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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