http://www.recirca.com


Recirca is the electronic version of CIRCA, a quarterly visual arts review. The magazine examines and analyzes the visual culture and artistic ferments taking place and developing in Ireland, paying particular attention to cities such as Belfast, Dublin, and Cork, thus constituting a very useful resource. The recently overhauled site, in addition to collecting book, exhibit, and event reviews, offers a series of interesting links to Irish venues such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Dublin Project Arts Centre. One area of the site is entirely devoted to art projects created exclusively for the Internet, such as Terminal Island v.2 by Tony Patrickson.

http://www.deste.gr/


The Deste Foundation in Athens opened its new center in 1998 and represents an important site for the promotion of contemporary art, through the organization of events and exhibitions of both Greek and international artists. The website, with a simple but very effective interface, was started with the purpose of spreading to an ever growing number of users the knowledge of the present Greek artistic scene. One of the Foundation’s main objectives was to create a large and continuously updated archive of Greek artists. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to access this resource through the Internet site. However, the site documents in detail the Foundation’s activities with images, views of the installations on exhibit, press releases, and additional useful information, such as in the case of Jeff Koon’s retrospective exhibiton housed by the Foundation, examining his activities from his early works to the most recent.

http://www.artangels.co.uk


Artangel is a London association directed by James Lingwood and Michael Morris, formed in 1992 with the aim of producing site-specific artist projects, that is, projects that were created for a specific place, often not coinciding with a conventional art space. The major objective is to capture social, cultural, and architectural changes happening in London. The staff chooses an artist and then seeks the necessary funds to create a given project. During the years, the organization produced events and shows by Gabriel Orozco, Douglas Gordon, Jeff Koons, and other internationally famous artists. The website, with simple and spare graphics, provides information on the various projects being created, and presents an archive and collection of the projects executed in the past.

http://www.broadartfdn.org


The Broad Family Foundation, located in California, was established in 1984. The Broads started collecting works of art in the early Seventies, and ever since they contributed to the growth of American museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The collection includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, and video installations by celebrated artists, among which John Baldessarri and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Among the represented European artists are Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke. The foundation website offers information on the whole collection and several pages devoted to the artists represented in it. Since many works are loaned out to museums and institutions for temporary exhibitions, the site indicates in real time where and in which show they have been placed. Since its inception, more than 250 museums have borrowed works from the collection.

http://www.guerrillagirls.com


Guerrilla Girls are a group of women artists, writers, performers, and filmmakers fighting against discrimination. During about fourteen years of activity they produced many posters and objects, and above all they carried out actions showing forms of sexism and racism in the world of art and culture in general. The website is for them an important channel of communication to broadcast their activities: a kind of official cultural propaganda site. The ‘Girls” use a gorilla mask to hide their faces during public demonstrations and actions. The same mask stands out in the site homepage.