Crash course

UbuWeb.com offers an online repository for the arts | Arsenio Orteza

In the 1960s, evangelicals like Francis Schaeffer and Hans Rookmaaker began calling for rapprochement between evangelical Christianity and the arts. The rift was deep and wide, but now the internet has made bridging that gap easier. No website provides a more efficient crash course in artistic arcana than UbuWeb.com.

UbuWeb was, according to its FAQ page, founded "as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry." It has gone on to encompass "all forms of the avant-garde and beyond." The "beyond" is important. On UbuWeb one can examine, usually in more media than one, not only the aesthetically and morally dubious (Allen Ginsberg, for example) but also artists who defy categorization.