Art & Museums

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New Asian Art Museum - Founded on the Avery Brundage Asian Art collection which donated to the city of San Francisco (predicated on the condition that the city build a structure to house it), the Asian has a new home. Previously, the collection was housed in a new wing of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park; now it has a building of its own near the Civic Center. At the museum's core is a permanent collection of more than 13,000 objects, spanning 6,000 years of history and representing the countries and cultures throughout Asia.

Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection - More than 170 18th and 19thC illustrations from books and art works that are part of the collection at the Cornell Univ. Library. There's a no-frames version, too, for slower loading computers. Images are offered in three sizes and at the artist or author's page, including an introduction and a large thumbnail image. Select a link at the bottom of that technique's introductory page to browse all the images in each section.

DIA:Chelsea and DIA:Beacon - Fortunately, the DIA site includes a history of this organization which, granted, is not as interesting as the Calvin Tompkins New Yorker piece (which we're not able to link to) but which affords a skeleton of mileposts. It's an ambitious, complex and fascinating foundation and the site provides numerous features (click on the main headings to see the selections offered) for the viewer. DIA's installations are in diverse locations (Quemado, NM; Bridgehampton, NY; Great Salt Lake, UT and through the Chianti Foundation, Marfa, TX)

Gallery of Storytelling Through Visual Images - Marietta Patricia Leis is a visual artist from Corrales, New Mexico who has created a series of paintings in celebration of her namesake, Marietta Robusti Tintoretto (1560-1590), the daughter of the celebrated Venetian painter, Jacopo Tintoretto.

Virtual Museum of Canada - A database of Canadian museums offering information on 'over 2400 cultural institutions and attractions' and they're in both the English and French languages. Searchable by keyword, map or by events by date.

Louvre Museum, Paris: A virtual tour of the museum with selections from their extensive collections. To see a virtual tour you do have to download aQuick Time version and the exhibits have limited images available.

NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Overview of the collections, floor plan, services, listing of special exhibitions, concerts, lectures, film and the renowned adult and children's store replete with gifts, books and prints.

Museum of New Mexico - A combination of four museums (Indian Art and Culture, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of International Folk Art, Palace of the Governors) and monuments. The Governors' Palace consists of a collection focusing on the history an culture of New Mexico and the Southwest, and spans the entire horizon of Spanish Colonial, Mexican, Territorial and Statehood. Museum of Fine Arts is a distinguished collection that spans the historic art colonies of Taos and Santa Fe of the past 100 years to cutting-edge contemporary art from around the region and the world. The Art and Culture Museum displays the ceramic history of two millennia of pottery making in Pueblo communities of the Southwest, plus the work of contemporary artists. The International Folk Art Museum houses the world's largest collection of folk art from around the globe.

National Endowment for the Arts - The writer's corner features work by American poets, novelists, and short story writers who have received Creative Writing Fellowships from the Arts Endowment's Literature Program. A gallery of work by artists with two new artists added monthly and photographic survey projects from installations around the country. Information is supplied for contacting those organizations receiving funding.

National Gallery of Art: The site features highlights of collections, exhibitions, programs and events. The shop has a marvelous collection of unusual and art-related children's gifts that can be ordered on-line as well as books, prints and objects centering on their exhibitions.

National Museum of Women in the Arts: The Museum is the only one in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods. NMWA conducts research and offers education programs. Here is a chance to take your friends and relatives to a place that celebrates the women artists ignored throughout the centuries. Visit, support and enjoy it.

The Peabody Essex Museum on East India Square in Salem, Massachusetts "was founded in 1799, sixteen years after the establishment of the nation and nearly three-quarters of a century before the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The museum’s founders were among America’s first global entrepreneurs, traveling the world in search of trade. The collections they amassed are exceptional for their provenance, age, quality, and significance."

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - An institution for literary and cultural research with special collections containing approximately 35 million manuscripts, 1 million books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art and a performing arts collection. Since the Center's inception in the mid-1950s, the major emphasis of its acquisitions has been on twentieth-century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and French. Online collections are incredibly varied and rich: A Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition, Gone With the Wind (Walter Plunkett's costumes including the curtain dress and the Atlanta Bazaar dress), William Morris and His Circle, Aunt Dicy Tales: John Bigger's Drawings For the Folktale, Islands of Order: A Decade of Collecting, To Help The World To See: An Eliot Elisofon Retrospective, David Douglas Duncan: One Life, A Photographic Odyssey

Smithsonian Art Museum: A wonderfully designed site with virtual exhibits, the Renwick Gallery, and a reference library that will answer questions and offer advice on subjects such as how to save outdoor sculpture in your area. A shop is also included on the site.

The Statement is a monthly ezine 'for the professional designer.' We found it while looking for more illustrations for an exhibit that the hosting museum was willing to display on their website. W e used a drop-down win down to find many articles with accompanying illustrations.

The Victoria & Albert Museum - A stunning site, fast loading, with great text describing the collections accompanied by appropriate book listings. there are more than 2000 images to view...a treat. There's a wonderful shop included that has a great selection of their offerings.

Vincent Van Gogh Museum - The museum's site allows most of the museum's contents to be viewed.

The Women's Museum, An Institute for the Future - Although the virtual tour replaces a frame by frame viewing of the exhibits, the experience encourages you to visit this Dallas, Texas based museum. The mission of the museum states: Using the latest in technology and interactive media, the Museum's exhibits and programs expand our understanding of women's participation in shaping the history of our country and create a lively environment for dialogue and discovery. Thousands of stories recount public and private triumphs and the struggles of those who would be denied their freedoms in all its forms: political, social, and spiritual.