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Study art history and art appreciation at the Barnes! We’re now offering a full array of online classes, with new ones rolling out every month. Need-based scholarships are available.
The Barnes from Home
Stay connected with the Barnes through our many online resources, detailed here.
New! Summer Online Classes
Learn about art and the Barnes collection from home with online courses.
#BarnesRollCall: Live Talks with Artists and Performers
We can't gather at the Barnes right now, so we're bringing live performances and conversations to you on Instagram!
Barnes from Home: Spotify Playlist
Enjoy staff-selected songs that bring masterpieces to mind.
Barnes from Home: Family Art Time
Kids and their adults can create art and learn from artists and objects in the Barnes collection.
Online Class: Protest, Politics, and the Public Monument
Explore controversial public monuments and the politics of race across American history.
Contemporary Art and Weaving with Diedrick Brackens and Erin M. Riley
Join us for an online conversation with two textile artists live from their studios, followed by a Q&A. Moderated by Barnes associate curator Cindy Kang.
Online Class: Decadence Through the Ages
In this team-taught course, we trace the visual representations of excess throughout art history.
The Barnes-de Mazia Certificate Program
This special track offers an immersion in the Barnes method and an introduction to other interpretive approaches.
Online Class: Collection Concentration: Dawn of Modernism in Europe and the US
This class explores the meaning of “modernism” and examines the relationship between painting, literature, and other media from the modern era.
Online Class: Duchamp and Dada
Learn how Marcel Duchamp and his contemporaries questioned the very nature of art and its function in modern society.
Online Class:
The Traditions of Art
Study the ways in which artists draw upon earlier artistic traditions, focusing on the development of modern art in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Online Class: The Gothic Cathedral
Explore famous cathedrals constructed in Europe from the 12th to 16th centuries, then take a close look at Gothic Revival buildings throughout Philadelphia.
Online Class: European Modernism and the Arts of Africa
What drew European artists and thinkers to African art? This class will confront challenging issues of identity, race, otherness, and supremacy head-on.
Online Class: Exploring the Barnes Collection: A Focus on the Body
Study the human body's representation across art history in this team-taught course, part of a new series focusing on specific themes in the collection.
Online Class: The Art of Byzantium: A Gold-Saturated World
Dive into the visual culture of the Byzantine Empire, which was influenced by nearly a millennium of religious, social, and political upheaval.
Online Class: Decoding Barnes’s Ensembles
Get a better understanding of why Dr. Albert Barnes arranged his collection in such an unconventional way.
Online Class: Picasso
Immerse yourself in Picasso’s work, tracing key moments in his oeuvre and highlighting his impact on his contemporaries.
Online Class: How Art History is Flawed: Inverting the Center of 20th-Century Art
How can art historians, museums, collectors, and critics include artists like Elijah Pierce in a fuller and more expansive story of American art?
Online Class: Matisse: Painting in Nice and Beyond
An in-depth look at art Matisse made in the South of France, where he lived and worked from 1917 to his death in 1954.
Online Class: The Portrait: Renaissance to Modern
This course traces the changing nature of portraits across art history, including new roles and artistic approaches.
Online Class: Modern Painting Techniques in the Barnes Collection
Explore the materials and approaches that made impressionism, post-impressionism, fauvism, and early modernism such groundbreaking movements.
Online Class: Reimagining Ancient Egypt: From Egyptomania to Pop Culture
Explore how Ancient Egypt has been reimagined in modern visual culture, from the Egyptomania of the early 1900s to today’s Hollywood depictions.
Online Class: Degas
This course takes you through Degas’s life and career, which produced some of the most beloved—and controversial—artworks of the late 19th century.
2020 Barnes Art Ball
Join us this fall for a celebration of the creative voice within us all, inspired by the landmark exhibition Elijah Pierce’s America.
Horticulture Certificate Program
Our three-year certificate program covers horticultural science, methods, and design.
Lecture & Book Signing: Jed Perl on Alexander Calder
Author and art critic Jed Perl discusses his new biography, Calder: The Conquest of Space.