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.