This past spring, Lehman College began a first-time collaboration in electronic media with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York. The museum is developing a series of World Wide Websites it calls "magazines" to accompany exhibitions, and has asked Lehman to carry the Website on its Unix servers and to provide ongoing technical support for the project.

The first of the Guggenheim series was posted this past July by Bob Schneider of the Lehman Department of Mathematics, who is handling technical support for the project. It is devoted to a survey of the work of the contemporary German artist George Baselitz, on view at the museum over the summer. The presentation includes color reproductions of seven paintings and a sculpture from the artist's three-decade career. Accompanying them are texts of brief remarks by Baselitz himself, as well as by the curators and art historians who organized the show and produced its catalogue. A brief biographical sketch of the artist is also included. The Web address is http://guggenheim.lehman.cuny.edu/ baselitz.

Although other features of the Lehman-Guggenheim collaboration are still in formation, plans under discussion include having Lehman students, both in the Art and Computer Science departments and working under the supervision of David Gillison of the Art Department, assume a role in putting the Guggenheim's collection of 20th century art onto the Internet. In return, the Guggenheim would offer internship positions with stipends to Lehman students to work at the museum, in various departments, including Curatorial, Design, Education and Information Systems.