The blog is going away but the reviews are not. You can find them here in the online print edition.
Home > ATLarts > Archives > 2007 > December > 26 > Entry
New Ways to Learn About the Arts
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you’ve always wanted to learn more about art history, music theory or, say, composing with computers, you’re in luck. You now have free access to some of the best resources in the world, thanks to the Internet and some forward-thinking institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Symphony and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
The Met has created an attractive, user-friendly timeline for learning about art history. You can read an essay on the Bauhaus movement, search under an artist’s name, watch a video about the Daguerrreotype photographic process, or listen to the sound of a Kora, an African harp-lute. (Or you can learn about the Caravaggio painting above.)
The San Francisco Symphony’s fun music-education site is called Keeping Score. The content is lively and accessible enough for any high schooler, but also offers insights for anyone interested in learning more about major composers.
If you want to delve further into arts education, MIT’s OpenCourseWare includes a wide variety of course material on topics such as early music, architecture and theater costume design.
Permalink | | Categories: Visual arts
