Arts & Entertainment
Architecture
- Great Buildings Online
- Use this site to access an architecture database and Architecture Week, an architecture magazine.
- National Building Specification (NBS)
- This UK site offers resources in architecture, engineering, and construction. Although the focus is on UK resources and standards, international resources are also provided.
Art
- Art Cyclopedia
- This site offers art resources including scans of works of art; it is a leading art resource on the web.
- Art History Resources on the Web
- This site is a portal to art resources including databases and museums maintained by Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
- Arts and Humanities Data Service
- This site is a UK national service aiding in the creation and preservation of digital resources in archaeology, visual arts, history, literature, language & linguistics, and performing arts.
- Ask Art
- Use this site to find information on artists, museums, galleries, professional associations, and access a glossary.
- Catalog of American Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
- The Catalog of American Portraits is a comprehensive Smithsonian Institute database documenting historically significant American portraits.
- World Wide Arts Resource
- Access information regarding artists, art history, databases, museums, and much more.
Entertainment
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Learn about the Academy resources, archives, and events, including the Academy Awards.
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Use this site to access information about the Emmy Awards.
- All Movie Guide
- Use this site to research movie topics worldwide and across movie genres.
- Doculink
- This site provides resources and services for the documentary filmmaker.
- Golden Globes
- This is site for the entertainment award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
- Internet Movie Database
- The best movie database on the web. Link to movie show times, access credit lists, and find box office returns.
- Library of American Broadcasting
- Use this University of Maryland to search a radio and television scripts and transcripts database. The library holds a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting.
- Moviefone
- Find local movie listings.
- Stock Shot Libraries
- Use this page from the Regional Film & Video web site to locate film and video archives in the UK.
Museums
- Art Museum Network
- The Art Museum Network offers a platform for the concerns of art museum leaders. Access articles, blogs, position papers, and presentations.
- The Getty Museum
- In addition to information about the museums, access to the Getty Vocabularies and to Getty conservation texts and resources from the Getty Conservation Institute is available on the site.
- Global Museum
- This webzine is dedicated to information about museums. Access information to museum resources, museum related news stories, job openings, and more.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Access information and resources from the venerable New York City museum.
- National Gallery of Art
- National art resources can be accessed from this site.
- National Portrait Gallery
- Use this site to access a portrait database of historical figures.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art.
- Smithsonian Institute
- Use this site to access Smithsonian web resources and links to Smithsonian museums, including everything from Afro American Art, The Natural History Museum, the Postal Museum, and to the National Zoo, and much more.
- WebMuseum, Paris
- Access an art glossary, online collections, and artist information.
Music
- All Music Guide
- Use this site to research music by mood, genre, theme, country, or instrument.
- Billboard Magazine
- This is the web site for the leading newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment.
- Classical USA
- This site features music resources.
- CoralWiki
- This site provices access to the Coral Public Domain Library, a free sheet music site. The site also provides bulletin boards, forums, and provisions for requesting music scores.
- DW3 Classical Music Resources
- This Duke University site offers links to classical music resources on the web.
Performing Arts
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- The Center is a leader in arts education. Access an online community for arts managers and an immersive online environment for music education.
- The Metropolitan Opera
- Visit the web site of the most widely heard and known opera company in the world and access its MetOpera Database.
Textiles
- Historical Boy's Clothing
- Use this page to access information regarding historical fashions for boys.
- Singer Featherweight 221
- This site is dedicated exclusively to perhaps the only sewing machine to have had a fan club. Learn about its role in WWII and its connection to the War Production Board.
- Textile Museum
- Access an international directory of textile collections and information on the storing and care of textiles.