New
York, New York – For artists, being included in a museum exhibition
generally
means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious
art
gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are
aiming to short-circuit that
exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much the same way
that other
hierarchical systems have been blown apart in the Internet age.
Beginning Monday
anyone with access to a video camera and a computer will have an
opportunity to
catch the eye of a Guggenheim curator and vie for a place in a video-art

Guggenheim in New York, the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the
Guggenheim Bilbao
in Spain and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.