Art & Art History (ARTA): Websites & Podcasts

The Internet provides access to a variety of information, but not all of it is accurate, reliable, current or unbiased. The websites listed below are maintained by reputable organizations and contain trustworthy information.

Museums -- United States

• Allentown Art Museum (Allentown, PA)
• Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Brandywine River Museum of Art (Chadds Ford, PA)
• Guggenheim Museum (New York City)
• Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC)
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA)
• J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
• Lost Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
  • Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  • MetPublications
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
• National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
• National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA)
• Selected Smithsonian Museums (Washington, DC)
  • African Art
  • American Art
  • Freer Gallery (Asian Art)
  • Portrait Gallery
• Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Museums -- Around the World

• British Museum (London, United Kingdom)
• Grand Egyptian Museum (Giza, Egypt)
• Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
• National Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
• Rembrandt House Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
• Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel (Vatican City, Rome, Italy)

U.S. Government Agencies

• Library of Congress Digital Collections -- Art & Architecture
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Additional Resources

• Artcyclopedia.com -- Search for images by artist name, title of work, or home location
• Artsy.net -- Over 26,000 high-resolution images of art and architecture, freely downloadable for educational use
• Europeana Collections -- Explore cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives
• Google Art Project -- View high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner organizations around the world
• The Greats -- This free online gallery contains carefully curated, socially engaged visual content, which is open to anyone to use or adapt non-commercially. The objective of this collection is to share and use art as a weapon for social change. The works are grouped together by theme, such as free speech, empowerment, LGBTQ rights, animal rights, environmental activism, and many more. 
• Theartstory.org -- Free online encyclopedia of artists, movements, and concepts

Each episode of The Lonely Palette discusses a different work of art from the collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Artists from different time periods and working in a variety of media are included, such as Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Katsushika Hokusai, and more.

The Sculptor's Funeral is hosted by Jason Arkles, a practicing sculptor working in Florence, Italy. Episodes are accompanied by an online gallery of images. Topics include Michelangelo's pietàs, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Parthenon, Anna Hyatt Huntington's sculpture garden, ancient Greek sculptors Praxiteles and Lysippos, and much more.