The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, located in Washington DC, has recently launched this new Web site. Created with Second Story Interactive Studios, this innovative online premiere brings together about half of Hirshhorn's collection, allowing Internet users to view and research artworks and holdings that have been previously inaccessible online and rarely on public display....

Representing over a decade of work by the NGA Archive staff, this site offers a narrative summary and key facts for each of the more than 750 special exhibitions held at the Gallery from 1941 through 1997. Users can search the list by keyword or browse by year. Returns include exhibition title, dates, an overview, attendance, location, catalog and/or brochure, and other venues. The list will be...

Created in 1997 in celebration of the Museum's tenth anniversary, the Website of the National Museum of Women in the Arts currently features a video tour. Narrated by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, whose collection of art by women forms the foundation of the Museum's permanent collection, the tour is conveniently divided into 21 sections, so that users can select only those they wish to view...

The National Museum of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has made selections from its collections available via the web. The site is graphically quite intensive, as might be expected; loading time is increased by the site's reliance on image maps for navigation (although some "mostly text pages" are available). Users will need audio plug-ins to fully experience the site, which...

This exhibition of works by Polish-born Jewish artist and activist Arthur Szyk from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum presents over 40 pieces by Szyk, dating from 1913 to 1949. There are book illustrations, pages from Passover haggadahs, and scenes from the biblical Book of Esther. Also of note are cartoons and caricatures from American newspapers and magazines including the New York Post,...