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The Cincinnati Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio), offers a comprehensive website exploring its current exhibitions as well as searching their collection database. Other content includes virtual tours, museum history, and teacher guides with...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: It All Adds Up to Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lorna Simpson creates evocative works that examine how combinations of pictures and texts create new meanings that do not exist in the images or words alone. This lesson plan explores the concepts she works with, including African...
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Broken Toyland: The Art of Valery Milovic

For Students 9th - 10th
Personal site of contemporary artist/illustrator Valery Milovic that also contains poetry, musings, and stories. Creative, intergrated site, developed around Milovic's thematic "Broken Toyland" universe.
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North Dakota Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website of the North Dakota Museum of Art. The museum focuses on contemporary art and art that shows the visual history of the region, including a focus on Native American art. Collections and exhibitions can be viewed...
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Library of Congress

Loc: On the Cutting Edge Exhibition Home

For Students 9th - 10th
A vast collection of contemporary Japanese prints done by women artists.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles Museum of Art: Bruce Nauman: Walk With Contrapposto

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of Bruce Nauman's art video Walk with Contrapposto. Includes a screenshot of the video.
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New Museum G:class

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Museum's global classroom (G:Class) connects high school students and teachers to contemporary art that explores global, cultural, and societal issues that affect their lives.
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Abstract Art: Contemporary Abstract Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover Contemporary Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Illusionism, and Lyrical Abstraction through artists that paint in these styles. Biographical information and visuals of artists work.
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Romare Bearden

For Students 9th - 10th
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art contains a summary of Bearden's life, some of his art, key ideas, discussion questions, and links to additional resources.
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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: David Hockney

For Students 9th - 10th
From the PBS series, American Masters, this is the featured essay on British pop artist, David Hockney.
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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the homepage for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. View online exhibitions and find out what's going on at the museum. Don't forget to check out the kids' space for arts activities.
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Nevada Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The collection of the Nevada Museum of Art emphasizes the themes of the environment and the West, in categories of historical survey, work ethic, the Great Basin, contemporary art, and the altered landscape photographs. Each category is...
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Modern Sculpture: Your Source for Contemporary Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on contemporary sculpture, painting, and installation art. View work from modern artists in the Bay Area. There is even extensive information on the process of bronze casting found in the "learn" section.
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New York Times

New York Times: Beauty and Humor (An Exhibition of the Work of Rudolf Stingel)

For Students 9th - 10th
In a narrated slideshow, art critic Roberta Smith discusses the work of Rudolf Stingel, whose large-scale works in a variety of media, including Styrofoam, were showcased in a cleverly interactive exhibit at the Whitney Museum of...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Janet Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's resource that shows links to Janet Fish's work, website, articles and other informative sites on this contemporary artist.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art History: Global Contemporary Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to contemporary art around the world, themes, types of modern art, conceptual art, performance art, famous modern artists. We should at least pull out the artists we have in our famous persons bank. Should be cross-checked...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia

For Students 9th - 10th
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
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Victor Vasarely Posters

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains images of posters from Victor Vasarely's famous artworks.
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Nmwa: Helen Frankenthaler/abstract Expressionist

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical profile of American female artist, Helen Frankenthaler.
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Paik: Robot People From Discovering Great Artists

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Your learners will be designing robots in this lesson plan inspired by artist Nam June Paik. The lesson plan gives two ideas. One is adapted to other students and requires a TV, VCR, and a camcorder.
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San Jose Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection has an emphasis is on contemporary art, with a focus on Bay Area artists. Exhibits include sculpture, photography, multi-media/high tech, and paintings.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Contemporary Artists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses Activotes to quiz students on contemporary artists.
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Smithsonian Institution

Freer | Sackler Galleries: Word Play (The Work of Contemporary Artist Xu Bing)

For Students 9th - 10th
Contemporary Chinese expatriate artist Xu Bing shares stories, sketches, and photographs of his work in association with a 2001 exhibition of his work at the Smithonson's Sackler Gallery. Word play and language are a focus of Bing's...
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Fondation Beyeler: Ornament and Abstraction

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a scholarly comparison of non-Western styles of ornamental art with modern and contemporary abstract works by Western artists.