All guides: Art, Arts Management, and Photography: Websites

Art resources

Australian Museums and Galleries Association
The national professional organisation and peak council for museums and public art galleries in Australia.
Australia Council for the Arts
Commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia.
Contemporary Art Organisations Australia (CAOA)
A national network of sixteen public, independent, non-collecting contemporary art organisations from all Australian states and territories that advocates for the small-to-medium contemporary visual arts sector in Australia.
RMIT Gallery
RMIT's public art gallery presenting an engaging and thought-provoking program of contemporary exhibitions featuring emerging and established artists and curators.
Craft Victoria
Dedicated to supporting the production and presentation of craft and design. Championing makers from around Victoria, Australia and beyond, via exhibitions that combine mastery of materials with innovative techniques and big ideas and our rich program of festivals, talks, and community events.
Creative Victoria
The state government body dedicated to championing, growing and supporting Victoria's creative industries. Investing in the ideas, talent, organisations, events and projects that make Victoria a creative state.
Aboriginal Art Directory
Listing of Australian self-representing artists, Aboriginal art centres, galleries, online stores and wholesalers worldwide.
The Print Council of Australia
The peak body representing and connecting our national communities in printmaking and works on paper.
Regional Arts Australia
A not for profit peak body that is the national voice for arts in regional Australia.
Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT)
Its home base in Adelaide, South Australia, the Australian Network for Art & Technology has been at the forefront of the global uptake of artists working with the science and technology sectors.
MeMO Review
Publishing reviews of a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces, offering critical perspectives from a new generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists.
un Projects
Publishes writing that emerges from art making, providing an independent platform for critical discussions about local artistic practice.
UbuWeb
An educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.
Monoskop
An independent educational resource and research platform for arts, culture and humanities. Features wiki pages with genealogical bibliographies of contemporary topics and movements in art, culture, and society.
Rhizome
Champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. Includes some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history of contemporary art engaged with digital technologies and the internet.
Spike Art Magazine
A contemporary art magazine, online platform, and event space. Essays by leading critics and curators are complemented by other formats offering room for polemics, meditations, and short answers to urgent questions.
Kaleidoscope Magazine
A meeting place for a global community of creative minds, drawn by ever-surprising contributions from visionary artists, writers and image-makers.
Hyperallergic
Investigates the inner workings of art institutions and markets, shedding light on the movements and individuals fighting for greater inclusion and representation.
e-flux
Spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world.
ZKM Center for Art and Media
A home for all media and genres, both spatial arts such as painting, photography and sculpture and time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater and performance.
Ocula
Presents comprehensive access to contemporary art exhibited by galleries around the world and offers a perspective from Ocula Magazine on the artists and ideas shaping art.

Contemporary asian art

ART iT
A Tokyo based online magazine featuring interviews, news and reviews relating to contemporary art.
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
The Queensland Art Gallery flagship contemporary art series. Since 1993, the APT series has presented important contemporary art from the region and offering cross-cultural insight.
Biennial Foundation
A mission to provide advocacy and thought leadership for the international arts community and to engage and inspire diverse non-professional audiences by actively fostering the study, recognition and appreciation of perennial exhibitions of contemporary art, design and architecture.

Photography resources

Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Through exhibitions, education and publishing, CCP places contemporary Australian photography and video in conversation with significant historical and international practice.
International Center of Photography (ICP)
An institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Cornell Capa founded ICP in 1974 to champion socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world.
Photo Australia
Provides access to diverse, progressive, meaningful discourse through the commissioning, presentation and promotion of new photography, art and ideas in Australia.
1000 Words Magazine
A leading online contemporary photography magazine. It commissions exhibition and photobook reviews, essays and interviews in response to the visual culture of our present moment.
Aperture
A not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other in print, in person, and online.
1854 Photography
Home to some of the photography industry’s most prestigious awards. Connecting the best photographic talent with major international brands.
Feature Shoot
Showcases the work of international emerging and established photographers who are transforming the medium through compelling, cutting-edge projects.
LensCulture
A comprehensive and far-reaching resource for discovering contemporary photography talent around the world.
Magnum Photos
Magnum represents some of the world’s most renowned photographers, maintaining its founding ideals and idiosyncratic mix of journalist, artist and storyteller.
American Suburb X
An ever-growing archive and curated look at photography's always relevant past, rapidly shifting present and dramatically unfolding future.
Humble Arts Foundation
Committed to promoting and supporting new photography, and dedicated to the artistic and professional development of those who practice it.
Blak Lens
A community made collective of established, emerging, and aspiring Blak Photographers & Videographers across Australia.

Photography festivals

Art gallery directories

Evaluating information sources

The CRAAP test

Evaluate your sources using the CRAAP test to find reliable, quality information.

• Currency: when was it created?
• Relevance: is it on my topic?
• Authority: is it by an expert?
• Accuracy: is it correct?
• Purpose: why was it created?

The SIFT method

Evaluate web and social media sources in 4 moves using the SIFT method.

• Stop - think before using a source.
• Investigate where it is from.
• Find alternative sources.
• Trace claims, quotes and media.

Fact checking

Fact checking is an important skill. Find out how to assess and verify your sources with RMIT's Fact checking guide.

• Assess websites and social media.
• Lean how to spot fake news.
• Develop your media literacy skills.

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