TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney
In standard notation, rhythm is indicated on a musical bar line. But there are other ways to visualize rhythm that can be more intuitive. John Varney describes the 'wheel method' of tracing rhythm and uses it to take us on a musical...
TED Talks
TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
The Art Assignment
Create an embarrassing object. | Geof Oppenheimer | The Art Assignment
This assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same. John...
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
The Art Assignment
Explore a physical boundary. | Zarouhie Abdalian | The Art Assignment
We come to you from San Francisco's Exploratorium, where we met with artist-in-residence Zarouhie Abdalian. For her assignment, she wants you to focus on boundaries and the relationships between the spaces they separate. Sarah Green then...
Curated Video
Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...
Curated Video
Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained
"What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020 "Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes...
Curated Video
Monet's Water Lilies: Great Art Explained
"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020
Curated Video
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals: Great Art Explained
"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020
The Art Assignment
Air Guitar: Book Club # 1 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we kick off The Art Assignment Book Club with Dave Hickey's "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy." We discuss everything from John geeking out in a library to Michael Jackson's chimpanzee - Bubbles. Oh, and we discuss the...
The Art Assignment
Five Favorite Works of Art with Jon Cozart | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Jon Cozart talks to us about classical music, internet videos, Lord of the Rings, and of course, musicals. Here are Jon's five favorite works of art: 1) Spring Awakening 2) Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 3) The Lord of the Rings:...
Curated Video
Comics: Visual Storytelling and Expression
Comics are a form of illustrated storytelling that combines pictures, text, and visual elements to tell stories and convey ideas. From classic comic strips to modern graphic novels, comics have a rich history that spans across different...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mercer Hall - Graphicacy Taking Control of the Visual Classroom
Mercer Hall has been teaching for over sixteen years at an independent school on Long Island, New York. He is a five-time honoree as Teacher Of The Year, and he has been awarded both the Thomas J. Reid Excellence In Teaching Award and...
Amor Sciendi
Ekphrasis and the Art work of Sophie Calle
An explanation of Ekphrasis: the art of describing a visual experience in words. This is done through a look at Sophie Calle's art works "Last Seen" and "What do you see?"
Amor Sciendi
Lorna Simpson: Waterbearer | Art Theory and Analysis | AmorSciendi
This video is an art historical analysis of Lorna Simpson's photograph "Waterbearer", but it's also about why and how we engage with art.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Is there a difference between art and craft? - Laura Morelli
Was da Vinci an artistic genius? Sure, but he was also born in the right place at the right time -- pre-Renaissance, Western artists got little individual credit for their work. And in many non-Western cultures, traditional forms have...
TED Talks
Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination
Visual artist Helen Marriage stages astonishing, large-scale public art events that expand the boundaries of what's possible. In this visual tour of her work, she tells the story of three cities she transformed into playgrounds of the...
TED Talks
Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
It's been 110 years since Georges Méliès sent a spaceship slamming into the eye of the man on the moon. So how far have visual effects come since then? Working closely with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Don Levy takes...
TED Talks
Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)
TED Talks
Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge
How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data...
TED Talks
Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data
Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Visualizing complex ideas
How can animation convey complex, intangible concepts? A visual metaphor, or an idea represented through imagery, can take an idea as massive as Big Data and tie it to the familiar depiction of a growing tree. TED-Ed animators explain...
SciShow
Cymatics: Turning Sound into Art
Sound waves vibrate more than just our eardrums, they can also make visual art!
TED Talks
TED: The timeless, ancient language of art | Wangechi Mutu
Using found materials and mesmerizing structures that unearth deep-rooted emotions, Wangechi Mutu's visual creations celebrate our collective history and explore how art communicates into the future. From ancient rock carvings in the...
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