TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions | Nina Medvinskaya
Albert Camus grew up surrounded by violence. His homeland of Algeria was mired in conflict. He lost his father in World War I. Seeing World War II's devastation, Camus grew despondent. What was the meaning behind all this endless...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karl Alexander - The Long Shadow
Karl Alexander received his B.A. degree from Temple University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent spent his entire academic career at Johns Hopkins. He has been President of the...
Tate
Meschac Gaba – Museum of Contemporary African Art | TateShots
Meschac Gaba's 'Museum of Contemporary African Art' is an immersive twelve-room installation, a 'museum within a museum', which is currently sprawling through Tate Modern. It includes its own shop, library and restaurant as well as less...
Curated Video
Why this instrument explains Black American folk music
Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In...
Biography
Duke Ellington's Monumental Music Journey
Duke Ellington was born April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. A major figure in the history of jazz music, his career spanned more than half a century, during which time he composed thousands of songs for the stage, screen and contemporary...
Creators
Brain-Melting Machines, 3D Animation, and Underwater Art | Culture Beat Episode 1
Culture Beat is our bi-weekly roundup of the most exciting, outlandish, and mind-expanding cultural happenings and projects that we can get our hands on. In this first episode, we visit "Detroitus" sculptor Ryan Doyle at his LA show...
Tate
Is Fashion Art? – Hangout on Air
In our fourth 'Hangout on Air', Miranda Sawyer is joined by V&A curator Oriole Cullen, designer Stephen Jones and fashion historian Amber Butchart, as well as online contributors Disneyrollergirl and Rory Hutton, for a lively discussion...
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Choir of the Age of Enlightenment 'Faire is the Heaven - Sacred Songs of Love'
The Choir of the Age of Enlightenment ventures out alone, without the orchestra, to launch it's first a capella concert. 'Faire is the Heaven - Sacred Songs of Love' is at Kings Place, London on Monday 3 October 2016 and at St Mary's...
12tone
The Great Piano Mystery
Try Brilliant free: http://brilliant.org/12tone/ A great piece of music inspires many questions, like "What is this piece saying?", or "Why does it make me feel the way it does?" One question you rarely see, though, is "What are you even...
Royal Opera House
Barbara Hannigan in The Royal Opera's Lessons in Love and Violence
Barbara Hannigan in George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's Lessons in Love and Violence as screened on BBC Four, 21 October 2018. Find out more about what we do at http://www.roh.org.uk Lessons in Love and Violence is the latest...
Royal Opera House
Stéphane Degout, Peter Hoare and Gyula Orendt in The Royal Opera's Lessons in Love and Violence
Stéphane Degout, Peter Hoare, Gyula Orendt and Barbara Hannigan in George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's Lessons in Love and Violence as screened on BBC Four, 21 October 2018. Find out more about what we do at http://www.roh.org.uk Lessons...
Curated Video
Rationalizing the Denominator
This lesson will cover rationalizing the denominator using a factor of 1 and conjugates.
The Art Assignment
Better Know the Great Wave | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
It's an omnipresent image that has inspired music, tattoos, and even an emoji on your phone. But Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced. What's its story? Let's better know the Great Wave.
Sydney Opera House
À Ố Làng Phố | Sydney Opera House
Whisk the whole family away to a village in Vietnam as it is modernised into a bustling city in this breathtaking contemporary circus coming to the Joan Sutherland Theatre this June 2019. Tickets: http://bit.ly/SOHAOLangPho 12-15 JUN |...
Gresham College
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley - Professor Christopher Page
The guitar had a surge of popularity on the era of the 'Romantic' poets, it became for many the 'Romantic' instrument, but what was it like to play in that era?:...
The Cynical Historian
Novitiate | Based on a True Story
Novitiate is a tidy little story. It’s fictitious of course, but it fits the oral histories I’ve read about the period. It also delves into the problems of the time, with physical penance, cloisterestration, and other issues. This an...
The Guardian
Owen Jones meets Paloma Faith | 'Musicians are scared to speak out'
Paloma Faith is rare as a modern musician because she's willing to speak out about her political beliefs. She told me that few musicians discuss politics because of the abuse directed at them on social media. People like Bob Dylan, Nina...
Southbank Centre
Web We Want Festival | Demystifying the World of Online Gaming
What’s the point of computer games? Do they occupy your children’s every waking hour? Will games turn your loved ones into gun-wielding zombie killers? Or is there, in fact, potential for some very positive and creative outcomes from...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Meets: Elise McLauchlan
Wood-turner Elise McLauchlan invites us in her studio for a wood-turning demonstration. Part of 'Make! Contemporary Christmas Craft' : barbican.org.uk/make Video Credit: Mike Scorgie Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music...
Barbican Centre
How to: weaving with Christabel Balfour
In the first of our series of 'How to' workshops focussing on traditional crafts, tapestry weaver Christabel Balfour invites us in her South London studio for a weaving demonstration. Part of 'Make! A Season of Contemporary Craft', in...