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Local Arts and Music
Community Folk Arts Center
The Center is a program of the African American Studies Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University.
Delavan
Art Gallery
A gallery on West Fayette Street with original art
by area artists.
Light Work
Photography gallery and community darkrooms.
Open Hand Theater International Mask and Puppet Museum
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
SyracuseArts.net
A comprehensive directory of performances and performing
arts organizations in Syracuse and Onondaga County.
Syracuse University Drama Department
Movies
All Movie Guide
A comprehensive database of movie information,
including plot synopses and actor bios.
The Internet Movie
Database (IMDb)
The most comprehensive movie-related site on
the Web.
Movie Review Query Engine
A searchable database of reviews, news, interviews and other material associated to specific movies.
Roger
Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times
A searchable database of Roger Ebert's full-text
movie reviews since 1985.
Syracuse International Film and Video Festival
Music
All Classical
Guide
Biographies of classical music composers, performers,
and ensembles, as well as work listings by composer
and descriptions of compositions.
All Music Guide
For all types of music other than classical. Information
on styles, artists, and albums. Also includes a
glossary of music terms.
Allrecordlabels.com
A comprehensive listing of over 10,000 record label
web sites indexed by genre, format, and location.
It can be searched by label name.
Billboard
Online
Music news, charts, archives, and artist features.
FestivalFinder:
Music Festivals of North America
A guide to upcoming music festivals in the U. S.
and Canada. Search by genre, performer, location,
festival date, and more.
Historic
American Sheet Music
The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides
access to digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet
music published in America between 1850 and 1920.
Lyrics
World
Specializes in lyrics for rock and pop songs that
charted in the Top 40 from 1930 to 1999. Browse
by title or artist.
Performing Arts
The Internet Broadway
Database
The official archival database for Broadway theatre
information.
Live Broadway
The official website of Broadway.
Talkin'
Broadway
Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre news, discussion,
and reviews.
Ticketmaster.com
Offers multiple ways to search for a happening:
by category, by search engine, or by a geographic
region.
Television
Encyclopedia of Television
Examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, and topics
such as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes
histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around
the world.
The Episode Guides Page
Links to "breakdowns on virtually every TV show ever broadcast."(!)
Also a large repository of trivia.
TV Guide Online
Television and movie news and reviews. Requires Flash Player.
TV.com
View episode guides and cast and crew information for current and classic
TV shows.
Zap2it.com
Enter your zip code to see local TV listings.
Visual Arts
Artcyclopedia
An index of online museums and image archives. Find out where the works of
over 7,500 different fine artists can be viewed online.
ArtLex
Definitions for more than 3,300 art-related terms.
artnet.com Research Library
Articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art on artist's biographies, materials
and techniques, and styles and movements.
AskART.com
American artists directory with biographical information, bibliography, images,
museum holdings, dealer listings, and more.
Impressionism from European Museums
A virtual tour, based on an exhibit in 1999, that highlights the major themes of Impressionism. This site is created by The Seattle Museum of Art and includes images of paintings and downloadable lesson plans for teachers.
Mark Harden's Artchive
More than 2,000 scans of fine art from over 200 different artists.
Virtual Library Museums Pages
A directory of online museums around the world.
Last updated: August 4, 2010