700-799 The Arts

Artcyclopedia: Click on your favorite Top 30 Artist and find links to several online exhibits.

Explore Art: Search for artists to view a brief biography and art work from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.

Grove Art Online: Discover biographies, images, articles and more dealing with artists.

Louvre Museum: Located in Paris, this art museum is one of the oldest museums in the world.  View QuickTime movies that let you walk around the museum and visit its most famous masterpieces.

Posters from the WPA: From the 1930s this collection of posters are one of the first government-sponsored art programs in the United States. Many of these posters advertised the programs and policies of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, while others instructed citizens on health and sanitation issues.

Timeline of Art: Click on an interactive timeline to learn about the art, the medium, and the artists from the Cave Paintings of Lascaux, to Pompeii Wall Art, to Byzantine sculpture, or surrealism.

Timeline of Art History: This timeline of art history is indexed by artist, special topics, regions, and subjects.

Totally Tessellated: "Combining the beauty and intrigue of art and mathematics, tessellations are repeating patterns of interlocking shapes. Totally Tessellated is a comprehensive online introduction to these awesome images."

Works of Art: Islamic Art: This Metropolitan Museum of Art site gives you the opportunity to browse 50 objects up-close dealing with Islamic art.

Architect Studio 3D: This interactive site encourages critical thinking through exploration of architectural concepts and design principals.

Building Big: Learn about engineering through an interactive engineering lab.  Explore bridges, domes, skyscrapers, tunnels, and dams.  Solve engineering problems, learn about special tools and techniques for building big.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Find out more about this famous American architect including drawings and blueprints.

Alex Bateman's Origami Page – Find several examples with directions of origami models as well as origami tessellations.

Art Recipes: Find recipes to make playdough, flubber, dye, fake snow, goop, as well as links to other play recipes.

Art Supply Recipes: Find the recipes here from making paper mache paste, to clay recipes, bubble recipes, and paint recipes.

The Artchive: Research information on artists from around the world.

The Cave of Lascaux: Discover and learn all about the art in this prehistoric cave located in France.

Georgia O’Keeffe: The life and work of painter Georgia O'Keeffe are presented as a tour at this site.

North American Prehistory: Discover how the first Americans came across the Bering Land Bridge in Alaska, rock art, the history of American archaeology, and links to prehistory sites.

Scenes of American Life: View 62 paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum which highlight the story of American life throughout its history.

Yahoo: Links to Master Artists: Find a list of links here for over 2,000 master artists arranged in alphabetical order.

The Land Through A Lens: This online gallery from the Smithsonian American Art Museum offers photographs of the American landscape.

The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music: Find short biographies of famous classical composers with a listing of their compositions.

Essentials of Music:  This site contains overviews of the six main periods of music history (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century), biographies of 70 composers connected to 200 clips of music plus a glossary of 200 terms with musical examples.

Freeplay Music: This site provides royalty-free downloads of background music for “educational, non-commercial use (limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects- non broadcast)”.  Check out the “Terms of Use” for other applications.

A Great Day in Harlem: “Explore jazz history through one photograph.”

Incompetech.com: Find royalty free music collections at this site.

Jazz Kids: Investigate the world of jazz through a timeline, biographies of jazz stars, and musical games.

Lincoln Center Institute: Our school district is a member of the Lincoln Center Institute for the arts in education.  Find our more information about the institute here.

MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music: Find short biographies of famous popular music composers.

NEA Jazz in the Schools: “NEA Jazz in the Schools is a web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit that explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and as a means to understand American history.”

The New York Philharmonic Kidzone!: A great interactive site for kids about orchestral music.

SFS Kids: The San Francisco Symphony presents this great interactive site for kids dealing with the instruments of the orchestra as well as other interesting facts.

Smithsonian Jazz: A fantastic site to listen and to learn all about jazz.

Ballparks: Visit the homes for baseball, basketball, football, and hockey teams, as well as Olympic stadiums and racing tracks.  Learn about the statistics and information on all the fields and stadiums.  There are maps as well as seating charts and color photos.

Hockey Hall of Fame: Take a virtual tour and see online exhibits dealing with the Hockey Hall of Fame.

IBMHF: International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame: A virtual tour of the museum is given as well as biographies of the bowling hall of fame, news stories, trivial, and a history of bowling.

Sports Rules: This site is “intended to be a concise reference guide, containing easy to understand explanations of the rules and guidelines of many sports.”  Choose from more than 30 sports.

Ancient and Modern Olympic Sports: Take a tour of ancient Olympia today or discover the differences between ancient and modern day games along with the religious festival, politics of the game, ancient Greek city-states, and how the competitive spirit began.

The Early Olympic Games: Learn here about the first Olympic Stadium, at Olympia in ancient Greece. Contestants would come from all of the Greek lands to test their skill, speed and strength. During peace and war, for thousands of years,the Olympics were a constant.

The Olympic Movement: This is the official website of the International Olympic Committee.  Find biographies of more than 250 Olympians and information of the history of each sport.  Also find a detailed Olympic Games timeline since 1896.

The Olympic Museum: Take a virtual tour of this museum and view historic artifacts including video clips.