Arts & Entertainment Sites To See

Bits & Pieces Put Together To Present A Semblance Of A Whole
http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html
Explore Minnesota's Walker Art Center.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Choose "Collections" for information about and representative works from the Met's American Paintings and Sculpture, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Arms & Armor, Asian Art, Costumes, European Paintings, and other special collections.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/index.cfm
Features some of the more than 85,000 art objects in the Institute's permanent collection and highlights works from current and upcoming special exhibits.

MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/collection/
Click on thumbnail photos of some of the more than 100,000 drawings, paintings, sculptures, art prints, photographs, and other works that are part of the New York Museum of Modern Art's collection, to see an enlargement of the works and brief information about the artist and their technique.

Paris Pages - Musee du Louvre
http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/
Click on the thumbnail photos for full screen displays of some of the paintings, antiquities, sculpture, prints, drawings, and objects d'art in this world famous museum.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/index.html
Offers online tours of a dozen collections on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Art.

World Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/
Has links to museums around the world; to biographical sketches of well-known artists, to art history sources, and to other art resources.

FILM, VIDEO, AND TELEVISION:

AMG All-Movie Guide
http://www.allmovie.com/index.html
Browse by genre, release date, film style, and country for information about more than 131,000 films and videos, and for biographical sketches of 12,000 actors and actresses.

CineMedia
http://www.cinemedia.org/welcomes/you.html
You'll find everything you want to know about television, films, video, radio, and the theater among the 25,000+ links at this site.

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/
Summarizes the plot, gives the critics' reviews, and lists the cast and crew for thousands of movies, including those that were made for TV.

Screen Source: The Movie & TV Information Guide
http://www.amug.org/~scrnsrc/
Can search by the first letter of a celebrity's last name to find their mailing address. This site also has birth dates of 500 notables, death dates for many celebrities who died in or after 1990, lists of Oscar and Emmy winners, and movie and TV-related links.

Ultimate TV
http://www.ultimateTV.com/
This is the ultimate site for finding episode guides, newsgroups, faq's, mailing lists, and webpages about 1,325 current and classic TV shows. It also has daily listings of programs on broadcast and cable channels, directories of U.S. and foreign TV stations, and the latest Nielsen ratings.

Yahoo! Entertainment: Actors and Actresses
http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/actors_and_actresses/index.html
Links to fan pages about entertainers.

American Memory Collection Finder Search
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
Search the American Memory Collection Finder for images of over 50,000 pieces of sheet music in the public domain. Select one or all of the following databases for sheet music or song sheets.

• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
• Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
• Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
• America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets - lyrics, but not the music, to over 4,000 songs

Billboard Charts
http://www.billboard.com/charts/
What was at the top of the charts a year ago? Five years ago? Ten years ago? Also lists this week's top 50 singles and top 200 albums, plus top 10 video sales and rentals.

Classical Net
http://www.classical.net/music/
Has links to more than 5,500 files and an additional 3,800 websites about classical artists and composers, instruments, and classical music. Classical Net now includes over 1,650 reviews of compact discs.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp
Cleveland Rocks! Check out "Today in Rock History" and its featured exhibits~

International Lyrics Server
http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm
Lyrics to more than 60,000 popular songs and to SongFile, a source for purchasing over 2 million songs on CD, audiocassette, or as sheetmusic.

KFAI's Community Web Links - Music and Cultural Links
http://www.kfai.org/musiclnk.htm
Links to discographies, cultural events, and information about music from around the world - from Cajun to traditional Scandinavian tunes.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
Search or browse this database of 29,000 pieces of sheet music, published between 1780 and 1960, that is housed in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. Sheetmusic published prior to 1923 is in the public domain and replicas may be printed.

Lyrics Library
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/blondie/313/
Need the words to a folk song, a country music hit, or a song you sort-of remember from your childhood? Just click on the links to go to web sites with the lyrics you want.

Lyrics World
http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/summer.html
Fifty years of lyrics from the "Top 40". Search by artist or by song title.

Mudcat Cafe
http://www.mudcat.org/
Search the "Digi Trad Lyrics" database with lyrics to over 8,000 traditional folk songs.

Roughstock's History of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/
Go from a brief timeline tracing the history of country music from 1930 onward to pages about country music greats and their songs.

Rock-and-Roll Page
http://www.tsimon.com/rockroll.htm
Links to biographical sketches of rock performers, songwriters, record producers, and DJ's of the 50's and 60's.

Ticketmaster Online
http://www.ticketmaster.com/
Search by state or event for listings of music, sports, theatrical productions and family shows, prices of tickets, and dates of events.

Ultimate Band List
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/fp2.asp
Links to an A to Z listing of pop music bands, clubs and concerts, pop music radio stations, record labels and record stores.

Welcome to CDDB!
http://www.cddb.com/
Search by artist, album title, or song title from among more than 390,000 compact disc albums.

Welcome to Let's Sing It - Your Lyrics Engine on the Internet
http://www.letssingit.com/
Lyrics to over 7,600 songs by artists from around the world!