Recommended Internet Sites

Visual and Performing Arts

Architecture

• ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG)
• Architecture journals from Lee College Library
• Architecture Week - An online architecture magazine.
• Architronic - A peer-reviewed online architecture journal.
• Berkeley Planning Journal - Open Access scholarly journal devoted to urban planning.
• Building-Speak - Architectural, Building and Interior Design Terms "that can be confusing to lay people because many architectural and building terms have their roots in Latin, Greek, French, or Italian."
• Built in America - Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present. From The Library of Congress American Memory Collection. It includes photos, drawings, and prints of buildings around the United States.
• Cities and Buildings Database - From University of Washington Libraries. "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."
• Concrete: Student Journal of Environmental Design - "Concrete is an annual journal produced entirely by undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley."
• Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - This Chicago-based organization aims to provide networking and professional exchange among professionals who design and build tall buildings.
• Design Linc - "The Design Linc is dedicated to bringing you design resource information for products and services available to the physically challenged and their caregivers. "
• Digital Archive of American Architecture - This site offers photos and explanatory material of almost 300 American buildings.
• Gallery of Architecture Quotations - from Ergo Architecture
• Great Buildings and Structures - Offers photos and brief histories of great buildings from around the world. From about.com.
• Great Buildings Collection - Online collection of profiles of important architectural sites from around the world.
• International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) - Published by Virginia Tech University, this digital archive showcases the work of women architects.
• Looking at Buildings - Educational guide compiled by the British Pevsner Architectural Guides. Includes a glossary of architectural terms, information on building styles, materials and construction.
• SPIRO: Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online - "The online catalog & image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Library University of California, Berkeley"
• Voice of the Shuttle: Architecture Websites

Cinema

• All Movie Guide - Movie database that includes plot summaries, awards, lists of cast and crew, and lists of related movies.
• Internet Movie Database - Database of films from all over the world.
• Texas Film Commission - Index to all things cinematic in Texas.

Music

• Aria Database - Database of over 1,000 operatic arias.
• GMN.com Classical Composers - This site reprints short, biographical articles on classical composers from the Grove Dictionary of Music.
• Historic American Sheet Music - View digitized images of the cover art of American sheet music, from the rare books collection of Duke University.
• Pathfinder: Classical Music Composers
• Rane Corporation's Pro Audio Reference page - Links to companies and a list of books from "an established innovator in providing problem-solving professional audio tools."
• RISM Online - An international project to document all known musical sources of manuscripts, printed music, theoretical works, and libretti.

Theater

• Austin Circle of Theaters Resources Page - Although originating from an Austin-based organization, this page has links to a large number of state-wide theater resources, including casting calls, playwrights' groups, professional theater associations, theater websites and more.
• Curtain Up Internet Theater Magazine - Includes reviews, annotations and feature articles about contemporary theater.
• Doollee.com - Free database of plays, playwrights, literary agents and play publishers. Includes short bios and synopses of plays.
• Internet Broadway Database - Sponsored by the League of American Theatres and Producers, this database provides information about plays performed on Broadway. Included are dates, location of the theater, cast and crew, and awards.
• InterPlay: Index of Plays
• Playbill.com - Find out what's playing on Broadway, provides theater news and includes a database of theater awards.

Visual Arts

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online - from the Getty Museum.
• Artcyclopedia - Includes short biographies of visual artists as well as links to other websites about artists and artworks.
• Celtic Art and Cultures - Created for an art history class offered at University of North Carolina, this website offers a timeline of Celtic art, images of artworks, maps and vocabulary.
• Ceramics Today - Includes articles about all aspects of ceramic art, including galleries, artists, techniques, etc.
• Journal of Contemporary Arts
• Masters of Photography - Includes short artist bios, photos and some criticism of recognized photographers.
• Metropolitan Museum
• MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page - Sponsored by University of Michigan's School of Design, this site contains a wealth of art and art history links.
• National Portrait Gallery
• Ninteenth Century Art Worldwide - A peer-reviewed journal of nineteenth-century visual culture.
• PotWeb - Developed by the Ashmolean Museum in Great Britain, this website is devoted to the last 2,000 years of ceramic history.
• The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access, African-American Art - Provides short artist bios and explanations of pieces of art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection
• The National Museum of American Art
• Treasures of the World - Published by PBS, this website provides information about art treasures such as the Mona Lisa and Picasso's Guernica.
• Vincent van Gogh Gallery
• Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850).