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Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents here a truly outstanding website. The permanent collection currently is under construction, but the special exhibits are worth a visit too. Have a look at "Photographic stories from the deserts of the American West" or "New York, New York: City of Ambition". This site presents an artistic portrait of the world metropolis with a lot of photographs, paintings, graphics and sculptures from six decades, 1900 - 1960.
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Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) offers images and objects by the famous pop artist.. This site is one of the most popular in the WWW. A tip: Don't make the Museum Tour (you will only find object descriptions and museum maps there), but click on "Examples of Andy Warhol's Art".
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Salvador Dali Museum
94 oil paintings and more than 100 aquarelles, holograms, objects and photographs by Salvador Dali are offered online by the Dali Museum of St.Petersburg, Florida. Included are some of his world-famous surrealist works, but it is also very interesting to recognize Picasso's or Cezanne's influence on the earlier works of this extravagant artist.
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National Museum of American Art
This site contains a considerable number of art exhibits: The art of American daguerreotype, an arts-and-crafts exhibition, American abstract painting 1930-1945 and "American kaleidoscope - topics and perspectives of newer art." If possible visit this exhibit (and the other ones too) on Sundays, in the early morning hours or late at night, cause a lot of really large images await you.
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The Stuart Collection
A collection of sculptures and outdoor pieces from the Univertsity of California at San Diego is presented here, art works from very prominent contemporary artists: Terry Allen, Hamilton Finlay, Niki de Saint Phalle, Richard Fleischner, Bruce Naumann and Nam June Paik. The presentation is impressive because (somewhat differentual than in most WWW art exhibits) it offers a lot of essays, features and text information, explaining the work of the artist, his aesthetic principles and peculiarities and presenting detailed biographies. And in some cases - for instance with Niki de Saint Phalle's "Sun God" - it is possible to approach to the work of art by means of multiple photographs from varied perspectives.
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Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum offers ten detailed and extensive special exhibits (among them sculptures, paintings, photographs, wallpaper works) of contemporary art. Each exhibit includes an introduction and many images.
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Guggenheim Museum New York
Without doubt this is one of the best WWW art sites. It is impossible to mention all the exhibits presented here. "Africa: The Art of a continent" presents a great number of masks and sculptures from the different areas of Africa. Graphically outstanding is the special exhibit "Abstraction in the 20th century", with its entry sequence arousing curiosity (three text tableaus about Kandinsky, Miro and G. Richter). It presents extensive abstract art with explanatory texts ("the pioneers", abtract expressionism, minimalist sculptures, abstraction in photography, music, dance, film, theatre,...) We most liked the special exhibit "Claes Oldenburg", since many aspects of his work outside painting are presented here: happenings and environments, examples of his "soft sculptures", a page featuring his performance "knife ship", an over-sized gigantic knife swimming in a river and serving as a stage.
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Museum of International Folk Art
The Museum of International Folk Art, ist situated in Santa Fe. The website offers many pieces from its collections, taken from the Spanish Colonial period, contemporary Southwestern Hispanic art, international textiles and costumes and folk objects. Included are examples from more than 100 different countries. Furthermore there is a special exhibit "Recycled - Re-Seen": How the idea of recycling is practiced in Africa, America and Asia by rebuilding old objects and changing them into sculpures, collages, jewelry or ornaments.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
In addition to permanent exhibits, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York used to offer a great number of special exhibits. In the past. At present there are only very few and not very comprehensive exhibits online.
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