Research Guides: #Art, Art History, & Art Appreciation: News & Media

Podcasts

Raw Material
Raw Material is an arts and culture podcast from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Each season focuses on a different topic, featuring voices of artists working in all media and exploring the inspiration and stories behind modern and contemporary art.
ArtCurious
Think art history is boring? Think again. It's weird, funny, mysterious, enthralling, and liberating. Join us as we cover the strangest stories in art.
The Modern Art Notes Podcast
The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators.
Last Seen
It remains the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: 13 artworks stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Twenty-eight years later, not a single piece in a haul worth half a billion dollars has surfaced. The art, and the thieves who made off with it, remain at large. With first-ever interviews, unprecedented access, and more than a year of investigative reporting, "Last Seen" takes us into the biggest unsolved art heist in history. A joint production from WBUR and The Boston Globe.

View Art Online

Google Arts & Culture
A collaborative project of Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries to include over 30,000 works of art from sculpture to architecture and drawings, all in one page.
Getty Search Gateway
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Visual resource collections openly available through LUNA Commons and other sources
CDL Digital Special Collections maintains this page of 19 collections comprising over 30,100 images, as part of the UC Shared Images program.
Web Gallery of Art
Searchable database of European fine arts and architecture (8th-19th centuries), currently containing over 44,300 reproductions. Includes artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, & period music.
Art UK
Art by British painters, both modern and historical. Search or browse by theme, period, style, or other criteria.
Yale University Art Gallery
Filter by geography, culture, and date, most notably, to browse the collection. Check the box to only show items with an image.

Virtual Tours

Beyond just virtual exhibits and digitized copies of the museum's collections, these tours actually give you a sense of walking around the museum -- whether as pre-recorded video or an interactive virtual environment.

The Louvre Virtual Tours
The British Museum
Google Streetview-style
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Google Streetview-style
Rijksmuseum
Google Streetview-style
Salvador Dali Museum Virtual Tour
Van Gogh Museum 4K Tour
YouTube playlist (7 videos total)

Learn About Art

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Use this timeline from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to learn about art in different geographical regions and time periods.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Mnemosyne Atlas
The last project of the German Jewish “cultural scientist” Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929), the Mnemosyne Atlas is an unfinished attempt to map the pathways that give art history and cosmography their pathos-laden meanings. Warburg thought this visual, metaphoric encyclopedia, with its constellations of symbolic images, would animate the viewer’s memory, imagination, and understanding of what he called “the afterlife of antiquity.”
Art & Artist Files in the Smithsonian Libraries
IWA: Islamic World of Art
Magazine on the arts of the Islamic world