I have several lists of links to sites that possibly could be suitable for my art review. To find them I open up to twenty tabs at a time. Look at them and close them again, saving the urls of sites that interest me.
Sometimes I get to a site that has music.
I hate it when that happens. Firstly because I’m usually listing to my own music. Secondly because it means that I’ve found a site I can’t use.
Not only because most website designers who know what they are doing know that you shouldn’t use music. Which means that the site will probably be horrible. But also because it’s quite possible that some of my readers are at a work environment and a site with music could alert there bosses to the fact that they are not doing there jobs.

So when music starts my first task is to kill that tab as soon as possible. Usually it’s the last tab I opened. But not always. Not knowing what they’re doing often means that it is a very heavy, slow loading site. One that I opened earlier. So I look for the tell tail signs of the music player. But lots of times the player is so far down the page that I can’t see it at a glance.
In that case I’ll start with closing the least attractive sites and go on until the music stops.
But in this case I was left with a site that I obviously wanted to review.

This site breaks every rule in my book.
It has music. Although the music isn’t to bad, actually it’s even quite nice, art site designers should know better.
Even worse. This site doesn’t work in Firefox. From my statistics I know that about one third of my visitors use Firefox and I imagine they also don’t like being told which browser to use.
Opening the site with IE I get a warning that the site is trying to open a pop-up. After turning that alarm of I find that it isn’t something harmful. But still the designer should know better. (After closing my pop-up guard the site does work in Firefox.)
And last but not least. For every thumbnail you click a pop-up is opened.

But having said all that, I must say that this is one of the most best art sites I’ve seen in a long time.
Although I don’t like his photographs very much, his painting and drawing are beautiful. They speak of darkness and solitude. The site has a fragile quality to it that matches the artwork and the music enhances the feeling.
(Move your mouse over the “credits” tab and visit the creator of the music.)

And, oh yeah. The biography of the artist is in Russian. Or Polish, or something.
Visit Zdzislaw Beksinski’s site on your own discretion.

(I’m posting this site in my Best art on the web list.)