Art Toolbox

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Leading Arts-centric Cities (U.S)

• New York City, NY
• Los Angeles, CA
• Santa Fe, NM
• Washington, DC
• Chicago, IL
• San Francisco, CA
• Houston, TX

Major U.S. Museums (listed by number of visitors)

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Guggenheim Museum, New York City
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• LACMA, Los Angeles
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Major International Museums (listed by number of visitors)

• Louvre, Paris
• British Museum, London
• Tate Modern, London
• National Gallery, London
• Vatican Museums, Vatican City
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Musee D’Orsay, Paris
• Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
• Museo del Prado, Madrid
• Guggenheim, Bilbao
• Van Gogh Museum. Amsterdam
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Notable Smaller U.S. Museums

• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
• Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington, DC
• Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY
• Storm King Art Center
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Clyfford Still Museum, Denver
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
• Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
• New Museum, New York, NY
• Frick Collection, New York, NY
• Yale University Art Gallery, Hartford, CT

Notable Smaller International Museums

• Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
• Musee de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
• Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
• Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
• Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin – Hamburger Bahnhof
• Beyeler Museum, Basel, Switzerland
• MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gallery Districts (US cities)

• New York City: Chelsea, 57th Street, Upper East Side and Madison Avenue, SoHo, TriBeCa, and Dumbo, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
• Los Angeles, CA:  Gallery Row, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles
• Santa Fe, NM: http://www.visitcanyonroad.com/
• Chicago, IL:  West Loop, River North Gallery District, Near North Side, Chicago
• Kansas City, MO: Crossroads.
• Miami, FL: Wynwood Art District
• Philadelphia, PA: Old City District
• Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Cultural District

Major Canadian Galleries

• National Gallery of Canada – http://www.gallery.ca/en/
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musee de Beaux-Arts – http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/index.html
• Art Gallery of Ontario – http://www.ago.net
• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia – http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/landing/default.aspx
• The Rooms – http://www.therooms.ca/artgallery/
• McMichael Gallery – http://www.mcmichael.com
• Beaverbrook Art Gallery – http://beaverbrookartgallery.org/en
• Dunlop Gallery – http://www.dunlopartgallery.org/exhibitions/index.html
• Winnipeg Art Gallery – http://wag.ca
• Vancouver Art Gallery – http://vanartgallery.bc.ca/
• Calgary Art Gallery – http://www.contemporarycalgary.com

Notable International Art Galleries

• Gagosian Gallery (worldwide): http://www.gagosian.com/
• Emmanuel-Perrotin Gallery, Paris, Hong Kong: http://www.perrotin.com/
• Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, London, NY: http://www.hauserwirth.com/
• White Cube, London: http://whitecube.com/
• Pace Gallery, NY, London, Beijing:  http://www.pacegallery.com/
• Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin: http://www.maxhetzler.com/

Art Criticism – Newspapers & Magazines

• The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/)/ Richard Dorment
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog
• The Financial Times (Visual Arts)
• The Independent
• New York Times – Holland Cotter; Michael Kimmelman
• The New Republic – http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/jed-perl
• The Nation – Arthur C. Danto | The Nation
• New York Magazine/ Jerry Saltz (http://nymag.com/nymag/jerry-saltz/)
• New York Observer – The Gallerist/ http://galleristny.com/

Art Blogs

• Art Observed
• Contemporary Art Daily
• Edward Winkleman
• Gallery Beat
• I call it oranges
• NewCity Art
• Paddy Johnson’s Art Fag City
• Sharon Butler’s Two Coats of Paint
• Venetian Red

Art Critics on Twitter

• Lindsay Pollock – @lindsaypollock
• Paddy Johnson – @artfagcity
• Tyler Green - @TylerGreenDC
• Robin Cembalest – @ARTnewsmag
• Anonymous - @museumnerd

Artists Residencies & Retreats

• The Edward F. Albee Foundation
•  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace
•  National Park Service Residencies
• Vermont Studio Center
• Yaddo
• Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Online Graphic Design Programs

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Major Art Movements in Western Art since 1900

• Impressionism, c. 1860s–1920s
• Modernism, c. 1860s–ongoing
• Post-Impressionism, c. 1880s–1900s
• Fauvism, c. 1900–1910
• Cubism, c. 1906–1919
• Futurism, c. 1909–1916
• Der Blaue Reiter, c. 1911–1914
• Dada, c. 1916–1922
• De Stijl, c. 1917–1931
• German Expressionism, c. 1913–1930
• Constructivism 1920s
• Social Realism, c. 1920s–1960s
• Surrealism, c. 1920s–1960s
• Abstract expressionism, c. 1940s-ongoing
• Outsider art (Art brut) mid-1940s
• Color Field painting, c. 1940s-1950s
• Pop Art, c. 1955-
• Conceptual Art, c. 1960s
• Minimalism, c.1960s
• Installation art – 1970s – present
• Postmodern art, c. 1970 – present
• Video Art
• Neo-Expressionism
• Performance Art
• Photorealism, c. Late 1960s – early 1970s
• Young British Artists, c.1988
• Digital art, c. 1990 – present

A.I. Classic Bookshelf: Art Theory

• The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss
• Art in Theory 1900 – 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
• Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
• After Modern Art 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art)
• But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
• Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

A.I. Classic Bookshelf: Artist Biographies

• The Lives of the Great Artists by Vasari and Giorgio
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Penguin Classics) by Benvenuto Cellini and George Bull
• A Life of Picasso: Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson
• Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe (Library Edition) by Laurie Lisle
• To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock by Jeffrey Potter
• de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
• Night Studio: A Memoir Of Philip Guston by Musa Mayer
• Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
• POPism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett
• Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone

A.I. At The Movies: Feature Films About Artists

• Renoir – 2012 – directed by Gilles Bourdos
• Vincent & Theo – 1990 – directed by Robert Altman
• Lust for Life – 1956 – directed by Vincente Minnelli; George Cukor
• Rembrandt – 1936 – directed by Alexander Korda
• Basqiuat – 1996 – directed by Julian Schnabel
• Pollack – 2000 – directed by Ed Harris
• The Horse’s Mouth – 1958 – directed by Ronald Neame
• Frida –  2002 – directed by Julie Taymor
• The Pearl Earring – 2003 – directed Peter Webber

A.I. At The Movies: Art Documentaries

• Painters Painting Starring New York Art Scene and 1940-1970 (1972)
• Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century (2001)
• Alice Neel (2007)
• Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2008)
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2009)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
• Robert Motherwell & the New York School: Storming the Citadel (2010)
• Joan Mitchell: Portrait of An Abstract Painter (2010)
• Gerhard Richter Painting (2012)

Artist Interviews (youtube)

• Interview: Barnett Newman on “Onement”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6sU6ft9Xjg
• Interview: John Baldessari,  “This Not That” Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0YED3wpKdM
• The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes – Ep. 1 – The Mechanical Paradise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_8y0sQ0HME
• The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKtWwyQeG7E
• Romare Beardon’s Southern Sensibility: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFXKqQ5sQFk
• Interview: Sean Scully Examines His Evolution as an Artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g90aclyz5wg
• Interview: Paula Rego “Girls never get pregnant at the Slade School of Fine Art”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLxUoanKOA
• Interview: Fernando Botero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmfxQ_PZUYo
• Brice Marden on Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2I4oxEC3vU
• Highlights from Tony Award winning play: “RED” (Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yCV-v7kII

Leading U.S. Art Schools (Post Graduate Programs)

• Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• University of California–​Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
• Columbia University, New York, NY

Leading U.S. Art Schools (Undergraduate)

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, www.saic.edu
• California College for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, www.cca.edu
• Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, www.cia.edu
• Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC, www.corcoran.edu
• Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, www.kcai.edu
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, www.mica.edu
• Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, www.otis.edu
• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, www.pratt.edu
• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, www.risd.edu
• Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, www.temple.edu/tyler

Leading International Art Schools (Undergraduate)

• Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/
• Goldsmiths, University of London, London, U.K: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/
• Royal Academy, London, UK: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/raschools/
• Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK: http://www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk
• Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK: http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/
• University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland: http://www.taik.fi/en/
• Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway: http://www.khio.no/Engelsk/KHiO/

Online Art Supplies & Materials

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