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  ARTFACTORIES : http://www.artfactories.net
Artfactories is an international resource platform for independent multidisciplinary art spaces , that are born from citizen and artistic projects ; with a focus on contemporary creation and new cultural, artistic and social practices. It encourages mutual sharing of all kind of resources and collaboration between these spaces. The mission the association "Art factories" has set itself is to help develop all actions and projects (resources, exchanges, cooperation) that are likely to contribute to deeper consideration of the role of centres dedicated to culture and art in contemporary society and to the development of good practice codes. This resource platform is managed and maintained by the "Art Factories" office.

   
 

Artifact : http://www.artifact.ac.uk/
Artifact is a free guide to the best of the Web for the Arts and Creative Industries.
Artifact forms part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) www.rdn.ac.uk which is the UK’s free national gateway to Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community via a series of subject-based information gateways (or hubs). The RDN is primarily aimed at Internet users in UK further and higher education but is freely available to all.

   
 

The-artists.org : http://the-artists.org/
Visitors are using the-artists.org website as a portal for their research on visual arts. Artlovers, artstudents, artists, arthistorians, large and small collectors, museumcurators, artgallery owners and exhibition organisers. Through its extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. The masters of the past hundred years are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth -and death-, with links to webresources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist's personal website. The archive of artists is organised alphabetically and by art movement, style or medium.

   
 

Artlog : http://www.artlog.nl/
artlog is an e-zine about contemporary art in China and topics related to this. It’s foundation stems from a research of the rise of alternative exhibition spaces in some big cities in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul (South - Korea). The magazine is set up as an experiment, which tries to put non-western art as well the significance of an e-zine as medium of publication, to the test.

   
 

Artnet : http://www.artnet.com
buys, sells and researches fine art online. This online Gallery Network lists over 1,000 galleries in 250 international cities, more than 90,000 works by over 18,000 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 key services include artnet Magazine, the insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and features by renowned writers in the art community and the Price Database. artnet’s Price Database is the most comprehensive color illustrated archive of fine art auction results worldwide. Representing auction results from over 500 international auction houses since 1985, the Price Database covers more than 2.6 million artworks by over 180,000 artists, ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art.

   
 

Asia Art Archive : http://www.aaa.org.hk
Initiated in 2000 as a direct response to the increasing number of Asian contemporary art exhibitions and events world-wide, the Asia Art Archive (AAA) is the first ever non-profit research centre in Hong Kong dedicated to documenting the recent history of visual art from the region within an international context. Its objectives are : Research, collate and catalogue published and unpublished material relating to contemporary Asian art, to form the most comprehensive resource available for visual art in the region. / To work with other cultural bodies to organize symposia, and exhibitions to act as a forum for exchange of ideas. / To establish a number of research posts in the region. / To offer research services from the Archive's base in Hong Kong. / To producing its own publications. / Data development of its library to promote access to art from Asia internationally

 
 

Century Online - China Art Networks : http://www.chinaartnetworks.com
www.CL2000.com features a large-scale professional art network in China, integrating media information, artistic display, artistic education, artistic forum, e-commerce and other on-line services. By means of an abundance of pictures, it presents the history and current status of the Chinese arts throughout the whole world in both English and Chinese. The international Internet channel has provided a worldwide information exchange platform for the Chinese arts.

 
 

China Gallery : http://www.china-gallery.com/en/about.htm
Objectives : To establish an efficacious website of the 21st century, which has a plentiful supply of art news and interesting information, an invaluable collection of works of art, art auctions, an exclusive agency for exhibiting as well as the sale of works by renown artists, a professional cyber university of art, well developed networks in the sale of works of art and books, experiences in art collections from famous connoisseurs and entrepreneurs, with a view to integrating well art with practicality. China Gallery hopes to serve, through the art world on the internet, art lovers all over the world to improve the standard of people and culture, making our life more prosperous through art.

   
 

Internet Guide for Chinese Studies - IGCS - : http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
This page is maintained at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands,with support from the Institute of Chinese Studies (Heidelberg University), the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation

   
 

Universes in Universe : http://www.universes-in-universe.de/english.htm
Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art is a non commercial information system on the visual arts of Africa, Latin America, Asia within the context of international art processes. It has been on the Net since February 1997 and is financed by the own efforts of the editors, subsidies, and sponsor advertisements.

   
 

World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com : http://www.absolutearts.com/
World Wide Arts Resources ' Portfolio Program serves dealers, art buyers and artists with a flexible, affordable and effective way to be represented online. In addition to a highly refined search engine, World Wide Arts Resources and absolutearts.com distribute 3 times each week an online international arts magazine to over 36,000 subscribers. In 1999, wwar.com expanded to include absolutearts.com which began as a daily arts news outlet and has adapted to include the internet's most comprehensive contemporary art online Portfolio programs.