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The Venice Art Biennale is a prestigious event that showcases contemporary art from around the world. Learn more about how this exhibition features renowned artists and emerging talents, offering a unique opportunity to experience...

Art Basel is a prestigious international art fair held in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Learn how it showcases a diverse range of modern and contemporary artwork by established and emerging artists.

Patricia A. Russac is a teacher librarian with over seventeen years of experience at an independent, private elementary school in New York. She is a TED Educator, a PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator, and a National Association of...

Dr. Goldstein is Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology at Pace University Department of Psychology, NYC. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston College in Developmental Psychology under the advisement of Dr. Ellen Winner,...

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that...

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some...

As part of the Stanford Iranian Studies Program, the initiative on Art, Social Space and Public Discourse in Iran features art exhibitions, film screenings and music.

Many of us who make and appreciate art spend loads of time on Instagram. How is it changing the way we interpret and interact with art? And is it actually changing the art that gets made? Let's find out.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world, held in Scotland's capital city every August. Learn all about how it features a wide range of performances and events, including comedy, drama, dance, circus,...

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts combines music and circus. Learn more about the history, landscape, and activities at this five-day festival.

Maggie Front is a graduate of the Global Competency Certificate program at Columbia Teachers College, where she was a member of the pilot cohort. She recently collaborated on a two-year Teacher Inquiry Project to pilot a middle school...

Maggie Front is a graduate of the Global Competency Certificate program at Columbia Teachers College, where she was a member of the pilot cohort. She recently collaborated on a two-year Teacher Inquiry Project to pilot a middle school...

Antonello de Messina's St. Jerome in his study is a good entry point for the iconography of Saints and the its use to communicate abstract concepts. St. Jerome is a conflicted character, and the items around him help to communicate that.

In the mid to late 1960s, social and racial divisions, and the decline of downtown areas, contributed to the deterioration of many movie palaces. As people moved to the suburbs and entertainment options expanded, these once-thriving...

We typically experience classic works of art in a museum, stripped of their original contexts, but that serene setting can belie a tumultuous history. Take Michelangelo's statue of David: devised as a religious symbol, adopted as a...

On first glance, the painting Las Meninasc (The Maids of Honorc) might not seem terribly special, but it's actually one of the most analyzed pieces in the history of art. Why is this painting by Diego Velazquez so captivating? James...

Have you ever come across an oddly stretched image on the sidewalk, only to find that it looks remarkably realistic if you stand in exactly the right spot? These sidewalk illusions employ a technique called anamorphosis - a special case...

Learn about the life of World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan and how she worked with the French Resistance to build the network that defeated the Nazis. -- In May 1940, with the German army ready to occupy Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was...

Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...

Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and...

In 2008 Christine traveled to Ethiopia to adopt a little girl. When they arrived home, she found her new daughter drinking water from a puddle in their driveway. This raised a huge flag for Christine, realizing water used to be...

In 2008 Christine traveled to Ethiopia to adopt a little girl. When they arrived home, she found her new daughter drinking water from a puddle in their driveway. This raised a huge flag for Christine, realizing water used to be...