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A Literary Map of Manhattan - NYT literary map of real locations that pappear in fictional works set in Manhattan.
Alliance of Literary Societies - A membership of more than 125 societies. Provides support and advice on a variety of literary subjects as well as promoting co-operation between member societies in the preparation of their programs.
American Treasures for the Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson, whose personal library became the core of the Library of Congress, arranged his books into three types of knowledge, corresponding to three faculties of the mind: Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy), and Imagination (Fine Arts). Although the Library organizes its immense collections according to a system created at the end of the1800s, the treasures in this exhibition have been placed in the same categories that Jefferson would have used, had he been deciding where to put Alexander Graham Bell's lab notebook or George Gershwin's full orchestral score for Porgy and Bess.
Art and Culture - Guide to design arts, film, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.
Artes Mundi Prize - A new, international visual arts prize, established to celebrate visual culture from across the globe. Based in Wales, the very first Artes Mundi Prize was awarded in March 2004, launching the event as a biennial opportunity for artists as well as audiences.
Arts International: Resources and Reports - An area dedicated to articles, publications, important internet links and other resources that help facilitate international exchange and collaboration in the arts. Also included are conference reports, working papers, guides and tools for traveling artists.
Brecht Forum (New York) - A place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical analysis, creative thinking, collaboartive projects and networking in an independent community-level environment. Throughout the year, the Brecht Forum offers a wide-ranging program of classes, public lectures and seminars, art exhibitions, performances, popular education workshops, and language classes.
British Library Sound Archive - Includes entries for almost two-and-a-half million recordings. Updated daily. It is one of the largest catalogues of its kind anywhere in the world, covering both published and unpublished recordings in all genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history, drama and literature, dialect, language and wildlife sounds.
Centre Pompidou - Paris, France. Houses one of the most important museums in the world, featuring the leading collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, a vast public reference library with over 2,000 places to work, general documentation on 20th century art, cinema and performance halls, an institute for musical research, educational activity areas, bookshops, a restaurant and a café.
Cultural Bridge - Explores cultures through the eyes of visitors to places found on the site, through interviews, through photographs, and through a cultural forum consisting of visitor's letters.
Culture Online - UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Culture Shock - Companion site to the PBS series on art, cultural values and the freedom of expression. Artists featured in this site address such perennially divisive topics as race, religion, politics, sex, and violence.
CultureFinder - Search across the U.S. for over 300,000 theater, music, opera, dance and visual arts events.
Culturekiosque.com - News, features, criticism and interviews about art exhibitions, concerts, opera stars, jazz, dance, international cuisine and technology in English, French and/or German.
Digital Dada Library - This collection provides links to some of the major Dada-era publications in the International Dada Archive. These books, pamphlets, and periodicals are housed in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries. For reasons of copyright, no documents published after 1923 have been included.
Edge - Promotes inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
Europeana -
Enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.
Exiled Writers Ink! - Writers in exile. Publications, projects, biogaphies and sample writings and other works.
Foundation for Jewish Culture (FJC) - The FJC works with artists, scholars, cultural institutions and community agencies to enrich Jewish life, enhance educational opportunities and foster a dynamic Jewish identity in a multicultural society.
Franklin Furnace - Franklin Furnace's mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content.
French Culture - Cultural services of the French Embassy based in New York. French art, books, cinema, education, music, people, performing arts, TV/radio.
fUSION Anomaly - Nexus for various "nodes" containing eclectic and stimulating information about authors, opinions, writings, places, and many other interests.
Get Underground - A sub-mainstream arts and culture community dedicated to the free expression of the creative global underground. Creative resistance designed for the emancipation of the human spirit.
Global Heritage -
Mission is to save the earth’s most significant and endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries and regions through scientific excellence and community development.
Goethe-Institut - A worldwide organisation which teaches German language and culture.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) - Literary and cultural research. Its special collections contain approximately 35 million manuscripts, 1 million books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art, and an important collection on performing arts. Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the major emphasis of its acquisitions has been on twentieth-century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and French.
Hugo Boss Prize - Contemporary art prize handed out jointly by Hugo Boss and Guggenheim Museum.
Italian Cultural Institute - Los Angeles - One of five cultural agencies established in the United States by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The others are in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. It was established in 1986 as the Cultural Office of the Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles, and its mission is to promote Italian culture and recent artistic developments in all sectors – including architecture, fashion, film, gastronomy, literature, music, theater, and visual and performing arts. The Institute's jurisdiction covers all of Southern California as well as Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Italian Institute for Cultural Industries (IsICult) - devoted to research activities, documentation, analysis, advisory service, planning and event organization, international cooperation, professional training and technical support in the field of cultural industries, particularly in the area of the media, audio-visual, entertainment, and new technologies.
Japan Foundation - An organization for cultural exchange from such academic pursuits as Japanese studies and Japanese-language education to the arts, publication, audio-visual media, and sports.
Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) - Examines the evolution of ideas and their influence on historical developments. An interdisciplinary publication, JHI covers several fields of historical study, including the history of philosophy, literature, the natural and social sciences, religion, the arts, and culture in general.
Lannan Foundation - The foundation supports this mission with long-term special projects requiring multi-year commitments of funding and technical assistance in the areas of contemporary visual art, literature, indigenous communities, and issues of cultural freedom. Broadcasts of all Readings and Conversations programs can be heard on KUNM 89.9FM at 6:00 pm on the Saturday immediately after each event and also on KSFR 90.7FM at 2:00 pm on the Sunday immediately after each event. The audio archive section of the Lannan website will have a permanent streaming audio file posted within a week of every event.
Lettriste Pages - Collection of poetry, film, theater, and other art forms from one of the major movements in visual poetry. Includes work by Isidore Isou, Alain Satié, Catherine James, Roland Sabatier, Frédérique Devaux, Michel Amarger, David W. Seaman, Virginie Caraven, Gabriel Pomerand, Woodie Roehmer, and others.
Libraries and Culture - An interdisciplinary journal that explores the significance of collections of recorded knowledge--their creation, organization, preservation, and utilization--in the context of cultural and social history, unlimited as to time and place.
Memory of the World - Significant collections worldwide have suffered a variety of fates. Looting and dispersal, illegal trading, destruction, inadequate housing and funding have all played a part. Much as vanished forever; much is endangered. Happily, missing documentary heritage is sometimes rediscovered. Through its National Commissions, UNESCO has prepared a list of endangered library and archive holdings and a world list of national cinematic heritage. Meanwhile, a range of pilot projects employing contemporary technology to reproduce original documentary heritage on other media was commenced.
Naropa Audio Archives - The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The collection was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the University's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S. literary avant-garde. The collection represents several generations of artists who have contributed to aesthetic and cultural change in the postmodern era. The Naropa University Archive Project seeks to enhance appreciation and understanding of post-World War II American literature and its role in social change, cultural criticism, and the literary arts through widespread dissemination of the actual voices of the poets and writers of this period. Current interest in Oriental religions, environmentalism, political activism, ethnic studies, and women's consciousness is directly indebted to the work of these American poets, writers and musicians.
New York City Graffiti @149st - The @149st web site's primary objective is the preservation of the history of the art form developed on New York City's subways. It is a work-in-progress and the basis for a future book.
Paper Heart, The - A downtown Phoenix, Arizona, arts destination catering to visual art, music, dance, theater, spoken word/poetry, performance, video/film and comedy.
Parisian Cabarets and the Avant Garde, 1875-1905 - Recreates the heady atmosphere of Montmartre nightlife at the fin-de-siècle when raucous, irreverent artists, writers, performers, and composers formed groups with nonsensical names such as the Hydropathes and the Incohérents. Claiming Montmartre cabarets as their headquarters, these artists'groups employed humor, parody, and satire to create artworks, transforming cabarets from proverbial places where one went to drink, eat, and be merry into, in contemporary parlance, alternative art and performance spaces.
ParkBench - Net as public theater with Nina Sobell and Emily Hartzell, collaborators in art with technology.
Passionbomb Community - A forum for revolutionary anti-authoritarian culture providing alternative resources for cultural saboteurs including artists, writers, musicians, activists, and pranksters in the bay area (Oakland, San Francisco, Bekeley, etc) and beyond. A multimedia hub for streaming films and videos, zines, independent/underground music and digital technology with subversive content.
PopMatters.com - A magazine of global culture covering music, television, films, books, video games, computer software, theatre, the visual arts, and the Internet.
Primitivism - An exploration into primitivist theory, as well as various works that contribute to an understanding of the tendency.
Psychedelic Sixties, The - Subject areas include: 19th Century Precursors, 20th Century Precursors, The Beats: New York, The Beats: San Francisco, The Black Mountain Poets, Ken Kesey & the Merry Prankster, Timothy Leary, 1967, The Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, Rock Music, New York Weighs In, 1968, Social Protest, Illicit Drugs, Hippies, 1969, Four Radical Groups, Protest at the University of Virginia, Woodstock, Posters, Rock Handbills. The University of Virginia Library, Special Collections Library has mined two of its richest literary collections for the items shown there in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature and the Marvin Tatum Collection of Contemporary Literature.
Ransom Center - From the Gutenberg Bible to the scripts and costumes of Gone With The Wind, from Joyce's Ulysses to the great works of the modern stage, the Ransom Center's collections are dazzling in their range and stunning in their originality.
RE/Search - Essential counterculture library. The range of topics is vast: punk, lounge music, swing dancing, retro culture, jazz, the Beats, self-publishing (zines), pranks, sado-masochism, torture, sword-swallowing, modern primitives, B-movies, high-tech surveillance, trepaning. Plus conversations with William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Kathy Acker, Bob Flanagan, Henry Rollins.
Scholarly Societies Project - Directory information typically includes the society name, contact information, founding date, and subject areas of interest. It may also include the location of the society, number of members, and the major journals.
Showroom Workstation - A unique managed workspace/business centre for companies working in and around cultural and media industries. Since opening in 1993 the centre has grown into one of the UK's most successful centres for cultural industries and has attracted companies with a wide portfolio of national and international clients.
Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles) - Jewish cultural institution, and among the most prominent cultural venues in the United States. The Skirball features an extraordinary museum, changing exhibitions, engaging music, theater, comedy, film, family, and literary programs, Zeidler's Café, and Audrey's Museum store - all in a stunning architectural setting designed by architect Moshe Safdie.
Slought Foundation - A not-for-profit cultural organization based in Philadelphia that highlights inventive and interdisciplinary practice by collaborating with leading artists and architects in an intimate and participatory environment. Encourages new forms of sociability and activism through public programs that are purposely critical and provocative.
Smithsonian -
Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities.
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Affiliate Museums - Brings collections, scholarship and exhibitions to communities across the nation.
Collections - America's heritage, art from across the globe, and the immense diversity of the natural and cultural world.
Contributions and Studies Series - All of the back issues and currently published series are available here in their entirety as pdfs and plain text files.
Cultural Programs - A steward and ambassador of cultural connections, the Smithsonian's work promotes understanding of world cultures.
Museums and Zoo - Home to 19 museums and galleries, and the National Zoo.
Research Centers - Operates nine research centers and numerous research programs.
Science - Smithsonian science examines many of the world's most complex and time-sensitive problems.
SITES: Traveling Exhibition Service - Specializes in creating three dimensional, full-scale exhibition "packages" containing objects, photographic images, and interpretive text. Many exhibitions also include cases, freestanding display units, and computer and audiovisual equipment.
Smithsonian Folkways - The nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.
Tia Chucha's Café Cultural - A cultural space with books, workshops, art exhibits, presentations, readings, family events, performances, and a full coffee bar. Cultivates the practice and discipline associated with writing, art, music, performance, and technology in the large Chicano/Mexicano/Central American communities of greater Los Angeles, in particular the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Located in Sylmar, California.
Transparency - Writing on the media, popular culture and human nature.
Turner Prize - An annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. It is organized by the Tate art gallery, and since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised art award.
UbuWeb - Definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry.
UNESCO Sector for Culture - Devoted to policy making in the field of culture. Includes directory of annotated sites.
Verisimilitudo -
Eclectic collection on articles on art and culture, including art lessons, ceramic artists, jewelry, photographers, magazines, movies, museums, painters, performing artists, sculptors. Also, see obituary for Adeliza McHugh, of the Candy Store Gallery in Folsom, California.
Visual Collections - Images of art, history and culture. View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections.
Wild Bohemian - Material relating to Bohemians in the U.S. during the 20th century.
World Digital Library Project - Make available significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.
World Heritage Centre - UNESCO's World Heritage mission is to encourage countries to sign Convention to ensure the protection of their own natural and cultural heritage and to encourage state parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List.
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