From Van Cortland Park in the Bronx down to the bucolic stylings of Staten Island in the late 19th century, this very fun online exhibition from the New York Public Library will sate the desires of those persons with a penchant for historical postcards. Recently, the Library placed five hundred postcards depicting views of all five boroughs in the late 19th and early 20th century within the much...

This wonderfully educational site was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Asian Pacific Endowment of the Saint Paul Foundation. Functioning as an online museum, it features 213 unique Hmong embroidery pieces, including images of animals, village life, farming, and war. The site can be easily scouted through its online exhibits, which are listed in order on the right...

The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery presents this Web interactive on the life and work of the Japanese painter and printmaker, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), the creator of the woodblock print "The Great Wave", one of the most recognized images in the world. The Flash interactive consists of four main sections on Hokusai's art: Brush & Block, Color, Composition, and Subject, plus an introductory,...

This Web exhibition created by the Getty allows visitors to view Byzantine icons from the remote Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, the world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery, and also the largest repository of Byzantine icons. Tools provided on the Web site allow you to zoom in on the icons, and see their details from a much closer vantage point than viewing in the...

In 2007 Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art began a series of exhibitions highlighting their permanent collections with their inaugural collection "American Art at Dartmouth". Excerpts from that show, along with more from their second and current collection "European Art at Dartmouth", are now viewable online. Examples from the American Art show include John Singleton Copley's portrait in pastels of...

Fans of street art as well as those with a personal connection to the city of London may be interested in Hookedblog, dedicated to murals and street art "from London and beyond." The blog is designed as a news site for those who want to learn about new projects and art events in the UK. One recent entry showcases a new mural by artist Pedro Campiche that was created for the UK edition of Festival...

At first glance, the web site for this show of photography at the Tate Britain - the first major exhibition of photography ever to be held at the museum - doesn't seem to include digital version of many photographs from the physical show. There are two albums of historical photos: Mr. & Mrs. Welford's photograph album, and The Ragged School Union, that hold roughly 200 hundred pictures, along...

The John Paul Getty Museum has a wonderful two part digitized exhibition of illuminated manuscripts from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. These manuscripts are from the Netherlands and Belgium which were important centers of manuscript production and they "were created for an international clientele of princes, dukes, cardinals, bishops, and wealthy burghers." The exhibition offers...

This exhibition from the Morgan Library and Museum allows you to page through several dozen 14th and 15th century illuminated manuscripts, and zoom in on the clothes. Visitors can page through the manuscript or view all of the fashionable thumbnails. For example, visitors can click on the thumbnail "St. Adrian as a Fashion Plate" (Part 2) ca. 1440, from Book of Hours, and see the saint wearing a...

For centuries, artists, philosophers, and scientists the world over (among many others) have pondered the concepts of illusion and reality. The art exhibition Illusions, presented at Rio de Janeiro's Casa Daros in 2014-2015 and viewable in digital form here, offers ten artists' explorations of "the ambiguous and complex, difficult to interpret spaces that swing freely back and forth between a...