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The Library

As this page has grown, it has become somewhat amorphous, so I thought I'd use some minimal Library Science skills & classify it.

Art Links

Artists whose artwork is in our house
Arie ben David - my brother-in-law - we don't have any original works, but do have several posters
Dennis Dahill - whose work I saw at an exhibition of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative
Pamela Day - a dear friend from Lawrence
Valerie Gates- local jewelry maker who uses sea glass in her creations
Bob Hesse - WInchester, MA-based photographer. His October Light was taken at the Mohegan Museum, Mohegan Island, ME. I met him when they were taking down the Cambridge Art Association show & I ran down to grab the picture before it got away. I'm still trying to figure out which way it faces. Here's another link to his work.
Christopher Holmes - whose work I saw at an exhibition of the Cambridge Art Association
Melissa Kulig - although the pear painting I bought in 2006 is done on a black, wooden box, it is not one of the series shown here.
Francie Riggs, a New Hampshire artist. I was immediately struck by her assemblage, Ascension, at a recent show of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative. What you can't see so well in this picture is that the artwork is housed in a lovely black-sided box.
Anne Watkins - A cousin of mine. I don't own any of Anne's wonderful watercolors yet, but I wanted to give her a plug.
Ed Watkins - Fine art photography. Another cousin of mine. I now have a couple of his wonderful photographs. Images to follow.
Local artists whose work I enjoy
Karyn Frances Grey - especially her "Old sunflowers" watercolor
Susan Tait Porcaro - especially her colored pencil "Grace"
artbabble.org
a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion - no art degree required.
Arte Povera
Piero Manzoni "a child of DADA & the father of Conceptualism" according to a recent NY Times article, was on of this Italian group's members
David Avery Etchings
kind of a latter Richard Dadd
Hatje Cantz
German art-book publisher. I have their gorgeous catalog of the Wiener Werkstätte jewelry exhibition at the Neue Galerie, NYC.
Edition Q - a collection of male photographs, a one-night-only event to raise funds for Seattle's Gay City Health Project
the Avedon photos are quite stunning
Mark I. Chester
gay radical sex photographer, writer, performer and curator.
Constructivism
A synopsis of Constructivism
Wikipedia article
Designers
Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942)
Artcyclopedia
Ashbee.com
Gay for today
Victorian Web
Charles Christofle
The Glasgow School
Cooper Hewett museum shop
Rene Lalique
Hector Guimard - Art nouveau architect
Charles Rennie Macintosh 
La Belle Studios - Macintosh-inspired gifts
Robert Mallet-Stevens - Art deco designer
Philippe Starck
E-cards from various museums
Fine Arts in Hungary
Fluxus
fluxus.org/
Wikipedia article
From Russia with art
Gee's Bend Quilts
an incredible collection I've had the luck to see both in DC & Boston.
Jack Goldstein
American artist
Harvard University art collection
Online search capability.
Image indexing websites
FFFFound - "a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests"
VI.SUALIZE.US - Bookmark the pictures you like around the web.
WEHEARTIT - bookmark images and videos from any website with one button
Paul Klee
a new cultural center in Bern, Switzerland
Gustav Klimpt
David Kupferman
Intriguing Boston-area artist
Jan Mankes
A Dutch artist I was quite taken with at the museum in Spanbroek
Jeffrey Melzack
Boston-area artist with some extraordinary paintings. 
Ben Neubauer
Fantastic jeweler I met at the Wellesley Composers' Conference. Also plays a mean viola!
Paper, Scissors, Rock
a website run by a friend of my friend, Pam Corwin, who runs the concern, works in acrylics and watercolors to make clocks, magnets and switchplates. Cute stuff.
NL: A SEASON OF DUTCH ART IN THE BERKSHIRES
SUMMER 2007
Odilon Redon
One of my favorites
Egon Schiele
Another of my faves
Sarah Sze
An amazing artist who does on-site one of a kind installations
The Victorian Web
The art links with biographical info re DG Rossetti, Burne-Jones, et al.calong with examples of their artworks are most wonderous
The Wessel + O'connor gallery an interesting art gallery in NYC http://www.wesseloconnor.com/
Podcasts from major museums - apparently you can also play these on your computer
Burlington Museum of Pez Memorabilia - Burlingame, CA
Hirshhorn Museum - Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York (search for podcasts). Page can take awhile to load
Museum of Modern Art - New York
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis

Bibliographic Sources

  • There's a great place on the web I just discovered for bibliographic referencing of information online. It's called Online! A reference guide to using internet sources and lists MLA, APA, Chicago, and several others for citations, as well as including book contents, links by chapter and more. The URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/index.html.
  • Another great bibliographic source is http://www.bartleby.com/. It contains fulltext reference works, nonfiction, and literature. This includes Barlett's Quotations, The Columbia Encyclopedia, and Harvard Classics.
  • Bibliography database software programs
  • Easybib - quickly renders bibliography-ready formatting of website, books (as long as they're in Worldcat, newspapers and more
  • Wikipedia - great internet resource with source material from such publications as the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Book Repair

Composer links

Here's an article, Le Gymnopédiste, I found on Eric Satie. I'm including it since he's one of my favorite composers. (Favorite being Ravel.) The article is part of a larger website (who knew there was a Satie newsgroup?). Here is a archive of audio & video files. But you have to make a donation to access them.

Computer-related

CD recordable faq
Cataloging Software
Bruji - Bookpedia, CDpedia, DVDpedia, etc.
delicious library (MAC)
Digital audio editors - LP to CD computer files
Audacity - free & open source
Goldwave
Tracer Tech
DVD Backup Software
CopyToDVD - Offers a free trial
DVD guides
DVD-ripping tools
a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools
Electronic gadgets (and other things) rating sites
Cnet.com - editors' reviews, price comparison and more
keepcash.com - coupon codes for major brands & big box stores
nextag.com - get your product number from Cnet or Consumer Reports, then search for the best price here (also has info on non-electronic merchandise)
priceprotectr.com - keep track of your purchases and get your money back if the price drops
Pricespider.com - register with the site, set your price threshold and they will send you an email if it finds a listing
shoplocal.com - also has non-electronic listings within a 10-mile radius of your zip-code
other deal-shopping sites - from Pete Freitag
Finale tips-n-tricks
Finale and Sibelius helpdesk
Finale Forum
Finale listserv
Firefox from Mozilla
Fireworks tutorials
Fading images - video tutorial
Another fading tutorial
Font links
fontforge
lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, etc. fonts. Mac & PC
fontstruct.com
Design your own but they're the property of the site's owner - Mac or PC
highlogic.com
Basic version $80/professional version $150. Windows only
Google extras
Igoogle
dress up Google's webpage with personalized info
Google Reader
type a topic, and subscribe to the interesting options
Google Maps
Can even view current traffic conditions?
Gmailer Labs
On-off switches for various gmail extras
Quick search box
Mac program that searches your computer, address book, the web for words, weather & more
Translator
Translates any text or web page to/from 40 languages
800-goog-411
voice-recognition cellphone service
secrets of the search box
use for conversion (dollars to lira), definitions (define:word), package tracker for Fedex or UPS, yellow pages (phonebook: name of company with town, etc.), weather forecaster (weather new york), movie listings (movie: zip code)
Scholar
search all published academic papers at once
HTML escape symbols
Internet acronyms - want to know what ROTFLOLPIMP means? Check this site out.
Mac links
How to Connect Audio Devices to Your Computer
Audio Hi-jack Pro - listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro
Bruji - library and CD cataloging software
Mac cheatsheet - keep important computer-related info on a cheat sheet
Dashboard widgets
Flip4Mac knowledgebase - digital media tools for the Macintosh
Keyboard shortcuts
How to force background maintenance tasks (logs and temporary items)
Keyboard tips & tricks
Link Checkers
Integrity
 
Bare-bones checker - doesn't ignore matierial between comment tags
Link checker
Edits pages stored locally
Macmeters - a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X
Mac/Windows integration
Max fix-it - troubleshooting for the Macintosh
Networking Windows with OS X
Russification of the MAC - a guide designed to provide you with everything necessary to read and write Cyrillic text on your Mac
Switch 101 - for PC users who have just switched to the Mac (like moi) and want to find out how to adapt old working habits to the Mac OS
Windows vs. Mac navigation
shows you how get around the Mac's interface
On Windows, I used to...
shows what you're used to doing on a typical Windows computer and how to do the same thing on a Mac.
Yahoo widgets - not clear how you determine whether they'll work with Intel-based Macs.
Zoho - browser-based software
Zoho library manager
http://www.mysql.com/
OLM tutorials
Organized home.com
printable planners for contacts, recipes, to-do lists, etc.
parallels.com
allows you to run Windows & Mac software simultaneously on a MAC computer.
http://www.ip2location.com/ - This tells you the location of your internet service provider
Weblogs Compendium

Dictionaries

Things gay

Investment Research
If you're interesting in researching stocks:

Language instruction online

  • BBC - Free French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, other and Quick Fix - Essential phrases in 36 languages
  • Deutscher Welle - you guessed it, German
  • Live Mocha - free basic instruction. Then you pay.

Library Science links

Literary links

Literature Online (Full-text)

Major National Libraries:

Media transfer

LPs
Audacity - Free

Miscellaneous links

Museums

US
Albuquerque, NM museums
The Art Institute
Chicago, IL
The Bard Graduate Center
New York, NY
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
The Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
The Field Museum
Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco
comprising the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor
The Frick Collection
New York, NY
Georgie O'Keefe Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
Harvard University Art Museums
Cambridge, MA
Hyde Park Art Center
Hyde Park, IL
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
International Quilt Study Center & Museum
Lincoln, NE
International Spy Museum
The Jewish Museum
New York, NY
LACMA
Los Angeles, CA
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Morgan Library & Museum
New York
Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art
North Miami, FL
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Stanta Fe, NM
Museum of Jewish Heritage
New York
The Museum of Russian Icons
largest collection in the North America and in Massachusetts yet. Who new?
Museum of the Humanities - sponsored by McGraw Hill
an online guide to the arts
MOMA - New York
Museum of the moving image - New York
The National Cryptologic Museum
Ft. George G. Meade, MD
Neue Galerie - New York
relatively new museum with an incredible collection of Viennese Secessionist artists like Klimpt and Schiele
New Museum of Contemporary Art - New York
now in its new location on Prince St. & the Bowery
New Orleans Museum of Art
New York Jazz Museum
The Newark Museum
Newark, NJ
Newseum
Washington, DC. An interesting sideline, their "Today's Front Pages" from about 80 newspapers around the world. A map is here - though if you believe the European one, there are no newspapers in France.
The Noguchi Museum
Long Island City, NY
Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA - an amazing collection of works from the 19th to the 21st centuries all about California or by Californians
Georgia O'Keefe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
The Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge, MA
The Rubin Museum of Art - New York
the first museum in the Western World dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Seattle Art Museum
Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, VT
Smithsonian Museums
Washington, DC
The Clifford Still Museum
Denver, CO
United States National Slavery Museum
Fredericksburg, VA
Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsgurgh, PA
Whitney Museum
New York, NY
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT
Belgium
Mundaneum
Mons. Paul Otlet's 19th century attempt to develop the World Wide - or at least to assemble all the world's knowledge. On file cards yet.
Croatia
Modern Art Museum - Dubrovnik
England
Cragside
Victorian house museum
Lebrecht Music & Art Photo Library - photos of, among other things, performance spaces world-wide
Tate London
The Victoria and Albert Museum - London
Very interesting textile collection and knitting section
France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Maeght St. Paul de Vence
Amazing comtemporary collection & sculpture garden.
Louvre Museum - Paris
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée du quai Branly - Paris
Musée Carnavalet
100 rooms dedicated to Paris' history from the beginning to today. Free admission
Musée d'Orsay - Paris
Musée des Arts décoratifs - Paris
Musée Maillol - Paris
Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny - Paris
Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Musée Marc Chagall, Nice
Amazing paintings comprising his Le Message Biblique
Musée Matisse, Nice
Le nouveau musée des Arts décoratifs - Paris
Germany
German museums by geographical area
Sort of requires a regional knowledge of the country
Museum Quarters - Berlin
Home of the Altes Museum, Bode Museum, Pergamon Museum & others
Netherlands
Hermitage, Amsterdam - the Netherlands branch of St. Petersburg's museum
Kröller-Müller museum - a most amazing collection outside Amsterdam in Otterlo, NL. It has roomsful of Van Goghs, a vast collection of other artists, and is surrounded by an incredible sculpture garden and acres and acres of park.
Mauritz Huis - den Haag - rather boring page with just hours' info, address, etc. A collection of Dutch "masterpieces from the Dutch "Golden-Age", including excellent paintings by Vermeer (two when I was there), Rembrandt, Steen and Frans Hals."
The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art - Spanbroek (near Hoorn if that means anything to you. Interesting "Magic Realism" collection including some Magritte & de Chirico.
 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Online
Museum of the Humanities
The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture
In the golden age of the Métis Nation, circa 1816-1869, the Métis traversed the landscape of present-day Western Canada and the American Great Plains
Poland
Warsaw
Chopin Museum
Russia
Art Museum - Tomsk
The Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art
State Historical Museum - Moscow (in Russian)
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - Moscow
In both Russian & English
Historic and Art Museum - Sergiev Posad
The Tretiakov Gallery - Moscow
Vinzavod - contemporary art museum in Moscow
Spain
Prado. Madrid
Switzerland
museum Tinguely - Basel

Music-related links

21st Century Music
Full-text of the journal is available online from 2000 onwards
Bohemian Opera
Classical music in movies, and more
The Classical Music Archives feature MP3 files and biographical information on many Slavic composers and others.
Contemporary Music Centre - good for Moscow Autumn concert programs since 2002
Dolmetsch online
The story of the members of this remarkable family and their pioneering work, for over one hundred and twenty years, in the field of early music
The Electronic Music Foundation
Flutist Quarerly index
Vols. XVI–XXX. Pdf file - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
Glinka State Museum of Musical Culture
The Golden Pages
Links for musicians from Royal Holloway, Univeristy of London - classified links for bibliographic aids & links, composers' homepages, etc., as well as unclassified links from Aberdeen Bach Choir to the Yellow Pages.
Hear the turtle in the research port
.pdf file. by onnie Jo Dopp. The article discusses the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, and reads in part:

Now, about those frogs: In Classical Music Library, you can listen to all of the short opera, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Lukas Foss, with a libretto based on Mark Twain's famous story. Variations for cello and piano on the folk song, A Frog He Went a-Courting, by Paul Hindemith are there, as is English renaissance composer John Dowland's variations for flute, The Frog Galliard.
Helikon Opera Theater
Hoffmeister XIX
an on-line, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 400,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period.
The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976
Werner Icking Music Archive
Free sheet music indexed by composer
Keepingscore.com
Website related to the Michael Tilson Thomas PBS Series
Klassic in Berlin
News and reviews from the Berlin cultural scene - operas and more
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time
Addall list of online book sellers offering this title
The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture - In the golden age of the Métis Nation, circa 1816-1869, the Métis traversed the landscape of present-day Western Canada and the American Great Plains
Music under Soviet rule from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (not the world's most attractive site, but informative, nonetheless.
Music under Soviet rule
from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (not the world's most attractive site, but informative, nonetheless.
Musica Ukrainica
Mutopia project
All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
Online reference book for medieval studies
Medieval Music Glossary
Operaone.de
German-language site with almost everything about opera - composers, performers, directors, etc. Eastern and Western Europe, the USA
PER MUSI - Revista Acadêmica de Música
a free access publication of the Graduate Music Program of UFMG (Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil) with articles in Portugese, Spanish, and English.
Polish Music Center
Pope Instrument Repair - Nilton Music Stands, etc. in Jamaica Plain, MA
Music & Dance Reference
From Brigham Young University
Russian Music and Musicians
annotated bibliography at Brigham & Young University
Russian Musical Encyclopedia
Russian Musical Highlights of the 20th Century - unfortunately organized solely by year with no search function
Russian Sheet Music - available from ruslania.com
Spectral music
from Wikipedia
Warsaw Contemporary Music Festival
Zeroland
Great resource for most things musical. See esp the flute links under wind instruments - way to go Alexa! Beware, though. As you dig deeper,some of the links don't work

Online newspapers

Online translating

Omniglot
Payment Practices
the oldest and most extensive dataset related to the payment practices of translation agencies and other consumers of translation services.
Rustran.com
Translators Cafe
http://translit.ru
transliterates latin to cyrillic alphabets

Out of print materials

Slavic Links

In doing translating work over the years, I've discovered many interesting links:
Abbreviations in Russian Language 1996-1999
Terms for "archives" in Russian - Especially useful for Record Terms. Also links to familial terms, dates, etc.
Armeniapedia.com - the online Armenia encyclopedia
The Altai Republic
http://www.biblus.ru/ - book database with a virtual Cyrillic keyboard for searching
Bolshoi
Cherepnin project
English language edition of Pravda
Encyclopedia Krugosvet
Friends & Partners - Pages in Eng. and Russian on literature, music, art, etc.
Introduction to Slavic Information Resources
Kireevsky Google search
Классика- XXI - Russian publishing company
Literatura - covers the best literary info on the net: Electronic libraries, new book reviews, literary competitions and more.
The Mariinsky Theater
Мир словарей - links to all kinds of Russian dictionaries, biographical, etc.
Московский академический Музыкальный Театр - Moscow Stanislavsky/Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theater - lists artists & administration - with bios
Masterrussian.com - "free grammar lessons, useful vocabulary words and phrases, helpful tips on learning the Russian language, and hand-picked links to the best Web sites about the Russian language"
music@sumail.ru Muzikal'naya Academja email
Names and their nicknames - nicknames for common Russian male and female names
Ruslania - is a Helsinki-based bookstore specializing in Russian books and related products!
РУССКИЙ БИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ (Russian biographical dictionary)
Russian cuisine
Russian Encyclopedia
Russian Jewish Encyclopedia - a translation of names and minimal personal data for 8,500 people included in Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia (Rossiyskaya Evreiskaya Entsiclopediya); first edition; 1995, Moscow
Russian Language Leaning on the Web - texts by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy & Blok with articles, quizzes
Russian language periodical bibliography
The Russian Virtual Library - Russian literature and poetry of the 18th-20th centuries
ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИИ САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГА - St. Petersburg Encyclopedia - 3523 articles, 8684 names, 4622 addresses
Slavic, East European, and Former USSR Resources - Selected Literatures and Authors Page - Russian Literature
CЛОВА.ИНФО - Russian language encyclopedia
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow academic Music Theater (Stanislavsky Opera) - singer bios
Studies in Slavic Cultures - an interesting periodical put out by the University of Pittsburgh. Articles in .pdf format
Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка - Vladimir Ivanovich Dal's dictionary - apparently good for non-current Russian words.
A Touch of Russian - A beginners' guide to the language from the BBC
http://www.translit.ru/ - get Cyrillic from Latin and visa versa

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