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Art Institute of Chicago (36 videos)

The Art Institute of Chicago is a world-renowned art museum housing one of the largest permanent collections in the United States. With more than 260,000 art works and artifacts, the museum has particularly strong holdings in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, early 20th-century European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, Japanese prints, and photography. More

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Art21 (199 videos)

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 "Art21-Art in the Twenty-First Century" now in its fifth season on PBS. More

Asian Art Museum (107 videos)

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. But we are more than just an art museum—we are your ticket to Asia. Here, you can travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries. The Asian Art Museum is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture. http://www.asianart.org More

Chipstone (67 videos)

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

Corning Museum of Glass (20 videos)

The Corning Museum of Glass explores the art, history, science, technology, and craft of glass. The Museum is home to the world's most comprehensive collection of glass, featuring 35 centuries of glass art and history. Visitors can also see daily live glass demonstrations and take part in hands-on glassworking experiences. Glass artists from around the world teach and demonstrate at The Corning Museum of Glass, and at the Museum’s glassmaking school, The Studio. More

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Detroit Institute of Arts (33 videos)

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), one of the premier art museums in the United States, is home to more than 60,000 works that comprise a multicultural survey of human creativity from ancient times through the 21st century. From the first van Gogh painting to enter a U.S. museum (Self-Portrait, 1887), to Diego Rivera's world-renowned Detroit Industry murals (1932–33), the DIA's collection is known for its quality, range, and depth. More

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Hammer Museum (39 videos)

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

High Museum of Art (31 videos)

The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With more than 12,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. More

Indianapolis Museum of Art (286 videos)

The Indianapolis Museum of Art 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. More

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KQED (36 videos)

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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (10 videos)

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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MCASD - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (14 videos)

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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MOCA Cleveland (14 videos)

Founded as The New Gallery in 1968, and then renamed the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in 1984, MOCA Cleveland continues to evolve in exciting new ways while producing original, compelling exhibitions. Over the past seven years, MOCA has become a major producer of exhibitions, which has fueled its reputation as a visionary leader. More

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (111 videos)

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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Museo Nacional del Prado (21 videos)

The Prado Museum is Spain’s premier art museum, founded by King Ferdinand VII in 1819 which has a collection of paintings from the 12th to the early 20th century. It houses the largest and most important collection of Velázquez, Goya and Rubens in the world. It includes several of the great masterpieces of European painting, including Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross, Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, El Greco’s Portrait of a Man with his Hand on his Chest, Velázquez’s Las Meninas, and Goya’s The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. More

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Museo Tamayo (6 videos)

Founded in 1981 in Mexico City, Museo Tamayo organizes groundbreaking exhibitions of international contemporary art and showcases its collection, which includes artworks from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection was initially formed by the museum’s founder, visual artist Rufino Tamayo, with his wife, Olga, with the intention of bringing art and ideas by international artists to their native Mexico. Since 1986, Museo Tamayo forms part of a national network of state-funded museums run by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. More

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (42 videos)

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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Museum of Arts & Design (38 videos)

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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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (9 videos)

The mission of the MCA is to be an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can directly experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time. More

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National Gallery of Art, Washington (89 videos)

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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National Portrait Gallery (26 videos)

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story. More

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Norman Rockwell Museum (6 videos)

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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Rubin Museum of Art (5 videos)

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

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (5 videos)

Founded in 1935, SFMOMA 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. More

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San Jose Museum of Art (21 videos)

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 (12 videos)

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum (36 videos)

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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Tang Museum at Skidmore College (21 videos)

The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is a uniquely interdisciplinary museum focusing largely on contemporary art. More

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The Frick Collection (13 videos)

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, visit the website at frick.org. More

The J. Paul Getty Museum (17 videos)

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 Jewish Museum, New York (6 videos)

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art (17 videos)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collection includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. In addition to its permanent collection, the Museum also presents dozens of special exhibitions each year, as well as a variety of events and programs, including films, lectures, concerts, guided tours, talks, and family programs. More

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (11 videos)

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of the visual arts and the varied cultures they represent. It is committed through its collections and programs to being a vital partner in the educational and cultural life of Kansas City and a preeminent institution both nationally and internationally. More

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The New York Public Library (9 videos)

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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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (19 videos)

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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Van Gogh Museum (10 videos)

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

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (55 videos)

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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