ART 111 - Art Appreciation: Web Resources

Exploring the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history.

Rebuilding The Renaissance podcast will explore the development of the art, architecture, culture and history in Italy, from ancient Roman times through the Renaissance. Listeners will develop an understanding of Italy’s role in the development of Western civilization and an ability to appreciate and understand works of art in their historical context.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, roughly hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators. While the program is typically studio-based, it has taped live-audience episodes at nearly a dozen American art museums, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, in Art + Ideas, a podcast series in which he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work.

This series offers entertaining, informative discussions about the arts and events at the National Gallery of Art.

Through interviews with leading figures in the world of fine and decorative arts, we explore the hidden histories, the little-known facts, the intricacies, and the idiosyncrasies that breathe life and energy into antiques and works of art.

The Artist Project is an online series in which the Met give artists an opportunity to respond to its encyclopedic collection. Over the course of six seasons, The Artist Project will share the perspectives of one hundred and twenty artists with the public, telling us what they see when they look at The Met.

The human stories behind the art in the Tate collections.

Are you interested in learning more about art history? These YouTube videos are an introduction to the paintings in the British National Gallery's Collection, all in about 10 minutes or less.

Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

ArtxHistory is an education resource of commonly available images, videos, mini-lectures and scholarship of the decades which influenced or defined the mid-century through contemporary art. Most links are concise in content, of prevalent works of art in the early or mature stage of an artist's career, sourced from museum, academic, journalistic and for profit institutions.

More than 300 books held by the Getty Museum available to download for free.

Tools and support for work and study in art and cultural heritage

Over 200 books about modern and contemporary art available for
free download as PDF or ePub format.

This site pairs essays and works of art with
chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s
Collection.

Five decades of publications on art history available to read and download from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The history of art from modern art to the present.

At Smarthistory, the Center for Public Art History, we believe art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures. We believe that the brilliant histories of art belong to everyone, no matter their background.