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A list of valuers approved to participate in the Cultural Gifts Program, which encourages gifts of significant cultural items to public institutions by offering donors a tax deduction. The Federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts administers the program with the advice of the Committee on Taxation Incentives for the Arts.

Art News Australia is a comprehensive collection of gallery links and other arts resources. These include: gallery review databases presented by state or territory, interactive gallery maps based on Aboriginal representations of the land, artist's sites and arts media contact databases.

The NSW Government offers financial assistance for arts and cultural activities in NSW through Arts NSW which is the NSW Government’s arts policy and funding body. Assistance includes: (1) the 2010 Arts Funding Program; (2) Fellowships and Scholarships; (4) Residencies; and (4) Awards.

Federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts links to a variety of arts organisations.

AustArt is an index of Australian art journals held in the College of Fine Arts Library, the University of New South Wales. Coverage is from 1987 to the present. This version of AustArt is temporary. The aim is to provide interim access to the AustArt data whilst a more user friendly version is under development.

This site is a public access gateway to Australian cultural organisations, resources, activities and events. It is also an exchange centre for resources, ideas and information where cultural workers and organisations can communicate with each other to improve and develop their use of online services.

The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online ( DAAO ) provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and links to images on the topic of Australian artists.

The foundation data focuses predominantly on colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. However, the database is constantly being added to and currently there are about 7,659 biographies.

Set up by NSW University Library with the support of the Australian Research Council, this database also has the support of a number of public art galleries, universities and national/state libraries around Australia.

Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms with 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, written by the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated by Museum's collection.