09 January 2008
Links to Information on the Arts
THE ARTS GENERALLY
American Association of Museums
American Masters Database – PBS's series of award-winning primetime specials on America's most outstanding cultural artists
Art Museum Network – Up-to-date information about the news and activities of leading museums
Arts Journal – Daily digest of articles on the arts, culture and ideas
Artslynx International Arts Resources
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive – Interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States
Federal Resources for Education: Arts – U.S. Department of Education
Internet Resources for Music, Theater, and Dance – Library of Congress
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Kids Arts – FirstGov
Musical America – Resources for all the performing arts
National Assembly of State Art Agencies
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
VSA arts – Access to the arts for people with disabilities
DANCE
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Artslynx International Dance Resources
American Masters - Dance – Comprehensive companion Web sites for PBS television programs and specials
Dance Magazine – News, reviews, and directories of dance companies, artists, colleges & universities and arts festivals
Invitation to Dance – Library of Congress
Dance.net – An independent dance community on the web
Dance USA – National service organization for professional dance
New York City Ballet
FILM
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences – Academy Awards
American Film Institute – AFI trains the next generation of filmmakers at its conservatory
Artslynx International Film Resources
Film Publications and Resource Guides – Library of Congress
Hollywood Foreign Press Association – Golden Globes
Hollywood.com – Features in-depth movie information
Motion Picture Association of America
National Film Preservation Board – Historic film preservation
Sundance Film Festival – Features, shorts and documentaries — from the United States and abroad
MUSIC
All-Music – Comprehensive music reference source
American Music Center – A national service and information center for new American music
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
American Symphony Orchestra League
Artslynx International Music Resources
Billboard – The Internet arm of Billboard magazine, a major music publication
Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) – An American performing rights organization that represents songwriters, composers and music publishers
Down Beat – Jazz magazine
Festival Finder: Music Festivals of North America
Halls of Fame
Classical | Country Music | Gospel | Rock 'n Roll
THEATER
Aisle Say: The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews and Opinion
American Association of Community Theatre
Artslynx International Theatre Resources
A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theater and Performance Studies
League of American Theatres & Producers & the American Theatre Wing – Tony Awards
Playbill – The official website of Playbill magazine
Theater Communications Group – Includes "Theatre Facts"
The Theater – Library of Congress
Theater Resources – Internet Public Library
Internet Broadway Database
VISUAL ARTS
American Art – Journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Art Museum Network – Provides up-to-date information about the news and activities of leading museums
Artslynx International Visual Arts Resources
AskArt – Information on over 50,000 American artists
Index of American Design – National Gallery of Art
Internet Art Resources – Gateway to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions
PBS Arts: Fine Arts, Photography
Smithsonian American Art Museum – Inventories of American painting and sculpture
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
LITERATURE
African American Writers: Online E-texts
Includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers.
American Authors on the Web
A very comprehensive site from Nagoya University that presents a chronological listing of almost 800 American authors and includes biographical authors and/or writing samples for many of them.
A Celebration of Women Writers
A comprehensive site that lists more than 900 American women writers from the country's beginning until the present time and includes links to information on and the works of many of them.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
Designed as a complementary resource to the electronic discussion list, T-AMLIT, the archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.
Index of Native American Book Resources
Includes extensive links to organizations, online and printed journals, and presses specializing in Native American literature. Also provides links to home pages of Native American authors, and other resources.
Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
A literary metasite containing annotations of sites and articles devoted to literary criticism and information on authors. In addition to 200 American and British authors, more than 50 international authors are featured. The collection indexes over 2,500 resources.
Literary Resources -- American
Annotated links to home pages covering various aspects of American literature, as well as home pages dedicated to more than 50 individual writers and poets.
The Mississippi Writers Page: The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers
Biographies, literary criticism, bibliographies, and other resources about writers of drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have called the state of Mississippi their home.
Native American Authors
Provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts, and tribal websites.
Norton Online Resource to American Literature
This online companion to The Norton Anthology of American Literature (6th ed.) includes detailed information on 160 American writers of drama, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction as well as other resources for students.
Online American Literature Resources
This companion to the Heath Anthology of American Literature contains an interwoven set of resources that contribute to a greater range of knowledge than is possible with conventional textbooks.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Useful to teachers and students around the world with limited access to university libraries and databases, this guide encompasses American literature in various time periods; includes special sections on American fiction, folklore, and African-American writers.
Poets.org
From the American Academy of Poets, this site contains essays and interviews about poetry, biographies, poems, curricular materials, and audio clips.
Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web): American Literature
Extensive lists of annotated and unannotated links designed as a resource for online teaching and learning of American literature. Also includes author chronologies, some basic resources, and reviews of major Web sites.
Voces Americanas/American Voices
A site based on an exhibit sponsored by the Texas Humanities Resource Center; it includes essays on Hispanic-American literature as well as a lengthy bibliography.
Voice of the Shuttle
An extensive list of links to American literature resources on the Web by time period, as well as information on criticism, courses, journals and conferences.
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Designed primarily for use in the classroom, this collaborative project from the University of Minnesota focuses on the lives and works of women writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers of color in North America.
