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Local Arts, Culture & Entertainment Information
From the Highland Park Information Gateway, a listing of art, movies, music,
theatre and literature groups in the Highland Park area.
Chicago Creative Directory
Chicagoland resource guide for the creative community.
archINFORM
Claims to be the largest database for international architecture. Strong focus on 20th
Century buildings. Browse by architect, location or keyword, or search the
text of each entry.
Architecture@ About.com
One of the most comprehensive sites on architecture on the Internet.
Boston College Digital
Archives
Over 1500 scanned images for American architecture, over 700 for European architecture.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Information about the foundation's tours, exhibits and lectures, as well as
links to other architectural and design related websites.
Great Buildings Collection
3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings of 1000 buildings and
commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and
structures of all kinds.
Artcyclopedia
"The Fine Art Search Engine." A comprehensive database of more than 6,500
different artists represented by 19,000 links directly to an estimated 75,000
works at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
Search by artist, artwork or museum, or browse artists by movement, medium,
subject, nationality or name.
ArtLex Dictionary of Visual
Art by Michael Delahunt, MFA
This site is a dictionary of visual art terminology for artists, art students,
and art educators. Defines terms from art production, art criticism, art
history, aesthetics, and art education.
Artprice.com
The world largest data bank of art price indices. On file more than 4,000,000
auction results and covering 233,442 artists from the 4th century to the present
days. Free information includes date of auction, titles of pieces and
sources for biographical information on artists. Subscription required for
prices at auction.
Art History Resources on the Web
by Chris Witcombe.
This is one of the most comprehensive art history sites on the Internet. It
covers all time periods and art forms.
Art on the Web
Over 1200 links collected by Dr. Jeffery Howe of Boston University. A
comprehensive list of sites for fine arts and architecture studies.
AskART
The site is listed as "The Artist's Bluebook" with extensive information about
more than 26,000 American artists, including biographies, auction prices and a
directory that serves the collector. Particularly useful for information
on artists currently working in America.
International Arts Funding
Sites by Artlynx
Here you will find an assortment of Internet sites that are excellent resources
for funding individual and organization art projects.
Joan of Art
Ask an art information specialist at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art any
question about American art.
National Gallery of Art
Virtual tours of the collection and background essays on the works. Searchable by artist,
title, or keywords.
Smithsonian Institution Research
Information System (SIRIS) by Smithsonian Institution.
The online catalog of resources held by the Institution's libraries, archives,
and other specialized research centers. Including Art Inventories, which
provides information on over 335,000 artworks in public and private collections
worldwide; a large photographic archive that documents the work of
approximately 10,000 American artists in 127,000 black-and-white images;
manuscripts and specialized bibliographies.
Timeline of Art History
Chronological, geographical and thematic exploration of the history of art from
around the world. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Union List of Artists Names by the J. Paul Getty Research Institute
The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately
100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists,
decorative artists, etc.) and architects, cumulated from nine participating
Getty documentation projects.
Web Gallery of Art
Over 8,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between 1150
and 1750.
The Web Museum
Virtual gallery comprised of thousands of images.
General | Classical | Pop | Jazz | World Music
All Music Guide
A companion site to the popular book series, this website provides artist
biographies, album reviews, and discographies for a variety of genres.
Search by artist, album, song, style or label, or browse music styles, music
maps, articles and more. Does not include clips that can be
listened to.
This collection from Duke University includes digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
Morton Grove Public Library Song
Index
An index to the contents of the song books collection at the Morton Grove Public Library.
The index does not include actual lyrics or music, but rather references to
books containing lyrics and music, some of which are also owned by the
Highland Park Public Library.
Classical Net
A portal for information on classical music online, including a basic
repertoire, a CD buying guide, recommended CDs, composer works & data, reviews
& articles. This site now features reviews of more than 1800 CDs, as
well as 5500 files and over 3800 links to a wide array of classical music
sites.
Classical USA
A guide to hundreds of classical music sites, with good descriptions of each,
organized by subjects such as "music mega sites," "reference," "opera, theatre
& song," and more.
Gramophone
The online site for Gramophone magazine contains news, awards, and
Gramofile, the world's largest archive of CDs and reviews (over 23,000 reviews
and over 30, 000 CDs), as well as free access to the Grove Concise
Dictionary of Music.
Pollstar
Search by city or artist to find concerts and tour information for your favorite singer/group.
Ultimate Band List
Links to artist web sites.
Chicago Jazz Archive
Guide to the University of Chicago Chicago Jazz Archive with links to jazz societies and
research centers.
WNUR-FM JazzWeb
Jazz artist bios, analysis, recording and performance information, and more
from the Northwestern University radio station.
African Music
Encyclopedia of African music and its diaspora.
Celtic Music
Master online source for Celtic music on the Internet.
Latin Music
Links to all types of Latin music from salsa to tango to rock en espanol.
All Movie Guide
The Internet Movie Database
"The most comprehensive free source of movie information on the Internet."
Movie Review Query Engine
Search for movie reviews from dozens of web and print sources including Time and The
New York Times.
Moviefone
The online version of 777-FILM. Check local showtimes.
New York Times
Movie Reviews
Reviews of current films, the "best 1000 movies" since 1929, and 20 years of New
York Times movie Reviews. Free, but registration is required. Browse by title,
year, critic, genre, country of origin. Searchable by title, people, keyword.
Roger Ebert's Movie Reviews
Corbis--The Place for Pictures on the Internet
The Corbis Collection currently contains more than 25 million images, from professional
photographers, museums, cultural institutions, and public and private collections in the
world, including: the National Gallery - London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the State
Hermitage Museum and the Bettmann Collection.
George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography
and Film
Timeline and history of photography. Telnet link to Eastman's database of photographic
holdings.
Photo.net
Links to online photography exhibits, equipment reviews, and photography "how
tos".
American Variety Stage:
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1928
"A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This
collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially
vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language
playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings
and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry
Houdini."
Dramatists Play Service
A play licensing agency, at this site you can browse or search the catalog by cast size, title, author, keyword or ISBN, order
scripts and
apply for performance rights online, and find out where plays from the catalog
are being performed.
Chicago Plays
Website of the League of Chicago Theaters, here you will find a schedule of Chicago theaters and information about HotTix discount tickets.
Internet Broadway Database
A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway dating from the 1700s to
the present, including all program information about each production. This
site also includes historical information about theaters and fun facts related
to Broadway.
Morton Grove Public Library Play
Index
Index to plays in collections at the Morton Grove Public Library.
Playbill
Press releases and information on plays in production throughout the country.
Also includes feature stories on the theatre industry, news and information
about awards.
Chicago Reader's Guide
to Arts and Entertainment: Theater
Weekly recommendations and reviews from the Chicago Reader's Theater critics.
Chicago
Reader Museum Guide
This guide lists museums in Chicagoland, giving location, hours of operation,
cost, a brief description of current exhibits and a link to the museum's
website.
Encyclopedia of
Television
Sponsored by the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Includes over
1000 original essays describing programs and people, historical moments, policy
disputes, and special topics. Use the A-Z index.
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