Free Art & Art History Courses

• Aes­thet­ics & the Phi­los­o­phy of Art - Free Online Video — James Grant, Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty
• Art Through Time: A Glob­al View — Free Online Video — Annen­berg Media
• Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy — Free Online Course —  Dan Armen­dariz, Har­vard
• Effec­tive Fundrais­ing and Lead­er­ship in Arts and Cul­ture — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Uni­ver­si­ty of Leeds
• Euro­pean Paint­ings: From Leonar­do to Rem­brandt to Goya — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Uni­ver­si­dad Car­los III de Madrid
• Fash­ion as Design — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Muse­um of Mod­ern Art
• Foun­da­tions of Amer­i­can Cyber-Cul­­ture — Free Online Video — UC Berke­ley
• In the Stu­dio: Post­war Abstract Paint­ing — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Muse­um of Mod­ern Art
• Inten­tion­al Pub­lic Dis­rup­tions: Art, Respon­si­bil­i­ty, and Ped­a­gogy — Free Online Video —  Stephen Car­pen­ter II and Lawrence Susskind, MIT
• Intro­duc­tion to Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy — Free Online Course — Marc Lev­oy, Stanford/Google
• Intro­duc­tion to Visu­al Design - Free Online Course — Carnegie Mel­lon
• Intro­duc­tion to Visu­al Think­ing — Free Online Video — John McNa­ma­ra, UC Berke­ley
• Islam­ic Cal­lig­ra­phy: An Intro­duc­tion to the Art of Hand­writ­ing — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Uni­ver­si­ty of Malaya 
• Ital­ian Renais­sance — Free Online Course — Dr. Vida Hull, East Ten­nessee State Uni­ver­si­ty
• Ital­ic Cal­lig­ra­phy & Hand­writ­ing — Free Online Course — Lloyd Reynolds, Reed Col­lege
• Let This Be a Les­son: Heroes, Hero­ines & Nar­ra­tive in Paint­ings at Yale — Free Online Video — John Walsh, Yale
• Mod­ern Art & Ideas — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Muse­um of Mod­ern Art
• Pho­tog­ra­phy Lec­tures from the School of Visu­al Arts (SVA) — Free Online Lec­tures
• See­ing Through Pho­tographs — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Muse­um of Mod­ern Art
• Sex­ing the Can­vas: Art and Gen­der — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne
• SmARThis­to­ry Video Lec­tures — Free Online Video/Audio — Beth Har­ris, MoMA & Steven Zuck­er, Pratt Insti­tute
• Teach­ing Crit­i­cal Think­ing through Art with the Nation­al Gallery of Art — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) 
• The Ele­ments of Draw­ing — Free Online Course — Stephen Far­thing, Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty
• What Is Con­tem­po­rary Art? — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Muse­um of Mod­ern Art
• Words Spun Out of Images: Visu­al and Lit­er­ary Cul­ture in Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry Japan — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Tokyo

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