art and culture

ArtandCulture.com is an unique online resource -- a cross-disciplinary front door to the world of the contemporary arts. This website features thousands of artist biographies, essays about art movements and themes, and overviews of the full range of artistic disciplines (from painting to dance to music to literature to film... the list goes on). Using the special abilities of the Web, ArtandCulture.com links all this information together in an illuminating fashion, suggesting connections between artists, across disciplines, that you may never have considered before. The main vehicle for this connection-making is the "cloud" at the top of every page. This special Flash feature puts the artist's name at the center of a myriad of creative associations -- some well established, others less well known and surprising. Each page of ArtandCulture.com is an invitation to explore. It combines learning and play, research and serendipity, the familiar with the unexpected.

On the biography page for the visual artist Kiki Smith, for example, the "cloud" might suggest links to the video artist Nam June Paik, or the photographer Diane Arbus. Every page on this site presents useful and provocative connections between artists whose work suggests a relationship, either because of direct personal influences or shared thematic concerns. From the Diane Arbus page, the cloud might lead you to the beat photographs of Robert Frank, or to the horror-tinged music of Danny Elfman. Along with the "cloud," each page has a comprehensive list of Related Artists, as well as lists of relevant artistic Movements and thematic Keywords. Links throughout the site to definitive online resources help to provide depth and context.
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  thanks to dublog

This is a site that you can wander around in and never be seen again. I checked out one of my favorite artist couples and found a website about them I didn't know about.

This is their page at art and culture:

Charles and Ray Eames

And the new website (for me):

Eames Office

The Eames Office is a family business dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending the work of Charles and Ray Eames. We feel that all three of those dimensions are important to keeping the office useful and vital. We believe that all of Charles and Ray's work was the result of a way of looking at the world--a design philosophy and process that is worth sharing in many different dimensions. We also believe that creating wholly new works is as consistent with that philosophy as restoring and distributing classic ones.