Internet Exercises


1			The site of the Los Angeles Conservancy (http://www.modcom.org/) offers a host of interesting information about the city and includes links to pages on architecture, tourism, preservation, and more. View the "L.A. in Pictures" site (http://members.tripod.com/daveofcali/laarchitecture.html) to see examples of the L.A. Look. What essential elements are missing from this site?




2			Explore several California museums at the following websites: http://www.getty.edu/about/; http://www.sfmoma.org/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/; and http://www.sjmusart.org/ To compare these museums, visit their links to exhibitions, events, stores, and news items. What can you determine about the focus of their collections, their size, their interaction with the city in which each is located, and their public programs?




3			The Altamont Raceway tragedy is analyzed in a review of the film Gimme Shelter at http://www.poppolitics.com/archives/2000/11/Life-and-Death-at-Altamount. What is the reviewer's attitude toward the era, the concert, and the violence? What about the event was positive? What conclusion does the writer draw from the tragedy?