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Basics to get you started
About geography and chronological periods in Native American art
Terms and Issues in Native American Art
New Spain, an introduction
Mesoamerica, an introduction
Mission churches as theaters of conversion in New Spain
The Medici collect the Americas
Elite secular art in New Spain
Painting Aztec History
Glossary for pre-Columbian art
Hispaniola’s early colonial art, an introduction
The Mesoamerican Calendar
Pueblo architecture and its relationship to place
Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas
Late pre-classic Mesoamerica, an introduction
Periods in Mesoamerican history
Serpents in Mexica culture
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The Midway
Northwest Coast Basketry—Woven Traditions
Mesoamerican art in context: an excerpt from an origin story (Popol Vuh)
Early Scientific Exploration in Latin America
Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes—David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco
The Academy of San Carlos
Mexican Independence
Classical Architecture in Viceregal Mexico
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
Landscape Painting in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Prints and Printmakers in Colonial New Spain
The Mexican-American War
John Brown’s “tragic prelude” to the U.S. Civil War
Kehinde Wiley on John Singer Sargent
Nativism, immigration, and the Know-Nothing party
Peaks and perils: The life of Carleton Watkins
An introduction to Jewish art in the United States Before 1900
“The Immediate Cause of the Civil War,” an introduction
Imagining the West, territorial expansion, and the politics of slavery
The Missouri Compromise and the dangerous precedent of appeasement
Experiences of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction
Abraham Lincoln and northern memory
The Lost Cause and Confederate memory
Memory and commemoration of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction
Olmec Jade
The Ashcan School, an introduction
Josiah McElheny on Horace Pippin
Abstract Expressionism, an introduction
The impact of Abstract Expressionism
Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman
The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline
The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline
The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
Barnett Newman
The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko (at MoMA)
The Case for Minimalism
The Case for Andy Warhol
The Case for Jackson Pollock
The Case for Mark Rothko
How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas Ignited an International Battle over Propaganda
New Topographics
An interview with Robert Frank
Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
What is: Abstract Expressionism?
Postcommodity arts collective
An interview with Jamian Juliano-Villani
An interview with Maryam Hoseini
Meriem Bennani’s Exploded Visions
Jordan Casteel paints her community
Theaster Gates on collecting
Luchita Hurtado’s body of work
Graciela Iturbide, Photographing Mexico
Teresita Fernández on Precolumbian gold
Mickalene Thomas on her Materials and Artistic Influences
Latin American artists learning in Paris
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
Shirin Neshat, ‘Dreams Are Where Our Fears Live’
Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness
Kerry James Marshall on his process
The Black Atlantic: Identity and Nationhood
The Black Atlantic: Toppled Monuments and Hidden Histories
The Black Atlantic: Afterlives of Slavery in Contemporary Art
Black Mountain College
Ellen Gallagher: Cutting
Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire’
Lynda Benglis – ‘Form and Texture Create the Magic’
Senga Nengudi, Linda Goode Bryant and the Just Above Midtown Gallery
Surrealism: Imagining A New World
The Art Market and taxes
A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
Alternative art spaces in New York City
An interview with Fred Wilson about the conventions of museums and race
An interview with Kara Walker
Ansel Adams: Visualizing a Photograph
Contemporary Native American Architecture
Cultural heritage at risk: United States
Dada Politics
Dada Readymades
Defining “Pre-Columbian” and “Mesoamerica”
Frida Kahlo, an introduction
Jewish history in the post-war period
Modern art and reality
More on the Aztecs (Mexica)
Paleolithic art, an introduction
Primitivism and Modern Art
Remake the Met
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)
Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater
Self Help Graphics and Art
The Making of the Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial
The Neolithic revolution
The Pictures Generation
Costumbrismo
The Case for Conceptual Art
Abstract art and Theosophy
“Creative iconoclasm”: a tale of two monasteries
Realism, an introduction
Romanticism, an introduction
Scenes of the Alameda Central of Mexico City
Dada Manifesto
Dada Pataphysics
How to recognize Baroque art
The global Baroque, an introduction
Japonisme
Looking east: how Japan inspired Monet, Van Gogh and other Western artists
Contemporary art, an introduction
The Maya, an introduction
The Case for Surrealism
The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction
The Aesthetic Movement
Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism
Surrealist Techniques: Automatism
Gauguin and Laval in Martinique
The Bug That Had the World Seeing Red
Investigating Rothko’s Technique
How to paint like Yayoi Kusama
How to paint like Willem de Kooning
How to paint like Mark Rothko
How to paint like Jackson Pollock
How to paint like Franz Kline
How to paint like Barnett Newman
How to paint like Agnes Martin
Surrealism and Women
Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealism: Origins and Precursors
An interview with Alfredo Jaar
Dada Performance
An interview with Dayanita Singh
An interview with Sunil Gupta
The Case for Yoko Ono
The Case for Ai Weiwei
The Artist Project: Shahzia Sikander
What is the impact and legacy of Cook’s voyages?
Impressionist color
Impressionist pictorial space
The medieval calendar
Chiaroscuro explained
Surrealism and Psychoanalysis
The challenge of the nude in 19th-century Latin American painting
What does “Impressionism” mean?
Sotheby’s Returns Looted 10th Century Statue to Cambodia
African religious culture in the Atlantic world
The Case for Abstraction
Early Photography: Niépce, Talbot, and Muybridge
What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
Latin American art, an introduction
A brief history of the art museum
The reception of African art in the West
Baroque art, an introduction
Expression and modern art
Classical orders of architecture explained
A Global Middle Ages through the Pages of Decorated Books
Marcel Duchamp and the Viewer
Naeem Mohaiemen
Portrait Painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Surrealist Exhibitions
How to paint like Ad Reinhardt
Trafficking the past
Seizure of Looted Antiquities Illuminates What Museums Want Hidden
Latin American artistic pilgrimages to Paris
Art Appreciation: Nature—comparisons and connections
Olmec masks and masquerade, an introduction
About geography and chronological periods in Native American art
Works of Art
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Acoma
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Anishinaabe
to today
Inuit
To today
Haida
to today
Puebloan
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Native North American (First Nations)
before 11,200 B.C.E.–today
Minneconjou Lakota
to today
Tsimshian
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Kwakwaka’wakw
to today
Tlingit
To today
Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
to today
Aleut (Unangan)
to today
Lakota
to today
Hunkpapa Lakota
to today
Oceti Sakowin Oyate (Sioux)
c. 1,000–1 B.C.E. to the present
Iháƞktȟuƞwaƞna Dakhóta
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Clovis
c. 11,200–10,900 B.C.E.
Ancestral Puebloan
c. 1–1300
Mesoamerican
before 7000 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.
Huastec civilization
c. 2000 B.C.E.–1521
Maya civilization
c. 3000 B.C.E.–1697 C.E.
Tlatilco
c. 1800–400 B.C.E.
Olmec
c. 1200–400 B.C.E.
Zapotec civilization
c. 600 B.C.E.–900 C.E.
Teotihuacan
c. 100 B.C.E.–750 C.E.
Classic Veracruz
c. 1–1200 C.E.
Mogollon
c. 200–1450
Mixtec civilization
c. 1200–1521
Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
c 1150–1350
Mexica (Aztec)
1325–1521
Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance
c. 1400–1600
Colonial Spanish American
c. 1520–1898
Colonial American
c. 1492–1898
Viceroyalty of New Spain
c. 1520–1821
Early U.S. Republic
c. 1776–1820
Latin American Modernism
1900–1980
Aestheticism
c. 1862–1900
Gilded Age
1877–1900
291
1905–17
Ashcan School
c. 1900–1930s
Dada
1913–24
Mexican Muralism
c. 1920–60
Latin American Constructivism
c. 1920–70
Social Realism
c. 1930–1945
Abstract Expressionism
c. 1947–60
Pop Art
c. 1956–1975 and after
Minimalism
c. 1959–75
Postminimalism
c. 1963–80
Latin American Surrealism
1925–50
Neoclassicism
c. 1760–1830
Conceptual art
c. 1960–70 and after
Arts and Crafts
c. 1860–1920
Tlaxcalan Civilization
Gothic Revival
Mid-18th century–late 19th century
Greater Nicoya
Reconstruction era
1865–77
The Pictures Generation
1974–84
Winnebago (Ho-Chunk)
Beaux-Arts
19th–early 20th century
New France
1534–1763
Precisionism
1920s
Northwest Coast Native American
Hawaiian
to today
Plains Native American
to today
Great Lakes and Central Woodland Native American
Huron-Wendat
17th century–today
Southwestern Native American
to today
Cowichan
Seneca
Neo-Dada
Cherokee
Californian Native American
Age of Enlightenment
17th–18th century
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Antebellum period
c. 1812–61
Native American Allotment and Assimilation period
c. 1887–1934
Native American Reservation period
c. 1849–87
Native American Colonial period
c. 1598–1830
Native American Removal period
c. 1830–49
Native American Reorganization period
c. 1934–53
Native American Termination period
c. 1953–75
Native American Self-determination period
c. 1975–2001
Native American Sovereignty period
c. 2001–present
Colonial Caribbean
1492–today
Civil Rights era
c. 1950–75
Coclé
c. 1200 B.C.E.–16th century C.E.
Isthmian
to today
Shawnee
Southeastern Native North American
Wyandotte
Shinnecock
to present
Mixteca-Puebla
U.S. Civil War period
1861–65
Art Deco
1920s–1930s
Realism
c. 1830–80
Diné (Navajo)
Apsáalooke (Crow)
to today
Romanticism
c. 1800–1848
Pre-Raphaelitism
c. 1848–98
Surrealism
1922–c. 1950
Eastern Woodland Native American
Bribri
to today
Taíno
c. 1200–today
Washington Color School
c. 1965–85
Color field
1952–85
Impressionism
c. 1870–1920
Baroque
c. 1600–1700
Symbolism
c. 1880–1910
Art Nouveau
c. 1880–1910
Viking Age
c. 8th–13th century
Academic
1648–today
Neoclassical sculpture
late 18th–early 20th century
Mexican independence
1810–21
Latin American independence movements
1791–today
Medieval
c. 330–1453
Viceroyalty of Peru
1542–1824
Viceroyalty of New Granada
c. 1717–1822
Suquamish
prehistory–today
Brutalist
1960s–70s
Jim Crow era
1870s–1960s
Fluxus
1962–79
Taos Society of Artists
1915–27
Pictorialist
1850s–1930s
Early photography
c. 1826–85
Dakota
Egyptian Revival
Tseshaht
Denesuline/Chipewyan
Cree
Kainai
Choctaw
to today
Sac and Fox Nation
Yup’ik
To today
Pawnee
to today
Kiowa
to today
Mono Lake Paiute
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Mandan
to today
Hopi
c. 12,000 B.C.E.–today
Chumash
to today
Cheyenne
to today
Eastern Shoshone
to today
Mound Builder
c. 4500–1450 B.C.E.
Fort Ancient Culture
1000–1650
Colonial British American (13 colonies)
c. 1607–1776
Hopi-Tewa
1680–present
Edgefield District
Hudson River School
1825–70
Chicago School
late 19th century
Prairie School
late 19th–early 20th century
Harlem Renaissance
c. 1918–1940
New York School
c. 1955–75
Chicano Art Movement
c. 1960s–70s
Photorealism
late 1960s–early 1970s
Prehistoric
before 2000 B.C.E.
Paleolithic
before 10,000 B.C.E.
Neolithic
c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.
Postcolonial
1776–the present
Modernisms
c. 1900–1980
International Style
c. 1920–1980
Late Modernism/Postmodernism
1962–today
Contemporary
1980–today
