There's a reverence that surrounds the world of high art, but now the internet is out to undermine it. I'm no Picasso, but I can, it seems, be Jackson Pollock, at www.jacksonpollock.org , which gives you a clear canvas on which you can hurl your Pollock-like blobs of paint. If, having created your modern masterpiece, you want to know more about the movements that created it, then there are few finer places to start than the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

While there are many worthy, wordy sites on art history, no one yet seems to have committed them to video. I did, though, stumble across www.youtube.com/user/kent88keys the YouTube homepage of the New York-based composer Kent Webb, whose guided tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, set to his own music, is worth six minutes of anybody's day. Another perspective on the same museum is at tinyurl.com/4q3own.

So what are all the artists doing if they're not teaching? It seems that they are busy creating things. www.videoart.net is a huge repository of artistic endeavour in video, particularly strong on experimental techniques and performance. A piece called 60 Hours of Sleep caught my attention, but there are dozens of nuggets there if you've got the patience to pan for them.

Away from the Western tradition, ancient art has its day in a short video introduction to the Australian Aboriginal tradition at tinyurl.com/469wfe. It sounds like it is narrated by a young Germaine Greer, and offers a neatly potted overview of a visual language that has survived thousands of years unchanged. There's a purely visual selection of Aboriginal art at tinyurl.com/5gtrfk and if it doesn't bring a smile of appreciation to your face, you have no soul.

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