Arts & Humanities
3545 sites
Subcategories:
- Literature & Writing (874)
- Webcomics (46)
- Music (173)
- Visual Arts (1778)
- Photography (196)
- Film & Animation (41)
- Poetry (88)
- Crafts & DIY (340)
https://gracelessbuteffective.neocities.org/
A deliberately low-key Neocities personal site built around reading, writing, and watching, featuring original short stories, nonfiction pieces, and handmade zines including a notable 'chemozine' series created during the author's leukemia treatment. The site logs books and movies, shares personal photos, and maintains an intentionally anti-algorithmic charm that makes it a genuinely compelling corner of the indie web.
https://potw.org/
Running since August 1996, PotW.org is a long-running weekly poetry anthology offering a free subscription service and a searchable archive of past poems organized by poet, title, first line, and occasion. Each week features a carefully chosen poem with contextual notes, as seen in this week's selection from Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
https://brianjdevries.com/
Brian DeVries is a software engineer and self-described do-it-yourself guy who shares posts and notes about woodworking, sewing, crocheting, backpacking, gardening, and everyday life. His site blends a personal blog with a now-page and short social-style notes, offering a warm and varied glimpse into hands-on hobbies and home projects.
http://the-everyday.net/p/blog-page.html
This academic project by Lev Manovich and the Software Studies Initiative analyzes Instagram data collected during the 2014 Maidan protests in Kyiv, exploring how social media visualizes the intersection of everyday life and political upheaval. The site presents essays, data visualizations, and infographics that examine topics like binary bias, platforms of visibility, and the semiotics of user-generated content during moments of extreme social unrest.
https://5art.tripod.com/Links/Links.htm
Sim Kar Seng's photography site 'Sart' features a curated links page connecting visitors to Singapore-based photography clubs, fellow photographers' personal galleries, and major camera brands like Nikon, Fujifilm, and Canon. The site is part of a larger photo showcase covering birds, flowers, people, and travel destinations across Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and the USA.
https://shipwrecklibrary.com/
Shipwreck Library is a deeply researched reference site dedicated to the works and lives of literary giants James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, featuring biographies, criticism, chronologies, audio recordings, and film resources. The site's exhaustive organization covers everything from Dubliners to Finnegans Wake and from Borges' fiction to his philosophical criticism, making it an invaluable hub for serious readers and scholars.
https://sodium-amytal.neocities.org/
The creative hub of sodium_amytal, a prolific fanfic writer whose long-form works blend slow burns, emotional drama, and genre-bending premises including a Metallica ghost-hunting AU and a cross-dimensional fantasy romance. The site showcases featured fics with linked art, playlists, and story metadata, offering a polished landing page for fans of deeply committed, emotionally intense fanfiction.
https://petsupports.com/a10/poemsblueswolf.htm
BluesWolf, the pen name of J.C. Stewart, shares heartfelt original poems dedicated to pet loss, grief, and healing at the Rainbow Bridge. The verses are written for a community of fellow pet owners who have lost beloved companions, offering comfort through lyrical tributes and prayers for those in mourning.
https://mooeena.site/art/2025
Mooeena's personal creative site showcases a 2025 art gallery with clickable thumbnails alongside a variety of handmade projects including beading tutorials, one-page zines, and honeycomb stamps. The site has a charming old-web aesthetic with adoptables, cool graphics, and a guestbook, making it a cozy corner of the indie web built around art and DIY crafts.
https://crox-box.blogspot.com/
Laura van's crox-box is a long-running Dutch-language art blog documenting her numbered series of oil and pencil paintings, including still life studies referencing artists like René Magritte, Caspar David Friedrich, and Bas Jan Ader. Each post features a new work with dimensions and brief notes, offering an intimate window into a sustained, numbered painting practice dating back to at least 2007.