The MCA's website is clean. Though there is nothing flashy about the website I think it looks contemporary and design-y, maybe it is because of the black/white/grey scheme, the sans serif fonts, the minimal blocks of text and information... I'm a little unsure of where my perception of graphic design-y stems from or why I feel that graphic design-y conveys a contemporary feeling.
What interests me is the feeling of this website in comparison with the website of the Art Institute of Chicago. These websites portray two very different identities. While the AIC's site has contemporary qualities to it, I feel that the cleanliness of the MCA's site portrays a freshness that is in-line with the idea of what a contemporary art museum should be, rife with fresh ideas.
I think the MCA's website is well laid out and I appreciate the simplicity of the site given how much information is actually on the site. I think the double navigation bars at the top of the page are great for creating clear and clean organization. I also appreciate that events and items of information are conveyed primarily with an image (see for example, the exhibitions page in which each exhibition is categorized with a med size photo and a small caption at the bottom). This is a little bit of a contrast from AIC's website in which there are many arbitrary photos that are almost like a decoration to the word content of the page.
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