- Christie's Education
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Christie's American branch in Rockefeller Center, New York
The learning resources centre at Christie's Education, Great Titchfield Street, London.Christie's Education is the educational arm of Christie's auction house and has colleges in London and New York accredited by the University of Glasgow in the UK and the New York State Board of Regents in the USA.
Christie's Education History
Christie's Education was founded in 1978 to promote the study of all aspects of the visual arts and the art market through hands-on experience of works of art and ethical art-world practice.
Christie's Education, London was originally based in South Kensington next to the Christie's salerooms as the Fine Arts Course. It currently occupies the 1960s Building Crafts College at 153 Great Titchfield Street, London, where it runs Post-graduate programmes in European and Asian Art at Master's, Postgraduate Diploma levels and offfers PhD registration for research students.. It also runs a joint undergraduate MA(Hons) degree in the History of Art and Art-world Practice with the University of Glasgow which validates all its programmes. Modular Christie's Art Business Certificate courses, are run separately under the Christie's Art Business banner as well as part-time programmes and continuing education classes.
Christie's Education, New York was established in 1993. It occupies premises opposite the New York Public Library at 11 West 42nd Street and offers a Master's programme in History of Art and the Art Market as well as a part-time Certificate Programme. A modular Art Business Programme and ontinuing Education classes are also run in the evening.
Bibliography
M.A. Michael (ed.), A Brief History of Christie's Education being the Recollections of the Former Staff of Christie's Fine Arts Course and including an Essay on the Christie Family Memorial, St. James's Gardens, Cardington Street NW1 and Commemorating 30 years of Christie's Education, London, 2008 (ISBN 978-0955780707).
External links
- Christie's Education official website
- Christie's official website
- University of Glasgow joint MA (Hons) Programme
- University of Glasgow MLitt Programme in the Arts of China
- University of Glasgow MLitt Programme in Art Style and Design
- University of Glasgow MLitt Programme in the Arts of Europe
- University of Glasgow MLitt Programme in Modern and Contemporary Art
- http://www.christies.edu/london_artbus.html Art Business Course
Categories:- Academic institutions
- Education in London
- Educational institutions established in 1978
- Education in Westminster
- Further education colleges in London
- Universities and colleges in New York
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