700-799 Recreation
- African Art The Bayly Art Museum presents African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning, a great online exhibition.
- Artcyclopedia Search by the title of the artwork or by the artist's name. If you search by the artist's name, you'll get a list of links to museums with images of other works by the artist.
- Art History Resources on the Web
- ArtLex: Dictionary ofVisual Art You can look up over 3,000 art terms at this site. Thousands of images are included as well as many links to related resources.
- Himalayan Art Paintings of the Himalayas with detailed descriptions of each.
- Impressionism Take an online tour of this site and learn all about impressionism.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art More than 3,500 works of art online. Take a look at the calendar of eventsand updated information on special exhibits at the the museum.
- The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C . Go on an online tour and explore the collection of the National Gallery of Art. The collection portrays many of the major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic artsfrom the Middle Ages to the present. You may search the collection by artist or title, or tour the museum by medium or school. Includes gallery guides in foreign languages.
- New Perspective on Science and Art If you would like to reach out and touch 15th, 16th, and 17th century art samples, try this site. The pieces selected as examples demonstrate the development of perspective techniques and the scientific/technological advances that made them possible. Some of the featured artists includeLeonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, Jan Vermeer, etc. The scientific principles are grouped under the following topics: optics, illusions, andt echniques. A ThinkQuest site.
- WebMuseum An online exhibition of paintings including collections of such things as medieval art, featured artists, and famous paintings.
- WorldArt Treasures The puzzles will drive you crazy.
- World Wide ArtsResources Take a look at some galleries and museums. Learn about artists, art history,arts education, antiques, dance, theater, and more.
- World's Women On-Line! Showcases the artwork of over 1000 women from around the world.
- Cinema:How Are Hollywood Films Made? Learn about the process of film making. This site contains information on such things as screen writing, directing, producing, acting, and editing.
- Critics.com http://www.critics.com/ This site compares the ratings of recent releases by 15 prominent critics and also includes their individual reviews.
- The Film 100 A Ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in the History of the Movies
- The Motion-PictureIndustry: Behind-the-Scenes Learn about the world of film making and also watch how a short film was made. A ThinkQuest project
- Movie Review Query Engine This is a great site if you are looking for movie reviews. It contains over 170,000 articles of over 21,000 titles.
- TV Link A huge collection of links related to film, TV, video. Find out about information on special effects, the 100 top films, and much much more.
- Classical Archives More than 10,000 classical music files from 900 composers.
- Classical Music Pages
- Energy In The Air: Sounds From The Orchestra Learn about the instruments in an orchestra, how sound is made, and even how to make some instruments. A ThinkQuest project.
- Essentials of Music This site contains information on the different musical eras, provides biographies of almost 70 composers, and has a glossary of over 200 musical terms.
- Music Resources on the Internet This site simply contains a list of worldwide Internet music resources. You can connect to information on composers, music genres, music journals and magazines, and much more.
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music Information on popular American music from the period of 1780 to 1969. Holds over 29,000 pieces of music which can be indexed.
- The Symphony: An Interactive Guide Learn about the great composers and their finest symphonies.You can actually listen to music clips of the symphonies listed on this ThinkQuest site. Take a course on symphonic form and then take the symphonic quiz to see how much you learned.
- Baker's Plays A catalogue of plays which includes many scripts, a list of theatre books you can buy, theatre accessories, and it provides an author index.
- Dramatists Play Service This online play catalogue is searchable by cast size, title,author, keyword or ISBN number. Provides information on how to order scripts and other materials, and how to apply for performance rights.
- Greatest Films
- Literary Resources on the Web Acomplete list of literary resources that all deal with theatre and drama.Check this site out to link to many great theatre and drama sites.
- The CompleteWorks of Shakespeare Contains Shakespeare's plays and poetry online and links to other Shakespeare resources.
- Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
- Science of Hockey From the mechanics of skating to styaing fit to play the game.
- Sports Illustrated for Kids
Updated March 26, 2008