Information about the Arts is right at your fingertips through the following links:
Oxford Art Online
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
New Zealand Artists Database
This database is an index to material held in Wellington City Libraries on New Zealand artists. At present that means mainly painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed media and installation artists, but as the database is expanded craft artists, jewellers, potters and architects will gradually be included. The aim of the database is to be a useful resource for the general interested reader and students at secondary and tertiary levels. This means we have not indexed every passing reference to an artist, but have aimed to include articles that are of reasonable length and have good images. (Serious researchers can find extra material, including theses, on INNZ - Index New Zealand).
Wellington City Libraries Arts pageKeep up with the latest arts & design books in our collections as well as links to exhibitions and other happenings in the Arts. Popular Topics: Art
Biography Resource Center
This comprehensive database contains biographical information on more than 185,000 people including artists and musicians from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas. It combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. You can search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Discovering Collection
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core topics of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. Designed for the secondary school student, the Discovering Collection includes biographies, criticisms, overview essays and timeline entries, images/multimedia, and primary source documents from all of the Discovering databases (Authors, Biography, Multicultural America, Science, U.S. History, World History), all of the Exploring databases (Novels, Poetry, Shakespeare, Short Stories), all of the UXL titles from the Junior Reference Collection (Biographies, Jr. Authors, Multicultural, Science), Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd ed., Newsmakers, many of the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia line, all of the Worldmark titles, and the Merriam Webster's Collegiate, Biographical, and Geographical dictionaries. Text and criticism of Shakespeare's plays and poems is a feature.
Internet Movie Database
This comprehensive database provides information on movies, directors, actors and what's happening in the film industry. There are links to reviews for most movies and extensive filmographies for many people.
The Arts on EBSCO
There are a number of full text magazines covering art, architecture, design, dance, film, and theatre, available through the MasterFile Premier and Australia and NZ Reference Centre databases, including those listed below. Clicking on the links above will take you directly to the holdings of each magazine. If you have not accessed the EBSCO website in the last 30 days you will need to login first.
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Oxford Art Online has more than 45,000 encyclopaedia-style articles on the visual arts, including more than 21,000 biographies of artists and craftsmen, and over 5,000 searchable art images, drawings and maps, with links to over 40,000 others. The content covers painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, photography and more. While it is particularly strong on European art up to the 20th century, other cultures, countries, and regions are represented from pre-history to today.