Smarthistory

Smarthistory started in 2005{{Cite web |title=Smarthistory: No grand strategies needed, just openness |url=https://opensource.com/education/16/5/smarthistory |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=opensource.com |language=en}} as an audio guide series for use at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |url=https://edtechdigest.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/interview-taking-a-close-look-at-smarthistory/ |title=Taking a Close Look at Smarthistory |last=Rivero |first=Victor |date=December 16, 2010 |website=EdTechDigest |access-date=January 3, 2017 }} The Museum of Modern Art in New York City,{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2010/09/05/e-learning-smarthistoryorg/ |title=E-Learning: smARThistory.org |last=Campbell |first=Wendy |date=September 5, 2010 |website=dailyartfixx.com |access-date=January 3, 2016 }} and as a resource for students taking introductory art history courses at the college level.{{cite journal |last1=Harris |first1=Beth |last2=Zucker |first2=Steven |date=2016 |title=Making the Absent Present: The Imperative of Teaching Art History |url=http://academicworks.cuny.edu/ahpp/vol1/iss1/4/ |journal=Art History Pedagogy & Practice |volume=1 |issue=1 }} In addition to its focus on college-level courses in art history, Smarthistory supports the art history Advanced Placement course and examination developed by The College Board.{{cite journal |last=Doran |first=Leo |date=April 22, 2016 |title=Tech Tools, Image Libraries Transforming Art History Classes |url=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/04/15/tech-tools-image-libraries-transforming-art-history.html |journal=Education Week |volume=35 |issue=29 |pages=1, 10, 11 |access-date=January 7, 2017 }} Smarthistory provides essays, videos, photographs, and links to additional resources for all of the art and architecture that make up the AP art history curriculum.{{cite web |url=http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/2177.html |title=AP Art History Course Home Page |author= |website=AP Central College Board |access-date=January 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903230325/https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-art-history/course |archive-date=3 September 2017}}{{Cite news |last=Doran |first=Leo |date=2016-04-15 |title=Tech Tools, Image Libraries Transforming Art History Classes |language=en |work=Education Week |url=https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/tech-tools-image-libraries-transforming-art-history-classes/2016/04 |access-date=2023-01-25 |issn=0277-4232}}

Smarthistory has published more than 880 videos and 2,000 essays on art and cultural history from the Paleolithic era to the 21st century that include the art of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.{{cite news |last1=Smee |first1=Sebastian |title=How two professors transformed the teaching of art history |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/how-two-professors-transformed-the-teaching-of-art-history/2020/04/30/21fb77c6-88ee-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html |access-date=7 May 2020 |work=Washington Post |date=1 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503040508/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/how-two-professors-transformed-the-teaching-of-art-history/2020/04/30/21fb77c6-88ee-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html |archive-date=3 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/cave-painting-contemporary-art-and-everything-in-between |title=Smarthistory: Art History on Khan Academy |author= |website=Khan Academy |access-date=January 3, 2017 }} Smarthistory's essays have been contributed by more than 200 art historians, curators, and archaeologists writing in their areas of focus and are peer-reviewed.{{cite web |url=https://opensource.com/education/16/5/smarthistory |title=Smarthistory: No grand strategies needed, just openness |last=Masson |first=Patrick |date=May 2, 2016 |website=Open Source |publisher=Red Hat |access-date=January 7, 2017 }} Videos are unscripted conversations between experts recorded on location in front of the original work of art or architecture.{{cite web |url=https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/01/10/smarthistory/ |title=Democratizing Art History: 6 smARThistory Primers |last=Colman |first=Dan |date=October 1, 2011 |website=Brain Pickings |access-date=January 7, 2017 }}{{Cite web |title=Getty Museum and SmartHistory Collaborate to Make Art More Accessible |url=https://www.getty.edu/news/calling-all-art-enthusiasts-smart-history-getty-partner |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=getty.edu |language=en}}

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In an article in the Brooklyn New York Daily News, staff writer Elizabeth Lazarowitz quotes Steven Zucker, "Art can be really intimidating for people", said Zucker. "If we can make art feel exciting and interesting and very much relevant to a historical moment...art can have real meaning." Unlike reading about art in a book, "the idea of the audio was to keep a student's eyes on the image", he explained. "It helped students to learn the material a lot better."[http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2011/02/25/2011-02-25_masterpiece_theater_vids_new_way_to_look_at_art.html "Brooklyn-based art historians launch website with videos of masterpieces"]. New York Daily News. 2/25/2011.

Smarthistory won the Webby Award for Education in 2009.[http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13 "Webby Award Winners 2009"] The Samuel H. Kress Foundation gave them a $25,000 grant for development in 2008 and a $38,000 partnership development grant with the Portland Art Museum in 2009.[http://portlandartmuseum.org/education/display/kress-pilot-project "About the partnership with Smarthistory"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319083705/http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/education/display/kress-pilot-project/|date=2011-03-19}}

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• {{cite book |last=Buis |first=Alena |editor=Pınar Durgun |date=2020 |chapter=Open Access to Ancient Worlds: Why Open Practices Matter |title=An Educator's Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World |publisher=Archaeopress |location= |pages=46–51 |jstor=jj.15135914.7 |doi=10.2307/jj.15135914.7 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Marmor |first=Max |date=2016 |title=Art History and the Digital Humanities |journal=Zeitschrift Für Kunstgeschichte |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=155–158 |jstor=24856675 }}
• {{cite book |last=Vestberg |first=Nina Lager |editor=Amanda Wasielewski, Anna Näslund |date=2024 |title=Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era |chapter=Source, Surrogate, Store, and Search: Significant Sites in Post-Digitized Art History |publisher=Intellect |location= |pages=20–36 |jstor=jj.22177852.5 }}

• {{Official website|https://smarthistory.org}}
• [https://smarthistory.org/arches-intro/ ARCHES (at risk cultural heritage education series)]

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