The Art Assignment
Public Art Study: Fred Wilson's E Pluribus Unum | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
What is public art? Who funds it, owns it, and shapes it? Who does it serve? And why is it important? We try to answer some of these questions by looking at an example of public art that never came to be - Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum.
The Art Assignment
Art Trip: Indianapolis | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We've spent quite a bit of time exploring art in other people's cities, so we figured it was time to come back home and try being tourists in our own town.
Science360
Cubelets Small Robots Teach Big Science Lessons
Cubelets are magnetic, electronic building blocks, each with a small computer inside, that can be connected in many different ways to move around a table, follow a hand signal, turn on a light, play sounds, or do many other creative...
Espresso Media
Discovering Fernand Leger and His Artistic Legacy in the French Riviera
This video explores the artistic legacy of Fernand Leger, a famous modernist painter who sought to integrate art into everyday life. The Musee Nacional Leisure, located in Leger's former home and studio, celebrates his achievements and...
The March of Time
Museum of Modern Art
MOT 1939: MOMA: People walking on 5th. Avenue traffic BG. EXT Museum of Modern Art (MOMA 11 W. 53rd. Street). Women entering revolving museum doors. INT MOMA Front counter. Women walking past painting 'La Danse' by Henri Matisse.
Curated Video
The Medical Kit: How Innovation Transformed Medical Care on the Civil War Frontline
They empowered US Army medics to save countless lives – but how did the humble medical kit evolve with the American Civil War?
TMW Media
The country music hall of fame in Nashvile, Tennesee
In this episode of Travel Thru History we visit a city in the Southeastern US that you can hear from miles away. It’s rightfully called Music City but you know it as Nashville, Tennessee. We dig deep into the city’s past and find that...
Amor Sciendi
Misinterpretations: Laocoon and His Sons | AmorSciendi
Have you seen this sculpture? I came across it many years ago in the Vatican Museum, and it's one of those that stays with you. I never pursued my interest in the sculpture, though, until I came across a reference to it while reading...
History Hit
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece: Rodin's life
Learn about how Rodin became an artist and what happened in 1881. Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, Part 1
The Art Assignment
Use video for an expanded moment. | The Art Assignment | Jan Tichy
This week we meet Jan Tichy, a Chicago-based artist who gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment using video. We also discuss how this assignment is a play on THE DECISIVE MOMENT by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who...
SWPictures
The Plant that Cures Malaria: The Challenges and Triumphs of Artemisia Growers in Africa
The Plant that Cures Malaria part 4/5: Clovis, a farmer in East Africa, faces challenges in transporting his Artemisia crop to buyers. Despite negotiating a new contract, the farmers are paid 1/3 less per kilo compared to last year and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Troy Campbell - The Power of Going Slow
Troy Campbell is an expert in consumer behavior, marketing social psychology, political psychology, and scientific communication. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of marketing in the Lundquist College of...
Science360
Cubelets: Small Robots Teach Big Science Lessons
Cubelets are magnetic, electronic building blocks, each with a small computer inside, that can be connected in many different ways to move around a table, follow a hand signal, turn on a light, play sounds, or do many other creative...
Curated Video
John Brown's Pike
Abolitionist John Brown commissioned a blacksmith to produce hundreds of pikes – deadly spear-like weapons made from iron and wood, for his team of militiamen to raid the armoury and help set enslaved people free. But it ended in failure...
KERA
Dallas Holocaust Museum and Senator's Family
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum recently opened with the help of former Texas Senator, Florence Shapiro. Shaprio is a first-generation American whose family faced tragedy throughout the Holocaust. As she grew up, Shapiro...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Explores: German Dank Haus
Rosa Gallagher is interviewed at the Dank Haus (Chicago, Illinois). Rosa gives a tour of the Stein Museum giving a historical background of the German stein.
Science360
Silver Saver
Conservation scientist Glen Gates at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is working on new ways to protect museum-quality silver from the ravages of time. Fine silverware and silver pieces on display at museums are exposed to air and...
Amor Sciendi
Andy Warhol and the Mimetic Theory of Art | AmorSciendi
I've been reading a lot of art theory lately and this video is a product of that. I also have been inspired by the long videos of the Art Assignment.
Curated Video
Italy, Florence, Orsanmichele church
Between 1380 and 1404, it was converted into a church used as the chapel of Florence's powerful craft and trade guilds. On the ground floor of the square building are the 13th-century arches that originally formed the loggia of the grain...
KERA
Museum Truck Celebrates the Magic of STEM
A traveling museum is inspiring future scientists, engineers, and innovators. When the Perot Museum of Nature and Science sent their Tech Truck to visit a Texas high school, it brought learning stations and “wonder kits” that provided...
Curated Video
The Ruby Laser: A World First
Lasers aren't just for sci-fi fans. We use them to scan barcodes in shopping malls, conduct surgeries, even remove tattoos! All thanks to the very first, the Ruby Laser.
Curated Video
Alexander Hamilton's Writing Desk: The Laptop Precursor
The average American will send and receive around 3,000 text messages every month. But Founding Father Alexander Hamilton relied on his his trusty portable writing desk to draft countless letters and write some of the most important...
Curated Video
Art as Activism: Statements of Democracy
Art is a powerful democratic tool because it can inspire emotion and empower people to take direct action to achieve a social or political goal.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leslie T. Fenwick - National Museum of African American History and Culture
Leslie T. Fenwick, PhD, is a nationally-known education policy and leadership studies scholar who served as Dean of the Howard University School of Education for nearly a decade. A former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Harvard...