A Portal to Art

Continuing the discussion about how to show new media art...
the Whitney Museum (New York) has a section of their website, called the artport, set up as a 'virtual museum' of internet based art. the site is a grat resource and example of net.art being accepted and displayed in a museum context (even though the setting is not in a building). the site is very easy to navagate, and has the sections that one would expect from a webpage of a museum. there is an exhibitions page, which lets you browse previous online exhibitions of net.art. there is a resources page which is very comprehensive and contains links to organizations, project sites, festival listings, and written material about net.art and related subjects. the site has regular "shows" of web art, and even commissions artists to create original work to be displayed on the main page of the site. this is a great site that gives all the compresensive materials and history that a regular museum would, but is translated appropriately into web form.
even though the museum is based in New York, and the museum is titled the Whitney museum of American Art, the artport does not discriminate by local. There are works linked to made by people from around the world, which is fitting seeing that the internet really is an international concept.