The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago just opened the exhibition Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson at the beginning of this month, and they've created a stand-alone website for it, which is kind of a trend in the museum world. The site not only gives background on the exhibition and the artist (Eliasson is a Danish/Icelandic artist who works primarily in light and water, as with the waterfalls he installed around New York last year) and a downloadable gallery guide, but also supplies images, videos and an audio tour.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum's online presence for Jean Shin: Common Threads is less extensive but still contains some interesting applications of new media, such as the Flickr group devoted to Shin's installation of her work, which deals with extremes of size and discarded materials reincorporated into new constructions.
David Hockney doesn't wait for museums and galleries to push forward technologically but instead does so himself. His latest project is limited-edition prints that he's drawn on his computer in Photoshop using a graphics tablet.
And, of course, Dia Art Foundation continues to put art online, with its newest project, by artist Dorit Margreiter, to launch May 19.
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