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UK & EIRE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Arts Council England www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaion www.artscouncil.ie
Arts Council of Northern Ireland www.artscouncil-ni.org
Arts Council of Wales www.artswales.org/
Crafts Council www.craftscouncil.org.uk
DCMS - Department for Culture, Media and Sport www.culture.gov.uk
Donegal County Council Public Art www.donegalpublicart.ie
Maidstone Bourough Council - Arts Development www.maidstonearts.com
ODPM - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister www.odpm.gov.uk
Scottish Arts Council www.scottisharts.org.uk
Wales Craft Council www.walescraftcouncil.co.uk/
ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM (UK)
Architecture Link www.architecturelink.org.uk
Architects' Registration Board www.arb.org.uk
Architecture Week www.architectureweek.org.uk
Building Centre Trust www.buildingcentretrust.org
CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) www.cabe.org.uk
Design Commission for Wales/Comisiwn Dylunio Cymru www.dcfw.org
Docomomo UK www.docomomo.com
Landscape Design Trust. www.landscape.co.uk/
The Landscape Institute www.l-i.org.uk
RIAS - Royal Incorporation of Architects Scotland www.rias.org.uk
RIBA - Royal Institute of British Architects www.architecture.com
Twentieth Century Society www.c20society.org.uk/
Urban Design Alliance www.udal.org.uk
Urban Design Group www.udg.org.uk
Urbis - The Centre for Urban Culture www.urbis.org.uk
ARCHITECTURE CENTRE NETWORK
Architecture Centre Network www.architecturecentre.net
Architecture Centre, Bristol www.architecturecentre.co.uk
Architecture Foundation, London www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
Concourse Centre for Design (Leeds) www.riba.org/go/RIBA/About/RIBAYorkshire_268.html
CUBE- Centre for Understanding of the Built Environment (Manchester) www.cube.org.uk
Doncaster Design Centre - www.bluebuilding.co.uk
London Open House www.londonopenhouse.org
MADE (West Midlands) www.made.uk.net
New London Architecture www.newlondonarchitecture.org
Northern Architecture www.northernarchitecture.com
OPUN - Regeneration East Midlands www.opun.org.uk
P.L.A.C.E. Belfast www.place.uk.net
Public Arts www.public-arts.co.uk
RIBA Trust www.riba.org
SHAPE Cambridge www.shape-cambridge.org.uk
Solent Centre for Architecture + Design www.solentcentre.org.uk
The Architecture Centre, Kent www.architecturecentre.org
The Building Exploratory www.buildingexploratory.org.uk
The Lighthouse, Glasgow www.thelighthouse.co.uk
Urban Vision North Staffordshire - www.uvns.org
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PUBLIC ART CONSULTANTS (UK)
Air Architecture (Swansea) www.airarchitecture.co.uk
Art Office (London) www.artoffice.co.uk
ARt OUTSiDE www.art-outside.com/
Art in Partnership (Edinburgh) www.art-in-partnership.org.uk/
Artpoint (Oxford) www.artpointtrust.org.uk/
Beam - Art in the Public Realm (Yorkshire) www.beam.uk.net
Commissions East (Cambridge) www.commissionseast.org.uk
Commissions North (Newcastle) www.commissionsnorth.org
Christian Barnes (Cumbria) www.vistaprojects.co.uk
The Culture Company (Huddersfield) www.theculturecompany.co.uk/
Dickson Russell Art Management. www.dicksonrussell.co.uk
Eaton Waygood Associates. www.eatonwaygoodassociates.co.uk
Free Form Arts Trust (London) www.freeform.org.uk
Futurecityarts www.futurecityarts.com
Gingko Projects www.ginkgoprojects.co.uk
Helix Arts (Newcastle) www.helixarts.com
Hoswick & Sotiriadi Ltd (London) - www.hsprojects.com
International Art Consultants Ltd - Art for Offices www.afo.co.uk
Image Shed - www.imageshed.co.uk
Modus Operandi (London) www.modusoperandi-art.com
P.A.C.E. (Edinburgh) Public Art Commissions and Exhibitions www.paceprojects.org
Paul Swales - www.paulswales.co.uk
Pavilion (Leeds) www.pavilion.org.uk
Plan Art Consultants. www.plan-art.co.uk
Public Art Wales - CBAT: The Arts and Regeneration Agency (Cardiff) www.cbat.co.uk
Public Art Wales - Cywaith Cymru. Artworks Wales (Cardiff) www.cywaithcymru.org
RKL (Roberts Knight Leeds Metropolitan University Consultants) www.rkl-consultants.org.uk
Sans facon - www.sansfacon.co.uk
Swindon Artscape www.swindonartscape.co.uk
Workplace (London) www.workplaceart.co.uk

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONING PROJECTS

Artangel (London) www.artangel.org.uk
Art at the Centre www.artatthecentre.org
The Art of Change www.arte-ofchange.com/
@Bristol Harbourside www.at-bristol.org.uk
A13 Artscape Barking www.a13artscape.org.uk
Canary Wharf Group plc www.canarywharf.com
Creative Foundation (Folkestone) www.creativefoundation.org.uk
In Certain Places is a new art initiative in Preston, Lancashire - www.incertainplaces.org
Lee Valley Regional Park Authority www.leevalleypark.com
LITTORAL/Projects Environment www.littoral.org.uk
Memorials by Artists Ltd www.memorialsbyartists.co.uk
Platform for Art, London Underground Ltd www.tube.tfl.gov.uk
Stour Valley Art Project. www.stourvalleyarts.org.uk
Sustrans - Artworks on National Cycle Network www.sustrans.org.uk
Tees Valley Arts - Cultural Education Agency www.teesvalleyarts.org.uk
Welfare State International www.welfare-state.org
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PUBLIC ART INFORMATION & RESOURCES
Art & Architecture Society www.artandarchitecture.co.uk
Arts & Business www.AandB.org.uk
Art-Public www.art-public.com
Axis - national database of UK artists www.axisweb.org
Community Arts - www.communityarts.net
Contemporary Art Society www.contempart.org.uk
The Henry Moore Foundation www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk
Landscape & Art Network www.landartnet.org
Lincolnshire Public Art Network www.lpan.org.uk
PMSA (Public Monuments & Sculpture Association) www.pmsa.org.uk
The Prince's Foundation www.princes-foundation.org
PROJECT - engaging artists in the built environment www.project-awards.org.uk
Public Art South West www.publicartonline.org.uk
Public Art Research Archive Sheffield Hallam University www.public-art.shu.ac.uk/
Republicart - a transnational research project exploring and developing progressive public art practices www.republicart.net/
Royal Academy (Architectural Programmes) www.royalacademy.org.uk/architecture/
RSA (Royal Society of Arts) www.rsa-afa.org.uk
Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS) www.rbs.org.uk
ART IN HEALTH
Artlink (Scotland) www.fusion-artlink.co.uk
Arts for Health (Manchester) National centre providing help, information and advice about using the arts as a complementary part of health care. www.mmu.ac.uk/artsforhealth/
Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) Durham University. www.dur.ac.uk/cahhm/
Common Knowledge Network, Tyne & Wear Health Action Zone. Arts in health initiative. www.commonknowledgenet.co.uk/
Eidos Arts, Public art projects for hospitals. www.eidosarts.co.uk
Kings Fund - Enhancing the Healing Environment www.kingsfund.org.uk
Lime (formerly Hospital Arts) (Manchester). Promotes interaction between arts and health. www.limeart.org
National Network for the Arts in Health www.nnah.org.uk
Vital Arts www.vitalarts.org.uk
Willis Newson - Arts in Health consultants www.willisnewson.co.uk
SCULPTURE PARKS
Links to Art in Sculpture Parks www.art-parks.co.uk/
International Directory of Sculpture Parks www.artnut.com/intl.html
Cass Sculpture Foundation (Sculpture at Goodwood) www.sculpture.org.uk
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust. www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk
Grizedale Country Park www.grizedale.org/
Gunpowder Park - www.gunpowderpark.org
Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture www.go2.co.uk/steelsculpture
Kielder Forest www.kielder.org/
New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court (Salisbury) www.sculpture.uk.com
Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden - www.hannahpescharsculpture.com
Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust www.learningstone.net/
The Pride of The Valley Sculpture Park www.thesculpturepark.com
Yorkshire Sculpture Park www.ysp.co.uk
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PUBLIC ART/ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS (EUROPE)
AUSTRIA - Public Art Lower Austria. www.publicart.at
DENMARK - The Danish Arts Agency, www.kunststyrelsen.dk
FINLAND - Helsinki. Over three hundred public art works: sculptures, environmental works and historical monuments. Part of the Helsinki City Art Museum site. www.taidemuseo.hel.fi/
FRANCE - FRAC Centre and Archilab www.frac-centre.asso.fr
FRANCE - La Galerie d'architecture www.galerie-architecture.fr
FRANCE - Nouveaux commanditaires at the Fondation de France - www.nouveauxcommanditaires.org
GERMANY - Urban Drift, Berlin www.urbandrift.org
NETHERLANDS. SKOR (Foundation for Art in the public sphere) www.skor.nl
NETHERLANDS Stroom. An independent foundation established in 1990 by the City of The Hague to carry out the city's non-museum policy relating to the visual arts. The Public Art Bureau develops policies within the urban area of The Hague. www.stroom.nl/
NORWAY - National Foundation for Art in Public Buildings www.utsmykkingsfondet.no
POLAND. Public Art portal www.publicart.netfirms.com/
SCULPTURE NETWORK - European Sculpture Network www.sculpture-network.org
SPAIN - Bilbao. www.consonni.org
SPAIN - Public Art Observatory /On the Waterfront. The on-line magazine on waterfronts, public space, public art and urban regeneration www.ub.es/escult/1.htm
SWEDEN: The National Public Art Council Sweden. www.statenskonstrad.se/
PUBLIC ART/ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS (USA / CANADA)
Americans for the Arts' Public Art Network (PAN). More than 300 public art programs exist in the United States at both state and local level. PAN develops professional services for individuals and organizations engaged in public art by stimulating dialogue, discussing critical issues, and providing information through the website and the PAN listserv. www.artsusa.org/
Art in Public Places Programmes www.artslynx.org/
Art on File. Public art images www.artonfile.com/
Center for Architecture www.aiany.org
International Sculpture Center www.sculpture.org/
Project for Public Spaces www.pps.org/
Public Art Fund www.publicartfund.org/
Canadian Architecture Centre www.cca.qc.ca
ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINES
A10 - a magazine about new European architecture www.a10magazine.com
AA Files - The Journal of the Architectural Association Schools of Architecture www.aaschool.ac.uk/
Archistorm. Archistorm, l'architecture, l'art... de A ˆ Z (France) www.archistorm.com/
Architecture Review www.arplus.co.uk
Architects Journal www.ajplus.co.uk
Building Design www.bdonline.co.uk/
Grey Room - A scholarly journal devoted to the theorization of modern and contemporary architecture, art, media, and politics. Published quarterly by The MIT Press. www.mitpress.org
Metropolis Magazine www.metropolismag.com
Prospect - architecture and design in Scotland and North West England www.prospectmagazine.com
ptah - Bi-annual periodical on the theory of architecture, design and art published by the Alvar Aalto Academy, Finland www.alvaraalto.fi/ptah/index.htm
Touchstone - the official journal of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales www.riba.org/go/RIBA/About/RSAW
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ART MAGAZINES
AN Magazine www.a-n.co.uk
Art Monthly www.artmonthly.co.uk
The Art Newspaper www.theartnewspaper.com/
Art Review www.art-review.co.uk
Bidoun. Arts and culture from the middle East. www.bidoun.com
Cabinet - a quarterly magazine of art and culture based in Brooklyn, New York www.cabinetmagazine.org
CIRCA Art Magazine - Ireland's leading magazine for contemporary visual arts and culture www.recirca.com/
Contemporary www.contemporary-magazine.com
Crafts - The Decorative and Applied Arts Magazine www.craftscouncil.org.uk/Magazine/index.htm
Frieze www.frieze.com
Modern Painters www.modernpainters.co.uk/
Parkett. www.parkettart.com
State of Art www.state-of-art.org
Tate etc www.tate.org.uk/tateetc
Arts Professional www.artsprofessional.co.uk
PUBLIC ART MAGAZINES
Fourth Door Review is a cross-disciplinary publication exploring the relationships between ecology and technology, art and architecture, and new media and new music. Published annually. www.fourthdoor.co.uk
Open - is a cahier about art and the public domain that is published twice per year by SKOR, the Amsterdam-based organization who organize public art projects throughout the Netherlands www.naipublishers.nl
Public Art Review (USA) www.publicartreview.org/
Sculpture: Magazine of the International Sculpture Center (USA) www.sculpture.org/documents/scpon.htm
The Sculpture Journal - provides an international forum for writers and scholars in the field of post-classical sculpture and public commemorative monuments in the Western tradition www.pmsa.org.uk
PUBLIC ART SPECIALIZED BOOKSHOPS 
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RIBA Bookshops - books on architecture, design and construction www.ribabookshops.com

ART/ARCHITECTURE WEB INFORMATION
Artifact - web-links in the arts and creative industries: architecture - art - communications and media - design - fashion and beauty - performing arts - www.artifact.ac.uk
Netherlands Public Art Database: www.kunstenpubliekeruimte.nl
Sapling - is the Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway - over 700 reviewed links to architecture, planning and landscape-related websites - www.sapling.org.uk
Urban Words - Rob Cowan's (Urban Design Group) essential Dictionary of Urbanism - www.urbanwords.info
World Architecture News - The Global resource for Architecture - www.worldarchitecturenews.com