>At 3/10/96 1:28 PM ROBBIN MURPHY wrote:

>The Guggenheim Museum's "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk,
>Freedom, Discipline" is now on artnetweb:
>http://artnetweb.com/abstraction/index.html>

Here is a bit from the latest Culture in Cyberspace newsletter regarding
this great exhibit:

TOTAL RISK, FREEDOM, DISCIPLINE
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has an outstanding web site. As
befits an institution with a highly original building (the Frank Lloyd
Wright spiral), the site is itself visually distinctive.  Museum details are
arranged in six categories: general information, exhibitions, public
programs, membership, museum history, and museum store. The exhibitions
section is truly remarkable.  Three online exhibits are currently available:
Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline; Claes
Oldenburg: An Anthology; and Georg Baselitz. "Total Risk" has amazing depth
for a web exhibit.  It features lucid text, innovative use of Netscape 2.0
and related applications, and examples of art from Kandinsky, Malevich, de
Kooning, Klein, and others.  Abstract art depicted through music, theater,
architecture, poetry, film, and dance is also considered.  The exhibit is
presented in part as a commentary on the museum itself.  "This exhibition
which progresses upward along the spiral ramp and into the Tower galleries,"
states the text, "...is particularly appropriate given [the Guggenheim's]
history.  Inaugurated as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in 1939, the
institution exhibited the work of the great pioneers of abstraction."  This
site is worth a visit even if you have to struggle with a slow modem.
Guggenheim: <http://math240.lehman.cuny.edu/gugg/>
Exhibits (Artnetweb): <http://artnetweb.com/artnetweb/index1.html>

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