Art + Design Research Guide

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

A searchable database of art images, a subset of the Art & Architecture Complete database

Artstor is an extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use. We bring together more than 2 million images from top museums, archives, scholars, and artists — all rights-cleared for education and research.

Over 5,000 images available.

The Digital Public Library is a trusted sources of shared knowledge which is accomplished by working with a network of partners, making millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country accessible to all.

Since launching in 2008 with the Library of Congress, the Flickr Commons has been sharing hidden treasures from the world’s photography archives

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

Search or browse a collection of over 6,500 images by artist, work, decade, etc.

Columbia College, Chicago

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more where you can explore 863,547 items digitized from the NYPL’s collections.

Discover videos and documentaries about art and artists from around the world, and go behind-the-scenes

Created by artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson over the last two decades (1990-2008) as she developed her groundbreaking documentary, !Women Art Revolution, this archive provides the first-person histories of the pioneering individuals who challenged the ways in which women were considered by the reigning art establishment. Available from this site are the videos, transcripts, and biographies on the interviewees as well as links to the Women Art Revolution collection finding aid, information on the documentary !Women Art Revolution, and other feminist studies.

Hammer Channel lets you watch, search, clip, and share videos from the Hammer Museum’s programs and exhibitions, from 2005 to the present

Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. We house one of the most compelling collections of contemporary art in the world, comprising roughly 7000 objects, and have a diverse history of ground-breaking, historically-significant exhibitions.

Explore several categories of content on how artists practice their medium of choice; watch time lapses of art installations; animating art, tours of collections, and discussions with renowned artists, scholars and special guests who represent the impact of art on our daily lives and the world.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character, and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.

Our mission is to increase the public’s enjoyment and understanding of British art from the 16th century to the present day and of international modern and contemporary art. Tate YouTube brings you videos about art and artists from around the world.

The Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of 20th-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of 20th-century American art in the world—is the Museum's key resource. The Museum's signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country's leading survey of the most recent developments in American art.

These can be in the form of excavation reports, collection catalogues, monographs and conference proceedings. The aim of the series is to make the Museum's research as widely accessible as possible, with a number of books available for free download in pdf format. Originally called Occasional Papers, the series has been published since 1978 with over 200 books in print. Around six titles are published each year, and all are externally peer reviewed.

Contains free digital backlist titles from the National Gallery of Art publication archives.