Modern Art & Ideas
The Museum of Modern Art · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Lisa Mazzola
Arts and HumanitiesPersonal Development
About the course
Unlock the world of modern art from a global authority on the subject. Modern Art & Ideas from The Museum of Modern Art is designed for lifelong learners, students, professionals, and anyone seeking to build high-level critical thinking and visual literacy skills. This is not your typical art history course. You will learn about art through accessible and relevant thematic frameworks—Art & Identity, Places & Spaces, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society—to understand how artists have
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (58 votes, 3.0★).
“5. The final peer-assessed assignment is lacking in instructions or guidance. For example, you are required to upload images of 3 or 4 artworks and discuss them. It is in fact impossible to upload more than a single image, but there are no instructions on what to do about this. People found various workarounds - uploading pdfs or Word documents, or zipped folders of images, but really, there should be some official guidance on this.”
Coursera's 4.8 comes from 6,971 ratings. Of those, 1.3% are 1–2★.
Starisk reads the reviews learners voted most helpful, and weights each by the square root of its votes: a review with 80 upvotes counts about five times one with 2. Unvoted reviews are not skipped out of laziness — by this model they carry no evidence that other students endorsed them.
That measures what the most-endorsed reviews say, not “true quality.” The rating distribution above is the whole population, so you can see the sample next to it.
Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗