The Museum of Modern Art Courses

Seeing Through Photographs

5 ratings

Analyze 100 landmark photographs to uncover the cultural narratives, technologies, and creative choices behind image-making, building visual literacy for documentary, portraiture, and constructed narratives.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Modern Art & Ideas

5 ratings

See art through a new lens: explore modern art via themes of identity, place, everyday objects, and society, with interviews from artists, curators, and designers.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom

539 ratings at Coursera

Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods originally developed for in-gallery museum education.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting

1511 ratings at Coursera

Deconstruct the materials and techniques of Pollock, Rothko, Kusama, de Kooning, and Agnes Martin through studio demonstrations, close observation, and a visual analysis essay or studio exercise.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

What Is Contemporary Art?

1905 ratings at Coursera

What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll explore this question through more than 70 works of art made from 1980 to the present, with a focus on art of the last decade.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes

507 ratings at Coursera

Teach art by big ideas instead of dates: organize lessons around Place, Identity, Society, and Transforming Everyday Objects, then build your own thematic lesson plan.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

透过摄影看世界

102 ratings at Coursera

通过近距离观看和解读摄影作品，培养批判性视觉素养，理解摄影在艺术、科学、纪实与当代文化中的多重作用。

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Reimagining Blackness and Architecture

76 ratings at Coursera

Architecture is a physical manifestation of power: analyze how Black architects, scholars, and artists reshape the built environment through hip-hop, fiction, textiles, and technology.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Fashion As Design

31 ratings at Coursera

Analyze landmark garments from the early 20th century to today, decoding silhouettes and icons, craft and sustainability, and clothing as expression, identity, and community.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Artful Practices for Well-Being

30 ratings at Coursera

Build a personal well-being toolkit from a modern art collection: explore humor, gratitude, grief, rest, and somatic embodiment with mindfulness instructors, therapists, and artists.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fashion as Design: Silhouettes and Icons

15 ratings at Coursera

Read clothing as a cultural blueprint: analyze 20th-century silhouettes and iconic garments to see how shape projects power, navigates gender, and shifts identity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fashion as Design: Expression and Community

13 ratings at Coursera

Clothing is a visual language: decode how garments signal identity, religion and gender, forge community, and how subcultural styles get borrowed, remade and absorbed by the mainstream.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fashion as Design: Craft and Sustainability

Trace the hidden lifecycle of your wardrobe: examine handcrafting and new garment-making technologies from Savile Row to Levi's archives, and the labor and sustainability costs of fast fashion.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

1288 ratings at Coursera

Learn activity-based strategies for teaching with art: use drawing, sound, movement, writing, and games to help students analyze and create, then assess their work.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

1288 ratings at Coursera

Turn the classroom into a studio: use drawing, sound, movement, writing, and game-based activities to help students engage with modern and contemporary art.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course