Art museums in the United States share a common mission to educate many people — from families to teachers to researchers. But how do these museums use the World Wide Web to extend their educational mission? More specifically, what kinds of educational materials do U.S. art museums offer to online visitors, and how broadly available are such resources across the Web? This study set out to answer these questions and to tie the findings to the contextual model of museum learning. Conclusions are drawn about how museums from the sample fit within a technology adoption curve.

Several years after Alfred Jarry's Ubu legacy, Dada abruptly erupted. More than just an antagonistic de-evolution into baby talk and probably more fun than riding a hobby horse, Dada surfaced on the war-era wave with a fresh irrationality, contaminating the minds of a whole generation of artists much to the gathering's delight. Though Dada is now widely acknowledged as one of the major founts of modern avant-garde drama and the direct forerunner to Surrealism and other extensions of the Theatre of the Absurd, few if any dramatic surveys (or their glossaries) mention Dada at all. This hardly seems fair, after all, when it is Dada's petulant anarchism which allowed radical playwrights like Jean Genet to carry the torch to a higher level of social anarchism decades later. In part, then, this survey hopes to repair such an oversight.

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