Art and
Cultural Information
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Abstract Expressionism - "Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist
expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It is form of
non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no
concrete objects represented."
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AIA Online: The
American Institute of Architects - Professional organization for
architects providing resources for both practitioners and consumers.
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AICT - Art
Images for College Teaching - images
that may be downloaded and copied provided the images will be used for
educational or personal purposes. AICT consists of five broad chronological
sections necessary for teaching art history: Ancient, Medieval Era,
Renaissance & Baroque, 18th - 20th Century, and Non-Western cultures.
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American
Century, The - site covers 10 decades of American art, culture,
history, and innovation in dazzling multimedia. Join an educational talking
tour or select artwork for a tour of your own.
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Arta Gallery - offering a series of art pieces capturing the creative genius of
Marc Chagall's paintings.
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Art-Bridge.com - Art Directory, Art Portal, Art Links
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ArtDaily
- Valuable resource for current information on the art world. Features a
series of timely stories covering a variety of art-related news and events
internationally.
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Art Now
Gallery Guide - listing of up-to-date exhibitions in Museums and
Galleries by region, etc.
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Art on the Web - Extensive directory of art
sites organized by historical time periods. Covers art therapy, conservation,
iconography, professional associations, and women artists.
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Artists League of
Brooklyn, Inc. - Non-profit organization established in 1969 and
serving the Brooklyn, NY community in the field of the visual fine arts.
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ArtLex - Art dictionary with over 1,700 terms relating to all aspects of the
visual arts, intended to be used by anyone interested or involved in the arts.
Links art vocabulary to other Web sites. Provides images of works of art and
quotations.
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ArtMuseum.net
- An Internet-based art museum featuring a navigable 3D representation of the
current exhibit, archives of letters and other works by artists, photographs,
and biographical information about the artist.
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Arts
Exploration - a laboratory ... that
will serve arts and cultural organizations as they prepare for the networked
environment of the next century.
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Arts Journal:
The Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism - Edited by Douglas
McLennan, formerly an arts columnist and arts reporter with theSeattle
Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly, Arts Journal is a daily digest of
some of the best online arts and cultural journalism.
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Artists Index
- Courtesy of WebMuseum, Paris
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ArtStar.com
- "the premier destination for anything and everything art."
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AskART -
Site maintains a database on 25,000 American artists spanning the 16th to the
21st centuries. Information on the artists includes dates, states, methods,
biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of
20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of
auction lots sold and unsold of their works.
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Australian Art Gallery - Contemporary Australian, and International
Artists
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Bayly Art Museum - University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia
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Brooklyn Film
Institute, Inc. - Non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the
art of film to the public, especially the people of Brooklyn and New York City
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Carlos Museum - Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia
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Christus Res - "Top 100 Web Sites - PC Magazine"
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Chrysler
Museum - One of the nation's top 20 art museums
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Digital Archive of Art - collection of images
of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the ancient
Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists
represented include Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraut,
Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier, Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and many others.
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Education at the
Met - A little culture for everyone, from New York's Metropolitan
Opera House education program. Offers programs to help further music and arts
education in schools and communities.
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian - This index features answers to
frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to sites about the
Institution's many resources arranged in an A to Z list. An excellent way to
see what's available by topic on the huge Smithsonian Museums site. From
aeronautics to crafts and flags to violins, this national treasure chest
provides an enormous amount of online information from its collections.
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Expo - WWW exhibit organization
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Fine Arts Museum
of San Francisco - "With 60,000 works
on paper our Imagebase is currently the largest searchable art imagebase in
the world."
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Fine Arts World Resource Page - Directory of
links to art, architecture, design, and dance resources.
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The Getty Museum - Site offers nearly 54,000 pages related to works of art and
professional reports in conservation and art history. The heart of the site is
the Explore Art section, which includes 3,300 works of art, 1,500 artist
biographies, 1,500 glossary definitions, over 200 video clips, online
exhibitions, and more.
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Greek
Mythology Link - guide to Greek myths, containing sections on major
events in Greek mythology; individual entries for divine, mortal, and
semi-divine characters; genealogical tables; maps; a bibliography of ancient
and modern sources; and an extensive set of links to sites of Classical
interest.
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increase and
diffusion - celebrates the richness
and complexity of contemporary life with an appealing blend of scholarship and
journalism
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Internet for the
Fine Arts - A comprehensive network of artists, galleries, museums,
organizations, and resources relating to the fine arts.
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Internet Resources for the Arts: General Resources
- Thorough index of Internet listings for primary resources on art.
Covers general sites on art and architecture, publications and discussion
groups, organizations, and libraries and schools. Many of the topics link to
other search engines on art.
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Juilliard School
- official site of the school of the performing arts.
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Kitchen, The
- "The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film and
Literature
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Kyoto National Museum - Masterworks - "Detailed graphic and text
introductions to over one hundred of the finest masterpieces in the Kyoto
National Museum Collection."
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Learning about Leonardo - project explores
the mystery behind the Mona Lisa smile by comparing the theory of Dr. Lillian
Schwartz and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa through
scientific inquiry.
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Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts - mostly (Mozart) information about
Festival '96, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, and getting
tickets to it all.
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Medieval Art
and Architecture - collection of architectural images from the
Middle Ages. Included for many of the buildings is a map of its location, a
floor plan, photos, and a brief description.
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MoOM - Museum of Online Museums
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National Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources in Art Museums - NGA
- this directory is aimed at K-12 educators, school administrators, and museum
professionals. These users are encouraged to use the site to learn about "the
rich multidisciplinary resources available, often free of charge, at art
museums across the United States and in Puerto Rico."
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National Gallery of
Art - search for information on the
more than 100,000 works in the collection.
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National Graphic
Design Archive - Lawrence Mirsky / The Cooper Union Image database
of the NGDA covering the history of graphic design in the U.S. Offers general
or specific searches on graphic design, photographs, and artworks in related
media
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NetNoir
- "Cybergateway to Afrocentric Culture"
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New Media
Encyclopedia - View selections from the work of avant-garde artists
and filmmakers like Jean-Luc Goddard and Nam June Paik. Resources include
chronological landmarks, scholarly bibliographies, and glossaries in English,
French, and German.
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Newseum
- a D.C.-area museum that "will take visitors behind the scenes to see and
experience how and why news is made."
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Isamu Noguchi
Garden Museum - displays a
comprehensive collection of artwork by this sculptor (1904-1988) in a tranquil
setting created by the artist.
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Renaissance Exhibit - from the Annenberg/CPB
Collection. "Renaissance," French for "rebirth," aptly describes the
intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the Fourteenth
through the Sixteenth centuries.
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SILS Art Images Browser - Large database of
images from the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and
Slide and Photograph Collection and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. An
experimental project, the site is an example of how an electronic database can
classify and retrieve art images.
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San Francisco
Performing Arts Library & Museum - includes both national and
international holdings, with special emphasis on the rich heritage of the live
performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Sculptor.Org
- comprehensive resource for sculptors in all media. There are links for
tools and supplies, sculpting tips, schools, biographies, sculpture in museums
and public places, associations, services, events, bibliographies, and more.
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Smithsonian
Institution's HistoryWired - Welcome
to the Smithsonian Institution's HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things.
This experimental site introduces visitors to some of the three million
objects held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
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Splendors
of Ancient Egypt - pieces from Wilhelm Pelizaeus' Egyptian
antiquities collection, presented by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Includes
a RealAudio tour.
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Tate Gallery
- This museum contains the national collection of British art from the
16th century to the present, as well as the national collection of
international modern art. Approximately 8000 images of the museum's holdings
are available for view along with the descriptive text found by the works when
they are displayed in the physical gallery.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History - Currently this Metropolitan Museum of Art site presents world art
from the Metropolitan Museum dating 20,000 BC to 1400 AD. This Timeline of Art
History can be navigated from a timeline, maps, or a thematic index. The
timeline will eventually reach to the present day.
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Versailles - Official Site - a virtual tour of the magnificent
chateau commissioned by the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Stroll the gardens,
saunter through dining hall, or amble along the veranda
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Victoria and Albert
Museum - home to 145 galleries containing some of the world's
greatest collections of fine arts.
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Van Gogh
Museum - The Van Gogh Museum is
located on the Museumplein in Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the
Stedelijk Museum.
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Web of Arts
- site consists of links to arts related sites for art lovers, artists and
students.
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Web
Gallery of Art - This Website
"contains over 8,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and
sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750" supplemented with
commentary on their technique and history.
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Web Museum
- THE place on the web for all art buffs. Includes tours of renown museums
around the world plus updates on the latest exhibits. Exploration of art from
the Middle Ages to the 20th century with a concentration on the paintings from
the Western tradition and a few samples of Japanese work. Provides overviews
of the life and work of numerous artists; an outline of major Western art
styles, with discussion of the characteristics and artists involved in each;
and a glossary of art movements.
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World Art Treasures - Exploration of the art and architecture of
several different civilizations, including Egypt, China, Japan, India, and
Europe. Includes seven distinct programs covering specific artists or
civilizations, with numerous images and in-depth discussions of historical
background and stylistic tendencies.
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