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• Hear The Rite of Spring Conducted by Igor Stravinsky Himself: A Vintage Recording from 1929, 04 Dec 2017 in Music
• What Are the Most Effective Strategies for Learning a Foreign Language?: Six TED Talks Provide the Answers, 01 Dec 2017 in Language Lessons&TED Talks
• Carl Van Vechten’s 9,000 Portraits of Great 20th Century Cultural Icons: Billie Holiday, Orson Welles, Dizzy Gillespie & Beyond, 30 Nov 2017 in History&Photography
• A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: From Easiest to Hardest, 29 Nov 2017 in Language Lessons
• Lou Reed Sings “Sweet Jane” Live, Julian Schnabel Films It (2006), 28 Nov 2017 in Film&Music
• How American Women “Kickstarted” a Campaign to Give Marie Curie a Gram of Radium, Raising $120,000 in 1921, 27 Nov 2017 in History&Science
• Hear The Cinnamon Bear, the Classic Holiday Radio Series That Has Aired Between Thanksgiving and Christmas for 80 Years, 24 Nov 2017 in Radio
• Watch At the Museum, MoMA’s 8‑Part Documentary on What it Takes to Run a World-Class Museum, 23 Nov 2017 in Art
• The 1991 Tokyo Museum Exhibition That Was Only Accessible by Telephone, Fax & Modem: Features Works by Laurie Anderson, John Cage, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard & Merce Cunningham, 22 Nov 2017 in Art&Technology
• 60-Second Introductions to 12 Groundbreaking Artists: Matisse, Dalí, Duchamp, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko & More, 21 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• Nine Tips from Bill Murray & Cellist Jan Vogler on How to Study Intensely and Optimize Your Learning, 20 Nov 2017 in Education&Life&Music
• How Seinfeld, the Sitcom Famously “About Nothing,” Is Like Gustave Flaubert’s Novels About Nothing, 17 Nov 2017 in Comedy&Literature&Television
• Beautiful & Outlandish Color Illustrations Let Europeans See Exotic Fish for the First Time (1754), 16 Nov 2017 in Books&History&Nature
• How a Korean Potter Found a “Beautiful Life” Through His Art: A Short, Life-Affirming Documentary, 15 Nov 2017 in Art
• What Makes a David Lynch Film Lynchian: A Video Essay, 14 Nov 2017 in Film
• Why Did Leonardo da Vinci Write Backwards? A Look Into the Ultimate Renaissance Man’s “Mirror Writing”, 13 Nov 2017 in Art&History&Writing
• Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video, 10 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• The Internet Archive “Liberates” Books Published Between 1923 and 1941, and Will Put 10,000 Digitized Books Online, 09 Nov 2017 in Books
• Watch a 17th-Century Portrait Magically Get Restored to Its Brilliant Original Colors, 08 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• 2,000+ Impressionist, Post-impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes Foundation, 07 Nov 2017 in Archives&Art
• The Elegant Mathematics of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Drawing: An Animated Introduction, 06 Nov 2017 in Art&History&Math
• The Thoth Tarot Deck Designed by Famed Occultist Aleister Crowley, 03 Nov 2017 in Art
• The Philosophy of Rick and Morty: What Everyone’s New Favorite Cartoon Has in Common with Albert Camus, 02 Nov 2017 in Comics/Cartoons&Philosophy&Television
• The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning Until the Startling End, 01 Nov 2017 in Art&Food & Drink
• Hear 14 Hours of Weird H.P. Lovecraft Stories on Halloween: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror” & More, 31 Oct 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Inksect: Award Winning Animation Envisions a Dystopian Future Without Books, Paying Homage to Kafka & Poe, 30 Oct 2017 in Animation&Books
• Three Huge Volumes of Stoic Writings by Seneca Now Free Online, Thanks to Tim Ferriss, 27 Oct 2017 in Philosophy
• Where Did the English Language Come From?: An Animated Introduction, 26 Oct 2017 in English Language&History
• Samuel L. Jackson Teaches Acting in a New Online Course, Drawing on His Iconic Pulp Fiction Performance & Others, 25 Oct 2017 in Film&Online Courses
• The Raven: a Pop-up Book Brings Edgar Allan Poe’s Classic Supernatural Poem to 3D Paper Life, 24 Oct 2017 in Books&Poetry
• How Saxophones Are Made: Two Short Films (Including One by Sesame Street) Take You Inside Saxophone Factories, 23 Oct 2017 in Music&Television
• New Digital Archive Puts Online 4,000 Historic Images of Rome: The Eternal City from the 16th to 20th Centuries, 20 Oct 2017 in Architecture&Archives&Art&History
• 2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the Internet Archive, 19 Oct 2017 in Architecture&Art&Books
• The Art of Hand-Drawn Japanese Anime: A Deep Study of How Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira Uses Light, 18 Oct 2017 in Animation&Film
• Ralph Steadman’s Hellish Illustrations for Ray Bradbury’s Classic Dystopian Novel, Fahrenheit 451, 16 Oct 2017 in Art&Books
• An Oral History of the Bauhaus: Hear Rare Interviews (in English) with Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & More, 13 Oct 2017 in Art&Design&History
• Napoleon’s Kindle: See the Miniaturized Traveling Library He Took on Military Campaigns, 12 Oct 2017 in Books&History
• The Existential Philosophy of Cowboy Bebop, the Cult Japanese Anime Series, Explored in a Thoughtful Video Essay, 11 Oct 2017 in Animation&Philosophy&Television
• An Animated Introduction to “the World’s Most Mysterious Book,” the 15th-Century Voynich Manuscript, 10 Oct 2017 in Books&History
• Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Japanese Craft of Repairing Pottery with Gold & Finding Beauty in Broken Things, 09 Oct 2017 in Art&History&TED Talks
• Hear Benedict Cumberbatch Read John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” and Other Great Works by Shakespeare, Dante & Coleridge, 07 Oct 2017 in Poetry
• How Marilyn Monroe Helped Break Ella Fitzgerald Into the Big Time (1955), 05 Oct 2017 in History&Music
• Three Blade Runner Prequels: Watch Them Online, 04 Oct 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Famously Controversial “Monty Hall Problem” Explained: A Classic Brain Teaser, 03 Oct 2017 in Math&Television
• 1,000+ Historic Japanese Illustrated Books Digitized & Put Online by the Smithsonian: From the Edo & Meji Eras (1600–1912), 02 Oct 2017 in Art&Books&History&Museums
• Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Vivid Illustrations of Jules Verne’s Around the Moon: The First Serious Works of Space Art (1870), 29 Sep 2017 in Art&Books&Sci Fi
• How Did the Egyptians Make Mummies? An Animated Introduction to the Ancient Art of Mummification, 28 Sep 2017 in History
• Watch the New Anime Prequel to Blade Runner 2049, by Famed Japanese Animator Shinichiro Watanabe, 27 Sep 2017 in Animation&Film
• Wes Anderson’s Cinematic Debt to Stanley Kubrick Revealed in a Side-By-Side Comparison, 26 Sep 2017 in Film
• Behold the “Book Wheel”: The Renaissance Invention Created to Make Books Portable & Help Scholars Study Several Books at Once (1588), 25 Sep 2017 in Books&History&Technology
• Watch the New Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Stop Motion Film, Isle of Dogs, Inspired by Akira Kurosawa, 22 Sep 2017 in Animation&Film
• The Smithsonian Design Museum Digitizes 200,000 Objects, Giving You Access to 3,000 Years of Design Innovation & History, 21 Sep 2017 in Art&Design&Museums
• Ridley Scott Walks You Through His Favorite Scene from Blade Runner, 20 Sep 2017 in Film
• New Study Reveals How the Neanderthals Made Super Glue 200,000 Years Ago: The World’s Oldest Synthetic Material, 19 Sep 2017 in History&Technology
• David Lynch Gives Unconventional Advice to Graduates in an Unusual Commencement Address, 18 Sep 2017 in Film
• Enter a Digital Archive of 213,000+ Beautiful Japanese Woodblock Prints, 15 Sep 2017 in Art
• Who Painted the First Abstract Painting?: Wassily Kandinsky? Hilma af Klint? Or Another Contender?, 14 Sep 2017 in Art&History
• A First Glimpse of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, Compared with the Real Freddie Mercury Performing at Live Aid in 1985, 13 Sep 2017 in Film&Music
• 1,000-Year-Old Illustrated Guide to the Medicinal Use of Plants Now Digitized & Put Online, 12 Sep 2017 in Books&History
• The Complex Geometry of Islamic Art & Design: A Short Introduction, 11 Sep 2017 in Art&Math
• Watch Werner Herzog’s Very First Film, Herakles, Made When He Was Only 19-Years-Old (1962), 08 Sep 2017 in Film
• Watch Steve Martin Make His First TV Appearance: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968), 07 Sep 2017 in Comedy&Television
• What Is Freedom? Watch Four Philosophy Animations on Freedom & Free Will Narrated by Harry Shearer, 06 Sep 2017 in Neuroscience&Philosophy
• Gustav Klimt’s Haunting Paintings Get Re-Created in Photographs, Featuring Live Models, Ornate Props & Real Gold, 05 Sep 2017 in Art&Photography
• The 100 Funniest Films of All Time, According to 253 Film Critics from 52 Countries, 04 Sep 2017 in Comedy&Film
• The Tokyoiter: Artists Pay Tribute to the Japanese Capital with New Yorker-Style Magazine Covers, 01 Sep 2017 in Art&Magazines
• Jared Leto Stars in a New Prequel to Blade Runner 2049: Watch It Free Online, 31 Aug 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Alice in Wonderland Gets Re-Envisioned by a Neural Network in the Style of Paintings By Picasso, van Gogh, Kahlo, O’Keeffe & More, 30 Aug 2017 in Art&Technology
• The Dune Coloring & Activity Books: When David Lynch’s 1984 Film Created Countless Hours of Peculiar Fun for Kids, 29 Aug 2017 in Coloring Books&Film
• The Roman Roads of Britain Visualized as a Subway Map, 28 Aug 2017 in History&Maps
• Three Charles Bukowski Books Illustrated by Robert Crumb: Underground Comic Art Meets Outsider Literature, 25 Aug 2017 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Literature
• The Web Site “Centuries of Sound” is Making a Mixtape for Every Year of Recorded Sound from 1860 to Present, 24 Aug 2017 in History&Music
• Hear What Music Sounds Like When It’s Created by Synthesizers Made with Artificial Intelligence, 23 Aug 2017 in Music&Technology
• Reality Is Nothing But a Hallucination: A Mind-Bending Crash Course on the Neuroscience of Consciousness, 22 Aug 2017 in Neuroscience&TED Talks
• Long Before Photoshop, the Soviets Mastered the Art of Erasing People from Photographs — and History Too, 21 Aug 2017 in History&Photography
• How TV Addles Kids’ Brains: A Short Film Directed by Godfrey Reggio (Maker of Koyaanisqatsi) & Scored by Philip Glass, 18 Aug 2017 in Film&Television
• The Color Palettes of Your Favorite Films: The Royal Tenenbaums, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner & More, 17 Aug 2017 in Film
• Hear 9 Hours of Hans Zimmer Soundtracks: Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight & Much More, 16 Aug 2017 in Film&Music
• Download 400,000 Free Classical Musical Scores & 46,000 Free Classical Recordings from the International Music Score Library Project, 15 Aug 2017 in Music
• An Online Guide to 350 International Art Styles & Movements: An Invaluable Resource for Students & Enthusiasts of Art History, 14 Aug 2017 in Art
• Video Essayist Kogonada Makes His Own Acclaimed Feature Film: Watch His Tributes to Its Inspirations Like Ozu, Linklater & Malick, 11 Aug 2017 in Architecture&Film
• Ray Bradbury Reveals the True Meaning of Fahrenheit 451: It’s Not About Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by TV”, 10 Aug 2017 in Books
• Free: A Crash Course in Design Thinking from Stanford’s Design School, 09 Aug 2017 in Design&Stanford
• Marshall McLuhan Explains Why We’re Blind to How Technology Changes Us, Raising the Question: What Have the Internet & Social Media Done to Us?, 08 Aug 2017 in Media&Technology
• What Happens When the Books in William S. Burroughs’ Personal Library Get Artistically Arranged — with His Own “Cut-Up” Method, 07 Aug 2017 in Art&Books
• Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account Goes Public, Revealing 600 New Photos & Many Strange Self-Portraits, 04 Aug 2017 in Art&Photography
• How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums, 03 Aug 2017 in Life&Music
• 3D Scans of 7,500 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Download & 3D Print Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More, 02 Aug 2017 in Art&History&Technology
• Métal hurlant: The Hugely Influential French Comic Magazine That Put Moebius on the Map & Changed Sci-Fi Forever, 01 Aug 2017 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Sci Fi
• Accidental Wes Anderson: Every Place in the World with a Wes Anderson Aesthetic Gets Documented by Reddit, 31 Jul 2017 in Design&Film&Photography
• When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s, 29 Jul 2017 in Literature&Poetry&Technology
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Illustrated by Salvador Dalí in 1969, Finally Gets Reissued, 27 Jul 2017 in Art&Books
• How Did Akira Kurosawa Make Such Powerful & Enduring Films? A Wealth of Video Essays Break Down His Cinematic Genius, 26 Jul 2017 in Film
• H.R. Giger’s Tarot Cards: The Swiss Artist, Famous for His Design Work on Alien, Takes a Journey into the Occult, 25 Jul 2017 in Art&Sci Fi
• Marshall McLuhan Predicts That Electronic Media Will Displace the Book & Create Sweeping Changes in Our Everyday Lives (1960), 24 Jul 2017 in Media&Television
• Where Do Ideas Come From? David Lynch, Robert Krulwich, Susan Orlean, Chuck Close & Others Reveal Their Creative Sources, 21 Jul 2017 in Creativity
• Archaeologists Discover the World’s First “Art Studio” Created in an Ethiopian Cave 43,000 Years Ago, 20 Jul 2017 in Art&History
• Infinite Escher: A High-Tech Tribute to M.C. Escher, Featuring Sean Lennon, Nam June Paik & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990), 19 Jul 2017 in Art&Film&Technology
• Hunter S. Thompson Chillingly Predicts the Future, Telling Studs Terkel About the Coming Revenge of the Economically & Technologically “Obsolete” (1967), 18 Jul 2017 in Books&Politics&Radio
• Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880–1918), 17 Jul 2017 in Art&History
• Watch Randy Newman’s Tour of Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard, and You’ll Love L.A. Too, 14 Jul 2017 in Architecture&Television&Travel
• Take an Online Course on Design & Architecture with Frank Gehry, 13 Jul 2017 in Architecture&Film
• 100 Years of Cinema: New Documentary Series Explores the History of Cinema by Analyzing One Film Per Year, Starting in 1915, 12 Jul 2017 in Film
• How Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Boyhood) Tells Stories with Time: Six Video Essays, 11 Jul 2017 in Film
• Are Stanley Kubrick Films Like Immersive Video Games? The Case of Eyes Wide Shut, 10 Jul 2017 in Film&Video Games
• Meet Clara Rockmore, the Pioneering Electronic Musician Who First Rocked the Theremin in the Early 1920s, 07 Jul 2017 in Music
• Behold Lewis Carroll’s Original Handwritten & Illustrated Manuscript for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1864), 06 Jul 2017 in Art&Books
• A Digital Archive of Soviet Children’s Books Goes Online: Browse the Artistic, Ideological Collection (1917–1953), 05 Jul 2017 in Books&History&K-12
• Christopher Lee Reads Four Classic Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1979), 04 Jul 2017 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Music from Jack Kerouac’s Classic Beat Novel On the Road: Stream Tracks by Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon & Other Jazz Legends, 03 Jul 2017 in Literature&Music
• Arnold Schoenberg Creates a Hand-Drawn, Paper-Cut “Wheel Chart” to Visualize His 12-Tone Technique, 30 Jun 2017 in Math&Music
• The Female Pioneers of the Bauhaus Art Movement: Discover Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Anni Albers & Other Forgotten Innovators, 29 Jun 2017 in Art&Design&History
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 140,000+ Artistic Images from Its Collections Available on Archive.org, 28 Jun 2017 in Art&Internet Archive&Museums
• David Sedaris Breaks Down His Writing Process: Keep a Diary, Carry a Notebook, Read Out Loud, Abandon Hope, 27 Jun 2017 in Writing
• Charles Darwin & Charles Dickens’ Four-Hour Work Day: The Case for Why Less Work Can Mean More Productivity, 26 Jun 2017 in Life&Productivity&Science&Writing
• The First Avant Garde Animation: Watch Walter Ruttmann’s Lichtspiel Opus 1 (1921), 23 Jun 2017 in Art&Film
• Blade Runner 2049’s New Making-Of Featurette Gives You a Sneak Peek Inside the Long-Awaited Sequel, 22 Jun 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• London in Vivid Color 125 Years Ago: See Trafalgar Square, the British Museum, Tower Bridge & Other Famous Landmarks in Photocrom Prints, 21 Jun 2017 in History&Photography
• A Crash Course on Soviet Montage, the Russian Approach to Filmmaking That Revolutionized Cinema, 20 Jun 2017 in Film
• Behold The Paintings of David Bowie: Neo-Expressionist Self Portraits, Illustrations of Iggy Pop, and Much More, 19 Jun 2017 in Art
• How to Build Leonardo da Vinci’s Ingenious Self-Supporting Bridge: Renaissance Innovations You Can Still Enjoy Today, 16 Jun 2017 in History&Physics
• Download 36 Dadaist Magazines from the The Digital Dada Archive (Plus Other Avant-Garde Books, Leaflets & Ephemera), 15 Jun 2017 in Art&Magazines
• Japanese Kabuki Actors Captured in 18th-Century Woodblock Prints by the Mysterious & Masterful Artist Sharaku, 14 Jun 2017 in Art&History
• Free Libraries Shaped Like Doctor Who’s Time-Traveling TARDIS Pop Up in Detroit, Saskatoon, Macon & Other Cities, 13 Jun 2017 in Books&Television
• Akira Kurosawa Names His 21 Favorite Art Films in the Criterion Collection, 12 Jun 2017 in Film
• What Is German Expressionism? A Crash Course on the Cinematic Tradition That Gave Us Metropolis, Nosferatu & More, 09 Jun 2017 in Art&Film
• Download 2,500 Beautiful Woodblock Prints and Drawings by Japanese Masters (1600–1915), 08 Jun 2017 in Art
• Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Manuscripts Now Digitized & Put Online, Revealing the Beat Poet’s Creative Process, 07 Jun 2017 in Poetry
• Hear the Musical Compositions of A Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess, and Download His Musical Scores for Free, 06 Jun 2017 in Music
• Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Now Digitized in High-Resolution and Available Online, 05 Jun 2017 in Magazines&Sci Fi&Science
• 20,000 Endangered Archaeological Sites Now Catalogued in a New Online Database, 02 Jun 2017 in History
• Animated GIFs Show How Subway Maps of Berlin, New York, Tokyo & London Compare to the Real Geography of Those Great Cities, 01 Jun 2017 in Data&Design&Maps
• The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”, 31 May 2017 in Art&History
• Watch Matthew McConaughey’s Audition Tape for Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, the Indie Comedy That Made Him a Star, 30 May 2017 in Film
• The Sounds of Blade Runner: How Music & Sound Effects Became Part of the DNA of Ridley Scott’s Futuristic World, 29 May 2017 in Film&Music
• The Story of Habitat, the Very First Large-Scale Online Role-Playing Game (1986), 26 May 2017 in Games&Technology
• Slavoj Žižek Names His 5 Favorite Films, 25 May 2017 in Film&Philosophy
• Hear 4+ Hours of Jazz Noir: A Soundtrack for Strolling Under Street Lights on Foggy Nights, 24 May 2017 in Film&Music
• How Famous Paintings Inspired Cinematic Shots in the Films of Tarantino, Gilliam, Hitchcock & More: A Big Supercut, 23 May 2017 in Art&Film
• Meet Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai Warrior, 22 May 2017 in Film&History