Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities

The site "contains biographies and quotations of significant figures in the history of mysticism, and others, such as poets and philosophers, who have made important observations on the nature of existence. Each entry contains biographical details, quotations and pictures, where available, as well as links to help you search for further information and books by or about the subject."

"The California Biennial is an indispensable exhibition for both the young artists it champions and for audiences interested in discovering bold new talent," said Director Dennis Szakacs.

Born 1953 in France

Online version of the 18-volume encyclopedia.

University of Rochester site featuring Arthurian texts,images, bibliographies, and basic information.

Since 1884, CCNY has offered classes, competitions and lectures to entice photographers and to enhance their careers.

"The Canadian Literature Archive has been online since October 4, 1994 and is a repository for information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, publications, texts and library archives. It is a project of the English Department of the University of Manitoba. "

Poems, biographies, bibliographies, and selected resources featuring Canadian poets.

Site features essays, a digital manuscript gallery, and resources for Canadian writers such as Marie-Clair Blais, Roger Lemelin, Carol Shields, and Michael Tremblay.

Sponsored by Cardiff University,Wales, this journal appears on a twice-yearly basis. Articles include those addressing Romantic literarystudies with a special slant on book history, textual and bibliographical studies, the literary marketplace and the publishing world. From 1997, volume 1, forward.

A selected annotated bibliography.

This is the oldest photographic museum of the Iberian Peninsula and its stock of more than six hundred thousand negatives, originating from various collections, make it a unique and very special museum for the photographic enthusiasts.

Directory of links.

The international Catholic web portal.

Works by women writers and an extensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information. Browse by author, century, country, or ethnicity.

Introductory essay and brief bibliography.

Features resources for children's librarians. Includes lists of best books, reviews, and programming resources.

CDD is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.

CPA is celebrating over 30 years of fine art photography exhibitions in the same gallery, originally established as the Friends of Photography by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and other classic artists.

Collection of historic church documents and numerous links to online resources.

Articles, monographs, and other research on ideological struggles within the Muslim world.

"The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents was established in 1995 under the auspices of Oxford University's Faculty of Literae Humaniores to provide a focus for the study of ancient documents within Oxford. . . . The Centre provides a home for Oxford University's epigraphical archive, which includes one of the largest collections of squeezes (paper impressions) of Greek inscriptions in the world, together with the Haverfield archive of Roman inscriptions from Britain, and a substantial photographic collection. The strengths of the epigraphical archive lie in its broad coverage of early Greek inscriptions, Attic epigraphy and the Hellenistic world. Individual sites well represented in the archive include Chios, Samos, Priene, Rhodes, and Samothrace."

Founded in 1974 as a resource for photographic creation, education, and presentation, CEPA provides a context for understanding the aesthetic, cultural, and political intersections of photo-related art as it is produced in our diverse society.

Holiday calendar as well as information about the significance and observance of Jewish holidays. From the Jewish organization Chabad-Lubavitch's website.

"The Princeton Charrette Project is a complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript traditionthat of Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180)."

Website dedicated to the preservation and promotion of early children's book collections from across Europe. Digitized images are searchable by author, title, illustrator, subject, literary genre, and book type.

"The Childrens Book Council (CBC) is a non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and the use and enjoyment of childrens books, and is the official sponsor of Young Peoples Poetry Week and Childrens Book Week each year. The Councils Members include U.S. publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults."

This organizations goals are: To encourage serious scholarship and research in children's literature.to enhance the professional stature of the graduate and undergraduate teaching of children's literature andto encourage high standards of criticism in children's literature.

An online version of 19th century texts housed in the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Site includes poetry (in Chinese and English) arranged by author, audio clips of readings, world poetry in Chinese translation, and poetry links on the web.

"The sampler of Chinese texts collected here is intended as a resource for students of written Chinese from the advanced beginner level onward. The selections represent a wide range of periods and genres, but all are well known in modern-day China and worth reading in their own right."

Classic Christian books in electronic format, searchable by author, title, or type other features include an encylopedia of Christianity.

Outlines the history and beliefs of the Christian Science Movement. Includes links to other resources, and a select bibliography.

"This website gives contact information, such as names, addresses, phones numbers, e-mail addresses and website addresses for UK-based religious organisations. It is not an official publication of The Church of England."

scholarly journal from Lehman College about the literatures of Spain and Latin America in Spanish and English.

Serving Santa Cruz County, Monterey and the central coast of California, we provide a venue both on-line and off for anyone interested in the filmmaking process. Santa Cruz has always been a haven for creative people of all types. Artists, craftspeople, writers,actors, musicians and others are drawn to this small town and flourish in an atmosphere of acceptance and freedom. The goal of Cinemar is to create a thriving film community in Santa Cruz county by bringing local filmmakers together with the resources they need to produce their work.

Established in 2008, the Fair is the first international art fair in the Caribbean and Central America, which combines the best of international art with a stimulating program of cultural events.

A collection of electronic texts.

Library of Congress site offering an annotated list of reference websites.

"A companion to Morford and Lenardon's best-selling book, Mythology, this searchable site offers users of the book a number of additional resources and information. Chapter-specific activities and links allow students to explore the web and engage in exercises that focus on the key elements of each part of the book. Bibliographies, glossaries, maps, and a growing list of new translations of the classics provide support for research and further learning."

Web Guide to Classics Illustrated Comics.

Provides "original translations of traditional Buddhist stories, verses, analogies, and teachings not otherwise available in English."

Links to a broad range of resources including Greek and Latin Languages, Greek and Latin authors, Maps and sites of the Ancient World, Classics E-Journals, Medieval Latin Language and Culture, Classics Publishers, Classics Associations, and more.

From Purdue University Press. Since 1999 it has published quarterly scholarship, book reviews, bibliographies and thematic issues, in the widest definition of the discipline of comparative literature and culture. It combines traditional comparative literature with comparative culturalstudies. Each article is preceded by an abstract.

Provides photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, television, opera and ballet.

Guide to mysteries and crime fiction on the Internet. The links are divided into numerous, easy to navigate categories such as Authors, Characters, Themes, Reviews, Awards, and many others.