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Instructional Video3:08
The Art Assignment

How to Visit an Art Museum | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
In which we go to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and give you some pointers on how to visit an art museum. Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience. What are your museum tricks...
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Instructional Video1:27
Great Big Story

Tito's Bunker, From Cold War Relic to Modern Art Museum

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDiscover Tito's Bunker in Bosnia, a Cold War relic transformed into a vibrant art museum.
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Instructional Video9:03
The Art Assignment

Art Trip: Chicago | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
In which we explore our neighboring city of Chicago, film with two local artists, and see more art in one day than is probably advisable. Featuring: Nuevo Leon Bakery Dusek's XOCO Chicago Cultural Center Museum of Contemporary Art...
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Instructional Video15:00
TED Talks

TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood

12th - Higher Ed
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
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Instructional Video11:09
TED Talks

TED: An underwater art museum, teeming with life | Jason deCaires Taylor

12th - Higher Ed
For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse -- it's an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the...
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Instructional Video8:07
The Art Assignment

Art or Prank? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
A pair of glasses on an art gallery floor. Art? Or prank? What about a urinal? We compare recent pranks in art museums to art that uses some of the same strategies.
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Instructional Video10:41
The Art Assignment

Find Your Band | Bang on A Can | The Art Assignment

9th - 12th
This week we meet with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, an amazing contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. They give us the challenge to FIND YOUR...
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Instructional Video3:30
The Art Assignment

How to Visit an Art Museum | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
In which we go to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and give you some pointers on how to visit an art museum. Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience. What are your museum tricks...
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Instructional Video3:08
Curated Video

Saving Italy: A Conversation with Robert Edsel, Monuments Men Author: Part 2, "War in an Art Museum"

6th - 11th
Author, historian and founder and president of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, Robert M. Edsel sits down with president and CEO of The National WWII Museum, Nick Mueller, to discuss his newest book 'Saving...
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Instructional Video2:28
Sotheby's

Nikolai Fechin's Nude from the Palm Springs Art Museum

9th - 11th
Join Emily Kodama as she explores this sumptuous 'Nude' by Nikolai Fechin from the Important Russian Art sale on 25 November 2013. The work was previously in the collection of Hollywood actor George Montgomery and is being sold to...
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Instructional Video3:33
Curated Video

Why The Audain Art Museum is Built on 16-foot Legs 🌊 How Did They Build That? | Smithsonian Channel

9th - 11th
Host Jay Ellis explores the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, British Columbia. An awe-inspiring structure, built to defy the elements and protect the priceless artworks from wind, snow, and flooding. Despite function being the main...
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Instructional Video0:18
The March of Time

1948: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: WS Fine Arts Museum. WS People walking in gallery w/ statue FG, paintings in room BG. People looking at Rembrandt portrait painting of man with long beard. CU Metal tag 'Rembrandt Van Rijn'

12th - Higher Ed
MOT 1948: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: WS Fine Arts Museum. WS People walking in gallery w/ statue FG, paintings in room BG. People looking at Rembrandt portrait painting of man with long beard. CU Metal tag...
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Instructional Video3:00
Curated Video

Detroit: History, Museums, and Dining

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Join us as we take a detailed look into Detroit's past, its vibrant present, and the diverse experiences it offers for visitors of all interests. Whether you're a history buff, an art lover, a car enthusiast, or a foodie, Detroit has...
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Instructional Video5:38
The Art Assignment

How to Learn About Contemporary Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
Are you overwhelmed by the plethora of art and art-related activities going on in the world? We’re here to help! Here are some ideas for how to learn about what’s going on in the world of contemporary art.
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Instructional Video5:43
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The history of museums - J. V. Maranto

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Museums have been a part of human history for over 2,000 years -- but they weren't always like the ones we visit today. J.V. Maranto uncovers the evolution of museums, from the first museum in 530 BC (curated by a princess) to PT...
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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.
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Instructional Video16:33
TED Talks

TED: Weaving narratives in museum galleries | Thomas P. Campbell

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not...
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Instructional Video12:19
TED Talks

Ariana Curtis: Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary

12th - Higher Ed
Who deserves to be in a museum? For too long, the answer has been "the extraordinary" -- those aspirational historymakers who inspire us with their successes. But those stories are limiting, says museum curator Ariana Curtis. In a...
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Instructional Video13:01
TED Talks

TED: Why museums are returning cultural treasures | Chip Colwell

12th - Higher Ed
Archaeologist and curator Chip Colwell collects artifacts for his museum, but he also returns them to where they came from. In a thought-provoking talk, he shares how some museums are confronting their legacies of stealing spiritual...
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Instructional Video18:11
TED Talks

Treat design as art - Paola Antonelli

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design --...
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Instructional Video10:21
TED Talks

TED: Why art thrives at Burning Man | Nora Atkinson

12th - Higher Ed
Craft curator Nora Atkinson takes us on a trip to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to see the beautifully designed and participatory art of Burning Man, revealing how she discovered there what's often missing from museums: curiosity and...
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Instructional Video5:02
TED Talks

TED: Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums? | Jim Chuchu

12th - Higher Ed
African artifacts shown in museums worldwide are often not borrowed, but stolen -- and TED Fellow Jim Chuchu is on a mission to get them back. Learn the sordid history behind how many of the collections in the West came to be, Chuchu's...
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Instructional Video12:52
TED Talks

TED: Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar

12th - Higher Ed
Artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past while speaking to the diversity and advances of the present. In an unforgettable live workshop, Kaphar takes a brush full of white paint to a...
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Instructional Video2:51
Curated Video

Is the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?

12th - Higher Ed
For the past 200 years, the gallery has been the home of new and cutting-edge art, a place where the art community can come together and share new ideas. In the era of the internet, however, you can view remarkable art from the comfort...

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