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A Picture of Britain: an exhibition celebrating the British landscape

Take a tour of the British countryside, "from the Scottish Highlands to the South Downs," via this web exhibition from the Tate Online. A Picture of Britain looks at the ways in which the British landscape has inspired artists like John Constable, JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Paul Nash and Richard Long. The Web exhibition features an interactive map, a quiz for you to test your knowledge of various...

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/picture-britai...
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...
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

Designed to complement "Art of the First Cities" -- an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum through August 17, 2003 --this Web site presents almost two dozen examples of Third Millennium B.C. art from the region called the "cradle of civilization," an area stretching from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Iran and Central Asia to the Indus Valley. The site is divided into eight thematic...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Art_of_the_Fir...
Asian Arts: The On-line Journal for the Study and Exhibition of the Arts of Asia

Web Arts Publishing provides Asian Arts, an online journal dedicated to the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia that targets scholars, museum staff, and commercial collectors. At the site, users can find full-text articles, lengthy essays and travel reviews (in the Forum section), information and highlights of museum exhibitions, institutions, and private galleries, a calendar of events, and...

https://www.asianart.com/
Battat Contemporary

Battat Contemporary is an art gallery that promotes works by many contemporary, working Canadian artists. It has a great online gallery of thirteen artists it has exhibited (found on the Artists page), as well as an archive of exhibitions going back several years. The current exhibition, which visitors should definitely check out, is "Nervous Lattice" with work by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline. His...

http://www.battatcontemporary.com/
BOOK

The Web continues to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of creative and innovative artistic collaborations, and the BOOK project is definitely one of those projects worth a look. During 36 weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order among four artists. Two of these artists were in Brooklyn, and two of them were in Belfast. The process started in June 2003, and by the time the project was...

http://www.lookatbook.com/
Campana Brothers Select

This web exhibition features more than thirty objects dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, selected from the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum by Fernando and Humberto Campana, founders of Est'dio Campana in Sao Paulo, Brazil (an international furniture design studio). Objects in the show include book illustrations, jewelry, furniture, and wallpaper designs, on a theme...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2008/03/14/cooper-hewitt-campan...
Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog

Curated by Angela Giral, Emeritus Director of the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University, this web exhibition includes 153 drawings made by children aged 7 to 14 during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Children were evacuated from the war zones to war-free areas of Spain and the south of France, and many of the drawings show children travelling to these safer areas, as well as more...

https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/child...
Destination Modern Art - MOMA

Grab your kids and join a couple of space aliens on a mission to explore modern art from MOMA's permanent collection (and at its satellite PS1), a former public school building. (Notably, the five works and associated activities at MOMA amused a seven-year-old for at least 25 minutes!) These activities include Listen (especially good on Van Gogh's _Starry Night_), Tools (make your own collage...

https://www.moma.org/interactives/destination/
Devices of Wonder

The Getty Museum cleverly uses our new media toy, the World Wide Web, to showcase this exhibition of media devices from the past and present. Included are inventions that present visual information or optical illusions, such as Indonesian shadow puppets, magic lantern slides, pop-up books, thaumatropes, and anamorphic images. Both animated and non-animated versions are available, and there are...

https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices/choice.html
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