What Should I Read Next?
This Reader's Advisory service, available through the iConn digital library, includes 100,000 titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, recommended reading lists and biographical information. Genres include inspirational, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western and historical novels, general fiction, classic fiction and nonfiction.

Infotrac One File
Contains over 4,900 full-text magazines, newspapers, and journals, including many pertaining to arts and entertainment. Titles include Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Art in America, Film Criticism, and The New York Times Book Review, to name just a few.

•Art
•Literature
•Film
•Music

 

Art

Artcyclopedia
A comprehensive index of artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

Art History Resources on the Net
This multi-award winning site serves as a gateway to resources on art history from ancient times to the present day. There are links to research resources, an extensive list of museums and galleries by country, online journals, exhibits, and university art departments.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
The world's largest single source for documentary materials on the visual arts of the United States.

Timeline of Art History
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum's collection.

Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 17,000 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists, and guided tours are available.

The Renaissance Connection
An interactive educational website drawing on the Samuel K. Kress Collection of the Allentown Art Museum.

Frans Hals Museum
An internationally famous museum of the Dutch Golden Age located in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

AIA Connecticut Design Awards 2007
Winners of the American Institute of Architects competition celebrating the accomplishments of Connecticut architects and the excellence of Connecticut architectural projects.

National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery's website allows users to search the collection by artist, title, and subject.

Literature

Encyclopedia Mythica
The Encyclopedia Mythica is an online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legends. It contains over 6,100 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings from cultures all over the world.

Bulfinch's Mythology
This site is an online version of the standard text in Classical Mythology, The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods And Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch.

Literary Criticism on the Web

Project Gutenberg
The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).

Film

The Internet Movie Database
Information on more than 150,000 movies from 1892 to the present. Includes plot summaries, cast lists, technical information, genres, awards, trivia, and quotations.

Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an excellent source for reviews of movies and videos. With more than 100,000 titles and 360,000 review links in its ever-growing database, Rotten Tomatoes offers a fun and informative way to discover the critical reaction on movies from the nation's top print and online film critics.

Roger Ebert's reviews on-line
From the famous Chicago Sun Times film critic.

U.S. National Film Registry
A listing of films selected as "culturally, historically, or esthetically important" by the National Film Preservation Board, part of the Library of Congress.

Music

ClassicalNet
Provides a brief biographical sketch of the composers and also includes a listing of their works and compositions.

AMG All-Music Guide
Contains ratings and reviews of more than 400,000 record albums. Search by artist, album, song, style, or label. Access information on new releases, music styles, articles, and a glossary. Entries on artists include a musician/musical group's history, roots and influences, musical style, discography, guest performances, and reviews.

American Music Center
Provides information about new American music through a monthly internet magazine, an online library and listening room, and links to other resources.

William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Pandora Internet Radio
This music discovery service selects new music for you on the basis of the songs and artists you already know and like, and delivers the music to you through one or more personal online "radio stations." Available in a free, advertising-supported version or by subscription. Pandora is unusual in employing professional musicians to analyze the music in their database and power their recommendations.

 

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