Curated Video
Baby Sensory Video with Cute Smileys - Calms Baby Down - Soothes and Helps Baby Stop Crying!
This High Contrast soothing video with cute smileys and comforting lullaby and classical music is designed to help clam and soothe new babies and infants. Newborns don’t see colours clearly as an older child or adult. Until a child is...
Google
From virtual to reality: How Tilt Brush is changing the landscape of art-marking
Go behind the scenes and learn how artist Jonathan Yeo and Google created the world’s first large-scale 3D printed sculpture using Tilt Brush — pushing the boundaries of technology and applied innovation. Yeo and the ATAP team at Google...
The Met
Decoda: Line and Expression
"A new collective of some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world . . . " —Time Out New York There is a world of nuance in the use of lines—in etchings as well as in music. In this concert, Decoda (formerly known as The...
Tate
Jack Whitten – ‘The Political is in the Work’ | TateShots
Abstract painter Jack Whitten remembers meeting Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Jack Whitten grew up in Alabama and met both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X during the civil rights movement in the USA. In his abstract painting Homage...
Tate
The Radical Eye with Sir Elton John and Nicholas Serota
Sir Elton John and Nicholas Serota take a tour of The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection in a gallery walkthrough at the Tate. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from...
Tate
Sir Elton John’s Modernist Photography Collection – A Home Tour
Sir Elton John introduces us to his passion for collecting and his Modernist Photography collection which he lives with, in a home tour. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from seminal figures including...
Creators
Saving Chinese Art From Extinction | Meet Yang Yongliang
How do you update an ancient art tradition? With Photoshop, of course. New media artist Yang Yongliang was classically trained in Chinese painting and calligraphy from a very young age but uses digital tools to capture that time-tested...
Creators
Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima Perceive Life Through Interactive Art
For Brazilian artists Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima, sharing the creative process is as lawless as the dynamics of love. They've been partners for over 15 years, and have been making interactive artworks together ever since. At first,...
Curated Video
Why so many sitcoms look the same
The one about sitcom lighting. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores the surprising history behind sitcom lighting. Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind...
The British Museum
The female gaze in Ice Age art
Ice age sculptures of the female form depict women in every stage of their lives, and do not simply conform to the traditional "male gaze". Curator Jill Cook contrasts the posture and gaze of these female forms with classical depictions...
Sotheby's
Barnett Newman's Verticality
Explore Newman's Genesis - The Break (1946), a highlight of the 13 November 2013 Contemporary Art Evening Auction. A pivotal piece that helps define the artist's classic zip paintings, the oil on canvas presages the turquoise blue seen...
Royal Opera House
Insight: Ballet glossary - mime
Royal Ballet First Artists Romany Pajdak and Erico Montes demonstrate Odette's mime from Swan Lake. Mime is the use of gesture to convey narrative meaning. Classical ballet has a distinct language of mime where specific gestures convey...
Royal Opera House
Insight: Ballet glossary - révérence
Romany Pajdak, Royal Ballet First Artist, demonstrates a révérence. A Révérence is a bow or curtsy. A grand gesture of respect executed at the end of a dance to acknowledge the teacher, pianist, orchestra or audience. In classical ballet...
Royal Opera House
Don Quixote - Act I finale (Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet)
Carlos Acosta as Basilio, Marianela Nuñez as Kitri, Yuhui Choe and Beatriz Stix-Brunell as Kitri's friends, Luca Acri, Paul Kay, Kenta Kura and Michael Stojko as the Rascals, Philip Mosley as Sancho Panza, Gary Avis as Lorenzo and Bennet...
Royal Opera House
Carlos Acosta rehearses Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet)
Watch Vadim Muntagirov and Akane Takada rehearse Kitri and Basilio's pas de deux from Don Quixote, with choreographer Carlos Acosta. Presented by Kristen McNally. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/donquixote Carlos Acosta, Principal...
Royal Opera House
Don Quixote - Act II pas de deux (The Royal Ballet)
Carlos Acosta as Basilio and Marianela Nuñez as Kitri perform the Act II pas de deux in Carlos Acosta's Royal Ballet production of Don Quixote. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/don-quixote-by-carlos-acosta Carlos...
Royal Opera House
Iana Salenko and Steven McRae rehearse Swan Lake (The Royal Ballet)
Principal of The Royal Ballet, Steven McRae and Guest Artist, Iana Salenko rehearse Swan Lake. This film was shot and edited by First Soloist of The Royal Ballet, Andre Uspenski. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/swanlake...
Royal Opera House
Opera Shorts: I Dare Not, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni
Opera Shorts: I Dare Not, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni and created by Emma Ehrling, Michael Driver and Isobel Irwin, is one of a series of animated films inspired by opera and produced in collaboration with Kingston University...
Royal Opera House
Dance of the Matadors, Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet)
Ryoichi Hirano as Espada and Laura Morera as Mercedes perform Dance of the Matadors with members of The Royal Ballet in Carlos Acosta's production of Don Quixote. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/donquixote Carlos Acosta, Principal...
Royal Opera House
Why Virginia Woolf's writings are the perfect inspiration for dance (The Royal Ballet)
Choreographer Wayne McGregor, composer Max Richter and dramaturg Uzma Hameed discuss how Virginia Woolf's literary style beautifully lends itself to dance in Wayne McGregor's ballet Woolf Works. Find out more:...
Royal Opera House
Max Richter on how he composed the score for Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet)
Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych is set to music by British composer Max Richter and is inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf. Read on for how Richter created the score for the ballet here:...
Royal Opera House
Why Virginia Woolf? Wayne McGregor on the inspiration behind Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet)
McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych is set to music by British composer Max Richter and is inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf. Find out more: http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/woolf-works-by-wayne-mcgregor Each act of...
Royal Opera House
The Royal Ballet rehearse Elite Syncopations
The Royal Ballet rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Elite Syncopations, filmed as part of #WorldBalletDay 2017. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk In 1974 Kenneth MacMillan created the perfect antidote to the blues with Elite Syncopations...
Royal Opera House
La bohème - O soave fanciulla (Nicole Car, Michael Fabiano; The Royal Opera)
Nicole Car and Michael Fabiano sing this memorable duet from Puccini's opera La bohème. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk Acclaimed director Richard Jones (Boris Godunov, Il trittico) directs a new production of Puccini’s La bohème....