At  2:12 PM 3/27/97 -0600, adrienne drapkin wrote:
>Also, would anyone happen to know the new website for the National Gallery
>of Art?  It was included in this week's ArtBrief and I mistakenly deleted
>it.

This is.......http://www.nga.gov......and the article is below.
I hope this will be some help.

>MUSEUM WEB SITE OF THE MONTH:  APRIL
>NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART LAUNCHES WORLD WIDE WEB SITE
>WASHINGTON, DC--The National Gallery of Art has just launched
>its web site with more than 3,200 full-view digital images and
>3,800 details of art,  tours, historical audio segments, a
>features section, and information on special exhibitions and
>programs.

>On the home page, representative works from the permanent
>collection rotate in ten-minute intervals.  The page also
>contains a link to a special section called "highlights,"
>featuring a history of the National Gallery of Art.  A features
>section will be devoted to a variety of independent interactive
>presentations that highlight works in the National Gallery's
>permanent collection.   The first feature is a study of John
>Singleton Copley's painting, "Watson and the Shark."    In this
>section viewers may download a file of a Gallery guide focusing
>on Copley's works in the collection.  The guide is offered in
>English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish.  Special tours of
>the collection are highlighted including French paintings of the
>19th century with audio descriptions, and selections from the
>National Gallery's collection of approximately 17,000 watercolor
>renderings of American decorative arts.

>A cornerstone of the site is the collection section that offers
>information on the 100,000 objects in the National Gallery's
>permanent collection.  Each object page carries links to
>information such as provenance, exhibition history, and
>bibliographic references, as well as links to other resources in
>the site where the object is featured.
>The web site was developed by Robin Dowden, project manager, Ric
>Foster, programmer and webmaster, and Phyllis Hecht, art
>director, of the National Gallery of Art. The graphic design was
>conceived by Graffito/Active 8, Baltimore.
>
>The extraordinarily comprehensive web site can be reached at
>http://www.nga.gov
Hitoshi Yamamura
 Assistant curator of project office for
 Fuchu City Museum of Modern Art, Japan
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