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Art Sites

 

ArtServe
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/index2.html
This server, in the Department of Art History at the Australian National University, offers access to around 27,000 images--some 15GB of data--all concerned in some way with the history of art and architecture, and the great majority unavailable elsewhere on the web.

 

ArtSource
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/artsourcehome.html
Compiled by Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky. Lists resources on art and architecture.

 

AskART.com
http://www.AskART.com
North American artists' biographies, image gallery (from Christie's & Sotheby's), museums & galleries that have their work, lists of periodical articles & books, & auction records. Search by artist name or browse by category, such as Notable Women, California Artists, & Black American Artists.

 

FineArt Forum
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/art-resources/
Directory of Online Art Resources
Maintained by Jane Elizabeth Patterson for FineartForum. This site indexes art resources that can be accessed via the Internet: websites, gophers, ftp sites, mailing lists and other types of resources are included.

 

The Great Buildings Collection
http://www.GreatBuildings.com
Gateway to architectural images, 3D models, drawings, commentaries, bibliographies & other web links. Search by architect, building or place.

 

National Library of Australia Documentary Images
http://www.nla.gov.au/images1/
Contains over 13,000 images of works of art including watercolors, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. It constitutes a sample of the images available in the National Library's Pictorial Collection.

 

National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org
Women artists of all periods & nationalities. Includes profiles, essays, bibliographies, images of their art & museum information.

 

San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Thinker Imagebase
http://www.thinker.org/
Over 60,000 digitized images from the Museum's collection are available.

 

World Wide Art Resources
http://wwar.com/index.html
Compiled by Markus Kruse. Lists art galeries, museums, artists and arts publications.

 

World Wide Web Virtual Library Museums Page
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
Compiled by Jonathan Bowen.

 

Yahoo > Arts > Web Directories
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Web_Directories/

 

Yahoo > Arts > Museumes, Galleries and Centers
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Museums__Galleries__and_Centers/

 

Yahoo > Arts > Visual Arts > Photography > Web Directories
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Photography
/Web_Directories/

 

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Dance Sites

 

Benesh Institute
http://www.benesh.org/
An international organization which acts as the custodian for Benesh Movement Notation, the web site offers training programs, dance notation software, ballet information and links.

 

CyberDance
http://www.cyberdance.org/
A collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. Here you will find links to dance companies, dance schools, goods and services and more. Fully searchable by keyword.

 

Dance Education Web
http://www.danceducationweb.org/
Produced and maintained by Ohio Dance and the Ohio Dance Council, this site emphasizes dance learning in a broad range of educational settings. Topics include: curriculum and assessment, dance making and performance, for kids only, connections to others in dance education, and more.

 

Dance Films Association, Inc.
http://www.dancefilmsassn.org/
A non-profit, tax-exempt, membership organization founded by Susan Braun in 1956, DFA promotes excellence in dance films and video and public awareness through festivals, screenings, publications, grants, and workshops.

 

Dance Heritage Coalition
http://www.danceheritage.org/
Founded in 1992, the Dance Heritage Coalition was established to address problems identified by a field-wide study of the current state of preservation and documentation of American dance. The DHC web site focuses on four areas: ACCESS to materials; the continuing DOCUMENTATION of dance employing both traditional methods and developing technologies; PRESERVATION of existing documentation; and EDUCATION regarding methods, standards, and practice for access, documentation, and preservation.

 

Dance Links
http://www.dancer.com/dance-links
Provides links to dance companies, organizations, publications, funding resources, dance schools, and other dance resources.

 

Dance Notation Bureau
http://www.dancenotation.org/
Documenting dance on paper using a symbol system called Labanotation, DNB produces and houses scores by over 200 artists. The site includes an explanation of notation basics, a Theory Discussion Bulletin Board, bibliographies and finding aids, and more.

 

Yahoo > Arts > Performing Arts > Dance
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Performing_Arts/Dance/
Not to be overlooked, yahoo directories are usually assembled with care. Frequent updates.

 

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Film Sites

 

CineMedia
http://afi.cinemedia.org
Produced by the Digital Media Research Unit and the School of Film and Media at Griffith University, Brisbane Australia. Over 2,900 links to sites covering cinema, television, new media and radio.

 

Digital Librarian Movie Sites
http://www.digital-librarian.com/movies.html
Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson. A librarian's pick of the best movie related sites.

 

Film.Com
http://www.film.com/
Produced by Film.com, Inc. Spotlights review new films, openings, and video releases; includes interviews, criticism, film festival information and news.

 

Hollywood Reporter Hyperlinks

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter
/hyperlink/index.jsp
One of the best directories to professional websites for the entertainment industry.Covers pre-production, production, and post-production.

 

The Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
Maintained by a volunteer group of individuals from around the world who have been providing free access to a database of movie information since 1990.

 

LSU Webliography: Film and Media
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/film.html
Web guide to film and media websites. Maintained by the LSU Libraries.

 

SCREENsite
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite/
Maintained at the University of Alabama. Lists educational resources, school information, job postings, archives, studio information, etc.

 

Yahoo > Entertainment > Movies and Films > Web Directories
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film
/Web_Directories/

 

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Music Sites

 

African Music Resources Online
http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/~ama/archive/ama_links.html

 

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/
Searchable database for music reviews, composer information, song titles, articles on performers and styles. Find everything recorded by Jimi Hendrix; trace the history of West Coast Jazz; read a biographical sketch about Stravinsky.

 

DW3 Classical Music Reources
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html
A good place to begin any research project. DW3 is maintained by the Music Library at Duke University and describes itself as "the world's most comprehensive collection of classical music links.” Indeed, it offers accurate, scholarly historical data on an array of musical styles, periods and persons. Features a powerful, easy-to-use internal search engine.

  

Internet Resources for Music Scholars
http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/ 

Maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University. Especially useful are the set of links to international music databases available on the WWW. Some are restricted to the Harvard community.

 

Librarians Index to the Internet: Music Topics
http://lii.org/search/file/music
Intended for librarians and non-librarians alike, LII is a fully searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,900 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. The music page includes resources in musical theatre, song lyrics, music reviews, and others. Worth a visit.

 

The Louis Armstrong Discography
http://www.satchography.com

 

Music Resources
http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
Compiled by the Sibelius Academy, Finland, this Internet portal features an eclectic set of international resources.

 

Music Theory Online
http://mto.societymusictheory.org/
Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc. Published several times each year, each issue includes features such as articles, book reviews, and reports.

 

Performance Practice Review
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/ppr/
Performance Practice Review is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of Western musical performance practices. Originally published bi-annually from 1988 to 1997, contributions to Performance Practice Review from 2006 onward will be published exclusively online.

 

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://www.redhotjazz.com/
Provided by Scott Alexander, this site contains biographies, articles, discographies, photos and selections of music in RealAudio format. Its focus is on pre-1930 jazz, including such artists as Buddy Bolden, Joe "King" Oliver, Kid Ory, and Louis Armstrong.

 

Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/operatv/index.html
Developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video.

 

Worldwide Music Resources on the Internet
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Maintained by the Indiana University Music Library. Especially useful is the information devoted to performers and performing, including links to summer festivals, educational opportunities, scholarships, and competitions.

 

Yahoo > Entertainment > Music > Web Directories
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Web_Directories/
Not to be overlooked, yahoo directories are usually assembled with care. Frequent updates.

 

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Theatre Sites

 

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/
Maintained by Oxford University, the archive was "founded in 1996 by Edith Hall and Oliver Taplin in response to the need for a coordinated research effort devoted to the international production and reception of ancient plays since the Renaissance. They included within its scope revivals and adaptations on stage, film and radio, and in opera and dance."

 

Broadway Online
http://www.broadwayonline.com/
Comprehensive portal dedicated to The Great White Way. Offers a menu of current theatre news, show listings, ticket information, and more.

 

The Costume Gallery
http://www.costumegallery.com/
Created by Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier, this site provides links to costume designers, goods and services, costume history and recreational sites.

 

The Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online
http://members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
Produced by Julie Zetterbeg, this is the premier directory of web costume resources. No longer maintained as of 2/2001, but many of the two thousand-plus links are still current. Worth a look.

 

The Costume Site
http://milieux.com/costume/
Maintained by Lauren Podolak, here you’ll find one of the most thorough sources of costume information covering historical, science fiction, and fantasy costumes. Use your browser’s “Find in page” feature to locate a keyword or costume type of your choice.

 

The Costumers Manifesto
http://www.costumes.org/
Provides access to textual information, historical images from classic costume texts, and a timeline of costume history. Created by Tara Maginnis, costume designer for Theatre UAF, the Theatre Department of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

 

ELAC Online TheatrePedia: Internet Theatre Library
http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/library
Compiled by W. Colin McKay and Robert Botinelly at East Los Angeles College. Offers a compendious collection of academic theatre resources on the Internet. Searchable by subject or keyword.

 

Literary Resources on the Net
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Compiled by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor in the English department of Rutgers University, Newark. Focus is primarily literary; includes theater and drama resources.

 

McCoys Guide to Internet Resources in Theater and Performance Studies
http://www.stetson.edu/csata/custom/thr_guid.html
Compiled by Ken McCoy, Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, Stetson University. A well-maintained and scrupulously annotated fund of non-commercial theatre sites. Use your browser’s “Find in page” feature to search this abundant resource.

 

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Produced by Terry A. Gray, this is a well-annotated guide of the voluminous Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Continuously updated. Best first-place-to-start for all things Will.

 

Playbill Online
http://www.playbill.com/
Provides current listings of performances in New York, the rest of the USA (by city), and throughout the world; you can even order tickets online.

 

Samuel French
http://www.samuelfrench.com/
Largest publisher of plays and movie scripts. The company's catalog may be searched by title and author; an excellent tool for verifying and finding plays.

 

Theatre-link.com
http://www.theatre-link.com/
Compiled by Scott Naef, here is a continually updated list of theatre, acting, dance, and playwriting resources. Keyword searchable; indexed.

 

Stage Agent.com
http://www.stageagent.com/
A free web service designed for performers and producers of musicals, dramas, and operas. Features a national calendar and message board connecting performers with current productions. Find the right part for your voice type, age, gender, and experience level.

 

UK Theatre Web
http://www.uktw.co.uk/
Provides a well-rounded overview of British theater, with information on plays, companies, productions and theatres.

 

Yahoo > Arts > Performing Arts > Theater
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theater/
Not to be overlooked, yahoo directories are usually assembled with care. Frequent updates.

 

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Writing Sites

 

National Writers Union
http://www.nwu.org

 

The Paris Review: The DNA of Literature
http://www.theparisreview.org/literature.php

 

Poets & Writers Online
http://www.pw.org

 

Seattle Writergrrls
http://seattlewritergrrls.org/

 

Write News
http://writenews.com

 

Writers Write
http://www.writerswrite.com

 

Writing for the Web
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/help/papers/writing-web

 

4 Minutes About Podcasting
http://www.cadence90.com/wp/index.pho?p=3548

 

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Sites Covering Several Metiers

 

ArtSites on the Internet
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/Arts/
Compiled by Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University. Lists visual arts, performing arts, media arts, literary arts and interdisciplinary arts sites.

 

ArtsEdge
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html
Maintained by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, this site is meant to literally place and maintain the arts alongside science, math, and other subject areas among the vast resources and services comprising the Internet.

 

ArtsUSA
http://www.artsusa.org/
The home page for the American Council for the Arts, this is a good starting point for information on funding, arts policy, health, and legal issues, arts education, and political advocacy.

 

Arts Wire WEB Base
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html
Compiled by Beth Kanter, Arts Wire. Lists arts, visual arts, literary arts, and music sites.

 

The English Server
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/
Managed by graduate students, faculty and staff in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Includes links to drama, film and music sites, as well as English language and literature sites.

 

Library of Congress Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/new.internet.resources.html
List of performing arts libraries and research aids, periodical indexes, doctoral dissertations, obituaries and necrologies, dance sites, theater sites, opera, film music, church music, music organizations, music industry sites, music publishers' sites, copyright information, sheet music sites, and song lyrics sites.

 

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
http://vos.ucsb.edu
University of California Santa Barbara sponsors this directory to websites on art, architecture, cultural studies, music & dance, media studies, etc.

 

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