Instructional Video18:28
TED Talks

Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA

12th - Higher Ed
When the Museum of Modern Art's senior curator of architecture and design announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, "all hell broke loose." In this far-ranging, entertaining, and deeply insightful talk, Paola Antonelli...
Instructional Video5:32
TED Talks

Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that.
Instructional Video11:33
Curated Video

How a Banana Sold for $150,000: Modern Art

9th - Higher Ed
Our cultural perspectives shape how we perceive art, including who we see as contributing to its most important movements. In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we’ll get to the truth behind the creation of modernism and bust the...
News Clip2:28
Curated Video

The MoMA honours Spanish director Pedro Almodóva

9th - Higher Ed
Part of the party – snapshots for the media. Spanish film director Pedro Almodóva was being celebrated at the the MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art – with a retrospective of his long career and a special screening of his latest film...
Instructional Video1:34
Curated Video

Visiting New York City's Museum of Modern Art aka MoMA

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - Learn about New York City's Museum of Modern Art -- including how to avoid the hefty admission fee -- in this Howcast travel video.
Instructional Video8:37
The Art Assignment

Art is Pretentious* | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
*and other things I learned about art from the internet.
Instructional Video15:25
The Art Assignment

Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara

9th - 12th
Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA.
Instructional Video4:14
NASA

Searching for Signs of Life on Mars

3rd - 11th
ESA's (The European Space Agency) ExoMars rover is headed to the red planet in 2020, on a mission to search for signs of past or present life. One of its primary tools in this endeavor is MOMA, the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer. MOMA is...
Instructional Video16:59
Curated Video

The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained

9th - Higher Ed
In 1639 Japan closed its borders and cut itself off from the outside world. Foreigners were expelled, Western culture was forbidden, and Entering or leaving Japan was punishable by Death. It would remain that way for over 200 years. It...
Instructional Video13:41
Curated Video

Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained

9th - Higher Ed
Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal symbol...
Instructional Video15:50
Curated Video

Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night: Great Art Explained

9th - Higher Ed
Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old. Just seven years later, he would be dead. It was really his last four years where he developed the style we would come to know...
News Clip3:37
Bloomberg

Design in Miniature: San Francisco MoMA

Higher Ed
April 7 -- The entire San Francisco MoMA - down to every piece of art - has been recreated in miniature. In this video museum employees explain how a piece of art is hung at the SF MoMA - from detailed miniatures to carefully...
News Clip2:02
Bloomberg

La pequeña botella diseñada para dar felicidad

Higher Ed
Apr.16-- Behind de Design es una serie de videos simples y concisos sobre el diseño de objetos de uso diario que no valoramos. Este episodio cuenta la historia de cómo un exmonje budista diseñó la botella de salsa de soja que vemos en...
News Clip0:43
Curated Video

Met Gala: Kardashian As Monroe, A Gilded Blake Lively

Higher Ed
Kim Kardashian spent nearly $5 million on her Met Gala dress, which was originally worn by Marilyn Monroe.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Anouk Kruithof | Subconscious Travelling

9th - 10th
Travel photographs, image circulation and obsolescence were on Anouk Kruithof's mind when she made 'Subconscious Travelling.' Hear Kruithof discuss the ideas behind this photographic installation, which began with her discovery of an...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bicycle Wheel' by Marcel Duchamp, 1951 | Mo Ma Education

9th - 10th
A MoMA educator discusses how she teaches 'Bicycle Wheel' by Marcel Duchamp, 1951.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Carolee Schneemann, 'Up to and Including Her Limits'

9th - 10th
Carolee Schneeman describes her piece Up to and Including Her Limits as being in discussion with Jackson Pollock. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Artists Experiment 2014: Mo Ma

9th - 10th
What happens when the museum becomes a studio and the visitor becomes a collaborator? Learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Andres Jaque: Cosmo | Young Architects Program 2015

9th - 10th
See how Andres Jaque and The Office for Political Innovation are redefining our relationship to water with COSMO, a 'movable artifact' made out of customized irrigation components. COSMO is this year's winner of The Young Architects...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ab Ex Ny: Mo Ma and Abstract Expressionism

9th - 10th
Take the online course Modern and Contemporary Art: 1945-1989 to find out what happens next or experiment with Abstract Expressionist painting techniques in the online course, Materials and Techniques of Postwar painting.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Shitao, Returning Home

9th - 10th
Met curator Joseph Scheier-Dolberg on journeying in Shitao's Returning Home, c. 1695. This gemlike work demonstrates both Shitao's mastery of the album format and his ability to innovate within it. Landscape scenes alternate with tightly...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Degas's Little Girl Practicing at the Bar

9th - 10th
Met curator Cora Michael on awkwardness in Edgar Degas's Little Girl Practicing at the Bar, c. 1878-80. [2:17]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cult Image of the God Ptah

9th - 10th
Met curator Diana Craig Patch on language without words in Cult Image of the God Ptah, dating from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, c. 945-600 B.C.E. [2:40]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Curtain of the Tabernacle

9th - 10th
Met curator Melanie Holcomb on the potency of images in Curtain of the Tabernacle, one of six illustrated leaves from the Postilla Litteralis (Literal Commentary) of Nicholas of Lyra, c. 1360-1380. [2:22]