DIRECTORIES - A Representative Listing with Periodic Corrections and Additions.
Updated February 18, 2009 - In process of review
NOTE: ** Indicates a year 2009 addition to the list
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A Closer Look - "Connecting the tangible with the spiritual through the use of imagery - Objects of meditation with analysis in context. - (This is a painting by Jan Van Eyck at The Louvre, France) . . . . . . . . Burma: Grace Under Pressure - "A revolution of the spirit . . . " 'Take your time', Olafur Eliasson - "I think it comes down to generosity, I think it comes down to an artist who wants to expose how wonder is made . . . .""
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Small French Paintings - At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. - "Akin to the naturalist landscape painters were the realists, most prominently Gustave Courbet. Courbet and his followers preferred rural, agrarian subjects that typically conveyed a moral, political, or social message. . . . . " Realism, Barbizon, Early Impressionism, Later Impressionism, Alternatives to Impressionism, Postimpressionism. . . . .
The Big Draw - "David Macaulay leads visitors in sketching exercises just for fun and as a new way of seeing and responding to their surroundings during the 2007 Big Draw event." [National Building Museum] . . . .
2009 Tate Triennial - "Will explore what 'modern' means now, in the globalised culture of the early 21st century . . . . The new concept: 'Altermodern' (is used) to describe art being made now that belongs to the global era and is a reaction against standardisation and commercialism. This art is characterised by artists' cross-border, cross-cultural negotiations; a new real and virtual mobility; the surfing of different disciplines; the use of fiction as an expression of autonomy; concern with sustainable development and the celebration of difference and singularity" . . . .
Ingres - "Fusing realist and idealist styles . . . . " - (Louvre)
Cycles - Life Through Art - "We are born, we grow and mature, we become leaders, and at sometime we die, but the cycle goes on." - (African Art) . . . . . . . . . Both real and ideal - "An unprecedented delicacy of expression and tenderness of sentiment." (NGA) . . . . "People were Desiderio's true subject; with them his eye for detail turned laser sharp . . . . Light . . . . Modesty of scale . . . . It is all but impossible to know at a glance whether they are secular or religious, images of citizens, historical figures or saints . . . . . Although the panel is barely an inch thick, its planar recessions seem infinite . . . . The reliefs, some so finely cut as to be all but invisible from a distance . . . . " - (From the review of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC by Holland Cotter: 'Desiderio da Settignano' - Sonnets in Marble. Published: August 10, 2007. NYTimes.) . . . . . . . . . Spectacle for the Heart and Soul - The Bread and Puppet Theater (NYTimes slide show) . . . . . . . . Biennials and Fairs . . . . . . . . Color Chart - Reinventing Color 1950 to Today . . . . . . . Piet Mondrian . . . . . . . Turner Prize Retrospective 1984-2005 - View the Exhibition Guide . . . . . . . . The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978 . . . . . . . American Art @ The Phillips Collection - (Washington, DC) . . . . . . . The Treasury of the World - Mughal jeweled arts: Hard stones - Emeralds, rubies & saphires - Metal work - Inlaid gemstones - Enamel - The 'Kundan' technique - (The Louvre, France) . . . . . . . . Cézanne & Pissarro (1865-1885). . . . . . . . Treasured Painting and Calligraphy (1865-1885) - (National Palace Museum, Taiwan) . . . . . . . . Representations of the Literary Mind: The Theme of Poetry and Literature in Chinese Art - National Palace Museum, Taiwan - "The literary arts and the fine arts both represent products of the human spirit" . . . . . . . . The Danville Project - (Collaborative Vision) . . . . . . . . USA Today Collaborative Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, UK . . . . . . . . Young America, The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes. . . . . . . . UnderCover - Artists' Sketchbooks (Fogg Museum, Harvard University. . . . . . . . Cloth and Clay. . . . . . . . Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories (Whitney Museum) . . . . . . . . Reservation X -The Power of Place . . . . . . . . Henri Cartier-Bresson . . . . . . . . Mexico - From Empire to Revolution [Getty Institute] . . . . . . . . Homage à André Malraux - Introduction aux 'Voix du Silence' . . . . . . . . The Whitney Biennial 2006. . . . . . . . David - Empire to Exile. . . . . . . . China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D. . . . . . . . Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade . . . . . . . . . Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris. . . . . . . . Pictures by Children at Saatchi Gallery . . . . The Triumph of Painting . . . . . . . . Van Gogh Gauguin Experience . . . . . . . . Modigliani & The Artists of Montparnasse . . . . . . . . Peter Doig Takes Us Around His Exhibition at Tate Britain. . . . . . . . HubbleSite - "For a decade and a half, the Hubble has made discoveries that have helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe. Its typical role is to pick up a hint from ground-based telescopes and then use its unparalleled vantage point above the atmosphere to probe deeply into some puzzling phenomenon. The Hubble has peered farther into space and farther back in time than any other instrument. It has discovered more than 500 proto-galaxies that emitted light when the universe was in its formative stages, confirmed the jaw-dropping discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and helped establish the rate of expansion and the age of the universe." - (The Amazing Hubble Telescope - Editorial, NYTimes. Published: November 1, 2006) - Galaxies, the Solar System, Nebulae, Stars, The Universe. Go to the HubbleSite Gallery for a Picture Album, Wallpaper, Astronomy Printshop, Movie Theater, and Image Tours. "Browse our archive by date or subject and sign up to get Hubble news sent to your e-mail or PDA" . . . . The Beauty of Painting and Calligraphy in Album Leaves . . . . DALÍ: Painting and Film - "Artist, writer, critic, impresario, provocateur, Surrealist. In the 1920s, members of the Surrealist movement sought to undermine conscious thought and provoke and liberate desire, creating pictorial and textual equivalents of dreams and the unconscious." - (Museum of Modern Art, NYC) . . . . Gallery Guide - International listing of Museum and Gallery exhibitions
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The New Season - In Museums and Gallaries around the Country - (September 2008 through June 2009) (NYTimes)
A Weekend in the Galleries - New York City - Field report. Excellent opportunity to check out work in the galleries! Navigate the interactive Maps for The Lower East Side and The Village, SoHo and TriBeCa and Chelsea and The Upper East Side. Most of the sites on each map offer enlarged views of selected works with short captions and related NYTimes articles. Plus - Some attention is paid to the work / the galleries as existing somewhere . . . . . in neighborhoods and, with a stretch of imagination, in the space and light of the times and the weather. - (NYTimes)
'Mystic Masque / Semblance and Reality in George Rouault (1871-1958)' (McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, MA)- "The exhibition of more than 180 of Rouault’s finest paintings and works on paper is drawn largely from the rich holdings in Paris of the Fondation Rouault, the Centre Pompidou, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville. Many have never been displayed in North America. In addition, outstanding paintings are being lent by American Museums including the Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Currier Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Dumbarton Oaks, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Dayton Art Institute. Many of Rouault’s prints and books come from the Boston Public Library." --- View the video: 'Rouault: Painting to Infinity' (RealPlayer) - "People and artists are frequently impassioned by what they are seeking. Sometimes it just has to be this way. You must neither resent it nor condemn them." (Georges Rouault) - ("This documentary was produced in 2006 by Écart Production for' Georges Rouault: Forme, couleur, harmonie', an exhibition mounted by the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg.")
'Alexander Calder performs his "Circus"' - Whitney Museum, NYC (Video) - "Alexander Calder the Paris Years - 1926-1933 - "When Alexander "Sandy" Calder (1898-1976), arrived in Paris in 1926, he aspired to be a painter; when he left in 1933, he had evolved into the artist we know today: an international figure and defining force in twentieth-century sculpture. In these seven years Calder's fluid, animating drawn line transformed from two dimensions to three, from ink and paint to wire, and his radical innovations included openform wire caricature portraits, a bestiary of wire animals, his beloved and critically important miniature Circus (1926–31), abstract and figurative sculptures, and his paradigm-shifting "mobiles." The Whitney has the largest body of work by Alexander Calder in any museum and is proud to be the exclusive American venue for this landmark exhibition, co-organized with the Centre Pompidou. - - - - The Brochure
Mantegna - "An epic imagination . . . . The work seduces by the precision and truth of its thousand details . . . . (The paintings) compete with sculpture in his illusionist effects . . . . Anecdotal inspiration . . . . Fascination with the Antique . . . . A Monumentality / Theatrical effects . . . . Sparkles with its colored marbles and gilded reliefs . . . ." (It is remarkable that this artist worked on such a monumental scale from the age of 14 or 15 until his death at the age of about 75) . . . . . And, as well: Inventor of copperplate engraving in Italy in order to sell works in secret . . . . and "collaboration with craftsmen by providing models for metal lamps, tapestries, receptacles . . . . . Archival documents testify (to) Mantegna's close links with the world of Applied Arts and explain the rapid and extensive diffusion of his inventions." (This exhibition was organized by the Musée du Louvre and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.)
NOTE: "Between 1440 and 1460, Padua was one of the most brilliant artistic centers in Italy. This town, with its long university tradition, became a centre of experiment where, in a permanent coming and going, artists of all origins proposed resolutely innovatory figurative solutions: many were attracted by the presence of Donatello, the brilliant Florentine sculptor, who was in Padua from 1443 to 1454, working on Gattamelata's equestrian statue and the bronze altar of the Basilica of Sant'Antonio. Mantegna took an active part in this fever of renewal. In 1445, just an adolescent, he is already quoted as a painter and had already frequented for a few years the workshop of Francesco Squarcione, himself a painter and sculptor, . . . . In 1448, aged only seventeen, Mantegna chose independence and left Squarcione's workshop whose pupil and adopted son he had become around 1440. Straight away he was entrusted, together with other artists, with the realization of the frescoes of the Ovetari Chapel, in the church of the Eremitani in Padua . . . . Quickly praised by poets and men of letters who wanted to have their portraits painted by him, Mantegna immediately became a famous painter, sought after by important patrons . . . ."
Over time: "Manategna's reputation was largely founded on the cycle of the Triumphs of Caesar, copied or engraved very early on, provoking the admiration of Correggio, Rubens, Poussin or Goethe . . . . nine painted canvases . . . This grandiose undertaking certainly kept Mantegna busy until the end of his days . . . Triumphal imagery was omnipresent in the Veneto . . . . The Triumphs illustrate personages of all ages and kinds (soldiers, buglers, prisoners, domestic animals and exotic beasts) and the most varied objects (trophies, weapons, insignia, flags . . . ). A whole world passes by, full life-size, seen from below as if walking on a stage."
--- Then: "The fashion of 'studioli' --or private studies, small rooms reserved for intellectual activities --spread in the 15th century in the Italian courts, bathed in Humanist culture."
--- And - "In 1490 the young Marchesa Isabella judged Mantegna's art out-ofdate and flaunted her partiality for a more pleasant and sentimental type of painting. . . . Correggio's work ('Madonna and Child' and 'The Adoration of the Child. The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist') refers to Mantegna in the formulatoin of its composition but illustrates Correggio's definitive adhesion to the "maniera moderna", defined by Vasari, that of Leonardo da Vinci and of Raphael." Books of the Word -
"Veneration for the inspired Word / Sacred to believers / Part of the heritage of humanity for all . . . . These texts recount the move to the written word, the evolution of form from the scroll to the codex and then the emergence of printing. . . . . They trace languages . . . These Books blend intimately accounts of reality and a symbolic approach. These texts therefore originate both from history and from faith, but also from art and from memory. . . . Containing so many primitive and founding scenes, they were often rewritten, copied and interpreted: on the stage, in painting and in sculpture. . . . Men have built synagogues, cathedrals and mosques around these books. . . . The open Books open up many possible kinds of reading and introduce the dialogue between man and the hereafter, whether that hereafter is sacred transcendence, or inwardness without any reference to the Divine." - (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Johannes Vermeer, 'A Lady Writing' (ca. 1665) - "Above all, Vermeer was a painter of light. In his study of optics he undoubtedly used a camera obscura, or “darkened chamber,” the ancestor of the modern photographic camera. This scientific device employed an adjustable lens and mirrors to capture reflected light and project the scene onto a viewing screen in its lid. Vermeer analyzed the resulting images carefully because they duplicate the selective focus of the human eye. Only objects at a certain distance from the camera or the eye are in sharp focus. . . . " - (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC)
Looking at Chinese Paintings - National Palace Museum, Taiwan. View the Paintings, Glossary, Chronology, Bibliography (Parts of this site require time. If nothing happens, just wait! It is necessary to be patient) - (Learn the Functions)
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- ("It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day" - VG ) - Van Gogh admitted to being unable to work strictly from the imagination. But he was also an artist for whom the real was intertwined with the symbolic, and who set out to capture the spiritual qualities he sensed in the world around him. It was during the night hours that his experiments with imagination and memory went the farthest . . . In the open night skies Van Gogh perceived formidable forces of nature, capable of providing consolation amid life's daily adversities and of evoking eternity." - (Museum of Modern Art, NYC) --- In september 1888 he had written of "a tremendous need for, shall I say the word - religion - so I go outside to paint the stars."
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937 - "The first major museum exhibition to identify the core practices and strategies Miró used to attack and reinvigorate painting between 1927 and 1937, a transformative decade within his long career." - (Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
Design and the Elastic Mind - "Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace --working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today's instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive considerations of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history --changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior --and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hunderd of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition." Thinkering - People and Objects - Design for Debate - Visualization - Thought to Action - All Together Now! - Super Nature - (The Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
Americans in Paris
- (Special Feature at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC) -"In the
decades following the Civil War, hundreds of Americans joined the
throngs headed to Paris. Needing to compete with French artists,
especially the academics whose works were being snatched up by wealthy
American collectors, they enrolled in the prestigious
government-sponsored École des Beaux-Arts and in thriving private
academies and studios. They studied the masterpieces hanging in the
Louvre and marveled at the modern works on display at the Paris Salons,
world's fairs, and other exhibitions, including the Impressionists'
eight shows. The Americans established their own professional
credibility by presenting their paintings and sculpture in these
forums." . . . . . . . . . . And of corresponding interest: La Fayette: Database of American Art - (The Louvre)
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
- "Traditions are beautiful --but to create them --not to follow." -
Franz Marc, motto of the Société Anonyme . . . . The Société Anonyme,
Inc., was an organization founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine
Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray as America's first "experimental
museum" for modern art . . . . In the 1920s and 1930s (it) was the
generative force for over eighty exhibitions of contemporary art, at
least eighty-five public programs, and approximately thirty
publications --an impressive campaign to bring modernism to America and
to encourage international artistic exchange." - (Organized by the Yale
University Art Gallery)
Modernism - Designing a New World 1914-1939
Contemporary Chinese Art - 'Nontransparent Monument' by
Cai Guo-Qiang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
Let The World In - "Beginning in the early 1960s, Robert Rauschenberg (American, born 1925) created painterly prints filled with images he clipped from newspapers and magazines. Nearly a decade earlier he had countered the introspective canvases of abstract expressionism with works he called "Combines," fusions of painting and sculpture that incorporate everyday items and embrace the cacophony of daily life." - (National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC)
View some work at the 798 District, the epicenter of Beijing's lively contemporary art scene in China:
Pekin Fine Arts
Chinese Art Archives and Warehouse
Galerie Urs Meile
Miao Xiaochun
Platform China - Contemporary Art Institute
Universalstudios, Beijing, 2007 by Chen Shaoxiong at Universalstudios, Beijing.
Did you Know?
- "The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of
American citizens --businessmen and financiers as well as leading
arists and thinkers of the day --who wanted to create a museum to bring
art and art education to the American people. . . . "
Paths of Discovery-"Our
thematic trails enable you to explore a particular theme, movement, or
period in depth. Print out the trail that interests you before you come
so that you can follow it once inside" - (The Louvre, France)
Collection Display Themes at Tate Modern
- Level 3: Contemporary Intervention: The Wrong Gallery. "In 2002 the
artist Maurizio Cattelan teamed up with curators Massimiliano Gioni and
Ali Subotnick to create The Wrong Gallery, a tiny non-profit exhibition
space sandwiched between two doors on 20th St, Chelsea, New York.
Evicted from its previous site, The Wrong Gallery has now been
relocated within the Collection Displays at Tate Modern. Like a Trojan
Horse smuggling its own agenda into the larger institution, The Wrong
Gallery provides an opportunity to show artists and works that may not
otherwise be displayed at Tate Modern. The Wrong Gallery will show a
new exhibition every two months."
The Priority Boxes
- "Artist Franck de Las Mercedes wonders what people would do if they
received a box (for free) that contained such things. like happiness,
love or peace. . . . . An art series that seeks to provoke thought, to
make people reconsider their ability to influence change, to interrupt
the daily grind and to question their own priorities . . . . Each box
is the canvas for a unique abstract painting and is dedicated with a
personal Fragile: . . . . message . . . . . The fact that the
boxes are shipped for free and the art is on the outside, are critical
to the experience of the work, says Franck. Normally, one doesn't look
at the outside of boxes, but to the content. Here, the beauty and the
"Fragile" message are on the outside for all to see and consider.
Sending it by mail starts a ripple effect that spreads the message from
the very first change of hands at the post office, and continues
through all the other people the boxes come across, until it reaches
the recipient. Likewise, the boxes must be free, in order to reinforce
and reminds us that things like hope are free, says Franck, and that
peace and change can be achieved or even given mutually or reciprocally
. . . . The series is for non-profit, and anyone who offers to pay for
the shipment is encouraged to donate that money to a charity of their
choice, or one of Franck's."
** Art in the Twenty-first Century - This PBS series documents artists at work and in their own words with access happening in over 20 countries and 50 US states. View the Series, The Artists, Education, Events, Discussion, Internships, Mini-Grants, Slideshows, Videos, the Blog, Newsletter, Learning Materials. Calendar and Map.
** Melendez - "Because of his masterful ability to capture subtle variations in texture and color, the marvelous effects of the play of light, and meticulously observed details, his still lifes are among the finest ever painted." - (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC)
2008 Whitney Biennial - "In the Biennial's aesthetic background --and foreground, in concurrent installations and a program of performances at the Park Avenue Armory --is a burbling, flimsy abundance of collaborative and participatory activities. At the Armory, viewers may write on strips of red flannel that will be woven into Rapunzel-like braids of artificial golden hair, make music by touching electrical wires, knock back shots of homemade tequila (at set times), lie down on cots in a jungle-style "triage" tent, and sign up for closeted psychotherapy sessions with an artist who cheerfully admits to being wholly unqualified for the job. Such stunts give me a "you had to be there" feeling, even while I'm there. But they are harmless enough, and they do reinforce a Beckettian motive of, having nothing to do, doing something . . . . It was windy out there, and there was traffic on an apparently nearby road, when I dropped by. A tremendous sense of displacement and loss, in empty distances, grew on me. I found myself listening intently, as if for something revelatory --perhaps the vroom of Young Werther's motorcycle, questing past in the suddenly exact middle of nowhere ." (Peter Schjeldahl, "Lessness" for The Art World, 'New Yorker Magazine' March 17, 2008)
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) is basically a show about light, which means it is about time and change, clarity and obscurity. And it is very beautiful. . . . " - (Art Review, "When Venice Shook the World" by Holland Cotter for the New York Times, July 7, 2006) --"If any city is the city of light, Venice is. It is also a place of obscurities. The sun bleaches Piazza San Marco flat white in summer and glints off the Grand Canal. In the fall recurrent rains --water meeting water --are like layers of kinetic glazing, breaking light up, so the city becomes incoherent scintillation. In winter mists move across the floors of churches; Titians glow like banked fires in the dark."
Howard Hodgkin - "The first exhibition to span the entire career of Howard Hodgkin. Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in Britain today. Bringing together 60 of his evocative and vibrant paintings from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to view new work in the context of earlier decades." - (Tate)
Alberto Giacometti
- "The first major New York City museum exhibition in almost three
decades devoted to the work of the internationally renowned Swiss
sculptor, painter, and draftsman." [Museum of Modern Art, NYC]
http://moma.org/exhibitions/2001/giacometti/start/goflash.html
Multiple Choice - From Sample to Product. "Tangible tools which link together design, technology, and marketing. They have been used for more than 300 years for the merchandizing and recording of design alternatives in many areas of the decorative arts, including wallcoverings, ceramics, and textiles . . . . (making) the connection between samples and final products." - Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. (Washington. DC)
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/multiple_choice/site
Edward Hopper - "Edward Hopper's classic works captured the realities of urban and rural American life with a poignancy and beauty that have placed them among the most enduring and popular images of the 20th century." - (Special Feature, National Gallery of Art)
DADA - Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, New York, Paris - "Dada, one of the crucially significant movements of the historical avant-garde, was born in the heart of Europe in the midst of World War I. . . . . " - (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC)
Renaissance Drawings - "The sketch or outline drawing, (both these terms are used), constitutes, indeed is, the source and the body of painting, sculpture, architecture and all other plastic arts, and is the root of every science." Michelangelo - (Bibliotéque Nationale de France)
Cézanne in Provence
- "Cézanne learned how to paint in Paris; however, he never adopted the
city as his own. From the beginning he returned repeatedly in Provence,
finding solace and inspiration in its familiar countryside.
(Eventually, in the 1880s, he resettled in Provence for good, making
only short trips outside of the region until his death in 1906.)"
George Seurat: The Drawings - "Once described as "the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence,"
Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his career. Though Seurat is most often remembered as a Neo-Impressionist, the inventor of pointillism, and the creator of the painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, his incomparable drawings are among his --and modernism's --greatest achievements. Working primarily with conté crayon on paper, Seurat explored the Parisian metropolis and its environs, abstracted figures, spaces, and structures, and dramatized the relationship between light and shadow, creating a distinct body of work that is a touchstone for the art of the twentieth century and today." - (Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
Vermeer's Camera Obscura - Vermeer and The Camera Obscura
Piet Mondrian
- The Transatlantic Paintings - "The 20th century is distinguished in art history for one invention above all: abstraction. The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a pioneer in this development. His reputation rests on about 250 abstract paintings dating from 1917 to 1944, a modest number for over 25 years of work. Each painting was worked and reworked, built layer by layer toward an equilibrium of form, color, and surface.Mondrian named his style "neoplasticism." That is how he translated his own Dutch phrase nieuwe beelding, which also means "new form" or "new image." The style was based, he explained, on an absolute harmony of straight lines and pure colors underlying the visible world." (Harvard University in Cambridge, MA) - View the Studies, Details, and details of details along with a Glossary, which includes a butt-join ---electromagnetic spectrum ---infrared reflectography (IRR) ---x-radiography.
Celebrate the Silk Road
- "Not a highway in the modern sense, the Silk Road was instead a loose
network of trails connecting China, india, and the Mediterranean via
the mountains and deserts of Central Asia. Traveled for millennia by
merchants, monks, and adventurers, these routes and their scattered
oasis settlements played a crucial role in both the dispsersal of goods
and the spread and exchange of religious ideas and cultures across the
continents." [Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC] Cloth and Clay
- "A window into more than 2,000 years of history in Mexico, Central
and South America." [Textile Museum of Canada and Gardiner Museum of
Ceramic Art] Boston Museum of Fine Arts new Interactive Tours - The museum has outstanding Collections. Exhibitions, and Popular Themes are also included, all with many images available for viewing. This is a great resource for research and exploration. The collections include superb examples of American Paintings, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Greek Art, European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, etc. Zoom in and out and pan full-screen views of all images. Send images as ecards.
Studio Visit [DIA]
Biennials - International events
Odette Drapeau Artiste du livre
Earth as Art
- A Landsat Perspective. " The U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources
Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center in South Dakota is the primary
receiving station for Landsat 7 data, and it distributes these data to
researchers around the world." [Library of Congress]
Rivers, Edens, Empires
- Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America. "On April 7, 1805,
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Fort Mandan for points west,
beginning the process of "filling in the canvas" of America. This
exhibition features the Library's rich collections of exploration
material documenting the quest to connect the East and the West by
means of a waterway passage." [Library of Congress]
Mughal India
- "As you enter a large room filled with various items, including a
well-worn globe, a medium-sized file cabinet, and a wall of books, you
wonder to yourself, Where am I?. It turns out that you have stumbled
across the British Museum's fine interactive website on Mughal India.
Designed for young people, the site is set up as an office where
visitors may click on various items (such as a globe or a model of the
Taj Mahal) in order to entire Flash-enabled learning environments that
address various aspects of this most grand and productive period in
India's history. While visitors will want to spend a good deal of time
exploring the site, one particular representative area of the site is
the coin cabinet. Clicking on the coin cabinet opens up a small chest
that holds various pieces of currencies from the Mughal Empire.
Visiting the different drawers in the chest allows users to learn what
each type of coin can tell contemporary observers about the Empire's
religious traditions, emperors, and politics. Thoroughly engaging and
dynamic in its layout and content, this is a site that is worth a close
look." [KMG] <#team> (The Scout Report)
Explore the Unicorn Tapestries
- "In the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum, ropes and guards
prevent visitors from getting too close to the Unicorn Tapestries and
possibly damaging them. This new Web site provides a chance to jump the
rope, disregard the guard, and get a really close look at these
medieval masterpieces. Several sections of the site are primarily
designed for close examination. A Closer Look allows viewers to magnify
any section of any tapestry by selecting with the mouse, while Flowers,
Plants, and Trees and The Birds and the Beasts provide both close-ups
and extensive information about details of the tapestries. For example,
find out that the lily woven into the Unicorn in Captivity is a Madonna
lily, or Lilium candidum, symbolic of the Virgin Mary in the Middle
Ages and able to predict if a pregnant woman would bear a boy or girl
-- when presented with a lily and a rose, a woman who chose the lily
would have a boy, and the one who chose the rose, a girl. Other
sections of the site include audio and video of Metropolitan Museum
director Phillipe de Montebello telling the story of the hunt of the
Unicorn, and David Rockefeller relating how his father acquired the
tapestries and donated them to the Met, as well as information on how
tapestries are woven, the sport of hunting in medieval times, and the
Cloisters." [Scout Report]
Raid on Deerfield
- "In the pre-dawn hours of February 29, 1704, a force of about 300
French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English
settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, situated in the Pocumtuck
homeland." - Artifacts, Maps, Timelines, Glossary, and other Resources.
Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Investigating Bellini's Feast of the Gods
Street to Studio - The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Museo Chillida-Leku
- "To remember the accomplishments and honor Eduardo Chillida, the
great Spanish artist, Scout Weblog readers may want to check out this
museum site. It is full of sleek graphics, well done animations and
biographical essays. The museum is housed in a renovated 16th century
building and features the sculpture and life's work of this
accomplished master sculpture, painter and printmaker. All the
Website's contents are available in English and 2 other languages. Fun
stuff." [Scout WebLog]
Martin Puryear - "I value the referential quality of art, the fact that a work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them. . . . ." (Puryear) - "Throughout Puryear's life, a passion for diverse cultures and histories has led him to travel, study, and work in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. These explorations have permitted him to observe the material culture of many societies around the globe . . . . " - (Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
Lucian Freud - The Painter's Etchings - "I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness." (Lucian Freud) - (Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
An Oasis of Murals
Cézanne's Astonishing Apples - (Metroplitan Museum of Art)
Peter Halley's Web Project: Exploding Cell
- "In conjunction with the exhibition New Concepts in Printmaking 1:
Peter Halley, artist Peter Halley has created this Web project. It has
been programmed using nine digital images that the Museum acquired for
the collection in 1996." (MOMA, NYC) (Requires Shockwave)
2x4
- (Click 'New' and 'Images') - "With cutting-edge projects in virtually all graphic media-print,
web, motion graphics, and environmental design, 2x4's trademark
approach heavily emphasizes critical thinking and research. Known for
intellectual content and explorations of rhetorical meaning, many of
2x4's projects question the nature of design and are as much about the
thinking process behind each work as the finished product. This
ideology, based on an almost algorithmic approach, is the foundation
for 2x4's pioneering model for design, one that makes process the
product." (source SFMoMA)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sargent at Harvard - "Sargent at Harvard is a searchable database that makes available images and textual information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (Fogg Art Museum) and the Harvard University Portrait Collection. The archive is a structured database comprised of digitized images and accompanying textual information for over 1300 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and related materials . . . . This site was redesigned and updated in January 2005. It now includes expanded records for sketchbooks and albums (more than 800 records), more images, and new information, and will regularly be updated from our collections database."
Splendors of China's Forbidden City
Science, Art, and Technology
[QuickTime] - This fine exhibit and pedagogical tool was developed by
the Art Institute of Chicago in order assist science teachers in their
efforts to explore the relationship between science and art in a museum
setting. Supported by a grant from the Polk Brothers Foundation, the
various sections of the site reveal "how the scientific method is
applied to the making, conserving, and exhibiting of art." The online
exhibit is divided into six primary sections, including Perception,
Light, and Color, Art and Astronomy, and Conservation: Light in the
Making and Viewing of Art. Within each section, there are a number of
lovely features, including self-contained units that include short
video selections that illustrate the general themes of each module,
along with providing a transcript of the lecture. Educators will also
find the lesson plans section particularly useful, as it contains plans
that deal with topics such as the connection between pigment and light
colors and the effects of acid rain on stone sculpture. [From The Scout
Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu]
Henry Tanner - A Mystical Painter
Continuum 12 Artists
[Flash] - "The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is
currently presenting a continuous 18-month exhibition featuring works
by a changing selection of 12 contemporary Native American artists,
accompanied by this Web site. The on-site show opened in April 2003 and
runs until November 2004, and Web versions are being made available
concurrently. Right now, 3 artists' work can be viewed in the galleries
of the Web site. This includes, mixed-media drawings by Rick Bartow;
paintings by Kay Walking Stick that often combine landscapes, human
figures, and patterns reminiscent of weaving; and vessels by Joe
Fedderson, primarily made of glass, but echoing shapes found in
baskets. Other artists to come in the series include: Harry Fonseca,
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, George Longfish, Judith Lowry, Nora
Naranjo-Morse, Shelley Niro, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Marie Watt, and
Richard Ray Whitman. Biographies of the artists, essays about their
work, and the complete schedule of the exhibition can also be found at
the Web site." (Copyright Internet Scout Project, 1994-2003.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu)
Draka, the Flaming Metal Dragon
- "Lisa Nigro's "Dragon became a four vehicle Party Wagon
Extraordinaire. Her impressive 25 foot bursting breath-of-fire was hard
to miss. She was gothic in size and expression; everyone wanted to jump
on an over-crowded compartment for fun and a tour of Black Rock City.
At birth she measured 124' x 12' x 22' with a wing-span of 30 feet; her
train-like appearance being attributed to the connection of 1 truck to
3 trailers."
The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories - (Whitney Museum)
Discover the Ottomans
- "The Ottoman state rose to become a world empire, which lasted from
the late 13th century to 1923. Like that of the Habsburgs, its eventual
rival, the Ottoman Empire was dynastic; its territories and character
owed little to national, ethnic or religious boundaries, and were
determined by the military and administrative power of the dynasty at
any particular time. The Ottomans attempted to bring as much territory
as possible into the Islamic fold. The non-Muslims living in these
areas were then absorbed into the Empire as protected subjects." - This
site "aims to become the leading information portal regarding the
history, military, culture and arts of the Ottoman Empire that has once
dominated a large territory from Egypt to Russia, from India to
Austria."
The Cave of Chauvet-pont-d'Arc
- "Chauvet-Pont-d'arc Cave. Exceptional archeological discovery of a
decorated cave. In 1995, fantastic Paleolithic Period cave paintings in
the Ard�che gorges of France. Includes photos of several paintings and
a discussion of the archaeological importance of the discovery. Also
lists other significant French prehistoric finds."
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre - (The Art Institute of Chicago)
Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
Treasures from the World's Great Libraries [National Library of Australia]
Morning Star Gallery
- "Morning Star Gallery continues its long tradition of providing
important material from all major cultural regions of North America. We
use accurate information to illuminate the stories present in the
objects, by placing Native American history within the larger framework
of North American history." Scenes of American Life - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
W.P.A. - New Deal Art During the Great Depression
- "On May 6, 1935, the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was
created to help provide economic relief to the citizens of the United
States who were suffering through the Great Depression. The artistic
community had already become inspired during the 1920s and '30s by the
revitalization of the Italian Renaissance fresco style by the inspired
creations of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and
David Alfaro Siqueriros. Certain visionary U.S. politicians decided to
combine the creativity of the new art movements with the values of the
American people. The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions of
the W.P.A. created under Federal Project One. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt had made several attempts prior to the F.A.P. to provide
employment for artists on relief, namely the Public Works of Art
Project (P.W.A.P.) which operated from 1933 to 1934 and the Treasury
Department Section of Painting and Sculpture which was created in 1934
after the demise of the P.W.A.P. However, it was the F.A.P. which
provided the widest reach, creating over 5,000 jobs for artists and
producing over 225,000 works of art for the American people. It is this
legacy of the thousands of workers who labored at their craft for
little money but great pride which we have to inspire us today.
Although many of these works of art have been destroyed or stolen,
those that remain must be preserved. They stand as a reminder of a time
in our country's history when dreams were not allowed to be destroyed
by economic disaster."
Iraq and China - Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation
The Virtual Museum of Brazilian Art
- "Hosts the official web sites of Brazil's most important contemporary
artists. The project aims to exhibit a representative collection to be
organized by historical periods, creating a center for Brazilian art on
the Internet."
Exhibitions at the Harvard University Art Museums
La Catedral de Girona
- "Beginning with the evocative sounds of cathedral bells and the
clamor of footsteps, this site dedicated to the cathedral in the
Spanish city of Girona is a well-done overview of the cathedral's many
compelling facets. The cathedral was begun in the 11th century
(although most of the building dates from the 14th to 17th centuries),
and is considered of one the finest Gothic cathedrals in Spain. The
cathedral contains the world's widest Gothic nave and is surpassed in
total size only by St. Peter's in Rome. Within the site, visitors are
able to take a close look at the cathedral's nave, cloister, and bell
tower. Additionally, various treasures of the cathedral are here for
viewing, including the bible of Charles V and the detailed tapestry of
the Creation. The site is rounded out by a history of the cathedral,
information about the archives held on the premises, and information
about visiting in person. Appropriately enough, the site is available
for browsing in Spanish, Catalan, and French (along with English)."
[Scout Report]
Fashion in Colors
- "Organized by the Kyoto Costume Institute, Fashion in Colors explores
color as a design element through 300 years of Western fashion." -
(Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - Smithsonian)
China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D
Museums & Millennium
- "Museum institutions from all over the world joined to create a
collective virtual exhibition, initiated by the Musée de la
Civilisation in Quebec, Canada, which will remain live on the Net until
September 3, 2001. This works aims to put the great existential
questions facing humanity at the dawn of the third millennium into
perspective: the transmission of values, the need to excel, the
transgression of stereotypes, the manifestations of crossbreeding, the
problem of aging, and the survival of the planet. Selections were made
by each museum in terms of the message they wanted to transmit and of
the nature of their collections. The site also proposes the Museums
& Millennium collection -- composed of human representations --
which will eventually be augmented by contributions from additional
museums and the public at large." [From eSpectra News/ The Muiseum
Computer Network] Tête á Tête - (National Portrait Gallery)
Exhibitions Today
- [National Endowment for the Humanities Projects. "The NEH is at the
forefront in supporting museums in the digital age. Grants provide
long-distance learning through the Internet, enhance exhibition
experiences, and make collections accessible electronically." Yin Yu Tang
- "A late Qing dynasty merchant's home originally located in
southestern China. Explore the House to discover this rare example of
the region's renowned arcitecture and to learn about the daily life of
the Huang family, who lived in Yin Yu Tang for over 200 years."
[Peabody Essex Museum]
Contemporary Folk Art - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978 - "For more than a hundred years snapshots --that is, photographs usually made by amateurs and intended to document personal history --have had a profound impact on American art and life. Their casual loose style has influenced fine art photographers as well as other artists. They have also affected the ways in which we represent ourselves and mark life events, preserving and even creating memories." - (National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC)
Tempus Fugit: Time Flies
- "Take a few moments to explore this beautiful exhibit from the
Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and you'll be
rewarded with a in-depth view of the interconnectedness of time and
art. Browse the illustrated 20th-century timeline, featuring the work
of noted artists such as Pierre Dumont, Edward Hopper, and Mark Rothko,
or just travel the seven continents investigating different cultural
views of time. Either way, the art is both beautiful and beautifully
presented, and
the curators' notes are detailed and thought-provoking. Make sure you
catch this collection before time runs out." [Quoted from Yahoo
Directory]
Earth from the Air
- The exhibition has taken 10 years of research and fieldwork to
produce, in which time Arthus-Bertrand has taken over 100,000 shots and
clocked up more than 3,000 flying hours, travelling across 100
countries. The images, all aerial photographs, capture the
characteristics and patterns of the natural world which can only be
seen from a bird's-eye view. Photograher: Yan Arthus-Bertrand - Understanding the Earth. Multiple Photographs in a Collection of the 'View of the Day'
Printmakers A to Z [Georgetown University]
artport - "A portal to net art and digital arts and an online gallery space for commissioned net and digital art. [Whitney Museum, NYC]
National Building Museum Online Exhibitions
- "Building America explores the broad scope of U.S. achievement in
architecture, design, engineering, construction, planning, and
landscape architecture. Hundreds of images showcase highpoints in
American building, from the U.S. Capitol to the Empire State Building,
as well as places like shopping centers, offices, and suburban homes
where many live their daily lives." [National Building Museum] Island Thresholds
- "Island Thresholds, Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, considers
the sea's profound impact on Caribbean cultures through the work of
four contemporary artists. Marc Latamie, formerly from Martinique,
examines the significance of tropical exports. David Boxer from Jamaica
invokes the slave trade and other consequences of colonization in his
work. Tony Capellan, from the Dominican Republic, and Kcho, from
Cuba, present more personal points of view about Caribbean life; they
invite viewers to consider social justice, isolation, and memory
through the use of everyday objects in their installations."
On Time
- "Marking time, Mechanizing time, Synchronizing time, Saving Time,
Expanding Time - Explore the changing ways American have measured,
used, and thought about time." [Smithsonian]
MEXICO - From Empire to Revolution [Getty Institute]
Our Earth as Art and Visible Earth [NASA] - "Scenes from above - Through the eyes of the Landsat-7 satellite"
The Legacy of Genghis Khan
- "Genghis Kahn, the 13th century ruler who unified the Mongol people,
created an invincible army that swept across Asia and established an
empire extending from Korea to Hungary. This exhibition from the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art presents the other legacy of Genghis Kahn,
the "manuscript illustrations, opulent decorative arts, and splendid
architectural elements" that document the cultural cross-fertilization
that occurred when western and eastern Asia were united as the Mongol
Empire. The Web version of the exhibition allows visitors to closely
examine six artifacts, Shah Zav Enthroned, a page from the Great Mongol
Shahnama (Book of Kings); a white marble Dragon Protome, from a
building at Xanadu; a stone grave marker carved with peonies, clouds,
and scrolls; a brush painting showing six horses; a gold and blue
textile fragment; and a blue and white porcelain wine jar. The
two-dimensional items are almost more fun to explore than the
sculptures, because the site is programmed with a DetailZoom, a tool
that allows users can hone in on particular sections of each piece,
view explanatory captions, and then back up and see the whole
artifact." ['Scout Report']
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
[NYC] - Special Exhibitions, including: 'Glass of the Sultans' -- 'The
Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art'
-- 'A Century of Design' - and many other exhibitions each with
numerous images.
Classics Unveiled
- "Classics Unveiled was developed by Neil Jenkins, Sumair Mirza and
Jason Tang as a way to teach the web-browsing public about the various
aspects of the ancient world, ranging from the massive world of Greek
and Roman mythology, Roman history, Roman culture, and the Latin
language and its pervasive influence on English. The site is divided
into four primary areas, and visitors may opt to browse through any of
them and their accompanying features, which include primary extended
essays and informative games and quizzes. In Rome Exposed for example,
users will learn about Roman residences, entertainment, attire,
cuisine, and several other aspects of Roman culture and mores. In
MythNET visitors can learn about the twelve Olympian gods, read about
the Trojan War, and explore genealogical charts that trace the various
relationships between the pantheon of Rome and Greece. - [From The
Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003]
Photographers for the Emperor - "Napoleon III's reign (1852-1870) coincided with the spectacular development of photography."- (Bibliotéque Nationale de France)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo Exposiçõs - Brasil
Air de Paris
Fouquet
- Painter and Illuminator of the XVth century. "Rediscovered in the XXth century by the Surrealists and the Cubists, Fouquet was appreciated for his geometrical constructions at the limit of abstraction, as well as for the way in which he transfigured reality."
Open Ends: 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from 1960 to now - And other online exhibitoins at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC]
Art Minimal & Conceptual Only
Symmetry and Pattern
- The Art of Oriental Carpets - "The study of symmetry offers one
approach to analyzing patterns in Oriental carpets. Through symmetry
analysis we may identify areas of pattern that exhibit expected
repetitions, and areas that vary from that expectation." [Textile
Museum, Washington, DC]
Over View
[Marilyn Bridges] - "I use dramatic lighting, sharp contrasts between
light and shadow, which adds a multi-dimensional quality to the work,
allowing the viewer to be drawn into the photograph--as if going beyond
the real to the more real. By consciously maneuvering the aircraft in
such a way as to place light and shadow in relationship to material
forms, I control the shapes and patterns within the frame. By
maintaining the relationship between tone, shape and texture, the
gesture evoked by the symbolic nature of the subject is reinforced. The
work then is alive and meaningful and not merely a record of the
charted landscape."
Arctic Studies Center - [Featuring Ainu, Vikings, Crossroads of Continents]
Les métiers d'art
- "Les métiers d'art sont un des laboratoires du futur. Dans leurs
ateliers les quelque trente mille artisans d'art français s'ingénient --restaurer, reproduire, réparer et créer les objets de l'art."
LACE
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is an independent, 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization that supports, exhibits and advocates
innovations in art-making.
Academic Interactive Exercise - "To interact with the image, click and drag in the corners of the blackboard." [Robert Cumming, MOMA]
Gallery Guide - International listing of Museum and Gallery exhibitions.
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art [Nat. Gallery of American Art]
The Un-Private House
[Museum of Modern Art, July - October, 1999] "This subsite offers a
virtual tour of the houses on view in the exhibition "The Un-Private
House." In the subsite's Feedback section you can enter comments which
will be displayed within the exhibition, on the Interactive Table. The
Table was developed for the exhibition as part of a collaboration
between the The Museum of Modern Art and the MIT Media Lab. For more
information on this collaboration see the press release at
The Danville Project
- Collaboration between Artists, Engineers, and the Community . . . .
"The Process is collaborative in nature and draws on time-honored
Vermont traditions of public meetings, civil discourse and
representative democracy. Participation by professional artistss
infuses the process with a creative approach to problem solving and an
openess to new solution. A Local Review Committee oversees the Project
from conceptual design to construction and installation and through to
maintenance. The Danville Project is currently scheduled for completion
by 2006."
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
- How many of the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements will
you use today? A car? Computer? Telephone? Explore our list of the top
20 achievements, and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed
the world . . . . The goal of the Greatest Achievements project is to
celebrate a remarkable century of technological achievement. Initiated
by the National Academy of Engineering, this project is a collaboration
with the American Association of Engineering Societies, National
Engineers Week, and 27 other professional engineering societies.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Exhibitions, including 'Rooms with a View: Landscape &
Wallpaper', 'The Window Show', 'Nuevo Mundo, The Landscape of Latino
Los Angeles', 'National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now', and
'Mixing Messages'[Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture, An Exhibition
of Design for the World Wide Web]
Different Roads, Automobiles for the Next Century [MoMA]
Brazil: Body & Soul
- "A major exhibition showcasing the arts of Brazil from two key phases
of their development, the Baroque (17th to early-19th centuries) and
the Modern (1920s to the present). Brazil is a nation characterized by
its diversity, and the exhibition presents a broad definition of the
country's artistic culture, with emphasis on traditional religious and
secular arts, arts of indigenous peoples, Afro-Brazilian contributions,
as well as many Modern and contemporary visual forms of expression."
[Guggenheim Museum]
Global Change Master Directory
[A NASA Directory of Earth Science Data] - Including Terra Satellite
Images and Visualization Gallery - "Terra is the first satellite to
monitor daily -- and on a global scale-- how the Earth's atmosphere,
lands, oceans, solar radiation and life influence each other.
Extraordinary images, movies, and animations are presented in a variety
of formats - .jpeg, .tiff, QuickTime, and .mpeg.
Impressed by Light - "The first exhibition to highlight British photographs made from paper negatives . . . In this Web feature, viewers may browse through a gallery of images, enlarge them to fill the screen, and reverse virtual paper negatives into positives." - (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC)
Jackson Pollock [1912-1956] [National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC]
African Voices
- "African Voices is a permanent exhibition that examines the
diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples and
cultures over time in the realms of family, work, community, and the
natural environment. African Voices is a permanent exhibition that
examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's
peoples and cultures over time in the realms of family, work,
community, and the natural environment. Included are historical and
contemporary objects from the Museum's collections, as well as
commissioned sculptures, textiles, and pottery." [Smithsonian National
Museum of Natural History]
Age of Enlightenment in France's National Museums
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibitions
Instrument of Change:
Jim Schoppert Retrospective Exhibition, 1947 to 1992
"This exhibition features the works of German-Tlingit artist Robert
James Schoppert (1947 to 1992), one of the most prodigious and
influential Alaskan artists of the 20th century. Organized by the
Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Anchorage Museum
Association, the show includes more than fifty examples of the many
styles in which he worked. As a visual artist, poet, and essayist,
Schoppert was an eloquent spokesperson for Alaskan Native artists, and
indeed, for artists everywhere." [National Museum of American Indian in
collaboration with the Anchorage Museum of Art and History]
Camping with the Sioux
- "Anthropologist Alice Fletcher lived with Dakota Sioux women on
reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota for six weeks in the fall of
1881 and recorded her experiences in two journals. This digital version
of her diaries made available by the National Anthropological Archives
at the Smithsonian Institution includes her daily entries, 26 drawings,
and 36 photographs that can be viewed alongside the text, or in a
separate photograph gallery . . . . " [eSpectre, Museum Computer
Network]
Chandra - Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center [operated for NASA]
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Burma: Grace Under Pressure
- "Photojournalist-turned web designer Geoffrey Hiller presents this
moving pictorial odyssey through Burma, a war-torn country described by
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as "Fascist
Disneyland." The slowly-streaming slide show, accompanied by haunting
Burmese music, chronicles poverty, hunger, oppression, fear, and hope.
Burma, renamed Myanmar by the military dictatorship in 1989, was once
known as the rice basket of Asia, but today, rice is rationed and Burma
has become the world's opium bowl. Hiller's
high-bandwidth exhibit juxtaposes luminous beauty with tragic injustice
and human misery."
Venezia, Palazzo Grassi Exhibitions - Including: gli Etruschi [The Etruscans]
The Column of Trajan
- "This is a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural
monument. The core of the site is a searchable database of over 500
images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the
column's sculptural decoration." [The McMaster Trajan Project, 1999]
Critiques of Pure Abstraction
[June 1 to August 25, 1996] The works were selected by guest curator
Mark Rosenthal, Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
DunHuang [Tun-Huang] - Frescoes along the Silk Road
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Reservation X -The Power of Place
- "This exhibition, organized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization,
presents seven Native contemporary artists who examine concepts of
community and identity. Recently, many Native artists have returned
home to the communities of their ancestors, and have begun to reflect
on the meaining of community, a trend that inspired this project. The
installations in Reservation X showcase the diversity of Native
identity and the extent of the influence that power of place has on us
all. [National Museum of the American Indian]
Expositions [French Ministry of Culture]
Medieval Mystery
- "This entertaining site created by the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille,
and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute turns one of the
primary tasks of museum curators and archivists--establishing the
provenance of the works in their collections--into a game. Using a
group of late 15th century Dutch paintings with an uncertain history
that depict the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, the game attempts to
answer four questions: What are the origins of the paintings? How do
the paintings relate to each other? What did the paintings mean in the
15th century? Who was the Master of the Embroidered Foliage? (the
paintings were attributed to the Master of the Embroidered Foliage in
1926 by a German art historian, Max Friedl�nder) The research presented
at the site reveals that probably all the paintings were not created by
the same artists, as hypothesized in 1926, but still leaves tantalizing
questions unanswered." (Scout Report)
The Cave of Lascaux
Flowers of Silk and Gold
[Four Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery] - "The Ottoman Empire spanned
seven centuries and preceded modern Turkey. At its height the Empire
extended over three continents . . . . " [Textile Museum, Washington,
DC] Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry
Ancient China (The British Museum)
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html
http://expositions.bnf.fr/renais/expo/us/index.htm
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/cezanne/index.shtm
http://www.vermeerscamera.co.uk
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura/co_one.html
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/silkroad/default.htm
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/cloth_clay
http://www.diacenter.org/donegan/home.html
http://www.noteaccess.com/DIRECTORIES/RegLocGuideE.htm
http://colophon.com/gallery/latranchefile/mainframe.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earthasart
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark
http://www.mughalindia.co.uk/room.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Unicorn/unicorn_splash.htm
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html
http://webexhibits.org/feast
http://www.eduardo-chillida.com/#
http://www.oasisofmurals.com
http://www.twoxfour.net
http://www.henricartierbresson.org
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/forbiddencity
http://www.artic.edu/aic/students/sciarttech
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/tanner/index.html
http://americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/continuum/hp_flash.html
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/burningman/nigro.html
http://www.ballgame.org
http://whitney.org/jacoblawrence
http://www.theottomans.org/english/index.asp
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
http://paleo.amnh.org
http://www.nhmmaastricht.nl
http://www.nla.gov.au/worldtreasures/
http://www.morningstargallery.com
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/t2go/1sa/index.html
http://www.wpamurals.com/
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/iraqChina/default.htm
http://www.museuvirtual.com.br/english.html
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/exhibitions
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