Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
The Art Institute of Chicago's Art Access website, which links to selections of global art drawn from the institute's collection. Selections grouped by region and include lesson plans, activities, maps, and glossaries.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Ceramics
World Ceramics surveys ceramic artwork produced in a dozen different regions of the world. Extensive notes and illustrations accompany each piece, providing complete facts related to where it came from, how it was used, and how it was...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Religions in Art
At World Religions in Art, the world's major religions--Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism--serve as lenses through which artistic production is examined in terms of its subject matter, sources of inspiration, meaning,...
PBS
Pbs: How Art Made the World
A companion to the PBS series, How Art Made the World, this site shows the vital role art has played in the development of humanity beginning with very early civilizations. With text, images, and interviews with scholars, the site shows...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Incredible Artists
A massive collection of web links to artists categorized by art collections, cartoonists, black artists, female artists, male artists, ethnic artists, and native artists.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Arts of Korea: A Resource for Educators
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 118 pages describing numerous pieces of Korean art with images and lesson plans included.
Other
Musee Du Quai Branly: Indigenous Art of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania
Examine a collection of artifacts produced by indigenous cultures Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania in three-dimensions. Includes location maps and helpful commentary.
The British Museum
British Museum: Explore World Cultures
Begin exploring world cultures by choosing from a lengthy menu of cultural periods and cultural regions of the world.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Art Project
Art Project is a part of the Google Cultural Institute. View individual pieces of art in detail with the close-up tool. View collections from museums around the world, and even get 360 degree views of artworks within those museums....
Other
Jacques Edouard Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures
Berger's slide library is overflowing with information about art from around the world and from every period in history.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Cultural Museum
These activities will provide students an opportunity to reflect on their culture through art.
PBS
Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: Selected Works From World Cultures
Famous art enthusiast and author Sister Wendy, whose work for PBS and the BBC has won the acclaim of both critics and the public, takes a look at eighteen famous works from diverse world cultures in the collections of select American...
Other
Art Teacher on the Net: Art of Many Lands
Dozens of resources for lessons and projects based on the art of various cultures. Included are ideas for Africa, France, America, Russia, India, and Australia.
Other
The Courtald Institute of Art: Art and Architecture
Information and pictures of art and architecture from around the world, including artist's works, interviews, links to further information, and polls and discussions about art. Some features of the website require free registration.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Art Through Time: A Global View
Art Through Time: A Global View connects pieces of artwork from all over the world during different eras by examining common themes between them. The website is arranged to browse by theme, a specific piece of artwork, or to compare...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Magazine: Tattoos: The Ancient and Mysterious History
Follow this link to an article from "Smithsonian" magazine about a pervasive world cultural phenomenon--the art of tattooing. In the illustrated article, university researcher Joann Fletcher describes the significance of tattoos in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Historical Buddha
Among the founders of the world's major religions, the Buddha was the only teacher who did not claim to be other than an ordinary human being. Read about his life in this article.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Approaches to Art History: Art 1010
Art 1010 is a short series of fun (and funny) animations created for the Utah System of Higher Education that introduce the history of Western art. We have some from this collection - I found 5 and there may be more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Judaism, an Introduction
Judaism is a monotheistic religion that emerged with the Israelites in the Eastern Mediterranean. This short introductory article discusses the history of Judaism, its sacred texts, and Jewish law.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Principal Deities of Hinduism
There are many Hindu deities, some with great and others with limited powers. Most Hindus focus their devotion primarily on one of these, whom they regard as supreme. These deities are shown in a variety of art forms. This short article...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Roots of Hinduism
Hinduism is more than a religion. It is a culture, a way of life, and a code of behavior. This short article discusses the origins of Hinduism.
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)
E Pd Lp: Wilfredo Lam
Bibliography of the Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam.