Art Favorites

2010-2011

Fortunately we have access to visit museums and exhibits around the world with the Internet ~

http://www.metmuseum.org/ ~ Official site of New York's most famous art museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This museum is truly a national treasure ~ everything from antiquities to modern art and the most recognizable names in the art world are represented at this museum. (if traveling to NYC -this is must see!)

http://www.artsbma.org/ ~ Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama. Keeps you up to date on shows and current exhibits.

http://www.moma.org/ ~ Official website of Museum Of Modern Art, New York City. This site offers many visuals as well as an online arts writing and art criticism activities.

http://www.guggenheim.org/ ~ Official website of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. See what is new and check out the gallery.

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en ~ Official website of the Louvre in Paris, France. This is where Leonardo DaVinci's, Mona Lisa is displayed.

http://www.nga.gov/ ~ The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. This site carries our nations treasures in the visual arts. Check out the virtual tours of the Alexander Calder exhibit.

http://www.pp.iij4u.or.jp/~murai/ ~ This is an incredible site that lists over 5000 museums from around the world that are internet accessible for classroom use. (must download the English version for access.)

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html ~ This site is an incredible art history site, it is maintained and updated regularly.

http://www.hsvmuseum.org/ ~ Keep up to date with Huntsville Museum of Art.

http://www.getty.edu/art/ ~ A wonderful resource for the extensive art collection of J. Paul Getty.

Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner

	The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
	The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
	The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
	The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
	The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
	The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
	The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
	The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
	The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
	The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications.

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