Internet By Subject - Fine Arts

Galleries and Museums

• Gateways

  • The Art Atlas This database lets you find addresses of over 4500 international art galleries. Some entries provide additional information on the gallery, like opening hours or a link to its homepage.

   

• California

  • Fresno Art Museum
  • Fresno Metropolitan Museum  featuring all exhibits, a rotation of monthly special exhibits and a yearly calendar of events
  • Huntington Library and Art Museum
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco over 65,000 images of art
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Norton Simon Museum
  • Orange County Museum of Art
  • Palm Springs Desert Museum
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  • San Diego Museum of Art

  • Art Scene lists of galleries and museums in Southern California

• National and International

  • Asian Arts An online journal dedicated to the study and exhibition of Asian art.
  • African American Art of the Internet
  • MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art
  • National Museum of American Art
  • Smithsonian Museums This links to the Smithsonian museums, research centers and their affiliates
  • WebMuseum, Paris

  • Yahoo Links Links to museums, galleries, and centers in the U.S. and throughout the world

Art - General

• Art Studio Chalkboard   This site focuses on technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color, and painting.

Artists

• Yahoo Links to Artists  Yahoo provides an alphabetical listing of links to artists from the 1400s to the present. The emphasis is on the western world. This listing includes photographers, sculptors, illustrators and others.

Art History

• Ancient Art History  This web page presents selective sites on the art history of ancient and non-western civilizations--including Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia and the Middle East.
• Art History Resources on the Net  Gateway to links covering all areas of art history, European and eastern from past to present in chronological order.
• Art History Links Pages  courtesy of the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan
• Art History Network   This site covers art history, archaeology and architecture

Art Terms

• Words of Art  An online glossary of theory and criticism for the visual arts.
• ArtLex - a dictionary of visual art

Commercial Art

• American Institute of Graphic Arts

• Communication Arts  online exhibits, articles from their journal, conferences, job listings, production resources, and links to other graphic art sites

Dance

• Yahoo Dance Links covers various kinds of dancing, from flamenco to jazz to clogging

• Dancer.com  A series to links to everything related to dance

Dramatic Arts

• Dramatic Exchange  The stated goal of this site is to archive and distribute scripts.
• Dramatists Play Service, Inc.  For actors and directors seeking scripts and/or performance rights, this company allows online searching of their catalog.
• Playbill Online  productions by academic, professional, and amateur theatre as well as news items
• Technical Theatre Terms
• Costuming Resources Online
• The Costume Source

Film/Motion Pictures

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• The Internet Movie Database The stated goal of this database is to gather any and all information associated with movies from around the world, starting with cinema in its infancy to the present.
• Movie Review Query Engine Just enter the title of a movie and the search engine comes up with 15 -20 or more links to various reviews, including New York Times, Roger Ebert and others
• Roger Ebert Roger Ebert reviews movies back to 1985.
• Chinese Movie Database This database covers movies made in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries/regions from 1905 to the present.
• TVLink: Film & Television Website Archive The film portion includes sites for reviews, festivals, awards, professional organizations, schedules, studios, special effects, and sources for production supplies.

Music - Classical

• An Introduction to Classical Music History, instruments...
• The Classical Music Pages  Classical music history, biographical information about composers and explanations of the various musical forms
• Classical Composers  Biographies
• Composers' Biographies and Their Works from the 1300's to the 1900's
• Essentials of Music An introduction to six periods in classical music history, discussing historical themes, musical context, style and major composers. 200 excerpts in RealPlayer format.
• Music History 101 a survey of western classical music

• Glossary of Music terms

Music - Contemporary

• All About Jazz  Although this site is very commercial, it contains some excellent biographical information on past and current jazz musicians
• Broadway Musical Cast Album Database  This database cites 2100 recordings with detailed information.
• Eyeneer Music Archives  This site provides information of new jazz, international music, and American music.
• History of the Electric Guitar
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 A collection of digitized historical materials at the Library of Congress. This is a collection of over 47,000 musical compositions.
• Musicals  An in-depth description of 80 popular Broadway musicals.

Music - Instruments

• Internet Resources - Musical Instruments An extensive annotated list of links to Internet Sites on all types of classical and contemporary musical instruments.
• Instrument Encyclopedia

Music - Sheet 

• 19th Century California Sheet Music - "A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, together with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, song sheets, advertisements, and photographs." Full images of every page and some sound files are available. 
• California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index  An index to over 1,300 books, magazines, and other collections of popular songs compiled from seven California Library Systems.

Photography/Filmmaking

• Arthur Bleich's Digital PhotoCorner  A digital photography site geared toward the beginner.
• Successful Interview Skills
• Focus on Photography The basics and history of photography and links to many other sites.
• Helios: National Museum of American Art Photography
• Kodak  Although this site obviously promotes the company it also contains a lot of information that will help amateurs take better pictures. It provides a complete introduction to 35mm photography and has a link to teaching basic darkroom techniques. The Digital Cameras link includes an online "course" complete with review questions, competency tests and immediate feedback.
• Photo-Net  This site opens up a world of resources ranging from exhibit links to equipment reviews to a "how to" section. The "how to" section covers both traditional photographic styles and digital technologies.
• SayCheese - Site offers simple and short articles varying from purchasing a digital camera to using a digital camera. For those who want more in-depth information, try the articles and information in the professional section. Tips, Tricks and Tutorials covers flash for close ups, composition, lighting, and framing for taking better pictures. Also included are tips on how to crop and correct colors, sharpness, and red eye using Photoshop.
• UCR/California Museum of Photography
• University of Arizona - Center for Creative Photography
• The Zone System for Color Photography The zone system is an exposure-calculation model developed and used in black-and-white photography. It can be adapted for use in color photography with advice from this site.

Speech Communication 

• American Rhetoric - a site that provides examples of various rhetoric devices as well as copies of speeches from history to athletics to Hollywood.
• Debate Central - Provides useful resources for debaters and debate teams.
• History Channel - Speeches - Hear the words that changed the world. From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have dream" speech to Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball, their vast collection is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century.
• McGraw-Hill Public Speaking - contains a healthy number of resources, including some of its own online "booklets," plus links to outside sources. Some are helpful for preparing and presenting speeches, others discuss different kinds of speeches, and others present archives of historical speeches
• Speechwriting Resources - Links to resources for the speechwriter, such as historical speeches, the Federalist Papers, and various writing guides.
• Virtual Presentation Assistant - The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills

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