The Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC house Asian Art, and are connected by an underground exhibition space. Charles Lang Freer was a Detroit railroad car manufacturer and Arthur M. Sackler was a research physician. There are two types of audio features in the "Podcasts" section of the website, First, visitors will find a brief description of "Radio...
Poetry can truly be found anywhere, and that is the animating force behind the website and the series created by WGBH in Boston, along with other partners at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Poetry Foundation. On PBS, the Poetry Everywhere "moments" appear somewhat unexpectedly, but here visitors can make their way through these readings as they see fit. Visitors can check in on...
By collaborating with high school students, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) put together Red Studio, a Web site designed to connect teens with modern art and today's working artists. Currently, Red Studio features an interview with Shahzia Sikander, an artist born in Pakistan in 1969, who was educated, and now lives here in the US. Conducted by six students, interview questions range from what...
James J. Hanks was just an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when he took the pictures in this collection held by the special collections and archives division at Northern Arizona University. The very unique aspect of this collection happens to be its repeat photographs. As stated in the Introduction, a repeat photograph is one taken of the original spot, often decades...
This exhibition from the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) explores the art and culture of the Salish First Peoples of Washington State and British Columbia. The word s'abadeb translates as "gifts" in English, and represents a wide range of beliefs and actions to the Coast Salish First People. The web exhibition is divided into sections on the gifts of the earth, ancestors, families, spirit world, and...
Created in 1925 as the San Antonio Museum Association, the organization later became the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) and also operated the Witte Museum of Science and History. Over its long history, the SAMA has become well-known for its collection of pre-Columbian art, along with its holdings in 18th through 20th century American and European paintings and sculpture. On their website,...
The University of Illinois has worked with the Saskia Art Images Collection team to present this collection of more than 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture, and architecture. Materials hail from a variety of well-known collections including the Louvre, the Uffizi, and the Prado. First-time visitors can start with the About section to get a sense of the scope of the collection along with...
If you love Canadian history and music, you will most find this site most fetching. Created by the Library and Archives Canada, the site brings together intriguing and historically important sheet music from the past 150 years. The collection exists due to the diligence of Helmut Kallmann, a young CBC music librarian who began to collect sheet music in the early 1950s. Today, the archives contain...
Would you like to explore a wooly mammoth skeleton in great detail? How about some ceremonial masks created by Pacific Northwest Native Americans? The Smithsonian X 3D project makes all of this possible for visitors from all over the world. This site was created by the Smithsonian's Digitization Program Office and currently visitors can examine twelve digitized models, including a fossilized...
The Steppenwolf Theatre, named after the book by Hermann Hesse, was co-founded by Gary Sinise in 1974 in a suburb outside of Chicago. The website for this fine theater (now based in Chicago proper) thoroughly catalogs its seasons in the "History" link under "The Ensemble" tab. Here, visitors will find the many productions the theater has performed since its inception, as well as information...