalogs of rare art and graphs of trending art sales.

From the prestigious UK newspaper, The Guardian, this link features news and reviews from their Art section. Highlights gallery openings and controversial new contemporary artists.

"The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The NEA extends its work through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector".

The Arts section of the New York Times. Features news and reviews of the latest artists, art shows, and gallery openings, as well as news and information about recording and performance arts.

"Today the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. We welcome more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs".

The official Museum of Great Britain, the British Museum houses art and antiquities from prehistory to the present.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters museum is a re-creation of a Medieval monastery built in New York's Central Park and featuring Art and artifacts from the Middle Ages.

New York City's Guggenheim Museum, built by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, focuses mainly on modern and contemporary art movements.

The English site to the legendary Louvre museum in Paris. This Paris landmark has been a museum since 1793, and contains many world treasures and priceless artifacts, including DaVinci's Mona Lisa.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a New York City landmark and contains some of the finest art in the nation from prehistory to the present.

A world-renown collection of art and artifacts from the 12th century to the present, representing much of the Spanish Royal Collection. The Museo del Prado is one of the most visited sites in Madrid, Spain.

New York's MoMA features all styles and movements of the modern period, from the 1800s to the present.

"The National Gallery of Art, one of the world's preeminent museums, was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937, the year of his death. The Gallery's collection of some 116,000 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present".

The Newark Museum of Art, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, is the state's largest museum. It holds fine collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.

Founding Director John Cotton Dana believed that museums were established to promote the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts and sciences. Together with a group of public officials, prominent businessmen and local collectors, he established the Museum in 1909 at the Newark Public Library. He provided the intellectual leadership that made it one of the most progressive cultural institutions in the country.

The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany is a collection of paintings and other art works housed in a palatial 1844 building by Gottfried Semper. The Dresden Gallery was one of the first art buildings to be completely restructured in the Second Life virtual world.

The Smithsonian Institution is the largest collection of art and historical artifacts in the United States. Situation on the Washington DC Mall, this collection of museums and libraries was bequeathed to the nation by James Smithson in 1826.

The State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the oldest museums in the world, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great. The museum occupies 6 buildings along the Neva, including the famous Winter Palace.

The Tate Museum is the United Kingdom's institution of modern and contemporary art. It is housed in four separate buildings in London, Liverpool, and St. Ives in Cornwall.