MUSEUMS

The Andy Warhol Museum http://www.clpgh.org/warhol/

Information about the museum (located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), including biographical information on Warhol, a tour of the museum, and some artwork.

Art Museum Network http://www.amn.org

Website dedicated to finding online museums and galleries.

Boston Museum of Fine Art http://www.mfa.org

The museum that raised me has an internationally signifigant collection of Impressionist and Japanese Art.

Dallas Museum of Art http://www.dm-art.org/

Exhibits, calendar, membership information, etc. To access most graphics, users must go through several layers of pages.

Delaware Art Museum http://www.delart.mus.de.us

The Art Museum at the most endowed public university in America. Thank you DuPont family.

Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY http://www.diacenter.org/

Dia Center for the Arts is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts organization based in New York City. The name Dia, taken from the Greek word meaning "through," was chosen to suggest their role as the conduit or means for realizing extraordinary projects.

Fine Arts Museums of San Fransisco http://www.thinker.org

Official homepage for the DeYoung Museum and the Legion of Honor. Exhibits, calendar, membership information, etc. Images of selected pieces representing each collection.

Centre George Pompidou http://www.cnac_gp.fr

One of the coolest buildings of the past century houses a terrific collection of modern art. Get to know this place for it's location, view and heck, the cute cafe on top.

Guggenheim http://www.guggenheim.org

Official homepage. Exhibits, calendar, membership information, etc.

Keith Haring http://www.haring.com

The Keith Haring Foundation offers access to an online exhibit about the life of the artist and social activist. Visitors can browser a gallery of images that reflect views on social issues, AIDS, and technology.

Institute of Contemporary Art http://www.newmediacenter.com/ica.html

The ICA is the best venue for cutting edge art in Boston. They regularly create and exhibit show of national and international prominence.

Israel Museumhttp://www.imj.org.il

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design http://www.kemperart.org

Museum's homepage with information regarding collection, exhibitions, and programs. Gallery is online, but the photographs use don't do the pieces justice.

Kimball Art Museum - Fort Worth http://www.kimbellart.org

Official homepage. Exhibits, calendar, membership information, etc.

Krannert Art Museum, A Virtual Tour http://www.art.uiuc.edu/kam

A virtual tour of the Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visitor's can browse digitized images of American oil paintings, black-granite Egyptian sculptures, porcelain Ming vases, and pre-Columbian textiles.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org

Exhibits, calendar, membership information, etc. (Really good design work on splash page.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/

An overview of the collections on display in the Museum's galleries. The Calendar offers a detailed current listing of Special Exhibitions, Concerts and Lectures, films, and other Museum activities, and of course the Gift and Book Shop.

MusÈe Rodin http://www.musee-rodin.fr/

The life and work of Auguste Rodin can be explored from the wedsite of the Rodin Museum, in Paris. Visitors can browse the chroonology of Rodin's life and work, read about and see images of his engravings, paintings, and sculptures.

Musee d' Orsay http://www.Musee-Orsay.fr/

The museum of art of the nineteenth century in Paris. A stellar building chock full of enthralling art work. Visit the site to reminesce over the actual experience if you've been lucky enough.

Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago http://www.mcachicago.org

Official homepage. Exhibits, calendar, membership information, events, bookstore, etc.

Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org

Official homepage. Exhibits, calendar, membership information, events, research, education, etc.

National Museum of Photography, Film and Television http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/

The new National Museum of Photography, Film and Television re-opened this spring. Collections, exhibitions, and information available at this site.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City http://www.nelson-atkins.org

Official homepage. Exhibits, calendar, membership information, events, library, sculpture park, etc.

New York Public Library Photography Collection http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/photo.html

The Photography Collection contains 200,000 original photographic prints representing an international range of photographers, and comprising a thorough survey of processes, from the medium's 150+ year history.

Saint Louis Art Museum http://www.slam.org

Official homepage. Offers information about membership, calendar events, etc. Has online galleries and exhibits (though the online galleries are not very complete).

Tokugawa Museum http://www.cjn.or.jp

Visit a museum devoted to the family that ruled Japan for almost four hundred years.

Walker Art Center: Bits and Pieces (L. Weiner) http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html

Focusing on the visual, performing, and media arts of our time, the Walker takes a multidisciplinary approach to the creation, presentation, interpretation, collection, and preservation of art. (The website was one of the artistic projects, and from the beautiful design, it shows.)

WebMuseum, Paris http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/

Features good scans of various famous paintings and links to other information about the artists. Links to other virtual galleries on the WebMuseum network.

Wexner Center for the Arts http://www.wexarts.org/

A diverse array of contemporary arts. There are visual arts exhibitions by major artists and emerging talents, films and videos by leading filmmakers of the past and present, and performing arts from around the world. (Brilliant design to the site. Few images.)

Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu

Contains everything you'd want to know about the museum. Although this site has some eye-catching graphics, the main site is very text-heavy. To find your information, you need to link from this site to associated SI sites.

The Vatican http://christusrex.org

One of the most visited sites of the internet has links to several institutions. Check out the pope's pad.

GALLERIES

The 1939-40 New York World's Fair http://xroads.virginia.edu/g/1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/front.htm

This is an interesting page about the fair and the theme of "Building the World of Tomorrow." (It is well-designed, and has a few interesting surprises.)

AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies http://afi.100movies.com/home.asp

Contains video clips, graphics, information, etc. Allows for voting online for personal Top Ten, to be compared to the Public Top Ten.

Art Historian's Guide to the Movies http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eliason/support.htm

A record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies.

Bailiwick: University of Iowa http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/

A web space where academic passions realized in HTML. Home to web sites that are experimental in form, provide comprehensive and in-depth resources or take on narrow, highly specialized topics. Hosted by the University of Iowa.

Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Libraries http://www.princeton.edu/~vismat/cruikshank/

The Princeton University Libraries have created a virtual exhibition on the work of the British illustrator and caricaturist George Cruikshank, who was popular during the 1800s.

C-ship:Relativistic ray traced images http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html

This site deals with interesting scientific theories and has some nice graphics, but is poorly designed.

db PhotoGallery http://www.artphoto.com/a/artphoto/index.html

db PhotoGallery is home of fine quality images by Darek Banasik. seeing is believing, believing is seeing (Interesting black and white photography.)

The Figure Drawing LAB http://www.saumag.edu/art/figure-drawing/LAB.html

A resource for artists and art students who work with the human form. This site focuses on accepted conventions of proportions, movements and nuances of the human form.

Free Speech Movement Archives http://www.fsm-a.org

A collection of digitized images, documents, and links chronicling the free speech movement among students at the University of California at Berkley in October 1964. The site offers photographs and an index, as well as a nice design.

Gallery 24 http://members.icanect.net/~sean/

Online exhibit of the works of Edward Ghannam. From the University of Miami Art Department. Images are computer generated or manipulated.

The Great Menagerie: The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books http://www.library.unt.edu/exhibits/popup/

Information about the exhibit of nineteenth and twentieth century books that were on display at the University of North Texas Libraries. The site is dated, but the pictures are fun to look at, and there are a few entertaining gif animations.

Kodak Psychedelia http://alts1.kodak.com/cgi-bin/US/en/corp/playground/filterFactory/factory.pl?app=psychedelia

Do you want your ordinary photos to look like someone took them to a time trip through the Sixties?

Luke Powell - Photographs http://www.lukepowell.com/index.htm

Over two hundred color photographs from Afghanistan, Iran, Ladakh, Ceylon, Palestine, Egypt, Chapel Hill and Vermont are mounted here with text material, a technical photography section, and a sales area.

The Diego Rivera Mural Project http://www.riveramural.com/

The Diego Rivera Mural Project, created by the City College of San Francisco, explains the Rivera's Pan American Unity mural, panel by panel.

They Still Draw Pictures http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html

A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children. (Very text-heavy and slow, but it is worth it, considering the interesting pictures included.)

Thomas Moran: Begin Your Tour http://www.cr.nps.gov/csd/exhibits/moran/

The first retrospective of Thomas Moran's work features sketches that Moran produced in the Yellowstone area, sketchbooks filled with field studies and notations, and charcoal drawings, the panoramic "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone" is also on view.

The VRML Repository http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/

The repository is an impartial, comprehensive, community resource for the dissemination of information relating to VRML. (Contains information and links, but few graphics or downloads on the main site.)

Le Web Qui Aspire les Pubs http://www.zaw.tm.fr/

This site is for a French organization, that creates banners as advertisements and for display.

ZKM | Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe http://www.zkm.de/

Symbolizing the transition into the multmedia era, it is the world's first institution dedicated purely to art in relation to the new media, and is organized along unusual lines which gather under one roof the fields of research, development, collection and presentation. (If not obvious enough, this is a German website, which has versions in English, Spanish, French, and other languages. The website is informative and has very nice design.)

 

PEOPLE

Deni Evans http://www.denievans.com

Anartist from England living in Missouri farmland; what's she up to lately?

Jorge Colombo http://www.jorgecolombo.com

An aesthetic site for an accomplished illustrator. Particularly check out the illustrations he makes every day of people from chance encounters on the street.

MrBiggs.com http://www.mrbiggs.com

Homepage for illustrator and graphic artist Brian Biggs. A very cool dude. Online galleries, sounds, and text available.

Creations by Jennifer http://www.makinfaces.com

A fun site for a self-employed jewelry artist. Goofy design with a gallery of merchandise. Gifts for grandmas or girl friends.

 

DESIGN

Dougie's Color Picker http://www.phoenix.net/~jacobson/pages/colorSel.html

This page is a color chart and helper with using the color system for the World Wide Web (note: colors may appear slightly differen on various monitors).

PIXELBOYZ DOT COM http://www.pixelboyz.com

This is a small page dedicated to helping new users of Photoshop, including links about forming colorws and using v5.

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/

An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations. (Visually, a very cool site.)

 

TEACHING

ArtsEdNet http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/

An online service developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, supports the needs of the K-12 arts education community.

Bard College - Lacoste School of the Arts in France http://www.bard.edu

Since 1970 the Lacoste School has offered an international creative community for undergraduate students. Located in the Provincial Village of Lacoste near Avignon. Academic credit is awarded by Bard College.

The Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html

This site provides links and reviews of websites devoting to teaching and lesson planning.

The Borderlands Encyclopedia http://www.utep.edu/border/

A growing website used in the University of Texas at El Paso border-studies courses (slideshow at http://www.utep.edu/border/mur.html).

California Virtual University http://www.california.edu/

This site is designed to help you further your educational objectives by linking you to online courses and other services offered by the Golden State's colleges and universities.

CCCnet: K-12 Curriculum and Lesson Planning for Teachershttp://www.cccnet.com/

An award-winning Internet product provides K-12 curriculum extensions in math, science, reading, and social studies that enhance classroom learning.

The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/

This online version of the magazine is updated every week, at the same time as print publication. It offers online resources to those who are subscribed to the print magazine.

The Distance Learning Funding $ourcebook http://www.technogrants.com/

Offers the latest research on grants for telecommunications, multimedia, curricula development, and teacher training for private and public schools, higher education, museums, libraries, arts and culture organizations.

EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/

EDSITEment brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages.

The Education vs. Incarceration Clearinghouse http://www.cjcj.org/clearinghouse.html

Site compares state and federal government spending on prisons to spending on higher education with data, news releases, and texts of its research reports, such as "Trading Classrooms for Cell Blocks." This site offers very good information, but little in the way of design.

The George Lucas Educational Foundation http://glef.org/

Seeks to improve teaching and learning via multimedia technology.

GrantsWeb http://web.fie.com/cws/sra/resource.htm

The Society for Research Administrators page devoted to finding research grants, from government and private agencies.

Kairos - Fall 1997 Issue #2.2 http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/index_f.html

Kairos is an online newsletter for people who teach writing. Interesting site regarding the evolution of writing in our changing world.

Mission: Critical http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/

An interactive tutorial that introduces educators to basic concepts in critical thinking. Text and exercises on concepts such as the parts of an argument, inductive and deductive reasoning, methods of persuasion, fallacies, and non-rational appeals.

US Department of Education - Grants and Contracts http://ocfo.ed.gov/

The U.S. Department of Education's OCFO Web Server providing grant and contract information will initially provide basic, introductory information on how to obtain grants from the Department.

VENUS http://www.sis.umd.edu/V/V.html

Virtual Electronic Network Univbersity Scheduler. This site was originally made by a University of Maryland student at College Park. Phillip Su wanted to create a program that would make the calculations for scheduling courses.

 

CORPORATIONS

Adobe Systems, Inc. http://www.adobe.com

Corporate homepage with information and downloads about graphic software such as Illustrator and Graphicstudio.

Apple Computer http://www.apple.com

Corporate homepage for the creators of the Macintosh. News regarding upcoming software and hardware debuts. Information about products and education.

Geocities http://geocities.datacellar.net

This is the corporate homepage for Geocities. Geocities is the "Largest Community on the Web." It hosts free webpages and offers free email accounts for registered users.

Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com

Corporate homepage gives news and product information, a directory for assistance, etc.

PBS Online http://www.pbs.org/

The official site for the network, containing programming information, images for features, calendars, text, etc.

Prentice Hall Art and Humanities http://www.prenhallart.com

A resource packed with images and information for students and professors teaching art, history, and the humanities. Contains a search engine for locating artists, images, or museums.

Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com

Yahoo is a huge search engine and information zone for Web-users. Yahoo offers free email accounts to registered users.

ANIMATION & COMICS

The Comic Book Periodic Table of Elements http://www.uky.edu/~holler/periodic/periodic.html

Science can be fun when you learn the Periodic Table of Elements through comic book characters. Click on various elements and see how they pertain to certain comics and comic book characters.

StopMotionAnimation.com http://www.StopMotionAnimation.com/

If you dig movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas, you'll love StopMotionAnimation.com. This site pays tribute to legendary animators such as Ray Harryhausen and Nick Park. Learn all about the animation behind classics like Star Wars, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Jason and the Argonauts.

Happydale comic http://www.happydale.net/ The folks at D.C./

Vertigo comics have a new graphic novel on the shelves. Seth Fisher and Andrew Dabb bring you Happydale, a tale of a nice place to live - especially for freakshow artists and offseason carnival workers.

milkyelephant http://www.milkyelephant.com

Internet maddness.

Jonni Nitro http://www.jonninitro.com

The coolest black and white flash movie on the web. There aren't even any greys, talk about film noir.

Free Comics http://www.freecomics.com/

If you like entering contests and you read comics, then this is the spot for you.

Scout McCloud's Online Comics http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/comics.html

Known in some circles as the expert at dissecting comics to explain what they mean, Scott McCloud has his own site with comics he's created to express his obssessions with such things as chess and a weird fella named Carl.

Star Wars ASCIImation http://www.asciimation.co.nz/index.html

Phantom Menance is a good flick, but it doesn't hold a light saber to the original Star Wars. Especially if the original is done in ASCII art animation.

Stress Relief Aquarium http://www.amused.com/fish.html

If you have Shockwave running on your machine, you'll be able to access the Stress Relief Aquarium. Take out your stress on a poor little goldfish.

 

INTERESTING

Playbill Online http://www.playbill.com/

Information on how to get theatre jobs, news about the theatre, biographies of writers, performers and directors, pictures, etc. Basically an entertaining site for anyone interested in the theatre.

PubList.com http://www.publist.com/

The most complete directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world. It's easy to use. And it's free.

United States Army Homepage http://www.army.mil/

Information on the Army's divisions, command structure, and mission. Visitors may read articles, get information on recruitment, find links to the homepages of installations around the nation.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School at Art and Design http://www.art.uiuc.edu

Links to information about programs, people, etc.

Rhode Island School of Design http://www.risd.edu

Splash page offers links to the two main oparts of the site: the school and the museum. Sites offer full information and graphics about all aspects of both. Calendar, publications, galleries, etc.

The Telegarden http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/

This tele-robotic installation allows WWW users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm. (This site was outdated even as it was first placed on this list of links, but it is interesting to look at.)

Build Your Own Cow http://members.tripod.com/%7Espows/cow.html

You don't have to be a talented scientist to clone a cow. In fact, you can make your own bovine masterpiece online with the Build Your Own Cow site.

Dorothy Parker's New York http://www.bway.net/~kfitz/parker.htm

Sometimes you learn more about a famous author when you see where she lived. On Dorothy Parker's New York, you'll be given a tour or Dorothy's homes and hangouts.

Land of the Lost http://www.landofthelost.com/

Dinosaurs are pretty cool - as long as they're not living in your backyard. Land of the Lost was one of those shows from the '70s that reminded us humans that we have it pretty good in comparison. The last thing you want is a T-Rex chasing you home from a hard day's work of berry harvesting.

The World Tours of Bud http://members.aol.com/touristbud/

Bud is one worldly mannequin. He's been to London, Stonehenge, Zurich, Paris and the Yucatan, and has the photos to prove it.

Once Upon a Forest http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/sep-99/sep-99.html

Once Upon a Forest is a more surreal visual experience than a normal Web visit. Mixing sound and animation, this unusual artistic endeavor gives your senses a special treat.

Macaroni Art Game http://www.gustown.com/CBC/Macaroni/MacaroniArt.html

Relive your special memories of making noodle masterpieces with the Macaroni Art Game. This Shockwave game lets you choose from six faces and one peaceful landscape to decorate with pasta.

Evelyn Roth http://www.evelynroth.com/

Evelyn Roth is an artist way ahead of her time. She not only stretches the boundaries of art, she sometimes inflates them.

History of Toys and Games http://www.historychannel.com/toys

Ever wonder who invented crayons, or who thought up the idea of the game Monopoly?

The Film 100 http://www.film100.com/

Who do you think were the top 100 people who have influenced the history of movies?

Lord of the Rings http://www.lordoftherings.net/index.html

Catch up on the lastest news of the movie. Middle earth comming to a big screen near you.

Central Park http://www.centralparknyc.org/

Ever want to take a stroll through New York's Central Park at 3 a.m. without getting mugged?

The Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts http://www.edgechaos.com/MECA/MECA.html

On the Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts you'll find graffiti art, homemade robots and vintage pinball machines.

404 Research Lab http://www.plinko.net/404/

Sometimes finding yourself led astray from a missing link makes you run into the Not Found - 404 Error message. If you want to see how some people soften the blow of being lost, see alternative error messages at the 404 Research Lab.

Gilly's Auto Wreckers http://www.gillys.com/pics.htm

Really, what more could be said?

Her Majesty's Prison Service http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/

If you're a Brit and you've been very bad, you go here. Granted, Her Majesty's Prison Service is no Riker's Island.

Robot Store http://www.robotstore.com/

Forget getting a fluffy, cute puppy for the kids. They just make a lot of noise and a big mess. Plus, you have to train them not to go on your favorite chair, and not to attack the mailman. Why not get a robot instead?

Build Your Own Boba Fett http://geocities.datacellar.net/~byobf/

It's not every day you can build your very own intergalactic bounty hunter. Pick from all kinds of armor, jump suits, boots, helmets and accessories.

Retail Alphabet Game http://www.joeykatzen.com/consumer/alpha/pregame.html

The goal of this game is to guess the logos of a product just by seeing one letter in the name. The game isn't too hard if you've ever found yourself staring blankly in front of a grocery store or zoning out during TV commercials.

Hotel Chelsea http://www.hotelchelsea.com/

The Hotel Chelsea isn't just the ideal place for artists to hang out, it's also a historic landmark in New York pop culture history.

Alien Empire http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/

If bugs freak you out, whatever you do, don't click here! This is a beautiful yet insect-infested site created by the folks at Nature on PBS.

Travel to Oriland http://library.advanced.org/27152/

Imagine a place completely made from origami buildings, nature and people, and you have Oriland.