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Study art history and art appreciation at the Barnes, a leader in art education for nearly 100 years. Our classes take place online and on-site, with new courses on a diverse array of topics curated monthly. Barnes members receive a 10% discount. Online classes make great gifts.

Understanding Video Art
Instructor: Matthew Feliz

Building the City of Light: Impressionism in Haussmann’s Paris
Instructor: Elizabeth Lovett

Post-Impressionism in the Barnes Collection
Instructor: Kedra Kearis

Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception
Instructors: Kaelin Jewell, Carl Walsh

Ancient Greek Art in Context
Instructor: Madeleine Glennon

The Traditions of Art
Instructor: Kedra Kearis

Monet and the Instant
Instructor: André Dombrowski

The Elements of Art
Instructor: Kedra Kearis

Learning to See
Instructor: Kaelin Jewell

The Birth of Fashion in the 19th Century
Instructor: Caterina Y. Pierre

What Is Beauty?
Instructor: Casey Haskins

Orientalism
Instructor: Naina Saligram

Indivisible: Threads of American Art
Instructor: Matthew Palczynski

Visual Cultures of Latin America, 15th–19th Centuries
Instructor: David Kim

The School of Paris
Instructor: Joseph Tokumasu Field

Imagining Hell, from Giotto to Grosz
Instructor: Sheila Barker

Art and the Brain: Your Brain on Art
Instructor: Karen A. Baskerville

European Painting and the Arts of Africa, 1900–1918
Instructor: Naina Saligram

Light in Art
Instructor: Kaelin Jewell

Seurat: Pointillism or the New Impressionism
Instructor: Kedra Kearis

Early Modern Artists of Montmartre in the Barnes Collection
Instructor: Al Gury

Exhibition Class: Modigliani Up Close
Instructors: Barbara Buckley, Simonetta Fraquelli, Matthew Gale, Vivian Greene, Nancy Ireson, Margaret Little

Hearing Painting, Seeing Music
Instructors: Hannah Chan-Hartley, Corrinne Chong

Matisse in the 1930s: The Exhibition in Context
Instructors: Camran Mani, Ellen McBreen