Contemporary Art Courses and Certifications

The Museum of Modern Art

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

Jeff Koons Teaches Art And Creativity

Learn how color, scale, form, and texture can help you express ideas and communicate with others.

• MasterClass
• 2 hours 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Museum of Modern Art Career Certificate

Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

12525 ratings at Coursera

Build a toolkit for reading art of our time: study modern art and ideas, contemporary art, and photography through artists' and experts' own perspectives.

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

ART of the MOOC: Colors, Bodies, Power

17 ratings at Coursera

Explore contemporary art through colors, bodies and power: color theory, Black and Indigenous performance, disability studies, Middle Eastern art, whiteness, and visual activism.

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

Creative Time;  Berlin University of the Arts;  Duke Career Certificate

Art of the MOOC: Art, Culture, and Society

372 ratings at Coursera

Explore contemporary art beyond the gallery: study public interventions, sound art and experimental music, pedagogy outside schools, and activism through case studies, artworks, and recent theory.

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

Duke;  Creative Time

ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements

170 ratings at Coursera

Examine socially engaged art alongside social movements like Occupy, Zapatismo, and the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, and create your own projects on embodied knowledge and public art.

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

The Political Economy of Art (Live Online)

32 ratings at CourseHorse

Investigate the complex relationship between art and capitalism, exploring how artistic production, value, and consumption intersect with economic and social systems.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Art and the Digital Transformation

Explore how artists shape the digital transformation: art–enterprise collaborations, socially engaged and participatory art, arts organising and funding, and art in policy making, ending with a case study.

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

Making sense of art history

36 ratings at OpenLearn

You can prepare for this free course, Making sense of art history, by looking around you. It's likely that wherever you are you'll be able to see some images. It's also likely that many of these ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Pop, Minimalism, and Postmodernism

2 ratings

Trace art from Pop and Minimalism through conceptual, performance, body and Land art to Postmodernism, examining mass media, the phenomenology of Minimalism, and critiques of art institutions.

• Kadenze
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Museum of Modern Art

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

College of DuPage

Transdisciplinary Art Practice - Alex Chitty Lecture

Explore transdisciplinary art with Alex Chitty, a British/American artist based in Chicago. Gain insights into her diverse background, exhibitions, and collaborations with renowned institutions.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Duke;  Creative Time

ART of the MOOC: Activismo y Movimientos Sociales

28 ratings at Coursera

Explora cómo el arte socialmente comprometido se entrelaza con movimientos sociales mediante proyectos culturales y acciones prácticas creadas por los estudiantes.

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

Art of Traditional & Contemporary Embroidery (Ages 16+) (Live Online)

94 ratings at CourseHorse

Discover the expressive possibilities of embroidery as you explore both traditional and contemporary stitching techniques.

• CourseHorse
• 18 hours
• Self-Paced
• $270.00

Arte indígena contemporáneo

Conocer y reflexionar sobre experiencias estéticas culturales desde el quehacer artístico y social de los pueblos indígenas, a través de un diálogo entre la contemporaneidad y el pensamiento ancestral

• edX
• 4 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)