Art and Literature

Below is a list of links that lead to great art and literature sites.  I will be adding more after I get off my twelve
hour shifts.  Our art and literature is what has lifted us up as a race, aside from religion.  But unlike
religion, you don't have a bunch of people milling around willing to kill you if have read a book outside your
denomination.  Well there is Russia and China, but they are just cranky.  We should punish them by
bombing their countries with old copies of James Michner novels.  That will bring them around to fine literature!
Just kidding.  They would probably like Michner.

Arts

Metropolitan Museum of Art Plenty of online resources.
The Bayeux Tapestry An excellent example of 11th century needlepoint.
Kimball Art Museum in Ft. Worth, Tx They keep online exhibits and information on the artists.
Dallas Museum of Art They are currently having a Georgia O'Keefe exhibit.  Very cool.
The Smithsonian Museum of Art This will help you plan a trip to the Smithsonian, as well as having online exhibits.

Literature

Russian Literature

Bucknell Russian Studies Department An excellent resource for Russian Literature, Culture and History.  It even has information for those of you interested in learning to speak Russian.
Russian Literature in Translation Information and online text about many Russian authors.
Russian Literature- Nikolay Gogol Giving much information about this author and his works. 

English Literature

English Literature and Religion This site contains e-documents and a database on the effects of religion on english literature, as well as information on other styles of writing in english publications.
Project Muse An very good online document resource.  Though you have to subscribe to the service, when I was there last, it was still free.
Resources in English Literature This guide provides selective resources available through the Internet or at the University of Alberta for English Literature. 

German/Swiss Literature

Scientific Literature Swiss Wildlife Information Service (SWIS) gathers and processes literature on wildlife biology.
Deutsche Literature A compilation of several eras of German Literature.  I've enjoyed myself quite a bit here.
Department of German This is the University of Wales German Department, one of the best in the World for their studies in German Literature and Culture.

Welsh Literature

University of Wales Press Resources for language, literature, legal system and more.
Dragonfield Home page Medieval Welsh/Cymraeg and Celtic Literature and Poetry.
Aberystwyth Arts Centre The largest Art Centre in Wales.
The Mabinogion A welsh book of stories of Artur and other knights.  I recommend it highly as not only a historical guide(for there is some info in that story that is true) but as example of how beautiful Welsh literature is.
Cylch Llên Cymru: The Welsh Ring of Literature A web ring dedicated to the celebration, publication, and promotion of the literature of Wales on the Web.

More literature coming soon....
I am currently trying to translate the bedtimes stories that my grandmother told me as a child.  As Cajun does not translate into English very well, it is taking me a while.  I will be adding new links for France, Spain, Italy, Japan and China as soon as I have finished my research.

Foreign Language Resources

Smithsonian Institute Libraries A good source for foreign language primers and studies, as well as assorted literature and culture.
Foreign Language and Literature Resources A humanities section of MIT that is just fabulous for the information that can be accessed here.  Many different cultures, more links and online texts.

History

Byzantine Studies Page A resource site on my favorite period in history, the 11th century.  Full of religion, culture, art and literature from various cultures in this time period.  A must see sight for amateur historians.

Well, that's all for now.  Remember to promote the Arts in your own local community, as well to pay attention to what any censorship groups in the U.S. are up to.  There are people out there who would love nothing more than to tell you what you can and cannot read, as well as what you can and cannot look at.  An excellent example of this is the current dispute in New York.  The body politic of New York, finding that they were unable to censor an exhibit that the Mayor and Council found offensive(not the people, for there were no petitions entered with the Mayor's office for it's removal), the body politic of New York have cut 7.2 million dollars of funding to the New York Museum of Art, as well as trying to illegally terminate the over 100 year lease that this museum has held.  We cannot allow our government to tell us what we can and cannot do, "for our own good".  It is up to us to censor ourselves, while still defending the right for others to display their art and literature, even if we do not agree with the content.

Heart in hands.

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