Another museum with an impressive online presence is the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It also has a ‘Modernism’ site, separated by location and time period. Images, which can be nicely enlarged, are accompanied by text with links to further information.
There are extensive resources on the Institute’s site, so clicking around the home page is rewarding, once you discover where the art is located. Current exhibitions don’t always have accompanying online content, but some do. The real richness of resources is found under the ‘Explore the Collection’ section and in the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program Wiki. The augmented exhibitions go back to 2000 as of this viewing, and it looks like content is meant to be added back to 1975.
February 16, 2007
Modernism at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Modernism: Designing a new world 1914-1939 - Victoria and Albert Museum
Although you may see "Exhibition Now Closed" stamped on the Victoria and Albert Museum's Modernism: Designing a new world 1914-1939 site, it is still open online in both html and Flash format. Watch for videos which accompany some images - how else would you get to see an alphabet dance?
In the Flash version, you can create your own Modernist poster, among other adventures, and have it displayed as part of the exhibit. Each version has its own good and bad points (mostly good as far as I’m concerned, although I prefer the html format for reading text) so it’s worthwhile to explore both.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is one of those museums that provide enriched content for the online viewer, especially under Collections. Today (or at least on the day that I saw it), in the ‘Textiles’ section, there is an exhibit by the Artist in Residence, Sue Lawty. In this section, as in others, there are also videos, booklists, and much more.
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