Next up after the launch of the new Walker website is a new collections site, says senior new media specialist Nate Solas, which aims to make the art object the center of a cluster of contextual, engaging, and scholarly material.

Kickstriker, a satirical crowdfunding platform for military missions, critiques both KONY12-style activism and techno-utopianism—"the belief that every problem can be solved through the creative application of technology.”

From the International Center of Photography’s “dramatic” site to the Hirsshorn’s “of-the-moment” page to walkerart.org (“a dynamic blog and news resource rather than a stale well of information about ongoing exhibits”), Kyle Chayka picks his top 10 museum websites.

Work from net.art’s heyday can be a letdown when experienced through modern web browsers, writes Ben Fino-Radin. It’s like music: “Having the score or source code is not sufficient if it is not performed with the proper instrumentation.”