Visit The Morgan Library Online to See the Notes & Sketches of Famous Authors and Artists

The Morgan Library & Museum's online offerings include more than 30 collections of sketches, notes, and photographs from famous aut...

Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum

Six months ago I shared with you the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of nearly 400 free art history books . Now the Getty Museum...

390 Free Online Art History Books

Earlier this year I discovered that the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts free online art history texts . Today, I revisited that collection ...

Explore 5,400 New Artifacts In the Google Cultural Institute

The Google Cultural Institute is one of my favorite sites for students in history, geography, and art courses. The online exhibitions in th...

Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History

Art Babble is an excellent resource for art history students and teachers. I initially reviewed the site almost four years ago. Since then ...

Learn Art History With Smarthistory

One of the most popular posts of the last week was 372 Free Art History Books . Writing that post reminded me of a resource that I reviewed ...

372 Free Art History Books

Over the weekend I shared 25,000 free images of art that anyone can download. In that post I suggested that the images may be useful in art...

25,000 Images of Art That You Can Re-use for Free

The U.S. National Gallery of Art hosts more than 25,000 images of famous and not-so-famous works of art. Nearly all of the images can be do...

Check Out the New Look of the Google Art Project

The Google Art Project is one of my favorite offerings from Google that isn't a productivity tool. The Google Art Project features artw...

A Short Course on the Origins of Writing

Hieroglyphics? Sanskrit? What are the origins of written language? Some answers to that last question are presented in the TED Ed lesson Who...

Use Google+ Hangouts for a Virtual Scavenger Hunt in the Palace of Versailles

This is definitely one of the coolest uses of Google+ that I have seen in a long time. Hangout Quest is a Google+ game that allows you to g...

Explore the Google Cultural Institute

The Google Cultural Institute launched 42 new online historical exhibitions yesterday. The new exhibitions feature images, documents, and a...

Discover the World's Great Art on Art.sy

Art.sy is a new site that has indexed thousands of works of art that you can view online. Art.sy allows you to browse for artworks accordin...

Humanline - Thousands of Historic Images

Humanline is a nice resource for locating historic images. Humanline's galleries are arranged according to topic. You can browse the co...

7 Good Resources for Art Teachers and Students

I was recently contacted by a reader who wanted to know what I had in my archives for art lessons and digital art galleries that students ca...

Interactive Lessons About Art and Artists

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a great collection of multimedia, interactive features about art and artists. In these features...

The Arts and History - Part 2

Cover scan of ''The Americans'' 1969 2nd printing from Wikipedia Robert Frank is one of my favorite photographers - I discov...

The Arts and History - Part 1

The Topic: Is it Art? Many lesson series or units can begin with this question and push students at any grade level and in many different di...

Name that Famous Painting - Music Video

This morning on the Open Culture blog I came across a music video that might be of interest to art teachers. The band Hold Your Horses (ye...

Snag Learning Film of the Week - Curious About Cuba

This week's Snag Learning Film of the Week is Curious About Cuba: The Great Museums of Havana . Curious About Cuba is an hour long explo...