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• Bill Murray Reads Great Poetry by Billy Collins, Cole Porter, and Sarah Manguso, 22 Jul 2013 in Poetry
• Watch 25 Alfred Hitchcock Trailers, Exciting Films in Their Own Right, 19 Jul 2013 in Film
• Gertrude Stein Sends a “Review” of The Great Gatsby to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925), 18 Jul 2013 in Literature
• David Foster Wallace’s Love of Language Revealed by the Books in His Personal Library, 17 Jul 2013 in English Language&Literature
• Better Living Through Buckminster Fuller’s Utopian Designs: Revisit the Dymaxion Car, House, and Map, 16 Jul 2013 in Design&Technology
• World-Renowned Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Has a Laugh on Old Jews Telling Jokes, 15 Jul 2013 in Comedy
• Two Scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Recreated in Lego, 11 Jul 2013 in Film
• Three Great Films Starring Charlie Chaplin, the True Icon of Silent Comedy, 10 Jul 2013 in Comedy&Film
• Four American Composers: Peter Greenaway on John Cage, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Robert Ashley (1983), 09 Jul 2013 in Film&Music&Television
• George Orwell Explains How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea, 08 Jul 2013 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Charles Bukowski Sets His Amusing Conditions for Giving a Poetry Reading (1971), 06 Jul 2013 in Poetry
• The Relativity Series Features 24 Free Plays About Great Scientists and Scientific Endeavors, 04 Jul 2013 in Radio&Science
• Hearsay of the Soul: A 5‑Channel Video Installation by Celebrated German Filmmaker Werner Herzog, 03 Jul 2013 in Art
• Jump Start Your Creative Process with Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” Deck of Cards (1975), 02 Jul 2013 in Art&Creativity&Music&Random
• Watch “The Secret Tournament” & “The Rematch,” Terry Gilliam’s Star-Studded Soccer Ads for Nike, 01 Jul 2013 in Film&Sports&Television
• Jean-Luc Godard’s Debut, Opération béton (1955) — a Construction Documentary, 28 Jun 2013 in Film
• Wes Anderson’s First Short Film: The Black-and-White, Jazz-Scored Bottle Rocket (1992), 27 Jun 2013 in Film
• The World’s Best Commercials from 2012–2013 Named at Cannes, 26 Jun 2013 in Television
• Watch Monty Python’s “Summarize Proust Competition” on the 100th Anniversary of Swann’s Way, 25 Jun 2013 in Comedy&Literature&Television
• Japanese Movie Posters of 10 David Lynch Films, 24 Jun 2013 in Film
• “Notebook on Cities and Culture,” a Worldwide In-Depth Interview Podcast, Kickstarting Now, 23 Jun 2013 in Podcasts
• How to Make a Mummy — Demonstrated by The Getty Museum, 21 Jun 2013 in History
• Watch His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks’ Classic Screwball Comedy Starring Cary Grant, Free Online, 21 Jun 2013 in Film
• The Late James Gandolfini, Star of The Sopranos, Appears on Inside the Actors Studio (2004), 19 Jun 2013 in Life&Television
• Watch Dreams That Money Can Buy, a Surrealist Film by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger & Hans Richter, 19 Jun 2013 in Art&Film
• The Art of Punk, MOCA’s Series of Punk Documentaries, Begins with Black Flag: Watch It Online, 18 Jun 2013 in Art&Music
• Hear Charlton Heston Read Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, 17 Jun 2013 in Literature
• The Faces of Great Physicists on International Currency, 14 Jun 2013 in Economics&Physics
• The Greatness of Charles Darwin Explained with Rap Music, 13 Jun 2013 in Biology&Music
• 250,000 Artworks from 250 Museums, Now Viewable for Free at the Redesigned Google Art Project, 12 Jun 2013 in Art&Museums&Technology
• The National Gallery Makes 25,000 Images of Artwork Freely Available Online, 11 Jun 2013 in Art&Music&Technology
• David Byrne’s Graduation Speech Offers Troubling and Encouraging Advice for Students in the Arts, 10 Jun 2013 in Art&Education&Graduation Speech&Music
• Samuel L. Jackson Does a Dramatic Breaking Bad Monologue for Alzheimer’s Charity, 07 Jun 2013 in Television
• The Outspoken Ayn Rand Interviewed by Mike Wallace (1959), 06 Jun 2013 in Philosophy&Television
• The Philosophy of Nietzsche: An Introduction by Alain de Botton, 05 Jun 2013 in Philosophy
• Alfred Hitchcock Talks with Dick Cavett About Sabotage, Foreign Correspondent & Laxatives (1972), 03 Jun 2013 in Film&Television
• Carl Jung’s Fascinating 1957 Letter on UFOs, 31 May 2013 in Psychology
• Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #4, Visualized by the Great Music Animation Machine, 30 May 2013 in Music
• Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Visualized in a Computer Animation, 29 May 2013 in Animation&Music
• Black Coffee: Documentary Covers the History, Politics & Economics of the “Most Widely Taken Legal Drug”, 28 May 2013 in Food & Drink&Television
• Hear the Little-Known Version of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” With Experimental Cellist Arthur Russell, 27 May 2013 in Music
• Watch Another Green World, a Hypnotic Portrait of Brian Eno (2010), 24 May 2013 in Art&Music&Television
• Helen Keller Speaks About Her Greatest Regret — Never Mastering Speech, 23 May 2013 in History
• Modern Artists Show How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Coins, Vases & Artisanal Glass, 22 May 2013 in Art&History
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut’s Very First Public Reading from Breakfast of Champions (1970), 21 May 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse Film (1956), 20 May 2013 in Art&Film
• Photographer Revisits Abandoned Movie Sets for Star Wars and Other Classic Films in North Africa, 17 May 2013 in Film&Photography
• Haruki Murakami Translates The Great Gatsby, the Novel That Influenced Him Most, 16 May 2013 in Literature
• Ten Buildings That Changed America: Watch the Debut Episode from the New PBS Series, 15 May 2013 in Architecture&History&Television
• Henry Miller Talks Writing and the Expat Life with Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, and Others (1969), 14 May 2013 in Literature
• The Genius of Brian Eno On Display in 80 Minute Q&A: Talks Art, iPad Apps, ABBA, & More, 13 May 2013 in Art&Music
• Freiheit, George Lucas’ Short Student Film About a Fatal Run from Communism (1966), 10 May 2013 in Film
• Five Cultural Tours of Los Angeles, 09 May 2013 in Travel
• Growing Up John Waters: The Oddball Filmmaker Catalogues His Many Formative Rebellions (1993), 07 May 2013 in Film
• Revisit Martin Scorsese’s Hand-Drawn Storyboards for Taxi Driver, 06 May 2013 in Film
• Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven’s 9th in a Classic 1979 Performance, 04 May 2013 in iPad&iPhone&Music
• Watch D.O.A., Rudolph Maté’s “Innovative and Downright Twisted” Noir Film (1950), 03 May 2013 in Film
• Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline, 02 May 2013 in Harvard&Poetry
• Obey the Giant: Short Film Presents the True Story of Shepard Fairey’s First Act of Street Art, 01 May 2013 in Art&Film
• Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Animated in Two Minutes, 30 Apr 2013 in Animation&Literature
• No Women Need Apply: A Disheartening 1938 Rejection Letter from Disney Animation, 29 Apr 2013 in Animation
• Woody Allen Amuses Himself by Giving Untruthful Answers in Unaired 1971 TV Interview, 26 Apr 2013 in Comedy&Film&Television
• David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity, 25 Apr 2013 in Creativity&Film&Psychology
• Inside Breaking Bad: Watch Conan O’Brien’s Extended Interview with the Show’s Cast and Creator, 24 Apr 2013 in Television
• The Power of Food in Quentin Tarantino’s Films, 23 Apr 2013 in Film
• Salvador Dalí Creates a Dream Sequence for Spellbound, Hitchcock’s Psychoanalytic Thriller, 22 Apr 2013 in Film
• The Surreal Short Films of Louis C.K., 1993–1999, 19 Apr 2013 in Comedy&Film
• Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Gives Teenage Girls Endearing Advice About Boys (And Much More), 18 Apr 2013 in Music
• Abandoned Alternate Titles for Two Great Films: Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Hitchcock’s Vertigo, 17 Apr 2013 in Film
• Harvard Thinks Big 4 Offers TED-Style Talks on Stats, Milk, and Traffic-Directing Mimes, 16 Apr 2013 in Harvard
• The Always-NSFW Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes Catch Up in Jay and Silent Bob Get Old Podcast, 15 Apr 2013 in Film&Podcasts
• Tom Lehrer’s Mathematically and Scientifically Inclined Singing and Songwriting, Animated, 12 Apr 2013 in Math&Music&Physics
• A Shirtless Slavoj Žižek Explains the Purpose of Philosophy from the Comfort of His Bed, 11 Apr 2013 in Philosophy
• Alfred Hitchcock’s 7‑Minute Master Class on Film Editing, 10 Apr 2013 in Film
• Room 237: New Documentary Explores Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Those It Obsesses, 09 Apr 2013 in Film
• David Byrne Discusses Here Lies Love, His Disco Musical with Fatboy Slim on the Life of Imelda Marcos, 08 Apr 2013 in Music&Theatre
• The Two Roger Eberts: Emphatic Critic on TV; Incisive Reviewer in Print, 05 Apr 2013 in Film&Television
• 50 Film Posters From Poland: From The Empire Strikes Back to Raiders of the Lost Ark, 04 Apr 2013 in Film
• Borges: Profile of a Writer Presents the Life and Writings of Argentina’s Favorite Son, Jorge Luis Borges, 03 Apr 2013 in Literature&Television
• Nico Sings “Chelsea Girls” in the Famous Chelsea Hotel, 02 Apr 2013 in Film&Music
• Orson Welles Teaches Baccarat, Craps, Blackjack, Roulette, and Keno at Caesars Palace (1978), 01 Apr 2013 in Film&Life
• Read, Hear, and See Tweeted Four Stories by Jennifer Egan, Author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, 29 Mar 2013 in Literature
• Leonard Bernstein Demystifies the Rock Revolution for Curious (if Square) Grown-Ups in 1967, 28 Mar 2013 in Music
• The Best of Quentin Tarantino: Celebrating the Director’s 50th Birthday with our Favorite Videos, 27 Mar 2013 in Film
• Read and Hear Famous Writers (and Armchair Sportsmen) J.M. Coetzee and Paul Auster’s Correspondence, 26 Mar 2013 in Literature&Sports
• Philip K. Dick Previews Blade Runner: “The Impact of the Film is Going to be Overwhelming” (1981), 25 Mar 2013 in Film&Sci Fi
• Blade Runner: The Pillar of Sci-Fi Cinema that Siskel, Ebert, and Studio Execs Originally Hated, 22 Mar 2013 in Film&Sci Fi
• House of Earth: Hear Woody Guthrie’s Lost Novel, Published by Johnny Depp, as an Audio Book, 21 Mar 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• Ralph Ellison Reads from His Novel-in-Progress, Juneteenth, in Rare Video Footage (1966), 20 Mar 2013 in Literature
• Watch Brian Eno’s “Video Paintings,” Where 1980s TV Technology Meets Visual Art, 19 Mar 2013 in Art&Music
• The Life and Controversial Work of Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe Profiled in 1988 Documentary, 18 Mar 2013 in Photography&Television
• BBC Radio Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere Begins Saturday: A Preview, 15 Mar 2013 in Radio
• Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove: Documentary Reveals How a Cold War Story Became a Kubrick Classic, 13 Mar 2013 in Film
• Watch Powers of Ten and Let Designers Charles & Ray Eames Take You on a Brilliant Tour of the Universe, 12 Mar 2013 in Film
• Bertrand Russell on His Student Ludwig Wittgenstein: Man of Genius or Merely an Eccentric?, 08 Mar 2013 in Philosophy
• David Foster Wallace Breaks Down Five Common Word Usage Mistakes in English, 07 Mar 2013 in Education&English Language&Writing
• Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking & Arthur C. Clarke Discuss God, the Universe, and Everything Else, 06 Mar 2013 in Astronomy&Science&Television
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Some of the First Words Ever Spoken on Film .… and They’re Saucy Ones (1929), 05 Mar 2013 in Film
• Watch The Twilight Zone’s Pilot Episode, Pitched by Rod Serling Himself (1959), 04 Mar 2013 in Sci Fi&Television
• Arthur Conan Doyle Fills Out the Questionnaire Made Famous By Marcel Proust (1899), 01 Mar 2013 in Literature
• Take a Virtual Tour of the 1913 Exhibition That Introduced Avant-Garde Art to America, 28 Feb 2013 in Art&History&Museums
• An Oral History of Pulp Fiction: the Making of the Indie Film that Changed the Rules, 26 Feb 2013 in Film
• Listen to James Franco Read from Jack Kerouac’s Influential Beat Novel, On the Road, 25 Feb 2013 in Literature
• The Photographer Reveals the Philosophy, Techniques & Artistry of Edward Weston (1948), 22 Feb 2013 in Film&Photography
• Watch Huell Howser’s Decades of Television Travels Online. It’s California Gold!, 21 Feb 2013 in Television&Travel
• Hear Gertrude Stein Read Works Inspired by Matisse, Picasso, and T.S. Eliot (1934), 20 Feb 2013 in Literature&Poetry
• “Nothing Good Gets Away”: John Steinbeck Offers Love Advice in a Letter to His Son (1958), 19 Feb 2013 in Letters&Life&Literature
• In Under Three Minutes, Hans Rosling Visualizes the Incredible Progress of the “Developing World”, 18 Feb 2013 in Economics&Math
• David Lynch Talks About His 99 Favorite Photographs at Paris Photo 2012, 15 Feb 2013 in Photography
• From the Annals of Optimism: The Newspaper Industry in 1981 Imagines its Digital Future, 14 Feb 2013 in Technology&Television
• When Orson Welles Met H.G. Wells in 1940: Hear the Legends Discuss War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, and WWII, 13 Feb 2013 in Literature&Radio
• Alain de Botton Presents Ten Virtues for the Modern Day, 12 Feb 2013 in Life&Philosophy
• The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip, 11 Feb 2013 in Music
• How Spike Lee Got His First Big Break: From She’s Gotta Have It to That Iconic Air Jordan Ad, 08 Feb 2013 in Film&Sports
• Neil Gaiman Launches New Crowdsourced Storytelling Project (Sponsored by the New BlackBerry), 07 Feb 2013 in Literature&Technology
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian: Religious Satire, Political Satire, or Blasphemy?, 06 Feb 2013 in Comedy&Film&Religion&Television
• The Podcast History of Our World Will Take You From Creation Myths to (Eventually) the Present Day, 05 Feb 2013 in History&Podcasts
• Kansas City Confidential: The 1952 Noir Film Said to Inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, 04 Feb 2013 in Film
• Watch Paperman, A CGI Short from Disney that Looks and Feels Like Classic Handmade Animation, 01 Feb 2013 in Animation
• Read Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Free Online, 31 Jan 2013 in Literature
• A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Casting of The Godfather with Coppola, Pacino, De Niro & Caan, 30 Jan 2013 in Film
• James Taylor Performs Live in 1970, Thanks to a Little Help from His Friends, The Beatles, 29 Jan 2013 in Music&Television
• Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis Draws from the Life of Greenwich Village Icon Dave Van Ronk, 28 Jan 2013 in Film&Music
• Meet “Dashan,” the Canadian Comedian Who Achieved Accidental Stardom in China, 25 Jan 2013 in Comedy&Life
• “Moon Hoax Not”: Short Film Explains Why It Was Impossible to Fake the Moon Landing, 24 Jan 2013 in Film&Technology
• Watch Bill Murray Perform a Satirical Anti-Technology Rant (1982), 23 Jan 2013 in Comedy&Technology&Television
• John Hodgman’s Advice for Writers: The Competition is Insane, and Persistence Trumps Talent, 22 Jan 2013 in Writing
• Watch Häxan, the Classic Cinematic Study of Witchcraft Narrated by William S. Burroughs (1922), 21 Jan 2013 in Film
• Hear Lost Acetate Versions of Songs from The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966), 18 Jan 2013 in Music
• Watch Moving Short Films of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the “Blue House”, 17 Jan 2013 in Art
• Hannah Arendt’s Original Articles on “the Banality of Evil” in the New Yorker Archive, 16 Jan 2013 in Film&History
• Watch Raymond Chandler’s Long-Unnoticed Cameo in Double Indemnity, 15 Jan 2013 in Film&Literature
• The Very First Film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash, Starring Ballard Himself (1971), 14 Jan 2013 in Film&Literature&Television
• Tim Burton Shoots Two Music Videos for The Killers, 11 Jan 2013 in Film&Music
• Trains and the Brits Who Love Them: Monty Python’s Michael Palin on Great Railway Journeys, 10 Jan 2013 in Television&Travel
• Jacques Lacan Talks About Psychoanalysis with Panache (1973), 09 Jan 2013 in Philosophy&Psychology
• “The Value of Culture” Revealed in a New BBC Radio Series by Melvyn Bragg, 08 Jan 2013 in History&Podcasts
• An Anti, Anti-Smoking Announcement from John Waters, 07 Jan 2013 in Comedy&Film
• Lick the Star: Sofia Coppola’s Very First Film Follows a 7th-Grade Conspiracy (1998), 04 Jan 2013 in Film
• Saul Bass’ Advice for Designers: Make Something Beautiful and Don’t Worry About the Money, 03 Jan 2013 in Design