SUNY Empire Library Webpages & Guides: Arts & Art History: Images, Audio & Video

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Films On Demand
5000+ educational films and documentaries. It's possible to embed a whole video (or a section of one) in a web page, blog, or online course. SUNY Empire Login Required
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Academic Video Online
This collection from Alexander Street Press has video titles in a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. SUNY Empire Login Required
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Digital Theatre+
Access to dramatic texts, poetry and performance in collaboration with over 50 leading theater companies, educational organizations and arts collectives worldwide to bring you the highest quality productions and teaching resources. SUNY Empire login required.
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Library of Congress - American Memory - Performing Arts Resources
Links to digital collections in music and the performing arts.
Moving Image Archive
Classic movies and alternative news broadcasts. Some of these works are copyrighted; others are in the public domain.
PBS Arts and Drama Site
Multimedia and information sources from PBS
PBS: Great Performances
Companion site to PBS's landmark performing arts series with interviews and video clips.
Watch Documentaries: Arts & Artists
WatchDocumentaries.com is a website for watching documentaries about more than 20 genres.
Watch Documentaries: Music
WatchDocumentaries.com is a website for watching documentaries about more than 20 genres.

JSTOR Images
High quality images including paintings and drawings, art photography, photographs of sculptures, architectural blueprints and photographs. SUNY Empire Login Required
Artvee
Browse and download high-res, public domain artworks. You can search by artist, category, or keyword.

Artchive
Virtual gallery of classic and contemporary painting, sculpture, as well as art critique, reviews, and links.
CURIOSity, Harvard's digital collections gallery
Digitized archival images. Some are copyrighted; others are in the public domain.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Huge collection of historical prints and photographs. Most are in the public domain.
LIFE Photo Archive
Photographs from the LIFE photo archive. They are copyrighted.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art image archive of open source images from their own collection. As of today, all images of public domain works in The Met collection are available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Photographs and digitized images. Especially strong in American and African-American culture. Some are in the public domain; others are copyrighted.
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI)
Rare books and manuscripts. From the University of Pennsylvania.
Shared Shelf Commons
Images from libraries, archives and museums around the world. They are licensed for noncommercial, educational uses as long as they are kept behind a password (for instance, in an online course.)
Web Gallery of Art
Images of European paintings & sculptures (1100-1850 CE.) These works are in the public domain.

Internet Archive Audio Collections
Music, audio books, news reports and spoken word recordings.
NPR: Music Interviews
Interviews with top musicians from jazz, blues, rock, pop, folk, classical, urban, and world music. Listen online to live studio sessions and musician interviews and watch video sessions.