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This guide provides resources for the study of art and historic preservation. It includes links to international, national, state and local sites, legal information, organizations and preservation of varied materials. It also includes art research help.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's electronic resources center has indexed its catalog of art-related websites for online research. The links are arranged according to the Museum's departments, from American Decorative Arts to the Textile Center. There is also a link to the Museum's very useful Timeline of Art History.
Contributions focus on post-1945 material, with an emphasis on the contemporary, although topics from throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries may be considered. As an online publication, AJO prioritizes material that makes meaningful use of the web by employing multimedia formats and techniques.