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 Websites presented in alphabetical order Aleksandr Rodchenko 
 A biographical chronology (with corresponding exhibition and political information); a career overview; and selected paintings, sculpture, graphic design work, photographs, and photocollages of the Russian avant-garde artist. Companion to the 1998 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/rodchenko/ Topics: Artists, Schools of Art Last updated Aug 10, 2009 The Art of Guido Nincheri/L'art de Guido Nincheri
Devoted to "one of Canada's most important stained glass masters" who also "promoted the technique of buon fresco painting in North America." Includes images of works and information on stained glass, fresco, and various other decorative painting techniques; a list of churches featuring Nincheri's work; glossaries; and a bibliography. Available in English and French from Canada's Digital Collections. http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/nincheri/ Topics: Art, Art by Region, Artists Last updated Nov 10, 2006 The Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project
Known for their humorous explorations of public tastes in art, Russians Vitaly Komar and Aleksander Melamid founded the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project . The book When Elephants Paint describes their promotion of art created by elephants to raise funds for elephant conservation. The site provides photographs of the elephant artists and their work. http://www.elephantart.com/ Topics: Animals, Artists, Environment, Mammals Last updated Sep 3, 2002 Charles Sheeler: Across Media
Companion to a 2006-2007 exhibit devoted to artist "Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) [who] is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century. His work is synonymous with precisionism, a crisp, clean, hard-edged style that reconciled cubist abstraction and the machine aesthetic." Features a discussion of exhibition themes and images of selected works. From the Art Institute of Chicago. http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/sheeler/ Topics: Artists, Photography Last updated Nov 20, 2006 Chihuly
Dale Chihuly is one of the most creative and audacious glassblowers of modern times. He has created quite a stir in the glass world with his remarkable technique and grand artistic vision. This site offers beautiful photographs of smaller glass objects, larger installations, and examples of temporary and permanent displays at museums and art galleries around the world. The site gives a brief biography and a chronology of his career. http://www.chihuly.com/ Topics: Artists, Arts and Humanities, Crafts Last updated Dec 27, 2002 Christo und Jeanne-Claude: The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
This site includes photographs and history of the works of the Bulgarian/American environmental artist Christo (Christo Javacheff) and his French/American wife, Jeanne-Claude (Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon). Their large, temporary installations on the landscape include the wrapping of the Pont Neuf Bridge in Paris (1985), colorful umbrella displays (1991) in Southern California's Tejon Pass, and the 2005 installation, The Gates. Available in German and English. http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/ Topics: Artists, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife Last updated Feb 10, 2005 Computer Generated Artworks
Companion to a 2006 art exhibition featuring work from "six artists who use computers in diverse ways to generate their artworks." Their techniques include generative art, computers as an artistic medium, and simulation of the artistic process. Includes links to websites of the individual artists. From Britain's Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). http://wwwhomes.doc.ic.ac.uk/~sgc/events/CGArtworks06/ Topics: Artists, Computers Last updated Jan 17, 2007 Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
Images from an exhibition of the work of artist Dan Flavin at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Features an exhibit focusing on the artist's use of fluorescent light, which "established him as a progenitor and chief exponent of minimalism." Also includes a guide with activities for children and images of Flavin's work from the museum's collections. http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/flavininfo.htm Topics: Artists, Arts and Humanities Last updated Jan 18, 2005 Dorit Cypis
An exhibit of nine photographs, video stills, and installation views from Dorit Cypis' "Angel of Histories" installation. Includes essays on her work. From the Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside. http://sweeney.ucr.edu/exhibitions/cypis/ Topics: Artists, Notable People: Women Last updated Jan 17, 2006 The Fragile Beauty of Harvard's Glass Flowers
This article describes the glass flower collection at the Harvard Botanical Museum, which began in 1890 "when father and son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka signed a ten-year agreement to make plant models exclusively for Harvard University. This relationship with Harvard would ultimately span a half century and culminate in one of the most unique and breathtakingly beautiful collections ever created." Includes five images. From the Journal of Antiques and Collectibles. http://www.journalofantiques.com/Feb04/featurefeb04.htm Topics: Artists, Plants Last updated Sep 19, 2006 The Guild of Silk Painters
The website for this organization for silk painting artists features a large gallery with examples of paintings created on silk fabric, tips and techniques (in the "Workshop" section), and an archive of selected articles from the group's publication. Also includes a list of silk painting books (some with reviews) and highlights from past exhibitions and events. http://www.silkpainters-guild.co.uk Topics: Art, Artists Last updated Jan 3, 2006 Hammer Projects
"Hammer Projects are a series of exhibitions that focus primarily on the work of emerging artists, and reflect the [Hammer] Museum's commitment to contemporary art." Features links to pages with introductory essays and images of works of individual artists in areas such as painting, drawing, collage, photography, and sculpture. From the Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/projects Topics: Artists Last updated Nov 6, 2009 In the Realms of the Unreal
Companion website to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) P.O.V. program on outsider artist Henry Darger. Features an audio tour about Darger's collage and painting techniques, images of the artist's work, excerpts from his 15,000-page novel, a brief biography, and annotated links to resources on self-taught and outsider art. http://www.pbs.org/pov/intherealms/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Sep 9, 2009 Judy Chicago: Through the Flower
Contains a biography and annotated gallery of projects and works of art by the "artist, author, [and] feminist." From the nonprofit organization Through the Flower, "whose mission is to create a cultural legacy built upon the vision embodied in the work of Judy Chicago." http://www.judychicago.com/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Notable People Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Last Expression: Art From Auschwitz
An exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. It includes a lengthy introduction about how the art was created, biographies of the artists, interviews with survivors, and lectures on the art to emerge from Poland during this time. Also has an extensive bibliography, virtual tours of Auschwitz,and a glossary. From the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Northwestern University. http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/ Topics: Artists, History, Judaism, World War II Last updated Jul 26, 2006 Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968
A collection of fourteen photographs and brief accompanying text, this site "highlights the decade that [Japanese artist] Yayoi Kusama lived and worked in New York City." Online companion of an exhibit of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/kusama/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Oct 8, 2009 Newcomb Pottery
"Newcomb Pottery is considered one of the most significant American art potteries of the first half of the twentieth century." Site includes a brief history of this pottery, which was designed by women and "inspired by Louisiana flora." Also features biographies of some of the artists, and images of selected works and pottery marks. http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/pottery/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Crafts, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 10, 2006 Queer(ing) Warhol: Andy Warhol's (Self-) Portraits
"This exhibition presents Andy Warhol as an artist, more specifically as a performance artist, who consistently performed himself (for friends, for the camera, for the artworld) as 'queer' -- as being against the grain of both traditional conceptions of the artist and normative, heterosexual masculinity." Features photos and a curatorial statement. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/warhol/ Topics: Artists, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People, Schools of Art Last updated Sep 18, 2006 Romare Bearden: Let's Walk the Block
"See Harlem street life through the eyes and imagination of Romare Bearden. This exploration of his famous collage, 'The Block,' includes a guided tour, music by the Branford Marsalis Quartet, and activities designed for kids, parents, and teachers." Includes background about Bearden, who was born in 1911 in North Carolina into a "middle-class, African-American family. When he was three, his family moved to Harlem." From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/index_flash.html Topics: Artists, Black Resources Last updated Jan 24, 2007 Sheldon Brown
Contains images of eight projects from Sheldon Brown's "public artworks and installations that combine architectural settings with mediated and computer controlled elements." Includes virtual reality artwork, sculpture "created with a variety of computer controlled processes," and video installations. From the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California, San Diego. http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~sheldon/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists Last updated Aug 16, 2003 Special Exhibits: From the Roof: Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" in Central Park
"'The Gates' is presented in Central Park [in New York] for 16 days, through February 27 [2005]. ... The monumental project ... consists of 7,500 saffron-colored vinyl gates (each 16 feet in height and hung with saffron fabric panels) placed at 12-foot intervals over 23 miles of pedestrian walkways that lace the park." The site features images "documenting the evolution of the project" and images of the installation. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={529E08FC-B2FA-4F70-AAB0-51AFD262EAE3} Topics: Artists, Parks Last updated Feb 16, 2005 The Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Collection, 1971-1991
A collection of nearly 80 images of artworks by Theresa Cha, including examples of artist books, concrete poetry, mail art, and performance art. Contains a brief biography and an overview of the collection. From the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf238n986k Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Photograph Collections, Poetry, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jul 3, 2006 Tiffany
This site provides information about galleries "devoted to the arts of Louis C. Tiffany, one of the most versatile and talented American artists working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." It features essays and images of "Tiffany's windows, lamps, ... mosaics, blown Favrile glass vases, pottery, enamelwork, and jewelry." Also includes a bibliography and list of New York locations with works by Tiffany. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Tiffany/index.html Topics: Artists, Crafts, Fashion Last updated Jul 11, 2005 UnderCover: Artists' Sketchbooks
Companion to an exhibit that "focuses on ten sketchbooks. Every page is reproduced -- front and back (recto and verso) -- and can be seen all together or sequentially." Also includes brief background for artists including Edward Burne-Jones, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, George Grosz, and John Singer Sargent. From the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sketchbooks/ Topics: Art, Artists Last updated Sep 19, 2006 The Warhol
A well-designed introduction to the Pittsburgh, PA, Andy Warhol Museum, with biographical and artistic information about the pop artist. General information about the museum, current exhibit information, and a calendar of special events are included. http://www.warhol.org/ Topics: Artists, Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Schools of Art Last updated Aug 26, 2002 Watts Gallery
Website for a British museum that celebrates the life and work of Victorian artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), who was "the first living artist to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York." Features an online gallery of drawings, painting, watercolors, prints, sculptures, and photographs, including images of the painting "Hope," which according to the director's blog was an inspiration for Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope." http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/ Topics: Artists Last updated Dec 1, 2008 The White House Collection of American Crafts
An online exhibit of contemporary American craft objects in fiber, ceramics, glass, metal, and wood. Although the collection is no longer at the White House, this Web site provides a tour showing the objects in their White House setting. The works are also displayed individually with descriptions in text and audio. There are brief biographies of the artists, artists' comments, and an artist index. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/whc/index.html Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Crafts Last updated Oct 12, 2009 Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing
Companion site to an exhibit of works by Chinese avant-garde artist Xu Bing at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Features an interview with the artist, installation sketches, images from the exhibit, stories from the "Laughter Project," which "explores the pleasures and pains of conveying ideas in a foreign language," and interactive features. http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/xubing/default.html Topics: Art by Region, Artists Last updated Jul 27, 2006 |
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