Benzie Shores District Library

Arts and Humanities

• Allwall.com - "Poster and Print Store: Fine Art Posters, Sports Posters, Music Posters, Movie Posters, and more."
• American Ballet Theatre
• Art History Section at Yahoo - A popular Internet directory and search engine.
• Art Gallery of Ontario - "The eighth largest art museum in North America. Its collection comprises more than 24,000 works representing 1,000 years of extraordinary European, Canadian, modern, Inuit, and contemporary art."
• Art Imagebase - Searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Musem of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor).
• Art Museum Network - The world’s largest and most prestigious art museums have joined forces to provide free access to information about their collections, exhibitions, and services.
• Art Supplies - at the Library's Shopping Resource Page
• Art World Chicago - They "bring together original artwork for sale in and around Chicago, and serve as a guide to local galleries and exhibitions."
• Arts and Humanities Page at Yahoo - A popular Internet directory and search engine.
• Artcyclopedia - The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet. "An index of online museums and image archives: find out where the works of over 7,500 different fine artists can be viewed online."
• AskART.com - "American artists database - Painters, sculptors, illustrators including biographies, art auction records, images. American artists directory covering the 16th to the 21st century featuring the North American Artist, painter, and illustrator with auction results, bibliography, exhibitions, art dealer, museum, prices, books, and appraisal information."
• ArtistsNorth.com - An online cooperative gallery of northern Michigan artists.
• Benzie County Michigan Area - Arts section
• Boston Symphony Orchestra - Iinformation regarding the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras, Symphony Hall in Boston, and Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts.
• CGFA- A Virtual Art Museum – Many works of the world's fine artists.
• CreativePro.com - Resources for Creative Professionals
• Crystal Lake Art Center - Promoting the arts in Benzie County.
• Detroit Institute of Arts - The fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works.
• The Etext Archives - Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our duty is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content.
• Festivals.com - The center of the events world with more than 25,000 festivals and events to search by keyword, geography or date.They are organized by art, culture, children, motor sports, music, and sports.
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - This site is all about art access. They're committed to making their entire collection available online. With 60,000 works on paper, their Imagebase is currently the largest searchable art imagebase in the world. It's your turn to be the curator!
• George Eastman House
  • International Museum of Photography & Film
  • Photography Collections Online - A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House.
• Great Buildings Online - "Architecture from around the world and across history with a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, Web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds."
• Guggenheim Museum Home Page
• Interlochen Center for the Arts
  • Home Page
  • Festival Page
• Internet ArtResources - The collector's guide to the visual arts. "Feature articles, reviews from around the world, special events, and of course, The Guide."
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• Lourve Museum:
  • Louvre Museum (1) - Paris (This is the offical site, in English)
  • Louvre Museum (2) - another good site offered by The Paris Pages.
  • Louvre Museum online store
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - One of the largest and finest art museums in the world.
• Museum of Bad Art - art too bad to be ignored, rescued from the dumpsters of Boston.
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - "An award-winning site that offers selected works from MoMA's unparalleled collection of modern art, interactive online projects, exhibition listings, general information about the Museum, and more."
• MuseumSpot.com - Art museums, science museums, history museums and more. A free cultural information center that brings the best museums, zoos and online exhibits from around the world into one user-friendly site. Explore national parks, botanical gardens, and everything from the Louvre in Paris to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• National Gallery of Art, Wahsington D.C. - "Houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present."
• Ole Art - Original Paintings For Sale by Spanish Painters - Still life, architecture, marine, interior, figure, urban and rural landscape, exterior. Only Original Spanish Paintings to sell.
• Photography
  • Foto Search Stock Photos - Search and purchase from more than 50 quality stock photography vendors. Royalty-free photographs, digital footage, video clips, vector clip art images, clipart pictures, background graphics, medical illustrations, and maps. They can help find the perfect photo very quickly and save a lot of time.
  • KODAK: Digital Image Samples - Sample digital images are for your non-commercial use.
• Shakespeare: The Complete Works - All things Shakespeare.
• The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Top 100 Art Sites
• Visual Arts - Concerns the traditional fine arts and other visual arts, including the interpretation and application of art in creative, scholarly, or therapeutic endeavors.
• Webmuseum, Paris - Online.