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Reference Databases

AP Images
Associated Press photos from the 1840s to the present. Middle-school to adult. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

eLibrary
Browse or search by topics "Arts" and "Entertainment". (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

Who's Who in American Art
Thumbnail biographies of noteworthy men and women in America's art world. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

General Arts

Art History Resources on the Web
Links to the best art history sites, arranged by era, from ancient to contemporary.

Art Lex
More than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references

Art.com
This is a commercial site with many images of fine art, photographs, cartoons and comic strips.

Artcyclopedia
Fine arts index of artists.

Articulation: learning to look at art
Website teaches the basics of art theory and appreciation

ArtMagick
An art gallery of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Arts and Letters Daily
A regularly updated page of news and review from all media.

AskART
AskART is an online database containing over 52,000 American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present.

The Art Institute of Chicago's Art Access
A variety of online resources of special interest to educators, parents, students, and young people, including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for the home based on objects from the Institute's permanent collection

The Mother of all Art and Art History Links page
An extensive group of internet art links based at the University of Michigan

the-artists.org
A portal for research on visual arts of the 20th and 21st centuries

World Art Treasures
Focus on original traits of artists & their work

World Wide Arts Resources
Artists index, museums, history, supplies.

General Entertainment

CNN Entertainment
Features articles, headline news, columns, videos, and blogs.

Entertainment Weekly
Online extension of Entertainment Weekly magazine presenting daily news, reviews, commentary, and interactive features about every aspect of entertainment.

Golden Globe Awards
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards its Golden Globes to honor achievements in film and television during the calendar year.

NWSource Entertainment
NWsource.com's guide for the Puget Sound, with calendar listings and information on restaurants, movies, music, clubs, bars, theater, arts, events and attractions.

Star Tiger
Celebrity addresses, with many that include email also.

Film

All Movie Guide
The site has reviews of movies from featured decade, new releases and weekly factoids.

Backstage.com
Performer's and viewer's resource guide to television and film.

Hollywood.com
Very useful site for locating movie showtimes.

International Film Festivals
A directory of worldwide film festivals.

Internet Movie Database
Movie reviews, star biographies, Oscar winners.

Moviefone
Find local movie listings, by location, title and theater.

Roger Ebert on Movies
Roger Ebert's movie reviews from the Chicago Sun-Times.

Television

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Information about the Emmys and the non-profit Academy.

Seattle Television Stations
Links to KCPQ, Fox affiliate; KCTS, PBS affiliate; KING, NBC affiliate; KOMO, ABC affiliate and KSTW, UPN affiliate.

TV Guide
The online version of TV Guide Magazine.

Zap2it
A guide to what's onscreen - television, movies, and the Internet.

Performing Arts

Cyber Dance
A collection of links to classical ballet and modern dance resources.

Opera Glass
Opera links, historical information, pictures, synopses, and more.

Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
Index of resources for many dance forms.

Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database
Catalogs past televised musical comedy and opera performances, complete with cast lists and venues.

Washington Center for the Performing Arts--Links of Interest
The Washington Center offers links to a variety of performing arts websites with venues in the Olympia area.

 

Architecture

Architecture and Building
Design, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture.

Digital Archive of American Architecture
Images and descriptions of architecture from the 17th through 20th centuries.

Digital Imaging Project
Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.

Great Buildings
Search for information, pictures, or even a 3-D model of the world's most famous architectural structures.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

The Cities and Buildings Database at University of Washington
A collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.

Museums/Galleries

American Museum of Photography
Site to celebrate American photography.

Art Guide Northwest
Guide to galleries, museums, antiques in the Pacific Northwest.

Art Museum Network
Search over 250 art museums and their collections.

ArtsEdge
The Kennedy Center's interactive arts education program for K-12 teachers, parents and students.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Includes over 75,000 images from the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor.

Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum and Berlin.
Links to Guggenheim collections in New York, Las Vegas, Spain, Italy, and Berlin.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Visit the separate and vast collections held at the Met -- perhaps the most famous art museum in the U.S. Almost as good as being there!

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Exhibitions, collections, and educational resources are featured.

National endowment of the arts
Website for the independent federal agency supporting artists and arts organizations and bringing the arts to all Americans.

National Gallery of Art
Home page of the Washington D.C. national art museum.

Prints and Photographs Reading Room
The Library of Congresses prints and photographs collections numbering more than 13.7 million images, including photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings.

Smithsonian American Arts Museum
A look at the historical art collections of the Smithsonian.

The Whitney Museum of American Art
Collection of world-renowned 20th-century American art.

Virtual Museums and Exhibitions
Collection of museums, galleries, exhibits.

Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 16,200 reproductions

World Art Kiosk
A web-based educational photo archive of artwork from around the world.

Fairs & Festivals

Festivals.com
A guide to festivals all over the world.

Washington Festivals & Events Associations Calendar of Events
A guide to festivals and events in Washington State.

Revised 4/14/2007


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