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Study art history and art appreciation at the Barnes, a leader in art education for nearly 100 years. We offer a full array of online and on-site classes, with new courses curated monthly. Barnes members receive a 10% discount. Online classes make great gifts.
Online Class: Picturing New York
Explore the visual representation of New York through history and examine the factors that shaped the city’s unique visual culture.
Online Class: Rooted in the Earth: The American Landscape Tradition
This course examines the genre of landscape art—from Thomas Cole to Cauleen Smith—to reveal how American ideologies, aspirations, and fears are found rooted in the earth.
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Profiles and Paradigms: Jews and Modern Art
Explore the work of four 20th-century artists with connections to the Jewish community—Vuillard, Soutine, Stettheimer, and Segal—and their place within modernism.
Online Class: Albrecht Dürer and the Northern Renaissance
A careful analysis of Dürer’s prints, paintings, and drawings will shed light on the important role he played in the culture of early modern Europe.
Online Class: Light in the Dark Ages
A closer look at art during the Dark Ages shows a visual culture bursting at the seams with complex ideas achieved through light and color.
Online Class: The Art of Ancient Nubia: Egypt’s Rival on the Nile
From stone pyramids to winged giraffes, get to know the fabulous and fantastical art of ancient Nubia.
Online Class: Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception
This course looks at forgeries—how they're made and why, and how scholars distinguish between fake and real.
Online Class: Michelangelo in Focus
Take a deep dive into the creative process and masterworks of the Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
Online Class: Modernist Watercolor Techniques: Cézanne and Demuth
This class explores the working methods of two virtuoso watercolorists in the Barnes collection: Paul Cézanne and Charles Demuth.
Online Class: The Traditions of Art
Study how artists learn and adapt previous traditions, and how modern art evolved in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Online Class: What Is Minimalism?
Trace the roots of minimalism in the Bauhaus, De Stijl, and constructivism movements, and discover how Agnes Martin and other pioneering women have reshaped the canon.