Art Links

Feel free to email me links to pages you think would be good to add to this page.

1. Google Art Project - A collaborative project for which Google worked with museums worldwide to digitize and post their collections in a single location. Unfortunately, the project is still in its infancy and many museums are reluctant to add their works to Google's collection.
2. Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity - An important exhibition at the MoMA about the Bauhaus school, a left-wing counter-culture art and design school in Germany from 1919-1933. The Bauhaus transformed the way that art and craft were viewed forever, and inaugurated a new style that would shape modernity, despite the school's regrettably short existence. (The Bauhaus closed in 1933 under pressure from the Nazi regime.)
3. Freer and Sackler Website - The Smithsonian museum specializing in East Asian art
4. Smithsonian's "Chinese Art and Architecture: An Annotated List of Recent Works in Western Languages (A good place to begin building a bibliography for various topics in Chinese art)
5. National Gallery of Art Teaching Page for The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology (The web page of a former exhibition, which collected a great number of important finds in Chinese archaeology covering from the prehistoric to early imperial periods)
6. Princeton University "Highlights" (Various interactive presentations about ancient Chinese artifacts and artistic techniques) (very fun)
7. The Floating World of Ukiyo-E: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance (The Library of Congress has an important collection of ukiyoe prints and paintings, and this is the exhibition page when a number of these were showcased. It was accompanied by an important publication with the same title.)