The Blue Dot: This site contains a large array of artists' projects that are experimental, sometimes weird but usually worth surfing.

The Place: Some consider this a classical website because of its collection of poetic, melancholy and beautifully wrought pieces.

The Thing: This is truly an artists' online community with branches in Basel, Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, New York and Vienna. This site includes chats about art issues, web works, art reviews and Thing Cam.

FineArt Forum: This site contains a wide ranging index of art schools, scholarly resources, a list of art-related sites as well as art events, associations, publications and commercial services.

Lycos: This is one of the biggest search engines on the Internet. It claims to have indexed well over 91% of the web and more than 10 million addresses.

Voice of Shuttle: This art and art-history webpage is an astonishingly deep resource which covers every aspect of the art world.

Virtual Library Museums: This is a wel-indexed directory of worldwide museums.

Yahoo! This is another major directory with an excellent art section.

MUSEUMS

Art Tower Mito: Here one will find current exhibitions and gallery talks in English as well as Japanese.

California Museum of Photography (University of California at Riverside). This site contains historical and contemporary photography. The user has the ability to zoom in on images details.

Dia Center for the Arts: Works from the permanent collection, program schedules and artists' web projects are located at this website.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: On-line catalogues of exhibitions, artist interviews, current shows and samples from the museum's gift shop.

Louvre Museum: A handful of images from each of its collections that adds up to a decent tour which is accompanied by floor plans and a history of the museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: This site contains an immense, slow-moving and packed website with information and images.

WebMuseum, Paris: Here one will encounter Gothic through Modern are works as well as provide a glossary of painting styles.

Whitney Museum of American Art: The Whitney's ambitious virtual museum covers all the bases including current shows, works from the permanent collection, essays, library information and up-to-the minute web art projects sponsored by the museum.

Contemporary Art Site: This site contains a listing of galleries, museums and art organizations as well as art projects and publications.

Pace Wildenstein: Though the gallery's site doesn't take much advantage of interactivity, it is elegant and thorough.

Plexus: A cross between a gallery and an information service, Plexus offers text and images covering its own artists, along with a wonderful range of other art sites one can view within its own page, from publications to museums to other galleries.

Sotheby's:Sotheby's site provides auction results and coming sales, notes on collecting, urbane stories to involve young collectors, catalogue-ordering information and useful graphics.

Trans>: A serious critical journal featuring work by distinguished critics. It is also scheduled to appear in print three times a year. Spanish and English.

Urban Desires: One of the most polished, hippest magazines on the web with imaginative, often interactive, art projects.

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