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• How The Pink Panther Painted The Mona Lisa’s Smile: Watch the 1975 Animation, “Pink Da Vinci”, 23 Jul 2021 in Animation&Comedy
• René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Posters (1924–1927), 25 Feb 2021 in Art
• Édith Piaf’s Moving Performance of ‘La Vie en Rose’ on French Television (1954), 28 Jul 2020 in Music
• This Is What an 1869 MIT Entrance Exam Looks Like: Could You Have Passed the Test?, 27 May 2020 in Education&Math&MIT
• ‘Never Be Afraid’: William Faulkner’s Speech to His Daughter’s Graduating Class in 1951, 05 May 2020 in Graduation Speech&Literature
• Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 30 Apr 2020 in History&Philosophy
• Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report Cards, 23 Apr 2020 in Education&Physics&Science
• Fellini’s Fantastic TV Commercials for Barilla, Campari & More: The Italian Filmmaker Was Born 100 Years Ago Today, 20 Jan 2020 in Film&Television
• John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme, 07 Jan 2020 in Jazz&Music
• John Cleese’s Eulogy for Monty Python’s Graham Chapman: ‘Good Riddance, the Free-Loading Bastard, I Hope He Fries’, 13 Nov 2019 in Comedy&Life
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Creates a List of 22 Essential Books (1936), 24 Oct 2019 in Books&Literature
• Jimi Hendrix Wreaks Havoc on the Lulu Show, Gets Banned From the BBC (1969), 18 Sep 2019 in Music
• Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, 20 Aug 2019 in Literature&Music
• Thomas Mann Explains the Nazis’ Ulterior Motive for Spreading Anti-Semitism in Rare 1940 Audio, 12 Apr 2019 in History&Literature
• Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings, 04 Apr 2019 in Music
• Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, 19 Feb 2019 in Art&Literature
• 10 Tips on How to Write a Great Screenplay from Billy Wilder: Pearls of Wisdom from the Director of Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity & More, 14 Feb 2019 in Film
• Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & More, 01 Feb 2019 in Comedy&Philosophy
• 7 Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction, 14 Nov 2018 in Literature&Writing
• Hear Dylan Thomas Recite His Classic Poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, 19 Sep 2018 in Poetry
• Sigmund Freud Speaks: Hear the Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938, 10 Sep 2018 in History&Psychology
• Hear Eric Clapton’s Isolated Guitar Track From the Beatles’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (1968), 14 Jun 2018 in Music
• David Bowie Sings ‘I Got You Babe’ with Marianne Faithfull in His Very Last Performance As Ziggy Stardust (1973), 07 Jun 2018 in Music
• Peter Sellers Gives a Quick Demonstration of British Accents, 03 May 2018 in Comedy
• Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer (1934), 30 Apr 2018 in Books&Literature
• Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938, 11 Apr 2018 in Art&History
• Hear Albert Einstein Read “The Common Language of Science” (1941), 04 Apr 2018 in Physics&Science
• Patti Smith’s 40 Favorite Books, 02 Apr 2018 in Books&Music
• Rare 1915 Film Shows Claude Monet at Work in His Famous Garden at Giverny, 17 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• 23-Year-Old Eric Clapton Demonstrates the Elements of His Guitar Sound (1968), 09 Nov 2017 in Music
• John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (1964), 03 Nov 2017 in Music
• Ingmar Bergman’s 1950s Soap Commercials Wash Away the Existential Despair, 19 Oct 2017 in Business&Film&Television
• Hugh Hefner (RIP) Defends “the Playboy Philosophy” to William F. Buckley, 1966, 28 Sep 2017 in Life&Philosophy&Politics&Television
• Man Ray and the Cinéma Pur: Watch Four Groundbreaking Surrealist Films From the 1920s, 31 Aug 2017 in Film
• Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913, 11 Aug 2017 in Music
• Edvard Munch’s Famous Painting “The Scream” Animated to the Sound of Pink Floyd’s Primal Music, 28 Jun 2017 in Art&Music
• The First Bloomsday: See Dublin’s Literati Celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses in Drunken Fashion (1954), 16 Jun 2017 in History&Literature
• Alfred Hitchcock Recalls Working with Salvador Dali on Spellbound: “No, You Can’t Pour Live Ants All Over Ingrid Bergman!”, 11 May 2017 in Film
• Jim Henson’s Commercials for Wilkins Coffee: 15 Twisted Minutes of Muppet Coffee Ads (1957–1961), 28 Mar 2017 in Food & Drink&Television
• Jazz ‘Hot’: The Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt, 20 Jan 2016 in Music
• T.S. Eliot, Edith Wharton & Gertrude Stein Tell F. Scott Fitzgerald That Gatsby is Great, While Critics Called It a Dud (1925), 13 Apr 2015 in Books&Literature
• Edvard Munch’s Famous Painting The Scream Animated to the Sound of Pink Floyd’s Primal Music, 09 Apr 2015 in Animation&Art&Music
• Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, 06 Mar 2015 in Music&Poetry
• ‘Tired of Giving In’: The Arrest Report, Mug Shot and Fingerprints of Rosa Parks (December 1, 1955), 01 Dec 2014 in History
• Celebrate The Day of the Dead with The Classic Skeleton Art of José Guadalupe Posada, 02 Nov 2014 in Art&Religion
• Watch Joni Mitchell’s Classic Performances of “Both Sides Now” & “The Circle Game” (1968), 07 Nov 2013 in Music
• Gustave Doré’s Dramatic Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, 22 Oct 2013 in Art&Literature&Poetry
• Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington: Solo Piano, Berlin 1969, 20 Oct 2013 in Music
• Ian Rubbish (aka Fred Armisen) Interviews the Clash in Spinal Tap-Inspired Mockumentary, 17 Oct 2013 in Comedy&Music
• Elementary School Kids Sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” & Other Rock Hits: A Cult Classic Recorded in 1976, 16 Oct 2013 in Education&K-12&Music
• Stunning Time-lapse of Lasers at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, 15 Oct 2013 in Astronomy&Science
• Deconstructing Led Zeppelin’s Classic Song ‘Ramble On’ Track by Track: Guitars, Bass, Drums & Vocals, 14 Oct 2013 in Music
• The Fundamentals of Jazz & Rock Drumming Explained in Five Creative Minutes, 13 Oct 2013 in Music
• Animated Interview: The Great Ray Charles on Being Himself and Singing True, 08 Oct 2013 in Animation&Music
• Violinist Nigel Kennedy Joins Young Palestinian Musicians for an Exotic Version of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, 07 Oct 2013 in Music
• Jean Genet, France’s Outlaw Poet, Revealed in a Rare 1981 Interview, 03 Oct 2013 in Literature
• Richard Dawkins and Jon Stewart Debate Whether Science or Religion Will Destroy Civilization, 02 Oct 2013 in Religion&Science
• The Stunt That Got Elvis Costello Banned From Saturday Night Live (1977), 27 Sep 2013 in Music&Television
• Steve Jobs on the Rise of the Personal Computer: A Rare 1990 Interview, 26 Sep 2013 in Apple&Business&Technology
• The Evolution of the Rock Guitar Solo: 28 Solos, Spanning 50 Years, Played in 6 Fun Minutes, 25 Sep 2013 in Music
• Discover Thomas Jefferson’s Cut-and-Paste Version of the Bible, and Read the Curious Edition Online, 24 Sep 2013 in History&Religion
• John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme, 23 Sep 2013 in Jazz&Music
• Visualizing Slavery: The Map Abraham Lincoln Spent Hours Studying During the Civil War, 13 Sep 2013 in History
• René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Advertising Posters, 1924–1927, 12 Sep 2013 in Art
• Jack Kerouac Reads American Haikus, Backed by Jazz Saxophonists Al Cohn & Zoot Sims (1958), 11 Sep 2013 in Animation&Music&Poetry
• Nico, Lou Reed & John Cale Sing the Classic Velvet Underground Song ‘Femme Fatale’ (Paris, 1972), 09 Sep 2013 in Music
• Psychedelic Scenes of Pink Floyd’s Early Days with Syd Barrett, 1967, 06 Sep 2013 in Music
• Jacques Lacan’s Confrontation with a Young Rebel: Classic Moment, 1972, 04 Sep 2013 in Psychology
• Lenny Kravitz Overhears High School Kids Playing His Music and Surprises Them by Joining In, 02 Sep 2013 in Music
• The Art of Fugue: Gould Plays Bach, 31 Aug 2013 in Music
• Philosopher Portraits: Famous Philosophers Painted in the Style of Influential Artists, 29 Aug 2013 in Art&Philosophy
• John Lennon’s Raw, Soul-Baring Vocals From the Beatles’ ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ (1969), 28 Aug 2013 in Music
• Elton John Sings His Classic Hit ‘Your Song’ Through the Years, 27 Aug 2013 in Music
• John Searle Makes A Forceful Case for Studying Consciousness, Where Everything Else Begins, 26 Aug 2013 in Philosophy&TED Talks
• Fritz Lang’s M (1931), 25 Aug 2013 in Film
• Dexter Gordon Plays ‘Body and Soul’ in the Noted Film Round Midnight, 22 Aug 2013 in Film&Music
• Watch John Cleese as Sherlock Holmes in The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It, 20 Aug 2013 in Comedy
• Inside the Rhapsody: A Short Documentary on the Making of Queen’s Classic Song, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (2002), 19 Aug 2013 in Music
• Eric Clapton’s Favorite Guitar Solo: Duane Allman on Wilson Pickett’s 1968 Cover of the Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’, 15 Aug 2013 in Music
• Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock: Historic Concert Captured on Film, 14 Aug 2013 in Film
• Dueling Divas: Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick Sing Two Classic Versions of ‘I Say a Little Prayer’, 12 Aug 2013 in Music
• 14-Year-Old Girl’s Blistering Heavy Metal Performance of Vivaldi, 08 Aug 2013 in Music
• Francis Ford Coppola’s Handwritten Casting Notes for The Godfather, 07 Aug 2013 in Film
• 10 Tips From Billy Wilder on How to Write a Good Screenplay, 06 Aug 2013 in Film&Writing
• Thom Yorke’s Isolated Vocal Track on Radiohead’s 1992 Classic, ‘Creep’, 05 Aug 2013 in Music
• Classic Monty Python: Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw Engage in a Hilarious Battle of Wits, 31 Jul 2013 in Comedy&Literature
• Guitar Stories: Mark Knopfler on the Six Guitars That Shaped His Career, 30 Jul 2013 in Music
• Remembering J.J. Cale, Virtuoso Guitarist and Author of ‘Cocaine’ and ‘After Midnight,’ with a 1979 Concert, 28 Jul 2013 in Music
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Unveils a Dazzling Preview of the New Cosmos, 27 Jul 2013 in Astronomy&Science&Television
• The First Bloomsday: Watch Dublin’s Literati Celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses in Drunken Fashion, 1954, 25 Jul 2013 in History&Literature
• Are the Rich Jerks? See the Science, 24 Jul 2013 in Economics&Psychology&UC Berkeley
• Rare 1910 Audio: Sarah Bernhardt, ‘The Most Famous Actress the World Has Ever Known,’ in Racine’s Phèdre, 23 Jul 2013 in Literature&Theatre
• The Feud Continues: Noam Chomsky Responds to Žižek, Describes Remarks as ‘Sheer Fantasy’, 22 Jul 2013 in Philosophy&Politics
• John Updike’s Advice to Young Writers: ‘Reserve an Hour a Day’, 20 Jul 2013 in Literature&Writing
• Watch Out For the Flying Folding Chairs, It’s The Noam Chomsky Show!, 18 Jul 2013 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Slavoj Žižek Responds to Noam Chomsky: ‘I Don’t Know a Guy Who Was So Often Empirically Wrong’, 17 Jul 2013 in Philosophy&Politics
• Nirvana Plays in a Radio Shack, the Day After Recording its First Demo Tape (1988), 16 Jul 2013 in Music
• The Writing Life of Joyce Carol Oates, 15 Jul 2013 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s … John Lydon in a Butter Commercial?, 13 Jul 2013 in Comedy&Music&Television
• Selling Cool: Lou Reed’s Classic Honda Scooter Commercial, 1984, 11 Jul 2013 in Film&Music&Television
• Johnny Rotten’s Cordial Letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Next to the Sex Pistols, You’re ‘a Piss Stain’, 10 Jul 2013 in Letters&Music
• Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Plot Device He Called the ‘MacGuffin’, 09 Jul 2013 in Animation&Film
• Marvin Gaye’s Classic Vocals on ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Version, 08 Jul 2013 in Music
• A Short Film on the Famous Crosswalk From the Beatles’ Abbey Road Album Cover, 05 Jul 2013 in Film&Music
• The Genius of Albrecht Dürer Revealed in Four Self-Portraits, 04 Jul 2013 in Art
• The Earliest Footage of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash (1955), 02 Jul 2013 in Music
• John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy, 01 Jul 2013 in Philosophy
• Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek and Lacan: Empty ‘Posturing’, 28 Jun 2013 in Philosophy
• The Beatles Perform in a Spoof of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1964, 27 Jun 2013 in Comedy&Television
• Louis Armstrong’s 1964 Interview with a Pair of Intrepid Kid Reporters, 26 Jun 2013 in Animation&Music&Radio
• Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot Perform Outlaw-Inspired Love Song, ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (1968), 24 Jun 2013 in Music&Television
• Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals, 19 Jun 2013 in Music&Radio
• Watch the Earliest Known Footage of Louis Armstrong Performing Live in Concert (Copenhagen, 1933), 18 Jun 2013 in Music
• The Ramones in Their Heyday, Filmed “Live at CBGB” (1977), 17 Jun 2013 in Music
• James Joyce Reads a Passage From Ulysses, 1924, 16 Jun 2013 in Books&Literature
• Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?: A Retrospective of His Influential Radio Appearances, 14 Jun 2013 in Philosophy&Radio
• The Extraordinary Life and Art of Henri Cartier-Bresson Revealed in 1998 Documentary, 14 Jun 2013 in Art&Photography
• Hear A Young Bob Dylan Sing 11 Songs and Tell Tall Tales on a 1962 Radio Show, 12 Jun 2013 in Music&Radio
• Listen to T.S. Eliot Recite His Late Masterpiece, the Four Quartets, 11 Jun 2013 in Poetry
• Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure,’ 1981, 04 Jun 2013 in Music
• Listen as Albert Einstein Calls for Peace and Social Justice in 1945, 03 Jun 2013 in History&Life&Physics
• Dexter Gordon’s Elegant Version of the Jazz Standard ‘What’s New,’ 1964, 31 May 2013 in Music
• James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, Extols Some Odd Virtues of Ronald Reagan in New Animated Video, 30 May 2013 in Animation&Music&Radio
• Eric Clapton’s Isolated Guitar Track From the Beatles’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (1968), 29 May 2013 in Music
• Hear the Classic Winnie-the-Pooh Read by Author A.A. Milne in 1929, 28 May 2013 in Books&Literature
• Leonard Cohen and U2 Perform ‘Tower of Song,’ a Meditation on Aging, Loss & Survival, 27 May 2013 in Film&Music
• Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica and Other Art-Adorned Vatican Spaces, 24 May 2013 in Architecture&Art&Religion
• Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer, 1934, 24 May 2013 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Tells the Story of the Classic Song, ‘Riders on the Storm’, 21 May 2013 in Music
• Keith Moon’s Last Interview, 1978, 20 May 2013 in Music&Television
• Duke Ellington’s Symphony in Black, Starring a 19-Year-old Billie Holiday in Her First Filmed Performance, 18 May 2013 in Film&Music
• 7 Nobel Speeches by 7 Great Writers: Hemingway, Faulkner, and More, 16 May 2013 in Books&Literature&Writing
• Dylan Thomas Sketches a Caricature of a Drunken Dylan Thomas, 15 May 2013 in Art&Poetry
• Frank Lloyd Wright Reflects on Creativity, Nature and Religion in Rare 1957 Audio, 14 May 2013 in Architecture&Art&Creativity&Religion
• Carl Jung Explains His Groundbreaking Theories About Psychology in a Rare Interview (1957), 13 May 2013 in Psychology
• Listen to The John Bonham Story, a Radio Show Hosted by Dave Grohl, 10 May 2013 in Music&Radio
• Rare 1952 Film: William Faulkner on His Native Soil in Oxford, Mississippi, 09 May 2013 in Film&Literature
• Tom Waits Sings and Tells Stories in Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna, a 1979 Austrian Film, 08 May 2013 in Film&Music
• Glenn Gould Offers a Strikingly Unconventional Interpretation of 1806 Beethoven Composition, 07 May 2013 in Music&Television
• Kurt Vonnegut to John F. Kennedy: ‘On Occasion, I Write Pretty Well’, 03 May 2013 in History&Literature