Online Exhibition Sites
E.space was created to explore new art forms that exist only on the Web. These commissioned online projects explore new forms of storytelling, taking a fresh look at what constitutes an exhibition within the unique space of the personal computer screen.
Gallery 9 is the Walker Art Center's online exhibition space. Between 1997 and 2003, under the direction of Steve Dietz, Gallery 9 presented the work of more than 100 artists and became one of the most recognized online venues for the exhibition and contextualization of Internet-based art.
Local Arts & Entertainment Media:
Educational Resources
For Adults:
- PBS, Art:21
Art:21 is the only series on national public television to focus exclusively on contemporary art and the people who create it. Do you wonder what goes on in the minds of today’s most dynamic visual artists? Explore Art:21’s website to learn more about the featured artists and additional resource materials available for purchase and download.
- NPR, Where Science Meets Art
NPR’s Morning Edition recently explored the intersection of the arts and science through its series Where Science Meets Art. In this series NPR profiles artists, musicians, scientists, and creative thinkers whose work blurs the line between science and art. The series online archive allows you to listen to each profile and view video and other media.
- SFMOMA, Making Sense of Modern Art
This interactive web module offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in SFMOMA's permanent collection. Its format enables you to "zoom in" on full-screen details of individual artworks, explore excerpts from archival videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.
- PS1, WPS1 Art Radio
WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art providing a 24-hour stream and on-demand archive of cultural programming. WPS1 features talk radio styled discussions and interviews with artists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers, critics, curators, poets, educators, journalists, media experts, and other cultural leaders, innovators, and challengers.
- Cool Hunting
Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them. The site is edited by Josh Rubin, Evan Orensten and Ami Kealoha.
For Kids:
- Walker Art Center, ArtsConnectEd, Artist Toolkit
Explore the tools that artists use- like lines, color, and balance- to make works of art. See artists in action AND make and print your own creations.
- MoMA, Destination Modern Art
Destination: Modern Art is a website for children ages five to eight. An interactive online gallery offers an introduction to The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and its affiliate, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. This site gives children the opportunity to learn about works in MoMA’s collection and site-specific works at P.S.1, to look carefully at works of art, to learn about artists, their techniques, and their inspirations, AND to engage in online and at-home activities.
- A Children’s Guide to Understanding Contemporary Art
For Teens:
- MoMA, Red Studio
Red Studio, developed by MoMA in collaboration with high school students, explores issues and questions raised by teens about modern art, today's working artists, and what goes on behind the scenes at a museum. There are great interviews by teens of artists, along with a bunch of interactive activities developed by teens for teens. Red Studio is periodically updated and expanded.