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ART
General Reference
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Theatre
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Blues
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GENERAL ARTS AND MUSIC RESOURCES
ADAM:
The gateway to Art, Design, Architecture, and Media
Information on the internet - searchable database of
internet sites. "Picasso" resulted in 16 sites,
for example
http://www.adam.ac.uk/
ArtsJournal
- online arts and culture news updated each weekday
http://www.artsjournal.com/
ArtSource
- art and architecture resources, including museums,
galleries, artists' projects, journals, and organizations
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/artsourcehome.html
ORB:
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - a
comprehensive academic site with its own web pages on
medieval culture, history, art and literature and
extensive specialized and general links
http://orb.rhodes.edu/
National
Endowment for the Arts
http://arts.endow.gov/
ADAM:
The gateway to Art, Design, Architecture, and Media
Information on the internet - searchable database of
internet sites. "Picasso" resulted in 16 sites,
for example
http://www.adam.ac.uk/
ArtSource
- art and architecture resources, including museums,
galleries, artists' projects, journals, and organizations
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/artsourcehome.html
Period
and Style for Designers - a college course out of Tulane
that addresses changing styles in art, architecture,
furniture, and decoration from ancient Egypt and Rome
through recent times. An excellent resource,
well-categorized and easy to use
http://www.tulane.edu/lester/text/lester.html
World
Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/index.html
World
Wide Web Virtual Library Museum - a collection of links
to and brief information on art exhibits, collections and
Web museums.
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
Art
Deadlines List - competitions
http://custwww.xensei.com/adl
Art
Studio Chalkboard - information and instructions on
various techniques in drawing and painting (like
perspective, shading), plus links
http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkboard.html
Art
Teacher on the Net - cluttered site with projects,
research, art history games, and arts advice
http://www.artmuseums.com
Drawing
in One Point Perspective - online instructions
http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/
Incredible
Art Department - art lesson plans and ideas categorized
by age group and other features at this site
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad
A
Lifetime of Color - interactive activites about color,
line and shape, and portraits, art activites, an
entertaining, easy to use site
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/index.html
Potterymaking
Illustrated - online journal
http://www.potterymaking.org/
Aesthetics
On-line - art theory, a fairly academic site on
philosophy of art with journal articles
http://www.aesthetics-online.org/
American
Photography: A Century of Images
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
Art
Game - interactive game to test your ability to recognise different styles of art.
Match art in the side bars with art in the central frame
the same artist.
http://www.thru.com/art/game/
Art
History Resources on the Web - fantastic collection of
relevant web sites, this link page is one of the best
places to start your research
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Arts
Edge from the Kennedy Center- site for teachers, artists,
and students sharing resources and ideas
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
African-American
Art - incredibly thorough site with easy access to
various movements and eras
http://satie.arts.usf.edu/~ooguibe/class.htm
African
Art- Aesthetics and Meaning
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html
Art
Bin - online magazine on art, culture & politics.
Mostly in English
http://www.nisus.se/artbin
Art
History Resources on the Web - thousands of links divided
by categories
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
ArtFBI
(For a Better Image) - online magazine
http://www.tmn.com/community/jgates/artfbi.html
ArtLex
- Visual Arts Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/
ArtsEdNet
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/
ArtServe
- art and architecture mainly from the Mediterrean basin
- Over 10,000 images
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Beazley
Archive - at the University of Oxford with information on
pottery and specifically Greek pottery. The
dictionary, hidden at the bottom of the left frame,
contains illustrated descriptions of characters from
Greek myth, as well as art and architectural terms, a
very useful collection.
http://lannes.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/script/ba.html
Christus
Rex - easy to navigate collection of digitized art from
churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world,
particularly the 4 Vatican collections with 1400 images
of the Vatican architecture and art, with historical
background. Initial pages in each section are hughly
religious. Art begins with thumbnail images on first page
http://www.christusrex.org/
Color
Matters - unusual and interesting site with discussions
about the role of color in art, examples, even polls
http://www.lava.net/~colorcom/
Eyes
on Art
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art/art.html
Elements
of African Aesthetic - Bayly Art Museum
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/Elements.html
fineArt
Forum Online - monthly magazine, online art, and links to
resources
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/home.htm
Gateway
to Art History - links page to range of images from ancient times to modern, as
well research links
http://www.harbrace.com/art/gardner/
History
of Comics - as art
http://www.comic-art.com/history.htm
How
To Read a Painting - a teacher's page, but the
"Process" instructions are a useful guideline
for students who are analyzing or evaluating art
http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/~projects/critic/
Masters
of Photography - clean, easy to use site with the works
of primarily American
photographers from the late nineteenth century to the
present. Categorized by artist with images, articles, and
links.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/index.html
Mother of All Art History
Links Pages - great art history
online research starting point. The linked pages are
described and include research resources, image
collections, museum sites, and online periodicals and
books
http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
The
Thinker -claims to be the largest online searchable art
database - 60,000 works of art
http://www.thinker.org/index.html
World
Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/index.html
World
Wide Web Virtual Library Museum - a collection of links
to and brief information on art exhibits, collections and
Web museums.
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
Xplore
Art - links page to a wide variety of arts resources
http://www.xplore.com/xplore500/medium/arts.html
Ansel
Adams - Fiat Lux - information and works of this famous
photographer
http://www.book.uci.edu/AdamsHome.html
Cézanne
http://www.ocaiw.com/1cezanne.htm
Degas
http://www.ocaiw.com/1degas.htm
Michelangelo-
text in Italian, but many images of his sculptures
http://www.thais.it/scultura/michelan.htm
Fundació
Joan Miró
http://www.bcn.fjmiro.es/
Claude
Monet - small site with images of a few paintings, short
biography, and a few links.
http://hops.cs.jhu.edu/~baker/monet.html
Picasso
and Portraiture
http://www.club-internet.fr/picasso/homepage.html
James
McNeill Whistler - article on Whister, with a small
examples of his work.
http://www.glyphs.com/art/whistler/
Excalendar.Net
- calendars for many museums here; various ways to
search, for example, you can enter a city you will be
visiting and find out what art exhibitions are calendared
in the near future
http://www.excalendar.net/
Andy
Warhol Museum
http://www.warhol.org/warhol/
The
Appalachian Cultural Museum - located in Boone, North
Carolina, part of Appalachian State University
http://www.museum.appstate.edu/
Art
Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/
ArtMagik
- virtual museum for art and poetry of art movements in
the 19th and 20th centuries
http://www.artmagick.com/
Berkley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - easy to navigate
web version of the museum with changing exhibits and the
art and history of the exhibit period with self-guided
tour and audio.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
J.
Paul Getty Museum
http://www.getty.edu/museum/
Guggenheim
Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Heard
Museum - concentrating in native art, particular native
art of the American Southwest
http://www.heard.org/
Krannert
Art Museum (University of Illinois)- images and
hypermedia exhibits from 10 galleries and 24 centuries
http://www.art.uiuc.edu/kam/
The
Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/opening/enter.html
Museum
of Bad Art
http://glyphs.com/moba
Museum
of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/
National
Museum of American Art - images, a search engine,
and a tour of The White House Collection of American
Crafts. Beautiful site
http://www.nmaa.si.edu
National
Museum of Women in the Arts - all time periods, all
nationalities
http://www.nmwa.org
North
Carolina Museum of Art
http://ncartmuseum.org/
Norton
Simon Museum
http://www.nortonsimon.org/
Uffizi
Gallery
http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/
Videomuseum
- France’s attempt to put all art in its museum
online - text (in French) and images
http://www.videomuseum.fr/
WebMuseum
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/
Whitney
Museum - images and information from their exhibits and
permanent collection
http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/
Architecture
and Building - internet resource guide, a well-organized
links collection
http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html
Classical
Architecture from the Mediterrean Basin
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/architecture_form.html
Internet
Folk Dance Resource Guide
http://www.io.com/~hbp/folkdance/fd.html
Eric’s
Treasure Trove of Music - online encyclopedia of musical
terms
http://www.treasure-troves.com/music/music.html
Ever
Expanding Web Music Listing - links to music sites of all
genres
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/music/web-music.html
MIT
List of Radio Stations on the Web
http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html
Rough
Guides to Music - Book excerpts with biographies on top
jazz, classical, world music, opera, reggae, and rock
music figures with excerpts and biographies.
http://www.roughguides.com/music/index.html
Sibelius
Academy Music resource - information on all genres of
music
http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
Alexandre
Henrique Hohmann Home Page - information on several
classical composers in this interesting personal home
page
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9570/
Classic
World Review - one-stop source for information on
classical music from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century,
with audio and video clips, biographies of composers.
http://classicalmus.com/
Classical
MIDI Archives
http://www.prs.net/midi.html
Classical
Net
http://www.classical.net/
J.S.
Bach Archive and Bibligraphy - excellent Bach site with
an illustrated biography with clickable maps of where he
worked and lived and photographs and paintings of places
discussed
http://www.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/diversen/bach/intro.html
Bela
Bartok - biography and timeline of his life
http://www.ultranet.com/~cwholl/bartok/bartok.html
Mozart
- biography, compositions, sound clips
http://208.4.223.8/lecagot/mozart.asp
1812
Overture - site devoted to Tchaikovsky and his 1812
Overure - no audio though
http://pluto.wit.no/OFO/CD/Tchaikovsky_1812.html
Gilbert
and Sullivan Archives - information and audio
http://math.idbsu.edu/gas/GaS.html
Andrew
Lloyd Webber
http://www.reallyuseful.com
The
Blues Channel-Blues Artists - well organized blues site
with interviews many accomplished blues artists and
writers like Billy Boy Arnold, Phillip Walker, Duke
Robillard and Muddy Waters.
http://www.realblues.com:/
Interjazz
- internet jazz plaza, information on artists
http://interjazz.com
Milestones
- Miles Davis site with audio clips, Charlie Parker on
Miles Davis
http://miles.rtvf.nwu.edu/miles/milestones.html
William
Ranson Hogan Archive - New Orleans jazz
http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html
AJ
Recordings - Al Jolson on the Web - life of
actor/musician.entertainer Al Jolson, star of the first
movie with talking sound, The Jazz Singer.
http://www.jolson.org/
Thelonius
Sphere Monk - information about and a complete
discography of late pianist Thelonious Monk, with links
http://www.achilles.net/~howardm/tsmonk.html
Addicted
to Noise - music reviews
http://www.addict.com/
Ele-Bugi
- Hip-hop in Japan
http://www2.eccosys.co.jp/~elebugi/
Internet
Music Resource Guide - links to music sites with
descriptions of each
http://www.teleport.com/~celinec/music.shtml
Internet
Underground Music Archives
http://www.iuma.com/
Jelly
- magazine on rock-and-roll, blues, jazz, country, and
soul
http://www.jellyroll.com/
Live
Concerts
http://www.liveconcerts.com/
MTV
Online
http://mtv.com/index.html
Music
Source - links to bands
http://www.solscape.com/music/
Online
Concert Calendar
http://concerts.calendar.com/concerts/
Pollstar
- The Concert Hotwire - search by artist or by venue
http://www.pollstar.com
Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame
http://www.rockhall.com/
Rock
Guide - reviews of hundreds of music-related sites on the
Web, search capabilities, place to post opinions, too.
http://www.rockguide.com
Rock
World - links to lots of sources, music companies,
history of rock, home pages by groups
http://www.enn2.com/rock.htm
Rolling
Stone Online
http://rollingstone.tunes.com/sections/home/text/default.asp
The
Sixties
http://www.sixties.net/
The
Ultimate Band List - links to band sites, interviews,
lyrics, audio clips
http://www.ubl.com/
VH-1
http://www.vh1.com/