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Architecture and Building
Design, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture.

Great Buildings
Search for information, pictures, or even a 3-D model of the world's most famous architectural structures.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize communities.

Digital Imaging Project
Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.

The Cities and Buildings Database at University of Washington
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.

Digital Archive of American Architecture
Images and descriptions of architecture from the 17th through 20th centuries.

American Society of Landscape Architects
A national professional society that represents the landscape architecture profession. Site includes a searchable listing of firms, news, and information on events and education.

Landscape Architecture online
Web resources pertaining to landscape architecture from the Univeristy of California Berkeley's landscape architecture program.

ArchitectureWeek
Online magazine of design and building, providing news and features on architecture and construction, digital media, and building culture .


Festivals.com
A guide to festivals all over the world.

Washington Festivals & Events Association
A guide to festivals and events in Washington State.

The Washington State Fairs Association's Fair Dates
List of dates and links to state and county fairs throughout Washington.

Festival Finder
Guide to upcoming music festivals in the United States and Canada. Search by genre, location, or date.


Internet Movie Database
Movie reviews, star biographies, Oscar winners.

Backstage.com
Performer's and viewer's resource guide to television and film.

All Movie Guide
The site has reviews of movies from featured decade, new releases and weekly factoids.

International Film Festivals
A directory of worldwide film festivals.

Moviefone
Find local movie listings, by location, title and theater.

The First Showing
The latest movie news, movie trailers, movie reviews, interviews, and everything related to the theatrical experience.

Metacritic Movies
Provides summaries and aggregates reviews from the leading critics for new and upcoming films.

Film Libraries and Archives
a compiled list of libraries and archives that specialize in film and film studies.


The Art Institute of Chicago's Art Access
A variety of online resources of special interest to educators, parents, students, and young people, including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for the home based on objects from the Institute's permanent collection

the-artists.org
A portal for research on visual arts of the 20th and 21st centuries

AskART
AskART is an online database containing over 52,000 American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present.

The Mother of all Art and Art History Links page
An extensive group of internet art links based at the University of Michigan

Art Forum
News and critiques of exhibitions in the visual arts, with a contemporary focus. Includes world news, critics' picks, live symposia, interviews, and resources

The Comics Journal
The online site published by Fantagraphics that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective.

The Textile Society of America
Site provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide

Pacific Northwest Sculptors
Online site featuring galleries, resources, and links of interest

Historical Sculptors
Historical Sculptors from the International Sculpture Center website

Core77
Industrial Design content and community site includes articles, discussions, interviews and resources.

Art Lex
More than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references

ArtMagick
An art gallery of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Art History Resources on the Web
Links to the best art history sites, arranged by era, from ancient to contemporary.

Arts and Letters Daily
A regularly updated page of news and review from all media.

Artcyclopedia
Fine arts index of artists.

World Art Treasures
Focus on original traits of artists & their work

World Wide Arts Resources
Artists index, museums, history, supplies.

Art.com
This is a commercial site with many images of fine art, photographs, cartoons and comic strips.


Pop Candy
The latest pop culture info on television, music, movies, books, comics, fine arts and more.

Entertainment Weekly
Online extension of Entertainment Weekly magazine presenting daily news, reviews, commentary, and interactive features about every aspect of entertainment.

CNN Entertainment
Features articles, headline news, columns, videos, and blogs.

Golden Globe Awards
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards its Golden Globes to honor achievements in film and television during the calendar year.

Star Tiger
Celebrity addresses, with many that include email also.

CultureMob Seattle
Personalized event guide for the Seattle area. Create a profile and get notified about upcoming events that would interest you.


American Museum of Photography
Site to celebrate American photography.

Art Guide Northwest
Guide to galleries, museums, antiques in the Pacific Northwest.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Visit the separate and vast collections held at the Met -- perhaps the most famous art museum in the U.S. Almost as good as being there!

National Gallery of Art
Home page of the Washington D.C. national art museum.

Smithsonian American Arts Museum
A look at the historical art collections of the Smithsonian.

Virtual Museums and Exhibitions
Collection of museums, galleries, exhibits.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Includes over 75,000 images from the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor.

Guggenheim Museum and Berlin.
Links to Guggenheim collections in New York, Las Vegas, Spain, Italy, and Berlin.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Exhibitions, collections, and educational resources are featured.

ArtsEdge
The Kennedy Center's interactive arts education program for K-12 teachers, parents and students.

National endowment of the arts
Website for the independent federal agency supporting artists and arts organizations and bringing the arts to all Americans.

Prints and Photographs Reading Room
The Library of Congresses prints and photographs collections numbering more than 13.7 million images, including photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings.

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 16,200 reproductions

The Whitney Museum of American Art
Collection of world-renowned 20th-century American art.

World Art Kiosk
A web-based educational photo archive of artwork from around the world.


Washington Center for the Performing Arts--Links of Interest
The Washington Center offers links to a variety of performing arts websites with venues in the Olympia area.

Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database
Catalogs past televised musical comedy and opera performances, complete with cast lists and venues.

Opera Glass
Opera links, historical information, pictures, synopses, and more.

Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
Index of resources for many dance forms.

Pacific Northwest Ballet
Home to Seattle's ballet company.

Dance Magazine
Provides a look at both the modern and classical dance world, with features about companies, performers and dance news.

Internet Broadway Database
Created by the Research Department of The League of American Theaters and Producers, the national trade association for Broadway, IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

Playbill
The online version of the monthly magazine for theatre-goers includes news, features, performance listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, London and Regional theatre.


Zap2it
A guide to what's onscreen - television, movies, and the Internet.

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Information about the Emmys and the non-profit Academy.

TV Guide
The online version of TV Guide Magazine.

Seattle Television Stations
Links to KCPQ, Fox affiliate; KCTS, PBS affiliate; KING, NBC affiliate; KOMO, ABC affiliate and KSTW, UPN affiliate.


 Database Links


eLibrary
Browse or search by topics "Arts" and "Entertainment".

Pop Culture Universe
American and world popular culture, past and present.


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