Curated Video
The History of Wellness
Modern though it may seem, well-being or wellness has historical roots. While popular scientific research on the subject dates back to the 1970s, 60s and 50s America and Europe, the origins of well-being date back much farther, and are...
Tate
Shirazeh Houshiary – 'Art Has Ambiguity' | TateShots
Shirazeh Houshiary discusses how she wants art to have an ambiguity, to make you think and question, not just to show and tell. 'The black square is a protest against knowing', the artist says. At first glance, Houshiary's 'Veil' 1999,...
TED Talks
Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no
Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for 'no.' When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying no to dictators, no to military rule and no to violence.
NativLang
ISIS versus Cuneiform - the linguistics behind the news
The Islamic State is demolishing Mesopotamian history. The reason this hurts us so much has something to do with Cuneiform. A quick back-story of the peoples crushed beneath ISIS efforts to wipe out the first civilizations to speak on...
Tate
Saloua Raouda Choucair – From Beirut to Tate Modern
Saloua Raouda Choucair is famous in Lebanon for bringing abstraction to the Middle East. A rare female voice in the Beirut art scene from the 1940s onwards, she has spent her career combining western abstraction with the traditions of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Islamic Art: Qa'a: The Damascus Room
This video [6:39] discusses the Reception Room (Qa'a), Ottoman period, 1119 a.h. / 1707 a.d., Damascus, Syria, poplar, gesso relief with gold and tin leaf, glazes and paint; cypress, poplar, walnut, black mulberry, mother-of-pearl,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Islamic Art: Two Royal Figures (Seljuk Period)
This video [5:17] is a conversation between Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Dr. Steven Zucker in front of "Two Royal Figures," Iran (Seljuk period), mid 11th - mid 12th c., painted and gilded stucco (Metropolitan Museum of Art) For more...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Raja Sanai Hari Singh Hunting
In this video [3:41] enter this painting of Raja Sanai Hari Singh hunting from India (Rajasthan state), and embark on a journey with Qamar Adamjee, Associate Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.