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2010 Whitney Biennial

Your portal for all things related to the Whitney Museum's signature exhibition, 2020 Whitney Biennial features video, images, an events calendar, how to purchase the catalog, and links to download audio tour guides, playable on whatever device visits the show with you. Begun as an annual exhibition in 1932, the 2010 Biennial is the 75th anniversary edition of the show. Although most prior...

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2010-biennial
Alberto Giacometti

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City has two new exhibitions available for Modern art lovers. As the sole US venue, MoMA organized the exhibition Alberto Giacometti to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Swiss artist's birth. The accompanying Website presents 26 works -- sculpture, paintings, and drawings -- in crisp, high quality images accompanied by explanations, a complete...

https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2001/giacomett...
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Art Deco and the Decorative Arts in the 1920s and 1930s

This celebration of Art Deco and the decorative arts was lovingly crafted by the specialists at McGill University's Library. The original in situ exhibit that accompanied this site was crafted for the 10th World Congress on Art Deco. Here, visitors can browse through the images from the collection organized into categories that include Bon Voyage, Montreal Leisure, Interior Design, and Book...

https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/artdeco/index.php
Confronting Cancer through Art

This online exhibition, an outgrowth of a 1996 juried exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center and the Arthur Ross Gallery, gives "vision and voice to the experiences of all those who have confronted cancer." The exhibit is alphabetically arranged by artist, with brief explanatory captions. Artists include cancer survivors, as well as family members and loved ones affected by the...

https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/v42/n34/cancer.html
Dada

MoMA presents this web site on the style of art known as Dada to accompany an in situ exhibition at the museum. One of the main components of the site is a selection of Dada art from the museum's permanent collection, with works by artists such as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Jean Arp. There are some interactive features as well - visitors can make a Dadaist poem, by...

https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2006/dada/inde...
Edward Hopper: The Artist

The exhibition web site for Edward Hopper, from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, features a slideshow of a dozen of Hopper's paintings, and a digital version of one of the artist's sketchbooks. Some Hopper paintings, for instance Nighthawks, 1942, have been reproduced so many times and in so many formats - posters, prints, t-shirts, coffee mugs - that they have become iconic and these are included...

https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/edward-hopper
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now

This exhibition from MOMA makes heavy use of Flash animation to present a survey of European art, from the 1960s to the present. As the subtitle states, the focus of the exhibition is printmaking, including posters and silkscreen prints, artists' books, and other multiples, often employing techniques formerly used in the commercial sector, that many artists "borrowed" and began using in the 1960s....

https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2006/eyeoneuro...
Guggenheim Museum: Louise Bourgeois

The Guggenheim Museum presents this online version of its retrospective exhibition of the work of the French-born, American artist, Louise Bourgeois, who is aged 97, and still working. This archived version of the Guggenheim's exhibit includes biographical information about Bourgeois as well as a collection of photographs of her and her artwork.

http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/sackler_louise/
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Imperial War Museums: Google Cultural Institute

Many institutions, such as the Imperial War Museums in Britain, are choosing to partner up with the Google Cultural Institute to host digital exhibitions online. On this corner of its site, visitors can explore different collections, artists, and artworks related to World War One. Currently, there are 78 items in total, including wonderful paintings by John Singer Sargent and Henry Tonks depicting...

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/imperial-war-museu...
In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Noted editor and literary critic Margaret Anderson once referred to the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven as "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." The future Baroness was born Else Hildegard Ploetz in 1874 and she came to the United States in 1910. After her husband committed suicide, Else become a part of the Greenwich Village artist milieu, where...

https://digital.lib.umd.edu/transition/
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