The Arts on WWW

General Fine Art pointers

FineArt Forum
FineArt Forum Directory of Art Related Web Resources

Galleries & Museums

Museum Library
Virtual Library of museum exhibit pointers
Yahoo Exhibit pointers
Stanford - Pointers to Museums and Exhibits.
The Louvre
Art museum and city tour of Paris (If you are in Europe use Louvre)
African Art
Africa Art:Aesthetics and Meaning - An Electronic Exhibition Catalog
Photography
The California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Current and historial exhibits
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Home Page has pointers to the various individual museums such as Natural History, Air & Space, etc.
I AM FREE
the Internet Arts Museum for free, a showcase of contemporary art
Age of Enlightenment
The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums.
Kodak's Digital Images Gallery
Images from 35 MM film to digital in several categories.
Research Library's Group, Member Exhibits Page
Pointers to museum and archive collections put up by RLG members.
Art Crimes
A gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world.
Ophelia's Mirror
A collection of pre-Raphaelite works.

Individual Artists

The Art of Giorgio Butini
Paintings and sculpture by this modern Italian artist.

Film

MPEG Archive
MPEG movie archive.
Movie DB
The Online Movie database.
Third Eye
Movie zine, MPEG Archive mirror and other cool stuff.
Roger Ebert's movie reviews
Searchable archive of reviews plus current six weeks by list.

Jitlov
The Web Page of Speed and Time!
The Films of Hayao Miyazaki
Miyazaki-san is one of the leading figures in Japanese animation. Also see Totoro A page about one of my favorite Miyazaki amine features.

Music

Music Library
Virtual Library of Music pointers!
Music by Genre
Pointers to Music: by Period, Instrument, Genre, Artist, or Area.
Bands & Music
Over 500 WWW band pointers plus other musical items.
Celtic Music
Celtic Music Archive
Digital Tradition
Digital Tradition Folk Song database
FolkBook
FolkBook: An Online Acoustic Music Establishment. Info on artists and venues and acoustic music.
Pop & Other
Music Popular and Otherwise, USENET groups listngs, artists, lyrics, pointers galore
Metaverse
Modern music, raves, etc. Previously was MTV.com site.
Rare Groove
A multimedia music magazine.
Dreamtime
A site for didjeridu players with lots of pointers to Austrailians Aboriginal info and didj info.
Acoustic Artists
A collection of acoustic songs with guitar tablatures, musical excerpts (studio or live versions ), interviews and related information on : Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg.

Monty Python
Songs, movie and sketch scripts and pictures
Weird Al
Song lyrics for Weird Al Yankovic
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull discographies with lyrics
Jimmy Buffet
Lyrics, album & tour info and a cool bunch of Boat Drink recipes - everything a Parrothead could want!
The Grateful Dead
Everything a Deadhead could want!
Yothu Yindi
A fantastic Austrailian band site. Audio and video clips of the band!

Literature

Literary Research Tools
An index of literature from Classical to Modern. This is a truly gigantic resource!
Literature
Virtual Library of Art & Literature pointers
Poetry
Poems arranged by author.
Internet Poetry Archive
Selected works from modern poets.
Medieval
Information on Medieval Studies, based at Georgetown University.
Middle English
Database to search Middle English texts which may also be browsed.
TEAMS Middle English texts
And interesting variety of texts.
Literature Online
Over 210,000 full texts of Elglish and American poems, plays and novels, including Shakespeare. Also available are reference works and 21 versions of the Bible from the 10th to the 20th Century.

Coleridge
The poems and life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
King Arthur
Reading list of books on the Arthurian legends.
The Camelot Project
Databases of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information on sites and characters.
Jane Austen page
Texts of Ms Austen's works, bibliograpies, criticism and comment.
Tolkien page
Information and links regarding J.R.R. Tolkien and his works.

Folklore & Mythology

Mythology
Mythology-related FAQ's, bibliographies, short texts, and a dictionary of Gods and Goddesses. Pointers to major texts such as the Bible, Bullfinch's Mythology and Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Encyclopedia Mystica
A project to create an online encyclopedia of mythology, magic, myths, legends, folklore from all over the world and from all times.
Women in Classical Mythology
Biographies of the Goddesses, Immortals and mortal women of Classical Mythology.
Classical Mythology Images
CLA 212 at Princeton - the most important images (classical and later) used in CLA 212. Gods, Titans, Monsters, Trojan War, and more.
Mythmedia: Mythology in Western Art
Images of the main Greek deities from various periods of Western art have been scanned and organized according to their names. Great!
Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses
Biographies and artwork depicting Hawaiian deities.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
D. L. Ashliman's site of northern European folklore texts.
The Joseph Campbell Foundation: The Net of Gems
Information on Campbell's work and links to myth sites around the net.
Loggia
Specializing in quality sites dedicated to the arts and humanities. The sites featured at Loggia explore areas of study that include art and art history, architecture and design, the decorative arts and industrial design, classical studies such as Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology, and more.
J.L. Borges "Book of Imaginary Beings"
The complete series of illustrations for The Book of Imaginary Beings was done by the graduate students in the Department of Illustration and Art of the Book at the Vakalo School of Art and Design in Athens, Greece in the 1950's. The pictures vary in quality but there are good definitions of the beasts chosen.
Myth*ing Links
An annotated, illustrated collection of worldwide links to mythologies, fairy tales & folklore, sacred arts & sacred traditions.

Ancient Religion of the Finns
An essay on early Finnish religious practice.

Links to Faerie pages
A collection of links to Fairy/Faerie on the net.

Languages

Languages
This is the Human Languages Page - it has pointers to dictionaries and other language resources in all sorts of languages from Arabic to Japanese to Urdu to Welsh!
Gaelic
Gaelic and Gaelic Culture. Info on Gaelic and Gaelic language resources.
Scots Gaelic
Lessons and contacts for learning Scots Gaelic.
Interactive Irish Lessons
Lessons from Learning Irish by Mícheál ó Siadhail, along with audio clips. Also see Nancy Stenson's Workbook for beginners in Irish Gaelic to accompany ó Siadhail.
Welsh
A Welsh course by Mark Nodine.
Logos
A searchable multilingual on-line dictionary. Consult at dictionary.

Dance

Morris
Pointers to Morris Team Homepages.
Home Pages of Morris and Sword Sides
Morris & Sword teams with links, dance styles and logos. To see This Page without line images
Moving into Sacred Realms
Selene Vega is a movement therapist and teacher who relates chakra work with dance.
Fat Chance Belly Dance
One of San Francisco's premier Ethnic Belly Dance troupes.
Middle Eastern Dance
A page for pointers to belly dance related sites - dance, ethnic food, shopping and more.

Other

Dilbert
Dilbert is also available on the World Wide Web (WWW) for Mosaic users. It's on the Global Network Navigator (GNN) pages.
Insults
Shakespearean insults - each visit brings a new insult.

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