Art Institute of Chicago
Art21
Chipstone
Hammer Museum
Indianapolis Museum of Art
KQED
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MCASD - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum of Arts & Design
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Norman Rockwell Museum
Rubin Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Smarthistory
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Frick Collection
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Jewish Museum, New York
The New York Public Library
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Van Gogh Museum
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Spanning 40 centuries of creativity, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world's leading art museums. The recent opening of the Modern Wing has increased the size of the Art Institute by a third, making it the second largest encyclopedic art museum in the United States. Featuring works from around the globe in sparkling new presentations, the Art Institute of Chicago seeks to cultivate and extend the arts to Chicago, and the world. More

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Art21 (137 videos)

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Art21 is a non-profit organization that illuminates the creative process of today’s visual artists through the production of documentary films, interpretive media, and live programs that stimulate critical reflection as well as conversation. Art21 offers an independent, “behind-the-scenes” point of view on contemporary art and artists, producing historically relevant, primary source materials of the highest quality, exemplified by its Peabody Award-winning documentary series "Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century" now in its fifth season on PBS. More

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Chipstone (39 videos)

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The Chipstone Foundation was created by Stanley and Polly Stone with the purpose of housing their impressive decorative arts collection (which centered around early American furniture and historical prints, as well as seventeenth and eighteenth century British pottery), promoting decorative arts scholarship, and supporting significant projects and publications at other institutions. Following the Stone's death, the Foundation has redefined its aims so as to more fully contribute to the field, and several exciting new directions are now being pursued. More

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Hammer Museum (27 videos)

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The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California explores the capacity of art to enhance the full range of human experience. The Museum’s programming is based on the tenet that artists play a crucial role in all aspects of culture and society and its collections and exhibitions span the classic to the contemporary in art, architecture and design, with a special emphasis on new work. More

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The Indianapolis Museum of Art [1] serves the creative interests of its communities by fostering exploration of art, design, and the natural environment. The IMA promotes these interests through the collection, presentation, interpretation and conservation of its artistic, historic, and environmental assets. [1] http://www.imamuseum.org More

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KQED (28 videos)

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Gallery Crawl is a monthly snapshot of current activity in the San Francisco Bay Area's thriving gallery scene. Featuring interviews with artists, gallerists and curators, the program profiles the latest exhibitions and provides a glimpse into the curatorial philosophy of each space. More

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Since its inception in 1965, LACMA [1] has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography—and represents Los Angeles’ uniquely diverse population. Today, the museum features particularly strong collections of Asian, Latin American, European, and American art, as well as a new contemporary museum on its campus, BCAM. [1] http://www.lacma.org/ More

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Founded in 1941, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is a dynamic laboratory and forum for contemporary art and dialogue. The Museum’s collection includes more than 4,000 works of art created since 1950. In addition to presenting exhibitions by international contemporary artists, the Museum offers artist talks, performances, film screenings, and lectures at both its La Jolla and downtown San Diego locations. More

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The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world's finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Our mission is helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time. Visit us online at http://www.moma.org More

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Visit Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and travel through the history of art, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. From Bosch, Rembrandt and Van Gogh to Dalí and Dutch Design, there is something for everybody. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has it's own video channel ArtTube, http://arttube.boijmans.nl The museum shows some of Europe's greatest masterpieces. Together with the sensational temporary exhibitions, the restaurant with the sculpture garden and the beautiful 1930s architecture, they guarantee hours of enjoyment. More

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The Museum of Arts and Design collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the Museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted into works that enhance contemporary life. More

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The National Gallery of Art preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. More

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Norman Rockwell Museum, located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, holds the world’s largest and most significant collection of works by Norman Rockwell, including more than 700 paintings, drawings, and studies and an archive of more than 150,000 photographs, letters, and materials. Norman Rockwell Museum’s mission is to promote art appreciation, education, and engagement in visual communication through the art of Norman Rockwell and other outstanding illustrators. The Museum curates innovative exhibitions that explore Rockwell’s art and the art of illustration. More

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The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is a nonprofit cultural and educational institution dedicated to the art of the Himalayas. Its mission is to establish, present, preserve, and document a permanent collection that reflects the vitality, complexity, and historical significance of Himalayan art and to create exhibitions and programs designed to explore connections with other world cultures. RMA is committed to addressing a diverse audience—from connoisseurs and scholars to the general public and young children. More

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Founded in 1935, SFMOMA [1] was the first museum on the West Coast devoted to modern and contemporary art. From the outset, the museum has championed the most innovative and challenging art of its time, and we continue to exhibit and collect work by both modern masters and younger, less-established artists. [1] http://www.sfmoma.org/ More

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Established in 1969, the San Jose Museum of Art is a distinct voice in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. The Museum is recognized for its contemporary collection, which reflects the West Coast contextualized by national and international visual art. The collection exhibits the unique evolution of the institution from a small civic art gallery to a museum in the tenth largest city in the United States. More

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Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic substitute for the traditional art history text and as a resource for the museum visitor. In Smarthistory, we have aimed for reliable content that is entertaining and occasionally even playful. Our videos are spontaneous conversations about works of art where we are not afraid to disagree with each other or art history orthodoxy. We seek to model the experience we want our listeners to have—a willingness to encounter the unfamiliar and transform it in ways that make it meaningful to them. More

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum [1], the nation’s first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character, and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries. [1] http://americanart.si.edu/ More

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The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality. Several special exhibitions are scheduled annually, for more information, see frick.org/exhibitions [1]. [1] http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/index.htm More

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ArtBabble Partner Description The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of the highest quality. Here you will find videos about looking at art, art techniques, artists, conservation discoveries, and other behind-the-scenes stories. Welcome. More

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The preeminent museum in the United States devoted exclusively to 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture, The Jewish Museum, New York, collections comprise 27,000 items, ranging from archaeological artifacts to works by today's cutting-edge artists. Whether hundreds of years old or newly created, each object collected or exhibited by the Museum embodies an aspect of a truly universal story: at once ancient and modern, global and local, material and spiritual. More

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The New York Public Library [1] is an intrinsic part of the lives of New Yorkers, from toddlers to teens, young professionals to seniors, new readers to scholars. It has but one criterion for admission: curiosity. The library holds a wealth of unexpected sources of inspiration for artists and designers—from vintage valentines and textile patterns, to fabric samples and turn-of-the-century menus from around the world. [1] http://www.nypl.org/ More

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An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. Visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by experienced docents. More

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Opened in 1973, the Van Gogh Museum houses the world's largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The museum also shows an extensive collection of works by other 19th-century artists and has grown in recent decades into a more eclectic 'Museum of the 19th century'. Our mission is to make the life and work of Van Gogh and the art of his time accessible to as many people as possible in order to enrich and inspire them. More

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary visual art, performance, film/video and community engagement programs that celebrate the artistic and cultural diversity of the Bay Area as well as innovation and experimentation by national and international artists. More

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