ART
Art School: PBS Learning Media - A web video series that introduces contemporary artists who discuss their careers and intentions, then demonstrate hands-on techniques or concepts. Art School provides resources for learning how to draw comic strips, create animations, and much more. Engage with contemporary art and discover new ideas for creativity from a variety of professional artists through this fun and engaging series.
The Art Assignment (PBS) - A PBS Digital Studios production that takes you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete. Subscribe to The Art Assignment on YouTube: youtube.com/theartassignment.
Art 21: Art in the 21st Century (PBS) - video series on working artists. Art21 is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.
Art School: PBS Learning Media - a web video series that introduces contemporary artists who discuss their careers and intentions, then demonstrate hands-on techniques or concepts. Art School provides resources for learning how to draw comic strips, create animations, and much more. Engage with contemporary art and discover new ideas for creativity from a variety of professional artists through this fun and engaging series.
The Art Assignment (PBS) - A weekly PBS Digital Studios production that takes you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete. For more, subscribe to The Art Assignment on YouTube: youtube.com/theartassignment.
Google Arts & Culture - So much to see! Try the “Explore” button, where you can use the Art Camera to zoom into famous master paintings, experience culture in 360 degrees, and tour the world’s greatest museums and other landmarks using “Street View”. Or choose categories to discover the most well-known artists and masterworks in history.
Google Art Project - Zoom into the finest details on the most famous artworks in the world.
Arts & Culture Experiments - Try out experiments at the crossroads of art and technology, created by artists and creative coders with Google Arts & Culture (Some require VR headsets and Steam)
Google Arts & Culture (Chrome Extension) - Make the site your homepage, and have a new masterwork fill your screen every day.
Art Project - New Tab (Chrome Extension) - Display random masterpieces from Google Cultural Institute in your every new tab
ART MUSEUMS
Explore from home.
ART MAGAZINES & Organizations
Additional videos
ON NETFLIX
Abstract: The Art of Design (2 seasons)
Tales by Light (3 seasons) - Photographers and filmmakers travel the world capturing indelible images of people, places, and creatures from new, previously unseen angles.
Miss Hokusai - An animated motion picture - Herself a talented artist, O-Ei works with her father, Tetsuo, later known as Hokusai, on the woodblock prints that would make Edo famous worldwide
ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
If your family already has a membership with Amazon Prime, there are so many movies and shows on art that are available that it’s impossible to list them all. Here are a few good starting points:
Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace (A fantastic contemporary portrait artist and a great documentary)
Brushstrokes: Every Picture Tells a Story (a series of half-hour shows each focusing on a single famous painting)
Museum Access: Season 1: Episode 3: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum Access: Season 2: Episode 10: The Phillips Collection
Renaissance Unchained (16+)
Art & Copy (a movie about graphic designers)
HOOPLA
Members of the Burlington Public Library have access to Hoopla, an ebook and streaming service.
Loving Vincent is a wonderful animated movie comprised of thousands of actual paintings (hand-painted in the style of Van Gogh!). The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.