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Art-stArt was designed to give its visitors access to a first-class web search engine, important news, and more useful features, while experiencing art by world-famous artists — all at no cost at an AD-FREE web site.

Art-stArt features the following:

Google Web Search Engine — Google is probably the best search engine in the world. From Art-stArt's index page, you can enter key words in Google's search field, just as you are used to. But not only that — we also provide you with links to Google's Advanced Search page as well as Google's translation engine. If you run across a phrase or a web page in a language you don't know, copy the web address and paste it in this nifty translator.

New York Times Headlines — New York Times is probably the world's most well respected newspaper. We provide you with the top-ten news from the web site of New York Times. The news items are updated 24 hours a day, and they are of US and international character. Click on a news item to read the story on New York Times'  web site (you might have to register, but it's free).

US and International Maps — MapQuest is the leading provider of interactive maps, and also serves its users with driving directions. But MapQuest is not only great online, in fact, their maps are used by National Geographic in their US road atlases. The link directs you to a web page on the MapQuest.com web site, where you can search for cities and streets in most countries in the world.

Paintings and sculptures — Of course, the main attraction of Art-stArt are the paintings and sculptures. We try to "collect" pictures that are interesting in one way or the other — for example, we might publish a picture of a painting that is not well-known, but by a famous artist. Or, we might only publish part of a picture, if we feel that detail is especially noteworthy. Or, we might publish a painting or sculpture simply because of its extreme beauty.

In addition, artist biographies are available. They provide you with useful information about the artists, and there are also links to other web sites with more detailed information about them.

Due to copyright reasons, only artists who have been dead more than 70 years are represented. Luckily, many marvellous oeuvres have been produced between prehistoric times and the 1800's. In addition, we feel that most museums focus on modern art (which in itself is not a bad thing), so we hope to serve as a counterweight to those institutions.

Why Art-stArt?

Art-stArt is a non-profit service that we provide to you totally free of charge. Why? Because we who stand behind Art-Start want more people to enjoy the treasures of true art. We also happen to run a communication company called Xenada. If you enjoy Art-stArt, please tell your boss that we exist when it's time to re-evaluate your current web site.... :-) Read more about us here.

The future development of Art-stArt is heavily depending on the response we get from our visitors. By making Art-stArt your personal start page and returning to it often, you contribute to this development, and in the end, more features will be available. And don't forget to spread the word!

On this page, you can see which awards Art-stArt has won, before the many awards programs of the Internet became worthless.

Finally, you can read our legal texts here.

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