Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Beyond Geometry: Modernism, Defined
The term modernism, as used in its artistic context, is defined.
Boston College
Boston College: 20th Century Architecture: Post Modernism
Photo gallery of the Georges Pompidou-Beaubourg Center in Paris. This building is a good example of post-modern architecture.
Other
Calouset Gulbenkian Museum
This is the home page of the Calouset Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum houses both the private collection of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, the founder, and a more recent collection of modern and contemporary art. Online,...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lacma Collections Online
This Los Angeles museum offers online exhibits of international art. Focuses include contemporary art and collections from Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens
"The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," features 84 photographs from the early years of photography in the 1850s through the 20th century. Included in the collection are works by early, modern, and...
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a companion to a 2006 exhibit of the works of American artist Andrew Wyeth, who died in January 2009. Features include a biography, overview of the exhibit, a five part podcast from a museum curator,...
The Wharton Group
Discover France: Art Periods: Cubism
A detailed history and explanation of the ideologies behind cubism. Lots of cubism links as well.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Masquerade Dress
A picture of the painting "The Masquerade Dress" with general information about it. Also includes detailed biographical info about the painter, Robert Henri.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: A Song for the Horse Nation
This exhibit from the National Museum of the American Indian explores the close relationship of Native Americans and their horses through art, pottery, textiles, artifacts, and photographs. It traces this relationship from the 15th...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Jackson Pollock
A NewsHour interview with Kirk Varnedoe, curator of painting at the Museum of Modern Art, on the life, work, and influence of Jackson Pollock. The interview revolves around Pollock's breakthrough drip paintings and is interspersed with...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Stencil Portraits
The Museum of Modern Art presents this classroom or group activity for making stencil portraits. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Maurice Sterne
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Maurice Sterne is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with modern painting and sculpting.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Dali: Painting and Film
This exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art explores the relationship between Salvador Dali's art and the role cinema played in his works. Click on "navigate" in the right upper corner to work your way through.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
The Museum of Modern Art offers a nice biography and a few images of this great Mexican photographer.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Philip C. Johnson
Biography highlights the career of Philip Johnson, founder of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and designer of many landmarks across the nation, including Pennzoil Place in Houston,...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art: Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of Middle East
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. These...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Artists in the Collection: Richard Avedon
Browse the museum's holdings of works by Avedon, which include several iconic portraits as well as some fashion photography. Also includes a biographical note, excerpted from Grove Art Online.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Brief History of Religion in Art
Before we began putting art into museums, art mostly served as the visual counterpart to religious stories. Are these theological paintings, sculptures, textiles and illuminations from centuries ago still relevant to us? Jeremiah Dickey...
University of Notre Dame
Snite Museum of Art
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame houses over 19,000 works of art from the antique through modern. The web site illustrates many works found on display and lists all works on display.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Ault
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Ault. Ault's paintings throughout his life consistently reflected a modernist theme. The site, in addition to the...
Other
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Located in Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,...
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Museum of San Francisco: Isadora Duncan 1878 1927
This site from the Museum of San Francisco provides a biography and family background of Isadora Duncan, with stories of the family's history and involvement in the arts, as well as Duncan's upbringing.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hagia Sophia
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this page provides an explanatory description of the 6th-century church Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul. Various images of the structure and links to other related topics are also included.