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TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew
When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs or meteorites. But behind that educational exterior, there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs...
The Met
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
Watch a video preview of the exhibition Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), on view at The Met Breuer from March 21 through July 22, 2018. Featuring Luke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of European Sculpture...
Tate
Judy Chicago – ‘I’m an Artist and a Troublemaker' | TateShots
Judy Chicago is an artist and author. To tie in with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Chicago has created a mural on the walls of the Grail Silo in Liverpool which responds to the lyrics of...
Natural History Museum
Mammoths: Ice Age Giants - the preview | Natural History Museum
Get a look with Adrian Lister at the Mammoths: Ice Age Giants exhibition. See the unveiling of Lyuba, the best preserved mammoth to have ever been found, and get a glimpse of the giant Columbian mammoth, short-faced bear and sabre-tooth...
The Met
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
Watch a video preview of the exhibition Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, on view at The Met Breuer from September 18, 2018, through January 6, 2019. For the last fifty years, artists have explored the hidden operations of...
Curated Video
2 Extinctions, 1 New Species, and… chess?| Natural News from The Field Museum | Ep. 5
You win some, and you lose some: this is true in games of chess, and sometimes in science, too. A newly discovered species can never replace the loss of another - but we persevere. ↓ More info + Links! ↓...
American Museum of Natural History
Audio Described: Every Mummy Tells a Story
AUDIO DESCRIBED: Discover when, how, and why ancient Egyptians and Peruvians were mummified in a new show featuring an up-close look at rarely-exhibited mummies as well as interactive touch tables, rare artifacts, and cutting-edge...
American Museum of Natural History
Every Mummy Tells a Story
Discover when, how, and why ancient Egyptians and Peruvians were mummified in a new show featuring an up-close look at rarely-exhibited mummies as well as interactive touch tables, rare artifacts, and cutting-edge imaging. #mummy...
Curated Video
1893 World's Columbian Exposition
The Met
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980
Watch a video preview of the exhibition Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980, on view at The Met Breuer from September 13, 2017, through January 14, 2018. Featuring Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of...
Curated Video
The Animal Sound Library
The Museum für Naturkunde is home to one of the largest collections of animal sound recordings in the world. They're studied by scientists to learn about what animals live in an area, and what time(s) of year they're active, and in what...
Curated Video
Carl Akeley's Four Seasons
Send us a picture of yourself in front of the Four Seasons! thebrainscoop(at)gmail(dot)com Facebook'http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Facebook The Brain Scoop is written and hosted by: Emily...
Curated Video
Carl Akeley's Striped Hyenas
In 1896, taxidermist Carl Akeley ventured to Somalia on a research expedition with Field Museum scientists, and procured a quartet of striped hyenas (among many other things). For more than six decades, these taxidermied mounts sat in an...
Curated Video
Painting the Diorama
Last year, The Brain Scoop kicked off Project Hyena Diorama, an Indiegogo campaign aimed at raising the funds necessary to build a brand new permanent habitat diorama at The Field Museum that would house a quartet of striped hyenas...
Curated Video
Project Hyena Diorama: Indiegogo Campaign!
Curated Video
The Heat Theater
The Art Assignment
The Case for Performance Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of performance art and attempt to sway you to its potential charms. Let us know if you...