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Art, Music, and Theater Links
Visual Arts
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African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning An Electronic Exhibition |
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Animated
Bayeux Tapestry one of the most amazing blends of medieval and
modern...
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| The
Art of the Brick
by Nathan Sawaya, amazing Lego brick sculptures! |
| Art Museum Image Consortium works from museums around the world (thumbnails only, but still interesting!) |
| Bryce
Create realistic 3-dimensional landscapes and more... (free
download) |
| Cartoonster
Cool animation tutorial! |
| The
Cave of Lascaux explore, learn... |
| Chaoscope
Gallery a 3D strange attractors rendering software |
| Chinese
Watermelon Art Unusual and amazing |
| Clay
Animation build and animate your own characters! |
| Completely
Impossible Pictures Photos that stretch the mind! Can
you create your own...? |
| Dynamic
Einstein What would Einstein say to you? How about
Dumbledore? What would the Dictionary say about you? |
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Franklin Institute Online: Educational Hotlist from Art to Math to Music to Science and more... |
| GE
Interactive Whiteboard
draw on your screen, or invite friends to draw with you! |
| GettyGames
Art games from the Getty Museum |
| Google
Doodles love those random Google logos? See them all here,
U.S. and international, from 1998 to today! Don't miss the annual
Doodle 4 Google
contest for kids K-12 |
| Eric
Grohe Murals vividly realistic murals transform ordinary spaces
into panoramic works of beauty... |
| Exploring
Leonardo all about Leonardo and his inventions |
| Film
Street explore, and create your own animations! |
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Flying
Spaghetti Monster treats with working (and edible!) googly eyes
These little works of art look good enough to eat... and they are! |
| Impressionism
Paintings collected by European Museums... experience or teach... |
| Impressionism
& the Making of Modern Art browse through a series of virtual
exhibits designed by Princeton undergraduates |
| The
Infinite Art of Janet Parke fractal art, abstract images which reflect the
beauty of mathematics |
| Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology tour the artifacts, or tour Egypt itself |
| Interactives
from Annenberg Media Learner...
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| Inversions
words or names written so they read in more than one way |
| Jackson
Pollock paint like Jackson Pollock - an interactive canvas |
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Learning About Leonardo ... Why is the Mona Lisa smiling? |
| The
Louvre Visit the Louvre... virtually! |
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Make:
Technology on Your Time
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| Make-a-Flake
Create your own interactive snowflakes - great art, great
symmetry... |
| MakeBeleifs
Comix Create your own comic strips, with characters, emotions,
conversation or thought balloons, and more. Now create comics
in Spanish, too! |
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Make
Your Own PhotoMosaics take any ordinary digital camera image
(and about a hundred other photos), and make a photo mosaic...
(includes downloadable software) |
| Man
decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie When Charlie
Kratzer started on the basement , he was surrounded by walls painted
a classic cream. $10 of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place
was black and cream and drawn all over... |
| M. C. Escher enjoy a full
gallery of Escher's works! |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art extensive virtual museum, featuring many famous and classical pieces of art, plus learning activities |
| Minipop
Culture 30 pixel tall ... artwork? Read
Mini Madness... |
| Mr.
Picasso Head just drag and drop your abstraction |
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 NGAkids
Art Zone National Gallery of Art offers great art-making
tools and amazing art history... |
| OneMotion watch and play with the art
of motion...
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| Our
Earth as Art images of the earth, taken by the Landsat-7 and ASTER -
beautiful and downloadable... |
| PBS
Program companions to many great PBS features including resources,
lesson plans, and more...
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| PhotoMuse
a resource for scholarship in the history of photography... |
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Picturing
America Masterpieces of American art... (EDSITEment
lesson plans, too!) |
| Pivot
Stickfigure Animator create easy stick-figure animation
(download freeware) |
| Pumpkin
Gutter sculpting into the rind, for an unusual effect and more
interesting possibilities... |
| Running
the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
contemporary American culture through the austere lens of
statistics. Visit Chris Jordan's
other collections... |
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| SketchUp
download this free software to draw, model and share 3D drawings!
(from Google) |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum Collections and exhibitions, 1001 days and nights of American art, and more |
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Smithsonian Kids From
history to worldwide to air and space to science and beyond,
plus something new every day!
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| Smithsonian's
Nature's Best Photography Exhibition not a live cam, but oh, so
cute! |
| Snow Crystals
guide to snowflakes, snow crystals, and other ice phenomena... |
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Tate
Online over 65,000 works of the Tate Museum Britain...
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Young
Tate youth art initiative by young adults for young adults,
13 and 25, including artist interviews, podcasts, drawing
competitions, and more... |
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| Tessellation Town create your own tessellations, interactively |
| Theo
Jansen: The art of creating creatures
amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures! (TED video) |
| This
is sand
click on the grey square for instructions, and don't miss the
gallery - wow! |
| Three-dimensional
street paintings, various artists (below), plus comments from
Snopes...
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| Time
Life Pictures in News, Sports, or Entertainment... |
| Time
Photo Essays photo essays including people, places, pop culture, etc. |
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Toothpick
Moon Toothpick Sculptures sculptures designed on the
orbitals of our planets |
| Ukrainian
Egg Gallery Ukrainian pysanky eggs - the gorgeous artistic
"Easter eggs" |
| The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery the most thorough and comprehensive Van Gogh resource on the web, including all 873 paintings... |
| Webexhibits
fascinating tidbits of science...
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| WebMuseum art from Medieval to Cézanne, plus links to many more art museums around the world |
| Willard
Wigan To see the world in a grain of sand... unbelievable art on
the head of a pin, or in the eye of a needle! |
Origami and Paper Craft
| Amazing
Paper Sculptures by Peter Callesen, many from a single sheet of
paper! |
| Botropolis:
50 Awesome Papercraft Robots |
| Brain
Binders can you fold this page, into that shape, red on one side, yellow
on the other? Not as easy as it sounds... |
| Canon
3D-PaperCraft
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| Magic
Dragon Illusion video and
how-to |
| The
Making of Mens et Manus (In Origami) Arts & Crafts at MIT, taken
time-lapse over 10 hours! |
| Mukerji's
Own Folding Instructions and
Others' Designs Folding Instructions tons of modular origami,
for advanced folders! |
| origaminut
includes many modular models, and others, with diagrams and videos,
too |
| Mysterious
paper sculptures Amazing appearances in Edinburgh! |
| Origami
Yoda & other Star Wars papercraft |
| Paper
airplane that actually flies video tutorial to a unique and
flight-worthy paper plane design |
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A
Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean over four years of hard work,
complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of
paper! |
| Papercraft
World a blog of the best papercraft models anywhere! |
| Paper
Models of Polyhedra platonic solids, Archimedian solids, uniform
polyhedra, compounds, literally hundreds of paper models |
| Paper
Toys print and fold paper constructions |
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Pentagon-Hexagon
Zig-Zag (PHiZZ) Unit
modular origami fold whose locking mechanism is based on an
accordion pleat - really cool! |
| Robert
J. Lang Origami amazing models, plus a downloadable
Origami Simulation
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| SF
Movie Paper Craft print and fold paper creations from your
favorite sci-fi movies! The instructions are foreign but the
step-by-step photos should do the trick... |
| Shinkansen
Adorable train paper crafts for little ones! Select a color, print
and fold (instructions in Japanese, so may require some
experimentation) |
| Stephen
O'Hanlon's Origami Page gallery, diagrams, tutorials, theory...
don't miss the diagrams for an entire
origami chess
set! |
Theater and Dance
Music
| Amazing
Video of a Song Composed Entirely of 37 Cello Parts you have to
hear and see it to believe it! |
| Children's
(Vinyl) Record Series
free MP3s of some of our favorite children's story records,
including A Child's Introduction to the Orchestra, Hans Christian
Anderson's Fairy Tales told by Danny Kaye, and many more! |
| The
Classical Music Archives the largest classical music site on the web |
| Classics
for Kids listen to current and past shows, and the music that inspired
them, play games, check the composer time machine, and more! |
| Essentials
of Music from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century, through
Baroque and Romantic, the essential facts of music, including the
historical themes, context, style and composers... |
| Finale
Notepad free music notation software download |
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Harry
Partch's Instruments 27 new instruments, in strings, percussion and more,
"play" right on the site! |
| J.S.Bach
learn and listen, discover the subject, countersubject,
well-tempered scale, and more! (requires Flash) |
| MuseScore
Free cross-platform WYSIWYG music composition & notation software |
| Music
and Musicians Database browse by title or composer, artist or
conductor, even LA Phil musicians! Brought to you by LA Phil |
| Musical
Listening Test listen to pairs of tunes and decide whether they
are the same or different - how perceptive are you? |
| Not
On the Test Great song by Tom
Chapin, on a subject near to our
hearts |
| OneMotion watch and play with the art
of motion...
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| Pandora
Internet Radio pick a single song or artist, and Pandora will
create an entire radio station for you! |
| The
Piano Guys listen and watch the
Cello Wars
Lightsaber Duel and more! |
| San
Francisco Symphony Kids' Site Explore the instruments, create a tune,
basic music reading, more |
| Sharpsicord
like a Giant Music Box you have to see and hear this one! (also
visit
Sound Sculptor) |
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String
Thing
design your own string music with percussion, learn about the
science of music too! |
| Vienna Vegetable
Orchestra an excuse not to eat your vegetables. Listen to
the audio, watch the video, admire their instruments... |
| Virtual
Keyboard just like the real thing, with sounds, rhythms, chord
mode and more... |
| Wizard
Rock a new genre of music inspired by the works of J.K. Rowling
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December 01, 2020
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