"The Art Story" is a non-profit organization that provides a guide to understanding visual arts by offering free, accessible content on artists, art movements, and ideas. It aims to demystify modern art and make art history understandable to a wide audience through clear overviews, interactive timelines, and curated pages on topics from Renaissance to contemporary art.
Artsy was founded in 2009 by Carter Cleveland, a computer science student with a passion for art and a vision to make it more accessible. What began as a platform to help people find art online has grown into the largest art marketplace of its kind. Today, over 3.4 million collectors and enthusiasts use Artsy to browse, learn about, and purchase works from the most respected names in contemporary and modern art.
Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project) is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world, operated by Google.
It utilizes high-resolution image technology that enables the viewer to tour partner organization collections and galleries and explore the artworks' physical and contextual information. The platform includes advanced search capabilities and educational tools.
The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Cornell Capa founded ICP in 1974 to champion “concerned photography”—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through our exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image.
At The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, we celebrate creativity, openness, tolerance, and generosity. We aim to be inclusive places—both onsite and online—where diverse cultural, artistic, social, and political positions are welcome. We’re committed to sharing the most thought-provoking modern and contemporary art, and hope you will join us in exploring the art, ideas, and issues of our time.
The National Gallery of Art is a public art museum in Washington, D.C., with a vast collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. It was established in 1937 through a major donation of art and funds by Andrew W. Mellon and opened in 1941. The museum's two buildings, the West and East Buildings, feature classical and modern art respectively, and the gallery's mission is to make art accessible to the public with free admission.
The J. Paul Getty Museum is a two-location institution in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to art appreciation and preservation. The Getty Center houses its collection of pre-20th-century European paintings, sculpture, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photographs. The Getty Villa in Malibu focuses on Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities
Most Impactful Photographers of the 20th Century
Links to their websites/foundations (if they have one)
Lewis Hine
Cindy Sherman
Margret Bourke-White
Robert Capa
Robert Frank
Annie Leibovitz
Walker Evans
William Henry Fox Talbot