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 Techniques

https://www.mostcraft.com/watercolor-techniques-you-have-to-try/

Art Blogs

Art Critics on Twitter

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

Artists Residencies & Retreats

Art Educators Resources

National Art Education Association – Art Standards Toolbox – http://naeaapp.com/

Online Graphic Design Programs

Best Online Graphic Design Programs – http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/best-online-graphic-design-programs
Photoshop Tutorials – https://dharmacorpstore.com/en/best-free-tutorials-and-videos-to-learn-photoshop/

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

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/