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A site that has a growing collection of digital images of contemporary ceramic works. Thus far the contributing 300+ artists encompasses a broad and varied scope of ceramists in the World.

Artlex is the Original Art Dictionary and Encyclopedia on the Web, founded in 1998.
More than just a dictionary, we have expanded to include Artist Profiles, Art Tutorials, Buying Guides and much more!

Dictionaries, biographical info, and biographies of American and international artists.

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.

PBS's series on contemporary art.

The Art Genome Project is the classification system and technological framework that powers Artsy. It maps the characteristics (we call them "genes") that connect artists, artworks, architecture, and design objects across history. There are currently over 1,000 characteristics in The Art Genome Project, including art historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities.

Frick Art Reference Library’s research guide to artists, collectors, and dealers of underrepresented identities in our collections, including those who are Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Hispanic and Latinx. In recognition of the largely European and Western-centric nature of the Library’s collection, this guide seeks to serve as a public tool through which materials on BIPOC artists, collectors, and dealers can be made more discoverable. This resource contains materials in a variety of formats, including books, e-books, archived websites, exhibition catalogs, and artist files comprised of photographic reproductions of artworks and historical documentation.

The Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive is a collection developed by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Art & Architecture Librarians, and is an extension of an existing effort focused on collecting publications in all formats that document contemporary art and artists of Latin America and the Caribbean. The agreement defines contemporary art as it refers to 'developments in the visual arts from 1975 to the present,' with material sought 'for the entire career of artists who have been active at any time since 1975.' This archive aims to preserve for researchers the personal and official websites belonging to notable contemporary Latin American and Caribbean artists, artists’ collectives, artists’ groups, galleries, museums, and related entities in order to assure the continuing availability of the important content they contain.

The Art and Artifacts Division collects, documents, preserves, and interprets art and artifacts by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world. Fine and applied art and material culture objects from the seventeenth century to the present are collected, with emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United States and Africa.

The core of this presentation consists of “stock” arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans.

American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. Now in our 12th year on the air, American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished.

A selection of world accessible streaming sound recordings at Stanford

This website brings together over 6,100 documents, 1,600 files, and 7,600 text files that tell the story of this masterful composer and musician.

This collection has more than 200 self-playing instruments dating from 1897 to the 1930's.

The Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frederic Chopin, maintained in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. Because Chopin's works were often published concurrently in several countries with variant texts, scholars can establish a sequence of publication by comparing a range of printings.

Classical Net features more than 9000 pages and 20,000+ images including more than 6500 CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray and Book reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites.

Classic FM is a 100 per cent classical music radio station.

A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples at the University of Washington.

A video instructional series on the elements of music for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 12 half-hour video programs, audiocassettes, CDs, and coordinated books

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.

The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute serves to organize and develop collections, initiate and participate in research activities, sponsor events and acquire material culture associated with Hiphop in the U.S. and throughout the world.

This collection contains nearly 20,000 pieces of original American popular sheet music dating back to the mid-19th century including several hundred published musical and film song folios, musical artist folios, musical genre folios, and dance folios.

Sound recordings from 25 collections of American music, oral histories and speeches.

The cyber encyclopedia of musicals, film, & television contains a wide range of articles and resources on the history of musicals on stage, film and television - more than 800 commercial free pages.

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives.

The National Music Museum is a partnership between the National Music Museum, Inc., a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation (responsible for acquisitions, public exhibiting, and programming) and the University of South Dakota (providing staff and facilities for preservation, teaching, and research).

IMSLP, also known as the International Music Score Library Project or Petrucci Music Library, was started in 2006. The logo on the main page is a capital letter A. It was taken from the beginning of the very first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake.

The ultimate archive of music journalism...over 20,000 classic articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, on all genres from rockabilly to hip hop, by the finest music writers of the last 50 years.

AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love.

Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online.