From: Can Art in Cyberspace Live Without a Body, by Steven Henry Madoff, NY Times, January 21, 1996
MUSEUMS
- ART TOWER MITO
- Current exhibitions and gallery talks, in English and Japanese
- UC/Riverside--California Museum of Photography
- Historical and contemporary photography exhibitions, including use of the very cool "Virtual magnifying glass," which allows viewers to zoom in on details of images.
- Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY
- Works from the permanent collection, program schedules and artists' web projects, including Komar and Melamid's amusing "Most Wanted Paintings."
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- On-line catalogues of exhibitions, artist interviews, current shows and samples from the museum shop.
- Paris Pages Musee du Louvre
- A handful of images from each of its collections that adds up to a decent tour, which is accompanied by floor plans, and a history of the museum.
- Welcome to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- A site befitting the museum: immense, slow -moving, and packed with information and images.
- The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
- A beautifully illustrated overview of the collection, with a history of its founding.
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue! (Welcome from the curator)
- This superb site includes special exhibitions as well as the "Famous Paintings Exhibition," which covers Gothic art through modern works and provides a glossary of painting styles.
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- The Whitney's ambitious virtual museum covers all the bases, with current shows, works from the permanent collection, essays, library information, and up-to-the-minute web art projects sponsored by the museum.
AUCTION HOUSES, ART GALLERIES, AND ART MALLS
- ARTscope: Art, Artists, Galleries
- A mall that can keep visitors indoors for some time, with many New York and California galleries to browse through, portfolios by artists, offerings of print editions and auction prices.
- Christie's International
- Far less sophisticated than Sotheby's site, this is nonetheless thorough in covering the forthcoming auctions at Christie's, its catalogues and the results of selected sales, including the first "cyberauction."
- CAS Welcome
- With listings of galleries, museums and art organizations and a smattering of art projects, this site offers an intelligent sampling of places and people considered of-the-moment.
- Gallery Walk
- A well-organized mall, it features many commercial and nonprofit galleries throughout the United States, Germany, the Nederlands, and England.
- PaceWildenstein
- Though the gallery's site doesn't take much advantage of interactivity, it is elegant and thorough.
- Plexus
- A cross between a galley and an information service, Plexus offers text and images covering its own artists, along with a wonderful range of other art sites you can view within its own page, from publications to other galleries.
- Sandra Gering Gallery
- Ms. Gering's gallery is well known on the web for offering such interactive art projects as John Simon Jr.'s "Alter Stats" and Ben Kinmont's "We Both Belong."
- Welcome to Sotheby's
- One of the most imaginative commercial offerings on the web, Sotheby's site provides auction results and coming sales, notes on collecting, urbane stories to involve young collectors, catalogue-ordering information, and useful graphics.
PUBLICATIONS
- Journal of Contemporary Art
- Artists' projects and portfolios, such as photographs by the controversial photographer Mark Morrisroe, along with transcripts of lengthy (sometimes very lengthy) group discussions among art professionals regarding contemporary work.
- MUSEOS: Pagina Inicial
- A guide to museum exhibitions worldwide, in Spanish and English.
- http://math240.lehman.cuny.edu/talkback/
- Articles, art works, and an edgy time line describing the evolution of censorship on the net.
- Welcome to TRANS
- A serious critical journal featuring works by distinguished critics, it is also scheduled to appear in print three times a year. In Spanish and English, and very very slow.
- Urban Desires
- One of the most polished, hippest magazines on the web, with imaginative, often interactive, art projects.
ARTISTS' WORK AND ARTIST SITES
- felix gonzalez-torres (1957-1996)
- Perhaps the best-curated art site on the web, with many remarkable artist projects, including Joseph Squier's "Place," Julia Scher's "Securityland," and an interactive version of Jenny Holzer's "Truisms."
- artnetweb
- An extraordinarily ambitious and well-made site, presenting artists' web projects, a slide registry, press clippings on art subjects, directories of art organizations and galleries, classified ads, and catalogue sales (currently closed).
- Echo
- A cultural icon of the on-line community, Echo presents a number of art sites, including the Whitney Museum, and offers publications, discussions, and events.
- the blue dot
- A fascinating array of artists' projects that are experimental, sometimes weird, and usually worth surfing, like Melanie Einzig;s fantastical exhibition, "Rabbit Rat."
- The Thing
- With branches in Basel, Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, New York, and Vienna, the Thing is truly an artists' community on line. Come here for chats about art issues, web works, art reviews, and ThingCam, which offers a constantly updated view of New York outside the Thing's office window in Chelsea.
- "The Place" by Joseph Squier
- Considered a classic work by some, this collection of pieces is poetic, melancholy, and beautifully wrought.
- WAXweb 2.0
- One of the more bizarre art works on the web, Mr. Blair's cult film, "Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees," has been reconfigured as an immense site, with 4,800 color images, 560 video clips, and 2,200 audio files, some of which can be viewed in 3-D.
GENERAL WEB DIRECTORIES, ARTIST INFORMATION, AND ART HISTORICAL TOOLS
- General Art Resources
- A good source for listings of art-historical sites, bibliographies, and links to interesting places, including the Smithsonian Institution's libraries and archives.
- AWNewfront
- A venerable on-line institution. Artists come here to learn about grants, jobs, and what's going on at local arts councils, as well as to post messages and create home pages presenting their own work.
- FineArt Forum Directory of Online Art Resources
- A wide-ranging index of art schools, scholarly resources, a huge list of art-related sites, events, associations, publications, and commercial services.
- The Getty Art History Information Program
- An invaluable resource for learning how to build image databases and the scholarly apparatus needed to bring art historical knowledge into the electronic arena.
- Lycos, Inc. Home Page
- One of the biggest searchengines on the Internet, and the one that claims to have indexed 91% of the web and more than 10 million addresses. It generally finds what you're looking for.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
- This art and art-history page is an astonishingly deep resource, covering every aspect of the art world.
- World Wide Arts Resources
- A true survey of art sites on the web, including artists, galleries, museums, art schools, publications, antiques, and the performing arts.
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
- An easy-to-scan, well-indexed directory of museums worldwide.
- Yahoo!
- Another major directory, Yahoo! has an excellent art section, with summaries of what many sites offer.