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The following is a list of interesting, unusual, and sometimes downright weird websites about art and related topics. Enjoy your exploration.  Cool stuff to be found.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has images, a guide to the collection, schedule of exhibits and other links.

The Contemporary Arts Museum shows exhibits featuring late 20th century artists and their works. Installations, Performance Art, and Video are just a few of the areas featured at the CAM.

The Menil Collection is free and open to the public. The work featured here is from prehistory through medieval and modern. There is a fine collection of Surrealist master works with frequent special exhibits of work by artists from the past and the present.

Glass Tire Texas visual art online.  Reviews of current exhibitions in Texas.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, A new museum dedicated to fine crafts: jewelry, fibers, ceramics, and othe forms.

Houston Museum of Printing History, This museum shows some of the earliest means of printed communications through the beginnings of the printing press.

Houston Museum of Natural Science, At HMNS, you can see replicas of cave art, relics of Egypt and artifacts from native cultures of the Americas.

Houston Center for Photography, The Center for Photography features contemorary photographers and offers workshops and lectures.

American Funeral Museum, A fun small museum that addresses the traditions of burial through history. 

The Orange Show This site includes information about The Orange Show, the Beer Can House, The Art Car Parade, and other Folk Art sites in Houston

UH Blaffer Gallery UH Blaffer Gallery brings in touring exhibits and hosts UH undergraduate and graduate shows.

HCC Central Gallery HCC Central features a virtual tour of gallery shows and an archive of past events

HCC Northline Gallery This gallery has changing exhibits of locally known artists

L.A. County Museum of Art LACMA is an excellent museum and features many works found in our texts.

Kimbell Museum - Ft. Worth Very Fine Museum that brings in major travelling exhibits.  Excellent small permanent collection. 

San Antonio Museum of Art An excellent museum created in an old Pearl Brewery

Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the most important major museums in the world many works shown in our texts are from MMA.

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Comparable in scale to the Met.  Excellent source for asian art. 

Art Institute of Chicago Excellent museum contains fine collections of impressionist and post impressionist art.

MOMA Museum of Modern Art in New York City.  Highly regarded collection of work from the mid 1800's to the present.

Virtual Parthenon  Virtual Parthenon from the Columbia University Art Library. 360 degree views of the Parthenon and sites in Athens, Greece. Compares the original Parthenon with the replica in Nashville, Tennessee.

Spark Art Site from KQED Public Television in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay

Chezmaya Website Make It Dance: Turn the boxes on the right on or off or combine them. Some of the effects are bizarre depending on how fast you move the cursor. Move the cursor and watch. It's cool, addicting. You won't want to stop. Keep the sound on.

More sites to be added.