Harrison Memorial Library

Visual and Performing Arts

Local Resources

Art and Music
Carmel Art Association - Founded in 1927, Carmel's oldest gallery features the work of more than 120 professional local artists.
Carmel Art Gallery Directory - listing of fine art galleries in Carmel.
Carmel Art, Photography, Writers, and Architecture - from the Carmel Visitor's Center
Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival
Carmel Bach Festival - Information on festival programs, tickets, etc.
Sunset Center

Theater in Carmel
Carl Cherry Center for the Performing Arts
Children's Experimental Theater and Staff Players - at the Indoor Forest Theater
Forest Theater Guild - outdoor Forest Theater
Pacific Repertory Theater

Architecture

Digital Archive of American Architecture - 1,500 digitized images of American architecture
Digital Archive of European Architecture - archive of images.
Great Buildings Collection - Architectural history and current architecture. 1000 famous buildings and hundreds of architects. Photos, 3D models, bibliographies and more.
S*P*I*R*O -Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online from the UC Berkeley architecture slide library.

Art and Artists

Absolute Arts - Largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, galleries, museums
Art History Resources on the Web -Extensive directory of links to art history resources.
Art Sales Index - Art prices and auction results. Art Sales Index allows you to search 3.5 million art auction results and records
Artnet - Buy, sell and research fine art online. Some services are fee-based.
Artcyclopedia – Guide to art on the internet; includes artists and art history.
ArtSource - List of Web resources for art and architecture, including image collections and museum information.
Askart -24,000 North American artists' auction records, biographies, exhibitions, references and more. Some services are fee-based.
Getty Union List of Artists' Names Online - a structured vocabulary containing around 120,000 records, including 293,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects.
Incredible Art Department – Resources, ideas, and links for art educators
Timeline of Art History -from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dance

ABT Ballet Dictionary - An interactive site where you will find an introduction to the art of ballet in small video clips illustrating 170 technical terms such as adagio, pirouette, and ronde de jambe.
Ballet Companies - over 3000 links to ballet and dance companies all over the world.
Ballroom Dance Resource - Video clips, technical tips, a directory of resources, a discussion forum, and more.
Voice of Dance - message boards, reviews from dance critics, calendar listings for dance performances around the country, a Local Class Finder to find information on dance classes, discount tickets, and a Global Dance Directory to find basically anything you are looking for in the dance world.

Music

All Music Guide - Album reviews, artist profiles, discographies, music styles, and more.
Classical Net - Features more than 7000 files including more than 5200 CD, SACD, DVD and Book reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites.
Sheet Music - California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index - song titles from the indexes of the collections of the California Library System Reference Centers and Santa Cruz Public Library's Sheet Music Database - more than 25,000 pieces of popular, traditional, and folk music, issues of Sheet Music Magazine from 1977 up to the present, and songbooks. Most of the music in the collection is for piano and guitar. Sheet music from these collections is available through interlibrary loan- just ask at the reference desk.
Opera Glass - Librettos, synopses
OperaBase - Worldwide opera schedules and performers
Thinkquest -Find out about music theory, history, instruments, styles and more.

Photography

Ansel Adams Gallery - Biographical and print information
Art-Support Fine Art Photography - Articles and resources for photographers: gallery listings, forms, marketing information
Edward Weston - Biographical and print information

Theater

Doolee.com - Database of plays, playwrights, theaters, characters and literary agents since 1956.
Inter-Play - an index of plays in collections, maintained by librarians at Portland State University
Internet Broadway Database - “the official database for Broadway theatre information” offers production records of current as well as previous shows
Playbill - News, features, performance listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, London and Regional theatre. Buy discount theater tickets.
Tony Awards - official website of the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, Broadway's highest honors.