INDEX on World Culture

Africana.com is a new portal web site with a lot of information and serious articles about art, culture, lifestyle, news and much more.

African Cultures is a portal web site dedicated only to African culture. Good structure and easy to find information.

National Geographic Online offers you to discover the Society's photos, maps, globes, magazines, worldwide expeditions, travel tips, vacation planning, geography education, and news behind the headlines.

Everyone.net Network has a wide range of African message boards, some country-specific, others by topic. Here, links to their African message boards and to all boards.

General

Art sales & Auctions

A Touch of Africa, from the USA, is a website dedicated to sell African art, with a general point of view.

African Fetish International, from South Africa, offers African art from around the continent.

Ingwe Crafts, from South Africa, sells African wild life sculptures. 

Inter Trans Commodities is an import and export company, that specialises in a great variety of commodities. Its main focus, however, is business between South Africa and all its neighbouring African countries such as Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, etc. It take special pride in the trading of all hand-crafted leather products and a wide variety of African art.

Sothebys, the most important British Auction from 1744, has now a website with information about auctions online, auctions house, its calendar, international offices, etc.

World Wide Arts Resource is a website to international art. It has daily updated news, chat service, forums, information about art history, galleries, museums, publications, employments, art for sale...everything! Recommended!

NextMonet is one of the bests sites to shop art on the web. They offer you the art thinking in your economic possibilities! 

In Artareas you have the possibility to buy and sell art of all types. Their on-line exhibition contains objects of art from around the world. 

Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre is a non-profit cultural arts organization composed of highly talented artists. They offer information too about their repertoire and musician events.

OWHC, The Organization of World Heritage Cities has a website in English, Spanish and French with a list of the all cities and some information about it.

UNESCO is the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It has its headquarters in Paris, France and 72 field offices and units in different parts of the world.. Their site contains lots of data about events, programmes, statistics, publications, documents, partners, etc. The site can also be accessed in French, Spanish, Arab and other languages.

Africana.com is a new portal web site with a lot of information and serious articles about art, culture, lifestyle, news and much more.

African Cultures is a portal web site dedicated only to African culture. Good structure and easy to find information.

Africana.com is a new portal web site with a lot of information and serious articles about art, culture, lifestyle, news and much more.

African Cultures is a portal web site dedicated only to African culture. Good structure and easy to find information.

In the page of anthropology of African Cultures you'll find, for example, anthropological news stories from ABC, CNN or The Washington Post.

African History in the Internet is a site from the Stanford University Libraries, which contains a lot of serious articles, rapports, conferences about African history.

African Art on the Internet is a site from the Stanford University, which contains a lot of serious articles, rapports, conferences about African art.

The AFRICA: One Continent. Many Worlds web site is a collaborative project between The Field Museum, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the California African American Museum and the Armory Center for the Arts. 

Subcategories

Architecture

Medieval Architecture is the best site on the web to learn the different types of  medieval architecture, including the bests websites about it.

Alvar Aalto Foundation is the a complete website about this Finish architect  and designer. The site offers information about his Archive of drawings, written, documents and photographs, located in Helsinki, about the Alvar Aalto Research  Academy and about the Museum, located in Jyväskylä, and his archives, exhibitions, collection, bulletin, calendar and projects.

Foster and Partners is the website of Sir Norman Foster and company. They offers a lot of information about theirs projects, with a complete list of them, among news, some information about their studio, etc. 

Gaudí Central was created in August 1997 to provide information and pictures of Gaudí's work. You'll find here a brief biography and descriptions of his main works like Park Güell, Casa Batlló, Casa Milá or The Sagrada Familia. 

Frank Gehry Bibliography is an excellent and detailed  work of Eddie Yeghiayan at The University of California-Irvine, but no very updated. The most recent reference book  is from 1988.

Le Corbusier Links is the best site about the architect in the web. Here you'll find all possible information about his buildings, theories, projects, among a lot of links to international architecture and architects.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society has a lot information of Mackintosh's buildings like the Willow Tea Room or  Glasgow School of Art, among news, events, history, and more about this Society. 

The site of Palladio's Italian Villas doesn't have too much information, but it is interesting to see his bests works on the web. A short biography (1508-1580), dates and descriptions about these villas from  Italian Veneto.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is the principal website about Wright, which committed to advancing the ideas and principles of organic architecture, organic education and conservation of the natural environment

International Archive of Women in Architecture is the website of  IAWA, established in 1985 at the College of Architecture and  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). It offers the first documentation about  the history of women's involvement in architecture's history. 

A Digital Archive of Architecture is a website about the European  architecture history, from the prehistoric to the 20th architecture. A lot of images and interesting texts.

Architecture and Interior Design is a website with a photographic gallery of American design between 1935-1955. Nice photos, but only a few of information.

Cinema

The Independent Film Channel is a professional  website with news and information about what's on, events, festivals, among chat and others services.

The Film Source has complete lists of  film festival, news, resources and information about Independent Film Makers.

Filmzone is working close together with movie companies, studios, distributors, associations, other web sites etc, to create a huge site with a large amount of information. From Australia.

Film Threat offers a lot of weekly updated information about cinema and theatre: new films, interviews , festivals, etc. Hollywood's indie voice.

6degrees is the best website from U.K. about indie cinema: interviews, news, reviews, links, etc.

Actors & Actresses

Classis Movies is a website dedicated to Hollywood's golden years, with a gallery of directors, actors and actresses: James Dean, Grace Kelly, Marlon Brando, etc.

Antonio Banderas Fans.Com is the best site on the web to inform you constantly about the life and work of  the most famous Latinlover.

The Kim Basinger Site contains her biography, filmography, articles, interviews and lots of pictures.

Juliette Binoche, one of the most beautiful women in the world, is a photographic gallery of the French actress, by Jason Leung.

The Original Nicolas Cage Appreciation Society contains the biggest collection of interviews, articles and information about Cage. And regularly updated news!

Sandra Bullock Page is the most famous website about Sandra in the web: biography, filmography, links, club chat, articles, interviews, pictures and more. 

Robert De Niro Page offers all the information about De Niro: awards, interviews, life and works. 

David Duchovny's Home Page is one of best pages on the web about Duchovny. Here you'll find all possible information about him.

Harrison Ford, a Web Guide to the Films offers a practical guide to the most important information about him, structured by years.

Michelle Pfeiffer Home Page is not only the best site about her: a lot of  information, updated news and available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Polish!

Conservation

Cultural Policy

ITI, The International Theatre Institute is a  ), an international non-governmental organization (NGO) was founded  by UNESCO and the international theatre community. The ITI has information about  national centres in approximately 90 countries. A lot of them are African countries.

In the page of  The Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at University of Warwick you'll find information about conferences, debates, etc. about cultural policy.

The Food Museum  has a list of several food staples from tropical and temperate climates, with basic lexical information. Well organized, but basic information. They are still working on it, it may seem.

Online Chef is a well organized website with lots of recipes, among images and explains. 

African Recipes - The Congo Cookbook - has a large variety of African recipes, presented in a very delicate way for the American/European reader. This is a perfect place to start if you want to learn something about African cooking and read some interesting features asides. Well organized, and you can look up recipes by region or ingredient.

Sweet Dreams by Tracy is a website with a lot of  photos, recipes, ideas, links & more for cake decorators. 

Recipes & more is a elegant collection of recipes for chocolate and other gourmet delicacies. By Godiva Chocolatier.

Ice Cream Parlor  is a website with lots of traditional and exotic ice cream and sorbet recipes.

Japanese Sweets offers in this pages recipes for home made sweet sekihan, a celebratory red rice, and rice cakes. Very interesting. Did you know something, about  kusamochi or zunndamochi, for example?

Curlie's Bakery Recipes is a website about only Australian bakery recipes and lot of delicious photos!

Vegetarian Journal Recipes offers you  a variety of vegetarian and vegan recipes. It's not so bored to be vegetarian with them.

Vegetarian Kitchen is a complete guide vegetarian kitchen, with a wide range of topics by Nava Atlas, full of kitchen wisdom and lots of easy, low-fat recipes.

The page of The Museum for African Art from New York offers practical information about exhibitions, etc.

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning is a catalog of a exhibition of African art at the Bayly Museum, University of Virginia. Pedagogic exhibition with an introduction about the African aesthetic.

African/Edenic Heritage Museum, in Washington, has his own website, but it doesn't have too much information.

Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin has a large collection of Egyptian masterpieces and a website with some information, but only in German.

Museum and Gallery Borghese, in Roma, contains a important collection of ancient sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics, as well as paintings and sculptures from XVth to XVIIIth century. In his website is possible to learn some about the history of some masterpieces of  Italian and European art. In Italian version, too.

The Uffizi Gallery, founded in Florence in 1581, by the De Medici family, is one of the oldest museums in the world. The Web guide contains pictures, comments, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements and techniques.

The Alvar Aalto Museum, located in Jyväskylä, Finland, has  complete information about their archives, exhibitions, collection, bulletin, calendar and projects. 

The Ethnology Museum of Vienna offers in its website complete information about its collection, exhibitions and others services.  

The National Museum of Ethnology from Osaka, Japan, contains information about its public activities and some links

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, at Harvard University, founded in 1866 by George Peabody, is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology.

The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History celebrates the world's diverse cultures and rich visual arts, like Africa

On Live365.com, you have access to some 12.000 radio stations from all over the world broadcasting on the www. Listen, or even broadcast, for free.

Rumba-Kali or Africanhiphop.com is the organ of the non-profit organization Madunia in Holland and their site intents to serve those interested in hip hop and the cultures of Safica and of African origin. Their ample Sound Archives contain loads of mp3s and some videos with African music! Free sound!!

RealWorld is an American record company, featuring artists from all over the world, including many African. Delicate website with online ordering.

Earthshaking Music is a new site about international music, but with special interest in African music. They have a lot information about instruments, education and performance. 

Ancient Future offers a lot of possibilities. They have information about international music, with a lot of services and links.

In National Songs of the World you can find a lot of lyrics to national anthems of African and other countries. 

The Reggae Music Web Ring consists of sites featuring reggae on the web, linked together to form a virtual reggae tour. Unlike a list of links, Reggae Ring gives you a guided tour of all the websites which are linked together on Reggae Ring. You can also go directly to the official website of Alphablondie, their Bob Marley site and many more.

   Not part of the Web Ring but still interesting, is the bobmarley.com site.

In the page Classical Reggae Interviews you'll find an unique collection of multimedia photo interviews of some of the world's famous reggae musicians.

In the page of Zou Archive you'll find everything about what's happening in the zou community: news, top 10, links, MP3s, etc.

Experience Hendrix is the official Hendrix' website with biography, magazine, merchandise, guitar competition, guitar school, concert guide.....

Britney Spears Official Website is the best site on the web to know all about the teen music sensation: photos gallery, news and the possibility to send mails to the star.

Jammin Reggae Archives is a good site with a lot of information and links with the reggae world.

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso is (1881-1973) the last website realized about the cubist painter and offers quality in their contain. Plenty of biographical information among of lots images.

Andy Warhol (1930-1987) is a website with only a short biography, but whit link to the Andy Warhol Museum.

Michelangelo Buonarroti is (1475-1564) is an relative ample website with rigorous information about the Michelangelo's life, his time and society and images and texts about the some works of the Italian artist. It one of the last website about him. Updated. 

Encounter with Duchamp is the official website of the French surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp. Here you'll find all information on Duchamp on the web and links to all sites with dates about him. 

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