Arts and Entertainment
[Art][Events][Movies][Music][Theater][Other Entertainment]
- Art
- 300 Important Women Artists: Medieval to Modern
- Archives of American Art
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus
- Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall -- Information about graffiti.
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Artchive -- Includes CD-ROM reviews, theory and criticism, links to galleries, and an archive of art.
- Artcyclopedia -- Guide to museum-quality art on the Internet.
- ArtLex - Art dictionary
- AskART -- American artists bluebook. Information on more than 35,000 American artists.
- Digital Archive of Art -- Online images from Boston College.
- Great Buildings Collection
- ImageBase
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- MOAC - Museums and the Online Archives of California
- Mother of All Art and Art History Links
- MuseumSpot -- Guide to museums on the Web.
- MuseumStuff -- Includes a list of museums by state.
- National Gallery of Art - The Collection -- Data on all of the more than 100,000 objects in the National Gallery of Art's collection.
- San Francisco Bay Area Art Museums
- Smarthistory
- Timeline of Art History -- Covers prehistory to present day.
- Timelines of Art History
- Voice of the Shuttle: Art
- Web Gallery of Art -- Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.
- Who's Who in American Art
- Worldwide Art Resources
- Events
- Arts and Crafts Show Listings
- California Festivals
- Western Fairs Association
- Festival Finder -- Details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America.
- Festivals -- Database of over 33,000 events worldwide.
- Festival USA
- Find a Fair -- Provided by the International Association of Fairs and Expositions.
- Ticketmaster Events -- Dates and Locations for concerts and other activities.
- Trade Show News Network -- Locate trade shows, exhibitors, and suppliers.
- Movies
- All-Movie Guide -- Film and video database.
- American Film Institute's Movie List -- Movies judged on critical recognition, popularity over time, historical significance, cultural impact, and major award winners. Registration required.
- Box Office Guru -- Contains comprehensive box office data on over 3,000 films released since 1989. Information from Variety. Includes opening and closing dates as well as gross statistics.
- Drew's Scripts-O-Rama Index -- Search for film scripts on the Internet.
- Film Festivals
- Glossary of Film Terms
- Greatest Films -- Lists of top movies in numerous categories from the Online Film Critic Society.
- IMDb - Internet Movie Database -- Comprehensive source of movie and tv information.
- IMSDb - Internet Movie Script Database
- Kids-in-Mind -- Viewers rate movies for sex, violence and profanity.
- Movie Rating Search -- Movies rated since 1968.
- Movie Review Query Engine -- Entries are reviews posted to rec.arts.movies.reviews and other Internet sources.
- On Video: Guide to Home Video Releases -- Schedules and reviews for new home video releases.
- Oscar Awards
- RaveReviews -- The site for movie tie-ins; books, music, software, etc.
- Roger Ebert Movie Reviews -- Reviews dating back to 1985.
- U.S. National Film Registry -- Titles -- Films selected as being culturally, historically, or esthetically important.
- Music
- 8Notes.com -- Over 1500 free sheet music pieces and riffs.
- All-Music Guide -- Search by album title, artist, song title, and music styles.
- AllRecordLabels -- Comprehensive listing of record labels worldwide.
- Aria Database -- Searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type. Includes a database of all characters from the operas included.
- ASCAP's ACE on the Web -- Information on all compositions licensed by ASCAP can be searched by titles, writers, performers and publishers.
- Billboard Music Charts
- BMI Hyper Repertoire Internet Song Title Database -- Song title registration information contained in the BMI repertoire.
- CD Universe -- Search by artist, album title or song title. Includes charts of new releases and classical music search.
- CDnow -- Commercial site with a large inventory. Search for artist, album, song or record label.
- Classical Music Navigator -- Provides information on important classical composers and their works.
- Classical Music Pages -- Includes history, biographical information about composers, explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. The information is from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.
- Classical USA
- Classics from the Silver Screen -- Index of classical and opera music which have appeared in feature films. Last entry 2004.
- Classics Today -- Search reviews of classical music.
- Dolmetsch Online -- Includes music theory and history.
- Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
- Essentials of Music -- Basic information about classical music.
- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
- Get-Tuned -- Learn how to tune your musical instruments.
- Gold and Platinum Database -- Database of gold, platinum, multi-platinum, and
diamond record sales awards provided by the Recording Industry Association of America.
- Gracenote: CDDB Database of Title, Track, and Song Information -- Claims to be the largest database for CD information on the Internet.
- Grammy Awards -- All Grammy winners (1958-present).
- H&B Recordings Direct -- Large database of classical and popular CDs.
- Historic American Sheet Music -- Provides digital images of American sheet music published between 1850 and 1920.
- History in Song
- Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music From Back Roads to Big City
- IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
- Instrument Encyclopedia
- Internet Resources in Music
- Jazz: A history of America's Music -- From PBS.
- Lyrics
- Mojam -- Large listing of live music worldwide. Search by performer, city, venue, or event.
- Music Database -- Includes a listing of the song tracks on albums. Search by album, artist, song title, style, language, and country.
- Music Resources on the World Wide Web
- The Musicals Home Page -- Information about musicals includes lyrics, commentaries, and links to homepages.
- Operabase -- Includes opera schedules, opera houses, opera festivals, opera reviews, opera links, etc.
- OperaGlass
- Operissimo -- Information about the world of opera.
- Pollstar -- Information about concert tours.
- Sheet Music Collections -- Directory of sheet music with public access (either through a web page or online catalog).
- Teoria: music theory web
- Women Composers
- World War I Sheet Music
- Theater
- American Variety Stage -- Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings.
- Baker's Plays -- Catalog of plays.
- Broadway.com -- Theatre resource.
- Dramatists Play Service, Inc. -- Catalog of over 2,000 plays.
- English Server Drama Collection -- Access to original plays and screenplays.
- Inter-Play -- On-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals.
- Internet Broadway Database -- A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway.
- LAPL's Play File -- Index to plays which remain unpublished or have only been published in periodicals.
- MGPL Webrary Play Index -- Index to books in the Morton Grove Public Library containing two or more plays.
- Official London Theatre Guide
- Playbill On-line -- Detailed information about theatre productions.
- Samuel French, Inc. -- Catalog of plays.
- TheaterMania -- Information about productions in 25 locations.
- Theatre History on the Web -- Links to historical information.
- TheatreHistory
- Vaudeville! A Dazzling Display of Heterogeneous Splendor
- Virtual Vaudeville
- Other Entertainment
- Card Games -- A collection of rules for card games.
- Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
- Episodes Guides Page -- Television shows in the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Every Rule -- Covers sports, board games, card games, kids games, computer games, casino games, TV game shows, etiquette, and every other rule.
- iHeard -- Search engine for Internet radio stations.
- Intute: Creative and Performing Arts
- Intute: Humanities
- Metacritic -- Reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games.
- Museums in the USA
- NPR - National Public Radio
- Newslink Radio and Television Stations
- Performing Arts Encyclopedia -- Music, theater and dance Collections from the Library of Congress.
- Performing Arts in America 1875-1923
- SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions -- Lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts.
- TV Acres -- Information on "characters, places and things that appeared on television programs.
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