Arts and Entertainment

[Art][Events][Movies][Music][Theater][Other Entertainment]

Art
Archives of American Art
Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall — Information about graffiti.
Art History Resources on the Web
Artchive — Includes CD-ROM reviews, theory and criticism, links to galleries, and an archive of art.
Artcyclopedia — Guide to museum-quality art on the Internet.
AskART — American artists bluebook. Information on more than 35,000 American artists.
BAMPFA
Digital Archive of Art — Online images from Boston College.
Great Buildings Collection
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
MuseumSpot — Guide to museums on the Web.
MuseumStuff — Includes a list of museums worldwide.
National Gallery of Art – The Collection — Data on all of the more than 100,000 objects in the National Gallery of Art’s collection.
San Francisco Bay Area Art Museums
Smarthistory
Timeline of Art History — Covers prehistory to present day.
Timelines of Art History
Voice of the Shuttle: Art
Web Gallery of Art — Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.

Events
Festivals — Database of over 33,000 events worldwide.
Festivals in USA from Wikipedia
Ticketmaster Events — Dates and Locations for concerts and other activities.
Trade Show News Network — Locate trade shows, exhibitors, and suppliers.
Western Fairs Association
Movies
All-Movie Guide — Film and video database.
American Film Institute’s Movie List — Movies judged on critical recognition, popularity over time, historical significance, cultural impact, and major award winners.
Box Office Guru — Contains comprehensive box office data on over 3,000 films released since 1989. Information from Variety. Includes opening and closing dates as well as gross statistics.
Drew’s Scripts-O-Rama Index — Search for film scripts on the Internet.
Film Festivals
Film Rating Search — Movies rated since 1968.
Greatest Films — Lists of top movies in numerous categories from the Online Film Critic Society.
IMDb – Internet Movie Database — Comprehensive source of movie and tv information.
IMSDb – Internet Movie Script Database
Kids-in-Mind — Viewers rate movies for sex, violence and profanity.
Movie Review Query Engine — Entries are reviews posted to rec.arts.movies.reviews and other Internet sources.
Oscar Awards
Roger Ebert Movie Reviews — Reviews dating back to 1985.
U.S. National Film Registry — Titles — Films selected as being culturally, historically, or esthetically important.
Music
8Notes.com — Over 1500 free sheet music pieces and riffs.
All-Music Guide — Search by album title, artist, song title, and music styles.
AllRecordLabels — Comprehensive listing of record labels worldwide.
Aria Database — Searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type. Includes a database of all characters from the operas included.
ASCAP Repertory — Information on all compositions licensed by ASCAP can be searched by titles, writers, performers and publishers.
Billboard Music Charts
BMI Hyper Repertoire Internet Song Title Database — Song title registration information contained in the BMI repertoire.
CD Universe — Search by artist, album title or song title. Includes charts of new releases and classical music search.
Classical Music Navigator — Provides information on important classical composers and their works.
Classics Today — Search reviews of classical music.
Dolmetsch Online — Includes music theory and history.
Dr. Estrella’s Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Get-Tuned — Learn how to tune your musical instruments.
Gold and Platinum Database — Database of gold, platinum, multi-platinum, and diamond record sales awards provided by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Grammy Awards — All Grammy winners (1958-present).
H&B Recordings Direct — Large database of classical and popular CDs.
Historic American Sheet Music — Provides digital images of American sheet music published between 1850 and 1920.
Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music From Back Roads to Big City
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
Jazz: A history of America’s Music — From PBS.
Lyrics
Operabase — Includes opera schedules, opera houses, opera festivals, opera reviews, opera links, etc.
OperaGlass
Pollstar — Information about concert tours.
Teoria: music theory web
Women Composers
World War I Sheet Music
Theater
American Variety Stage — Multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings.
Broadway.com — Theatre resource.
English Server Drama Collection — Access to original plays and screenplays.
Inter-Play — On-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals.
Internet Broadway Database — A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway.
LAPL’s Play File — Index to plays which remain unpublished or have only been published in periodicals.
Official London Theatre Guide
Playbill On-line — Detailed information about theatre productions.
TheaterMania — Information about productions in 25 locations.
Theatre History on the Web — Links to historical information.
TheatreHistory
Vaudeville! A Dazzling Display of Heterogeneous Splendor
Other Entertainment
Card Games — A collection of rules for card games.
Card Games for Road Trips
Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
Episodes Guides Page — Television shows in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Every Rule — Covers sports, board games, card games, kids games, computer games, casino games, TV game shows, etiquette, and every other rule.
Metacritic — Reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games.
NPR – National Public Radio
Newslink Radio and Television Stations
Performing Arts Encyclopedia — Music, theater and dance Collections from the Library of Congress.
Performing Arts in America 1875-1923
Radio Locator
SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions — Lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts.

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