Online Art Resources

Here’s a selection of our art-related resources. Below you’ll find online classes, courseware, textbooks and more. Definitely a solid list of educational opportunities for enthusiasts, students and teachers. Enjoy!

Art

Online Classes

Art History: Ancient to Medieval
Foundations of American Cyber Culture
The Elements of Drawing
SmARThistory
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
Existentialism in Literature & Film
Filmmaker’s Master Class with Milos Forman
Holocaust in Film and Literature
Documentary Studies
Documentary Filmmaking with Ken Burns
Philosophy in Film and Other Media
Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking
Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre
The Art of Surviving the Entertainment World
MusicTheoryNet

Open CourseWare

MusicTheoryNet
Free music lessons

Textbooks & eBooks

Architecture
Architecture in Detail II
Sick Building Syndrome: in Public Buildings and Workplaces
The History of Painting
Sound Reasoning
Understanding Basic Music Theory

Videos

Artists’ Space
The Aspen Institute
BFI Channel
The Brooklyn Museum
FilmBuff
The Bob Dylan channel
The Museum of Modern Art
The Sundance Channel

Podcasts

Amazon Book Clips
Barnes & Noble: Meet the Writers
C-Span – After Words
Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac
Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
NPR Books
NPR Story of the Day
Random House Podcast
Shakespeare-upon-iPod
Simon Says
Slate Audio Book Club
The New York Times Book Review
The New Yorker: Fiction
The Poetic Voice
The Washington Post Book Review
The Writer’s Block
Times Online Book Podcasts
Word for Word
World Book Club
BBC: Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews
NPR Movies
Sundance Film Festival Podcasts
The Treatment
Art Institute of Chicago Musecast
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMa
MoMa Think Modern Lectures
National Museums Liverpool
Philadelphia Museum of Art
SFMOMA
The National Gallery Podcast
Shakespeare by Another Name