A to Z Museums in Europe

Austria

Grafische Sammlung Albertina. Art museum founded in 1773. (In German, English and Italian.)on-line galleries and exhibits. (In English and German).

Belgium

Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve, Université catholique de Louvain. See also ÉOLE database on Belgian cultural heritage. (In French, also English , Dutch and German.)

Czeck Republic

Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.

National Museum, Prague.

National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.

Galleries contacts and addresses.

Prague. See also Museums and Galleries Image Tour.

Denmark

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting. (In English and Danish.)

National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. (Also in Danish.) See also related museums.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Archeological (especially Egyptian) artefacts, Impressionist and other paintings. (Some information in English.)

Skive Art Museum. (Mainly Danish, some information in Dutch, English and German.)

Finland

Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvskyl. Specializes in architecture.

Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In English, Finnish and Swedish.)

Helsinki City Art Museum. Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city. (InEnglish, Finnish and Swedish.)

The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)

Finnish museums information including a alphabetical list of museums (also ordered by location and by type) from the Finnish Museums Association. (Also in Finnish and Swedish.)

Nordic museum links (Finland).

France

Château de Versailles, near Paris. (In French and English.) Includes The Carriage Museum.

The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon.

Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies. (In French and English.)

Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. (Also in French.)

The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world.

Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)

Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and English.)

Textile Museum of Lyon. (In French.)

Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)

Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.

Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

Germany

Kunstmuseum, Bonn. German art since 1945.

Museums in Germany. (In German.)

Museumslandschaft museums list. (In German.)

Bavaria museums. (In German.)

Hamburg museums. (In German.)

Italy

Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia. Art collection of Amedeo Lia and his family, founded in 1995. (Also in Italian and German.)

CeSMAP Study Centre and Prehistoric Art Museum, Pinerolo. (Also in Italian.)

Keat-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari. (In Italian.)

Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Includes the Farnese picture collection. (Also in Italian.)

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza. Ceramics. (In Italian.)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Modern art. An outpost of the Guggenheim Museum,

Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and anindex of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. (Also in Italian.) See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).

The Virtual Museum of Pisa Shockwave for multimedia. (In Italian and English.)

Musei e Gallerie Statali, Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze. Florentine museum information, including database access, from Florence. (In Italian.)

Netherlands

7th Museum, Amsterdam. A public art project.

Centraal Museum Utrecht. The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands, including historical works of art and the Rietveld Schrder house (1924). (Mainly in Dutch.)

Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam. Scientific and industrial computing. Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.

aags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Art collection including Mondrian and Escher. (In Dutch.)

Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven. Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923). (Also in Dutch.)

Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University. Archectural Guide and Galleryincluding Museums.

Limburgs Museum, Limburg. Includes multimedia using RealAudio. (In Dutch.)

Museon, The Hague. Science and natural history: geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology physics and technology, ethnology. (In English and Dutch.)

Natural History Museum, Maastricht. Includes a virtual tour and kid's museum with a quiz. (InEnglish and Dutch.)

Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg. Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design. (In English and Dutch.)

Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam. (In English and Dutch.)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Not yet on-line.)

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam. Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country. Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave. (In English and Dutch.)

University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art. (English and Dutch.)

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Amsterdam museums.

Eindhoven museums. (Dutch and some English.)

Museums in the Netherlands, Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT). Succinct information, comprehensive coverage.

Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums. See English information including a directory of all museums. An excellent, comprehensive resource.

De Museumserver. Dutch museums on the Internet. (Mostly Dutch, some English.) Good, but slowed by use of Java.

Musea in Nederland. Links sorted by name, type and location. (In Dutch only.)

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Norway

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Museums in alphabetical order, by region, etc., from Museumsnet Norway. Comprehensive list, including hyperlinks where available. (In Norwegian, English, French and German soon.)

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Spain

Joan Miró Foundation , Barcelona, Spain

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Switzerland

Fotomuseum, Winterthur. Photography. (In German.)

Kunstmuseum Luzern. Museum of Fine Arts, Lucerne. (Also in German.)

Musée de la Main, Lausanne. (In French.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Basel. Part of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, the oldest public museum of the world! (In English and German.)

World Art Treasures, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Lausanne and EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Presents a number of developing on-line exhibits of art from Egypt, China, Italy, etc. (Also in French.)

Arte 24: Art, Culture and Museums. (In German, English and French.)

Basel museums. (In German and English.)

Geneva museums. (Mainly in French.)

Lausanne museums. (In French.)

Art museums.

U.K.

An Lanntair, an art center of the Western Isles of Scotland.

The Ashmolean at Oxford

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

MuseumNet, listings of UK museums.

National Galleries of Scotland

National Gallery, London

National Museum of Ireland

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

National Museums of Scotland

Sir John Soane's Museum

Tate Gallery

Victoria and Albert, London. Specializes in decorative arts.

 

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A to Z, Museums in the United States

List of Museum in The United States  for reference;

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH. Situated in a renovated Post Office building, the permanet collection emphasises contemporary art, photography, and folk arts.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio. 17th century Dutch, Japanese prints, Renaissance and Baroque prints, modern European and contemporary American art.
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX. The Amon Carter Museum was established through the generosity of Amon G. Carter, Sr. (1879-1955), to house his collection of paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell; to collect, preserve, and exhibit the finest examples of American art; and to serve an educational role through exhibitions, publications, and programs devoted to the study of American art.

Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ. The Museum that presented "Bill Viola: Buried Secrets" at the 1995 Venice Biennale, the first institution West of the Mississippi to represent the United States at this U.S. Pavilion
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum and art school.
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. The BAM + PFA at the University of California offers a website with extensive exhibition information including online catalogs with images and audio artist interviews, a database of over 12,000 film notes on world cinema, searchable art and film collection guides, an interactive multimedia guide to modern art for kids and more.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL. Fully accredited museum, with a fine Permanent Collection of over 3000 pieces.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, One of the great, lesser-known museums.
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Collections of painting, sculpture, assemblages, photographs, folk art, African art and examples of historical material culture reflecting African-American life.
California Views Historical Photo Collection, Monterey, CA. California images from the 1870-1990, from 35mm Neg's to 11x14 Glass plates.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. This museum houses a fine collection of European art, with an emphasis on 17th to early 20th century painting. Also featured is a collection of works by artists from Cincinnati.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC. The CMA houses a collection of over 6000 European and American works of art dating from the 14th through 20th century.
Contemporary Arts Center , Cincinnati, OH. Founded in 1939, the Contemporary Arts Center is one of the oldest, most active, and most adventuresome museums of contemporary art in the US. In 1990, the CAC made international news when it successfully defended the legal right of its audience to view an exhibition of the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe. Extensive website, including current exhibitions, kids' pages, CAC history, virtual exhibitions, and info on a major new building planned for 2001.
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC. An art museum with stage events, just blocks from the White house. periodicals in 41 languages.
Corning Museum of Glass , Corning, New York. More than 35 centuries of glass artistry in the galleries. Explore glass innovations in the hands-on science and technology area, and watch live glass demos - all day, every day of the week.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. Oldest public art museum in the Western United States. Founded in 1885. Major collections of Old Master drawings, Old Master European paintings, nineteenth-centry California painting, twentieth-century art from Northern California; extensive education program.
Dahesh Museum, New York, NY. The only museum in the country devoted to 19th-century European academic art.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI. Come Alive Inside Come Alive Inside the Dennos Museum Center for the visual and performing arts. Featuring an extensive schedule of changing exhibitions and concerts combined with gallery tours, artist lectures, hands-on workshops and school outreach activities.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co. The largest collection of art between Chicago and San Francisco.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan.
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY. A contemporary art museum, Dia's exhibition program is dedicated to large-scale, single-artist projects, produced on a substantial scale and with a commitment to site specificity. Dia's website features artist projects created specifically for the web.
Diego Rivera Web Museum, Dedicated to the Mexican muralist painter Diego Rivera (1886-l957). (Also in Spanish.)
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Permanent collection ranging from Ancient to Modern art plus changing exhibitions, programs and scholarly publications.
Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. American art.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , San Francisco, CA. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's web site contains an astonishing database of over 65,000 images from the permanent collection. It also contains museum information on important exhibitions, tours, the collection, etc.
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan. The Flint Institute of Arts has served an important role in the life of the Flint community since its founding in 1928 and today, continues to play a major role in the growth and revitalization of the city of Flint. Through its exhibitions, interpretive programs, film screenings, concerts, lectures, family events and educational outreach programs, the FIA serves more than 120,000 adults and children annually from all over southeast Michigan.The FIA's 150,000 sq. ft. facility is a unique space with more than 25,000 sq. ft. of gallery space, maintaining a collection of nearly 7,500 objects, sustains a membership of 3,200, registers 1,700 students from pre-school age to senior citizens in Museum Art School studio classes, and presents school programs to 25,000 K-12 students annually.
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Frick Collection, New York, NY. The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality.
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI. Changing displays of national and international artists, in addition to the permanent collection, regional artists,photography,children's, and rental/sales galleries, gift shop.
Gray Gallery of Art , New York, NY. The museum at New york University
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette Indiana. Focuses on Indiana Artists
Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Art museum. Outposts in Bilbao, Spain and Venice.
Harvard University Art Museums, . Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA. The only accredited art museum in Contra Costa, offering diverse changing exhibitions. Permanent collection features the work of William Keith.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Includes images of contemporary art, a decorative arts collection, American and European painting, African art, folk art, and photography.
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI. Founded early this century, ancient, modern, oriental.
Indiana University Art Musuem
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana.
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archeology, Memphis.
Iowa State University Museums, Ames, IA. Consists of Iowa State's Brunnier Art Museum and Gallery (decorative), the Farm House Museums (historic), and Art in State Buildings (campus/public art). The Brunnier exhibits temporary exhibits and items from permanent collection, the Farm House is a historical site with antique items, AiBS features art done for buildings on campus (sculptures, murals, etc.). All are free of charge.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is at once an intimate collection of fine and decorative art and a vibrant, innovative venue for contemporary artists, musicians and scholars. Housed in a stunning 15th-century Venetian-style palace with three stories of galleries surrounding a sun- and flower-filled courtyard, the museum provides an unusual backdrop for the viewing of art. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's preeminent collection contains more than 2,500 paintings, sculptures, tapestries, furniture, manuscripts, rare books and decorative arts. The galleries house works by some of the most recognized artists in the world, including Titian, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Manet, Degas, Whistler and Sargent. The spirit of the architecture, the personal character of the arrangements and the artistic display of the enchanting courtyard in full bloom all create an atmosphere that distinguishes the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as an intimate and culturally-rich treasure.
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Long Island City, NY. The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum was created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), and displays more than 300 of his works in a converted factory building and outdoor sculpture garden. The museum is located across the East River from Manhattan.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Getty Museum collections, history, vistor services and information.
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE. Wide collection of art from Europe and U.S. Among others, Monet, Manet Renoir and Degas are represented here.
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI. Located in Southwest Michigan, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts was established in 1924 with the primary mission to offer accessible art classes to the community and provide a lace for appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, lectures and othe special events. The present building constructed in 1961 was designed by Skimore, Owings & Merrill and houses a collection of more than 3,000 objects.
Kansas museums, a listing.
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL. University of Illinois at Urbana
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC. The Kreeger Museum displays 19th and 20th century art in a building designed by noted American architect Philip Johnson. The collection includes works by Monet, Picasso, Miro, and Stella.
Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Loren Adams Museum of Fine Art, Lahaina, HI. Collection of original oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, designs and objet d'art.
Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wa. The mission of Maryhill Museum of Art is to serve as an inspiring force for the advancement of art and history while preserving and building upon the Museum's unique legacy.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Built by artist and educator Marion Koogler McNay in the 1920s, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style home opened as Texas’ first museum of modern art in 1954. Today more than 100,000 visitors a year enjoy works by 20th-century masters including Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In June 2008, the museum opened the 45,000-square-foot Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions designed by internationally renowned French architect Jean-Paul Viguier. Nearly doubling the McNay’s exhibition space, the Stieren Center includes three separate outdoor sculpture galleries, the first in South Texas.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA. The Mead Art Museum houses the art collections of Amherst College, some 14,000 works acquired since 1839. It includes one of the nation's finest collegiate collections of American art, also European art, photography, and Japanese prints. Site features several virtual exhibitions
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester.
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. Antiquities, African, oceanic, modern and contemporary painting and sculpture.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. One of the largest art museums in the world. See the collections.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Established in 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum features 20,000 works from ancient objects to recent art. A 125,000-square-foot, $50 million building expansion project is underway, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota. Fine arts museum.
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN. Permanent collection features over 3,000 works of American Art beginning in the early 20th century, MMAA also hosts special exhibitions of American art.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , Fort Worth, TX. Oldest art museum in Texas exhibiting modern and contemporary American and European painting, sculpture, works on paper and photography. Most or all of the collections are ONLINE.
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ. The Montclair Art Museum has a respected national and international reputation for its fine collection of American art and Native American art and artifacts. The collection also encompasses works on paper, sculptures, and costumes.
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA. The only museum dedicated entirely to Southern art and artists. Houses the Center for the Study of Southern Painting.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA. Small but influential museum focused on new art, often by young artists. Bilingual wall texts, audioguides, Web site is bilingual (Spanish/English). MCA collects, exhibits and interprets the art of our time, focusing on the period from 1950 to the present. The Museum has two locations: the flagship facility in La Jolla, founded in 1941 and recently renovated and expanded by Robert Venturi (1996); and the downtown San Diego satellite space, which opened in 1993.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Museum of Fine Arts, University of Montana, Missoula.
Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angekes, CA. Unique! (Read "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders")
Museum of Modern Art, (MoMA), New York City. See menu including the collection and current exhibitions.
Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), Kearney, NE. Art of Nebraska ranging from the historic artistic reporting of the Artist-Explorers to contemporary regional work is emphasized in the Museum of Nebraska Art's permanent collection. The Nebraska Art Collection is designated by the legislature as the official visual art collection of the State of Nebraska.
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA. Housed in the beautiful Casa de Balboa in San Disgo's Balboa Park, MoPA presents both classic and contemporary works by internationally acclaimed artists. MoPA is one of the few museums devoted exclusively to the photgraphic arts, and collects and exhibits contemporary and classic work by internationally known artists.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. Some of the best images on the net.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the recognition of women in the arts, including a tour of their on-line galleries.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. A general art museum comprising objects from ancient times to the present, and all cultures, with special emphasis on Chinese art and English ceramics from the 17th century.
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, WY. A regional art museum focusing on contemporary art and traditional western art. Also a hands-on self-guided art-making place in the Discovery Center.
Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Stockbridge, MA. World's largest collection of original art by Norman Rockwell. Changing exhibitions also feature works by other renown American illustrators.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. World art especially rich in old master European painting; also Egyptian, Greek, Roman, American, African, Pre-Columbian, from ancient to contemporary.
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, N.J. Southern New Jersey's museum of contemporary fine and folk art, displaying outstandng travelling exhibits, works by leading regional artists, and its own growing contemporary art collection
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University.
Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. USA's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Maritime arts and history; American decorative arts; early American architecture; Asian export art; Asian, Oceanic, African arts and culture; natural history; native American arts and art.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is America's first art museum and school of fine arts. The Museum features one of the most renowned collections of American art--spanning three centuries.
The Pensacola Museum of Art , Pensacola, FL. Current exhibitions, classes, lectures, educational programs.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, founded in 1876, is unique among American museums in its integrated presentation of a full range of fine and applied arts from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Spanning over 2,000 years, the collections include masterpieces of painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings displayed with a wide range of furniture, silver, glasswork, architectural elements, and entire furnished rooms from historic houses.
Pierpont Morgan Library Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library is an extraordinary complex of buildings in the heart of New York City.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Collections include native American and regional contemporary art.
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME. Provides an unparalleled look at fine and decorative arts from the 18th century to the present, representing the unique artistic heritage of Maine, a well as the major European movements. Housed in an award-winning building in downtown Portland.
Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX. Contemporary art, architecture and design
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art)
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY. Museum of glass, Native American and American western art.
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California. Designed in an authentic Egyptian architectural style. Large collections of Egyptian, Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities.
Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, FL. Contains images of 159 of Dali's works (800*600 video resolution or better recommended.)
San Diego Museum of Art , San Diego, CA. The San Diego Museum of Art is the largest cultural institution in San Diego County with approximately 12,000. This website is our first attempt at a content-rich exhibition based on the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection of the Posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Emphasis is on late 20th Century art, with a focus on Bay Area artists. Exhibits include scultpture, photography, multi-media/high tech, and paintings. Currently involved in a multi-year exchange with the Whitney Museum.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. The Seattle Art Museum offers the Seattle community a diverse and exciting collection. The downtown Seattle Art Museum houses a well-known collection ofthe arts of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas; the original building displays the museum's extensive holdings in Asian art.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism and contemporary art by a wide range of artists.
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL. Located on the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of over 7000 objects, spanning five centuries of both Western and Eastern civilizations. The scope of its permanent collections, combined with groundbreaking special exhibitions, a focus on research and teaching by University of Chicago scholars, and distingushed outreach and educational programs geared to both adults and school age children, make the Smart one of the Midwest's most dynamic and innovative educational institutions in the visual arts.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. With a world-famous collection spanning an impressive 4,500 years, and a tradition since its inception of making its holdings available to students and the public, the Smith College Museum of Art is also a leader in collecting and showing the art of our day. Ranked among the finest college or University museums in this country, it has become what our first director hoped it would be: "nothing less than a collection of works by the foremost artists of modern times."
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
See The White House Collection of American Craft exhibition. Includes much audio and video material.
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN. The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame houses over 19,000 works of art from the antique through modern. The web site illustrates many works found on display and lists all works on display.
Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California. The Southwest Museum currently holds one of the nation's most important collections related to the American Indian.
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT. This museum is the oldest in Utah and is dedicated to the exhibition of Utah Art. American and Russian Art is also a part of the permanent collection and frequently displayed.
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO. Art from all periods of European civilization and from Africa, North America and Oceania, with an acclaimed collection of modern art.
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Noted for it collection of late 19th and early 20th century European and American collection, it is also the home of the finest collection of photographs in the SE US. There is also an active music program and continuing educational activities for all ages.
The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA. At The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, we offer the highest quality programs in art, history and science that both reflect and celebrate the diversity of our region such as the William Saroyan Gallery with over 700 objects from the Pulitzer Prize winning author's life, and more!
The International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY. Significant portions of the permanent collection show strength in the focus on American ceramics from 1900 to the present; ceramics made by Alfred MFA graduate students; pottery of the Ancient Americas, Chinese pottery and porcelain, European dinnerware, Leach pottery, Japanese ceramics by Rosanjin, Korean pottery from the United Silla, Koryo and Yi dynasties, tiles, Glidden Ware, and miscellaneous ceramics from many cultures and time periods.
Timken Museum of Art , San Diego, CA. Timken Museum of Art in San Diego. Most of the collection is online with anotation, in an easy 'pamphlet' layout.
Toledo Museum of Art , Toledo, OH. The Toledo Museum of Art continues to grow in its facilities, its collection, and its relations with the Toledo community. A series of renovations to the interior of the original building from 1977 to 1992 was followed by the completion of the Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Frank Gehry. This building houses the Museum's Library and the Art Department of the University of Toledo.
University Art Museum, Albany, New York.
University Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale , Carbondale, IL. This web site is dedicated to open communication, interactive problem solving, data gathering, resource sharing, and professional development.
University Museums, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. of special note are the D. M. Robinson Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Millington-Barnard Collection of 19th-century scientific apparatus and collections of American southern, West African and Caribbean folk art, also dolls and decorative arts
University of Arizona Museum of Art.
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI. Located at the gateway to the University’s historic central campus, the University of Michigan Museum of Art is considered one of the finest university art museums in the country, with more than 17,000 works of art and an ambitious schedule of special exhibitions and programs. UMMA’s extraordinary Western, Asian, and African holdings include masterworks by such artists as Dürer, Monet, Picasso, and today’s avant-garde.Features an online searchable database of over 14,000 objects.
University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO. The Museum's collection, over 13,000 objects, is strong in classical art and archaeology, as well as European and American art from the 15th c. to the present. This site includes exhibit information, a virtual exhibit of Roman Coins and an extensive museum education page.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthroplogy, Philadelphia, PA. Has sponsored over 300 expeditions around the world and have artifacts from every inhabited continent.
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY. The UWAM is an educational institution with a mission to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret a broad spectrum of visual arts of the highest quality and of national importance that expands awareness and understanding of all of the visual arts and its impact on our culture for Wyoming's residents.
Vernon Wood Museum of Art, Dayton , NV. The Vernon Wood Museum is in the early stages of being built . The Web page Museum has been a big help in letting people know who Vernon Wood was .
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.
Wadsworth Athenium Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. One of the oldest public museums in the country.
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. See also Hollywood Archaeology artist's WWW project.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Museum has been building its collection since 1898 and it has over 35,000 works in a collection that spans more than 5000 years of world art. Its strengths are American painting, Dutch and Flemish painting, Late Roman mosaics Japanese prints and European and American color-prints.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. The YCBA holds one of the most comprehensive collections of British Art outside of London. The Center places special emphasis on art from the 17th Century to the present.
Yale University Art Gallery
Yellowstone Art Musuem, Billings, MT. In 1984, with a major grant from the Montana Coal Tax Fund and generous donations from private individuals, the Yellowstone Art Museum began to build a permanent collection of significant contemporary art of the region. The "Montana Collection" represents the preservation of Western art relevant to today's West, and constitutes a living artistic heritage.

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BANKSY

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

Banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and Jef Aerosol who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours (France), and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However Banksy claims that he based his work on that of 3D from Massive Attack, stating, "No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw.

Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself; however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.

 

Banksy began as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with Kato and Tes. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D. From the start he used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece. He claims he changed to stencilling while he was hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, when he noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London.

Talk about his technique, :
Banksy use whatever for drawing. Efficiency is the key.

Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card, before being cut out by hand. Because of the secretive nature of Banksy's work and identity, it is uncertain what techniques he uses to generate the images in his stencils, though it is assumed he uses computers for some images due to the photocopy nature of much of his work.

He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece, that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.

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There is dispute in the street art world over the legitimacy of stencils, with many artists criticising their use as "cheating."

NEOLOGISMS

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Why do tech neologisms make people angry?

The bewildering stream of new words to describe technology and its uses makes many people angry, but there's much to celebrate.

In the 16th Century, neologisms "smelling too much of the Latin" - as the poet Richard Willes put it - were frowned upon by many.

Willes's objects of contempt included portentous, antiques, despicable, obsequious, homicide, destructive and prodigious, all of which he labelled "ink-horn terms" - a word itself now vanished from common usage, meaning an inkwell made out of horn.

Come the 19th Century, the English poet William Barnes was still fighting the "ink-horn" battle against such foreign barbarities as preface and photograph which, he suggested should be rechristened "foreword" and "sun print" in order to achieve proper Englishness.

Forewords caught on, but sun prints didn't, instead joining the growing ranks of outmoded terms for innovations - a scrapheap that by the end of the century ranged from temporarily mainstream names like velocipede (meaning "swift foot" and used to describe early bicycles and tricycles) to near-unpronounceable curiosities like phenakistoscope (an early device for animation, meaning "to deceive vision").

today, the debate around what constitutes "proper" speech and writing is livelier than ever, courtesy of a transition every bit as significant (at least so far as language is concerned) as the Industrial Revolution.

From text messages and email to chat rooms and video games, technology has over the past few decades brought an extraordinary new arena of verbal exchange into being - and one whose controversies relate not so much to foreign infiltrations as to informality, abbreviation and self-indulgence. Hence the swelling legions of acronyms, grunts of internet-inspired indifference and social-media-inspired techniques for dramatising the business of typing.

In each case, the dividing line is largely generational - with a dash of snobbery and aesthetic appeal thrown in. Yet even the most seemingly obvious divisions between old and new can break down under closer examination.

the Oxford English Dictionary took the leap and added some "notable initialisms" to its vocabulary in March 2011 - including "oh my God" (OMG), "laughs out loud" (LOL) and "for your information" (FYI) - it noted that OMG had first seen the light of day in a 1917 letter from a British admiral to none other than Winston Churchill.

Even that most iconic embodiment of online messaging, the emoticon - a happy or a sad face drawn in punctuation marks - was pre-empted by a satirical 19th Century magazine called Puck under the heading "typographical art". more info about neologisms article go to

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kaostantin hafriat

Galeri G-art / Harbiye Mah. Kadırgalar Cad. No:3 (G-Mall) Maçka/ İstanbul

Sanatçı: Şiir Özbilge

10 Nisan -7 Mayıs 2013

Çok’luğun Ressamı: Şiir Özbilge

“Ve yaratmak, daima, çocukluktan bahsetmektir”

Jean Genet

İnsanın zaman ve uzam içindeki öyküsünü, bu günden ve İstanbul kenti üzerinden resminin merkezine alır Şiir Özbilge. “21. Yüzyılın dünya başkenti” İstanbul’da sürekli değişen değer yargılarını, istekleri, yıkımları, çarpışmaları, korku ve umutları resmine konu seçer.

Ressamın ana konusu, estetiğe döktüğü derdi İstanbul kenti; onun ifadesiyle Kaostantin’dir. İstanbul’a dair binlerce şarkı söylenmiş, türküler yakılmış, piyesler sergilenmiş, romanlar yazılmış, filmler çekilmiştir. Peki, nedir ressamı İstanbul’a bakarken, özgün kılan?

İstanbul’a yönelik genel geçer bakışı iki başlıkta özetlemek mümkündür: Sürekli şehrin güzelliklerini öven, egzotik/ turistik İstanbul güzellemeleri ve şehrin sürekli yaşadığı dönüşüm ve onu besleyen kaosa karşı mesafeli, kötümser İstanbul panoramaları.

Şiir Özbilge; İstanbul’a yönelik bu beylik yaklaşımlara itibar etmez. O şehri izler, sezgiler, deneyimler; onu yeniden okumak ve okuduklarını estetiğe dökmek ister. Kuşkusuz bu kenti tüm çok’luğu içinde yaşamak isteğidir aynı zamanda. Kenti oluşturan farklılıkları Batılı bir pazarlama stratejisi ile homojenleştirmek ya da Doğulu bir ruh ile bütünü romantikleştirmek istemez. Kentin her sesi onun için ayrı ayrı kıymetlidir. Çıplak hayatın içinde akan gündelik dil, yaşayan sokak, birbirine karışan kültürler, düşler, hikâyeler...

Hikâyeler çok önemlidir, çünkü burada ressam usta ve vakur bir hikâye anlatıcısıdır. Hız, zaman, insan döngüsünde sürekli akan İstanbul’un hikâyelerini anlatır bize. Hikâye; sosyolojinin, tarihin ya da antropolojinin anlatamadığı küçük ve insani aralıklara ve bu eşiklerdeki değişimlere, dönüşümlere, çok’luklara odaklanır. Kuşkusuz bilgi kadar bilgelik, sezgi işidir. Çünkü bazı bilgiler sadece şehri büyük bir aşk ile sevmek; onun içinde erimek, seslerinde ve görüntülerinde kaybolmakla elde edilebilir. Kuşkusuz mağara dönemi ressamlarının anlatımcı kaygısını taşır bu resim, o duvarlardan şehrin kulelerine sezgisiyle koca düşünü inşa eder.

Sonra idrak ile elde ettiği bu yapıya, iki naif bilgi dalı daha ekler Şiir. 20 yıldır beraber çalıştığı çocukların oyuncu bilgeliğini ve şehrin her kesiminden gençlerin yatay ve hiyerarşik olmayan Babil kitaplığı niteliğindeki internet sözlüklerinin naif algısını. Sonunda edindiği bu bilgileri, en yalın hisleri ile birleştirerek aktarır resmine.

Şehri iki ucundan çekiştiren Doğu ve Batının, tıpkı şehrin yapılarının katman katman üst üste binmesi gibi zaman ve uzam da Şiir’in resminde oya gibi iç içe girer. Bu buluşmadan güncel olduğu kadar tarihsel bir bakış/imge de de ortaya çıkar. Ama dikey ve ilerlemeci bir tarihe inanmaz ressam, gelişmenin dikey çizgilerinin hemen yanına yatay uzamlarda; tarihin es geçtiği kaçış çizgilerini de eklemekten kaçınmaz. Sultan Murat varsa Hezarfen de vardır, bu şiirsel tarih içinde.

Tarih kitabının yanına mitleri birleşik bir kap olarak koyar gidişatın kazısı içine. Babil kulesi, Nuh’un gemisi, Kibele şimdi ve bu an, İstanbul’un cisminde yeniden inşa edilir. Bu yüzden resminin altına koyduğu güncel buluntuların üzerine “çanak-çömlek” yazar. Marmara Ray ya da Taksim kazılarında bir anda karşımıza çıkan tarih ve onun efsaneleri gibi güncel bir buluşmadır bu.

Şehir sürekli kazılıyor, inşa ediliyor. Şehirde sürekli kurulan ve yıkılan umudumuz değil midir?

Geleceğin arı halini arzulayarak tarihini kazan; bu günün akışkanlığında ve sonsuz olasılıklar âleminde yarınını düşleyen bir resim. Ki aynı zamanda kendi içinde sesli de bir resim. Vapur düdüklerinin, greyder gürültülerinin, martı seslerine karışan ezan ve çan seslerinin resmi. Kakofoniden müzakerelere açılan, sürekli iletişimden dinlemeyi öğrenen, farklılıkların korosu içinden geleceğe yol/şans tanıyan bir melek.

Bitti mi bu metin?

En büyük izleyicisinin çocuklar olmasını arzulayan, resimlerinin hayvanlarla da iletişim kurmasını düşleyen bir sanatçının yapıtını, küçük bir yazıyla nasıl özetleyebilirim ki?

Şimdi yazı susuyor, tuvallerini kaplayan resimlerde büyüyen umut konuşuyor; Boğaz Köprüsünün üstünde bizleri koruyan Kibele’nin göz bebeklerinde.

Rafet Arslan

Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun was born  in1963, Handan, Hebei province, China.  an artist based in Beijing. He was born into a wealthy family with a high social status. In the 1990s, there was a cultural movement in China referred to as Cynical Realism of which Fang Lijun was a member. Living in China during this critical time shaped his worldview in terms of his views on art, human values and morality.

Fang Lijun attended Children Cultural Place school.During his time at school, he met LiXianting (who would later be a famous critic) and was introduced to watercolors, oil paints and ink.

Fang Lijun decided to leave high school to pursue his artistic dream. He made a decision to go to Hebei Light Industry Technology school to study ceramics for three years. However, Fang Lijun did not want to stop his studies there. Instead of having an intellectual job in ceramics department, he prepared himself to take the entrance exam to enroll at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He was fascinated by the medium of oil painting and chose it for his final graduation project.


At the beginning of 1992, Fang Lijun moved to Yuanmingyuan village in north-west Beijing.
Due to the economy and other difficult cultural issues, painters wanted to create a utopia where they could freely paint and express themselves. That was when Yuanmingyuan village drew artists' attention. At the time, painters like Fang Lijun had to face many obstacles and challenges, particular financial issues. In order to be able to paint, they needed to have funds to buy materials. However, there was no certainty that they would receive any funding, so it was extremely difficult for painters to be able to follow what they love. Fang Lijun and other artists like him had paint for a living due to the economic pressure.

Fang Lijun made a large number of works featuring the subject "bald heads".Under the influence of his family and friends, his art expresses the freedom, the integrity in two different settings: traditional and modern era, and the will of making a change.He explained in an interview that he wished to send a message about the lives of painters through bald-head figures. The bald headed traditional Chinese men are viewed as dumb or stupid. Through these figures, he is sending a message about morality and how people define what is normal based on physical appearance, rather than internal moral character. Fang Lijun values the individual stories of each person. He is asking the society to look at painters as normal people, as people who are making a change, rather than as eccentric outcasts.

In his paintings, he also uses elements of water and flower a lot. Water plays a big role in Fang Lijun's paintings. On an interview, he explained that water is helping him convey a message about his feeling and his voice about the truth and what is going in Chinese society.

His famous work with water is the guy being drowned in the water. Part of the reason for this paining relates to his childhood experience when he was almost drown. The second and most important part relation about this painting is he is expressing his feelings about the Chinese society. When the guy is drown in the water, that guy is representing for painter like Fang Lijun.He feels like he does not have a voice, that he is powerless in this societal structure and that he cannot even make his own decision or speak the right truth. Also, his hope is to freely go and move in the water metaphorically. He is hoping to be able to speak for himself, for other artists and to inspire everybody.

Yue Minjun

Yue Minjun was born in 1962 in the town of Daqing in Heilongjiang, China. Yue's family had been working on oil fields and when Yue was six, his family moved from Daqing Oil Field to Jianghan Oil Field. When he was ten, his family moved to Beijing. He eventually went to Tianjin after high school and moved to Hebei to find education and work, there he studied oil painting, he graduated from the Hebei Normal University in 1983.

In the 1980s, he started painting portraits of his co-workers and the sea while he was engaged in deep-sea oil drilling. In 1989, he was inspired by a painting by Geng Jianyi at an art show in Beijing, which depicted Geng's own laughing face. In 1990, he eventually moved to Hongmiao in the Chaoyang District, Beijing, which was also home to other Chinese artists. During this period, his style of art developed out of portraits of his bohemian friends from the artists' village. It is important to note that Yue had been living a "nomadic" existence for much of his life, because his family often moved in order to find work on various oilfields.

The roots of Yue Minjun's style can be traced back to the work of Geng Jianyi, which had first inspired Yue with his work of his own laughing face. Apart from that, Yue had also studied oil painting in the Hebei Normal University from 1985 to 1989. Over the years, Yue Minjun's style has also rapidly developed. Yue often challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and even political issues in a radical and abstract manner. He has also shifted his focus from the technical aspects to the "whole concept of creation".

Yue Minjun’s first museum show in the United States took place at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. The show, Yue Minjun and the Symbolic Smile, featured bronze and polychrome sculptures, paintings and drawings.