The UK National Gallery presents the Art Detective website, with a mission to increase the visibility of public art collections in the United Kingdom by connecting "public art collections with specialists and members of the public." Before exploring the site's rich offerings, users should check out the Art Detective Collections Guide, accessible under the For Collections tab. This downloadable PDF...

The Indigenous Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) "includes works from the First Peoples of North America, namely First Nations, Inuit, and Metis" as well as "global Indigenous Art from Africa, Australia, and the Torres Strait Islands." The collection is a combination of traditional artifacts (such as an Anishinaabe thunderbird strap, dating from 1780, decorated with a porcupine quill...

Art History Pedagogy & Practice is an open access peer reviewed journal published by three partnering organizations: Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR), the Office of Library Services of the City University of New York; and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. This journal, which published its first issue in 2016, features a range of essays and articles about teaching art...

Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) is designed to be "a peer-populated platform for art history teachers." In other words, the site is authored by and for art history teachers with the express purpose of providing lesson plans, video instructions, and classroom and museum activities. Art educators are sure to find a huge range of content here; lessons plans elucidate everything from the Italian...

This Web exhibition from the Smithsonian Museum of African Art goes a long way towards explaining why the name Tuareg carried such mythic weight that Volkswagen chose it for their Sports Utility Vehicle. The Tuareg are a semi-nomadic people who once controlled the caravan trade routes across the Sahara Desert. The introductory page of the site explains that the Tuareg "have fascinated scholars and...

The Annenberg Foundation, that giant of media and philanthropy, has a wonderful website that aims to "advance the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge." Available here are videos, along with companion web and print materials, to improve the teaching methods of K-12 teachers. One of the latest series is "Art through Time: A Global...

How do we understand art? What is the relationship between art and the society from which it comes? These are but a few of the questions explored by this fine thirteen-part series produced by the Annenberg Media group. The motivating principle behind the series is to explore "diverse cultural perspectives on shared human experiences." Visitors will note that each program has a theme, and visitors...

While probably best known for their PBS documentary series Art in the Twenty First Century (mentioned in the June 16, 2017 Scout Report), Art21 has produced a variety of digital media, including a quarterly magazine, launched in 2007 as the Art21 Blog, which became the Art21 Magazine in 2013 in a shift from guest contributor posts to theme-centered quarterly issues. "Becoming An Artist" was...

A background in art history (or even an interest in it) is not required to enjoy ArtCurious, a podcast that tells stories of "the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history." Launched in 2016, ArtCurious is written, produced, and hosted by Jennifer Dasal, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Visitors to ArtCurious will find (as of...

The website for the National Museum of African Art, a Smithsonian museum, has chosen an interesting way to present the artwork of two artists from central Africa. Each artist has been asked to make a new piece in response to the other artist's work. The artist Antonio Ole is from Angola and Aime Mpane splits his time between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo. To go right to the...