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Art images 

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Selected arts listings

  • New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art - online version of the monthly NECA guide - a listing of contemporary art galleries in London, the Regions, Channel Islands, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -with the exhibitions and artists currently on show. An easy way to find the web site and e-mail for London galleries

  • artupdate.com - lists openings of forthcoming exhibitions, international

  • artnet.com - commercial, contemporary artists - site listing commercially successful contemporary artists and galleries. Founded in 1989 by a group of art dealers, and designed to be used to 'research, browse, bid and buy art'

  • Culture 24 - formerly 24 Hour Museum, a UK government gateway site to museums and galleries

Art galleries and museums online databases​

  • Art UK - digital images of paintings from publicly owned collections in the UK
  • British Library images
  • Google Art Project - features images of collections from international galleries and museums
  • Guggenheim Museums - searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art - search the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections
  • Tate Images - online service which enables you to purchase quality images from the Tate Gallery collection
  • Victoria and Albert Museum - search digital images of the V&A's collections of design and applied arts
  • Wellcome Collection - artworks and photographs from the library at Wellcome collection. 

Video and film art

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Subjects: Art, Design, Visual Cultures

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