A FEW QUICK NUMBERS: 6.6 million host computers hooked into the Net; 38,796 Web servers as of June, 40,000-plus by the beginning of the new year. If numbers are generally dull, these are not without a certain allure.
Which means that the art world, like everyone else, has been taking notice: museums and institutions have been going online, art magazines are starting to, even Christo and Jean Claude have a homepage; eventually Web pages will be works of art themselves (although not yet, mostly). What follows is the first installment of a regular rundown of our favorite places to visit on the Web.
Mark Van de Walle is a writer living in New York.