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• The Beautiful, Innovative & Sometimes Dark World of Animated Soviet Propaganda (1925–1984), 20 Apr 2021 in Animation&Film&History&Politics
• How Pixar’s Movement Animation Became So Realistic: The Technological Breakthroughs Behind the Animation, 20 Apr 2021 in Animation&Film
• Exquisite Watercolors of Demons, Magic & Signs: Behold the Compendium Of Demonology and Magic from 1775, 16 Apr 2021 in Books&History&Religion
• Experience Footage of Roaring 1920s Berlin, Restored & Colorized with Artificial Intelligence, 15 Apr 2021 in Film&History
• Free Software Lets You Create Traditional Japanese Wood Joints & Furniture: Download Tsugite, 14 Apr 2021 in Architecture&Art
• The Decay of Cinema: Susan Sontag, Martin Scorsese & Their Lamentations on the Decline of Cinema Explored in a New Video Essay, 13 Apr 2021 in Film
• The Ingenious Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci Recreated with 3D Animation, 12 Apr 2021 in History&Technology
• Watch a Master Japanese Printmaker at Work: Two Unintentionally Relaxing ASMR Videos, 09 Apr 2021 in Art
• The Story of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Troubled (and Even Deadly) Sci-Fi Masterpiece, 08 Apr 2021 in Film
• A Long-Lost Soviet Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings Resurfaces on YouTube–and Tolkien Fans Rejoice (1991), 07 Apr 2021 in Literature&Television
• How Filippo Brunelleschi, Untrained in Architecture or Engineering, Built the World’s Largest Dome at the Dawn of the Renaissance, 06 Apr 2021 in Architecture&History
• The World of Wong Kar-Wai: How the Films of Hong Kong’s Most Acclaimed Auteur Have Stayed Thrilling, 05 Apr 2021 in Film
• The Rules of 100 Sports Clearly Explained in Short Videos: Baseball, Football, Jai Alai, Sumo Wrestling, Cricket, Pétanque & Much More, 05 Apr 2021 in Sports
• When the Indiana Bell Building Was Rotated 90° While Everyone Worked Inside in 1930 (by Kurt Vonnegut’s Architect Dad), 01 Apr 2021 in Architecture&History
• What Andrei Tarkovsky’s Most Notorious Scene Tells Us About Time During the Pandemic: A Video Essay, 31 Mar 2021 in Current Affairs&Film
• Hear J.S. Bach’s Music Performed on the Lautenwerck, Bach’s Favorite Lost Baroque Instrument, 30 Mar 2021 in History&Music
• The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art, 29 Mar 2021 in Art&Museums
• BirdCast: You Can Now Forecast the Migration of Birds Across the U.S. Just Like the Weather, 26 Mar 2021 in Maps&Nature
• How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries: Meet the Artists Who Create the Sounds of Fish, Spiders, Orangutans, Mushrooms & More, 25 Mar 2021 in Film&Nature&Television
• Explore a New Archive of 2,200 Historical Wildlife Illustrations (1916–1965): Courtesy of The Wildlife Conservation Society, 24 Mar 2021 in Art&Nature&Science
• The Mathematics Behind Origami, the Ancient Japanese Art of Paper Folding, 23 Mar 2021 in Art&Math&Technology&TED Talks
• How Edward Munch Signaled His Bohemian Rebellion with Cigarettes (1895): A Video Essay, 23 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• The Aesthetic of Anime: A New Video Essay Explores a Rich Tradition of Japanese Animation, 22 Mar 2021 in Animation&Television
• A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums, 18 Mar 2021 in Art&Technology
• The Bayeux Tapestry Gets Digitized: View the Medieval Tapestry in High Resolution, Down to the Individual Thread, 17 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• Listen to Wikipedia: A Web Site That Turns Every Wikipedia Edit Into Ambient Music in Real Time, 16 Mar 2021 in Music&Web/Tech
• The Letters of Mozart’s Sister Maria Anna Get Transformed into Music, 15 Mar 2021 in Music&Technology
• Google & Coursera Launch Career Certificates That Prepare Students for Jobs in 6 Months: Data Analytics, Project Management and UX Design, 12 Mar 2021 in Education&Google&Online Courses
• Rare Vincent van Gogh Painting Goes on Public Display for the First Time: Explore the 1887 Painting Online, 11 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• The Iconic Dance Scene from Hellzapoppin’ Presented in Living Color with Artificial Intelligence (1941), 10 Mar 2021 in Dance&Film&Technology
• John Cleese’s Very Favorite Comedy Sketches, 09 Mar 2021 in Comedy&Television
• Alexander Calder’s Archive Goes Online: Explore 1400 Works of Art by the Modernist Sculptor, 08 Mar 2021 in Archives&Art
• The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross & Banksy: Watch Banksy Paint a Mural on the Jail That Once Housed Oscar Wilde, 05 Mar 2021 in Art
• “The Cinematic Universe”: A Video Essay on How Films Cinematize Cities & Places, from Manhattan to Nashville, Rome Open City to Taipei Story, 05 Mar 2021 in Film
• Haruki Murakami Has Created New T‑Shirts Featuring Words & Imagery from Norwegian Wood, 1Q84 and More, 04 Mar 2021 in Books&Fashion
• The Last Interview Book Series Features the Final Words of Cultural Icons: Borges to Bowie, Philip K. Dick to Frida Kahlo, 03 Mar 2021 in Literature&Music
• Hear Brian Eno Reinvent Pachelbel’s Canon (1975), 01 Mar 2021 in Music
• Download 280 Pictographs That Put Japanese Culture Into a New Visual Language: They’re Free for the Public to Use, 26 Feb 2021 in Design&Language&Travel
• Flim: a New AI-Powered Movie-Screenshot Search Engine, 25 Feb 2021 in Film&Technology
• Watch Orson Welles’ Intoxicating Wine Commercials That Became an 80s Cultural Phenomenon, 24 Feb 2021 in Food & Drink&Television
• The Roman Roads of Gaul Visualized as a Modern Subway Map, 23 Feb 2021 in History&Maps
• The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others, 23 Feb 2021 in Writing
• Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly Gives 36 Lectures on Our Future World: Education, Movies, Robots, Autonomous Cars & More, 22 Feb 2021 in Education&Technology
• The Open Syllabus Project Visualizes the 1,000,000+ Books Most Frequently Assigned in College Courses, 18 Feb 2021 in Education
• Saint John Coltrane: The San Francisco Church Built On A Love Supreme, 17 Feb 2021 in Music&Religion
• Alfred Hitchcock Meets Jorge Luis Borges Borges in Cold War America: Watch Double Take (2009) Free Online, 16 Feb 2021 in Film&History
• Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television & Tells Dick Cavett about His Love of Old Tokyo & His Samurai Lineage (1981), 15 Feb 2021 in Film&Television
• Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story, 12 Feb 2021 in History&Politics&Technology
• A Tour of U.S. Accents: Bostonian, Philadelphese, Gullah Creole & Other Intriguing Dialects, 11 Feb 2021 in English Language&Language
• The Animations That Changed Cinema: The Groundbreaking Legacies of Prince Achmed, Akira, The Iron Giant & More, 10 Feb 2021 in Animation&Film
• Alan Watts Reads “One of the Greatest Things Carl Jung Ever Wrote”, 09 Feb 2021 in Photography&Religion
• How Norman Rockwell Used Photographs to Create His Famous Paintings: See Side-by-Side Comparisons, 09 Feb 2021 in Art&History&Photography
• Watch a Korean Master Craftsman Make a Kimchi Pot by Hand, All According to Ancient Tradition, 08 Feb 2021 in Art&Food & Drink&History
• The History of American Newspapers Has Been Digitized: Explore 114 Years of Editor & Publisher, “the Bible of the Newspaper Industry”, 05 Feb 2021 in Archives&History&Internet Archive&Magazines
• The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson & Beatles Producer George Martin Break Down “God Only Knows,” the “Greatest Song Ever Written”, 03 Feb 2021 in Music
• The Bauhaus Chess Set Where the Form of the Pieces Artfully Show Their Function (1922), 03 Feb 2021 in Art&Games&History
• Werner Herzog Discovers the Ecstasy of Skateboarding: “That’s Kind of My People”, 01 Feb 2021 in Film&Sports
• The Internet Archive Now Digitizing 1,000,000+ Objects from a Massive Cinema History Library, 01 Feb 2021 in Archives&Film&History&Internet Archive
• PBS American Masters Archive Releases 1,000+ Hours of Uncut, Never-Before-Seen Interviews: Patti Smith, David Bowie, Neil Young & More, 28 Jan 2021 in Archives&History&Television
• Watch John Cage Play His “Silent” 4′33″ in Harvard Square, Presented by Nam June Paik (1973), 27 Jan 2021 in Art&Music
• Algerian Cave Paintings Suggest Humans Did Magic Mushrooms 9,000 Years Ago, 27 Jan 2021 in Art&History&Psychology
• Rick Steves’ Europe: Binge Watch 11 Seasons of America’s Favorite Traveler Free Online, 26 Jan 2021 in Television&Travel
• A 10 Billion Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring: Explore It Online, 22 Jan 2021 in Art&Technology
• How to Make a Savile Row Suit: A Short Documentary from the Museum of Modern Art, 21 Jan 2021 in Fashion&Online Courses
• Brâncuși Captures His Sculpture & Life on Film: Watch Rare Footage Shot Between 1923–1939, 20 Jan 2021 in Art&Film
• How Levi’s 501 Jeans Became Iconic: A Short Documentary Featuring John Baldessari, Henry Rollins, Lee Ranaldo & More, 19 Jan 2021 in Fashion&History
• A Magical Look Inside the Painting Process of Studio Ghibli Artist Kazuo Oga, 18 Jan 2021 in Animation&Art
• Take a New Virtual Reality Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 Jan 2021 in Museums&Technology
• The CIA Has Declassified 2,780 Pages of UFO-Related Documents, and They’re Now Free to Download, 14 Jan 2021 in Sci Fi&Science
• A 16th-Century Astronomy Book Featured “Analog Computers” to Calculate the Shape of the Moon, the Position of the Sun, and More, 13 Jan 2021 in Astronomy&Books&History
• How Lava Lamps Help Secure the Internet, 12 Jan 2021 in Technology
• See Devo Perform Live for the Very First Time (Kent State University, 1973), 11 Jan 2021 in Music
• Flair Magazine: The Short-Lived, Highly-Influential Magazine That Still Inspires Designers Today (1950), 08 Jan 2021 in Design&History&Magazines
• How to Draw the Buddha: Explore an Elegant Tibetan Manual from the 18th-Century, 07 Jan 2021 in Books&History&Religion
• Animation Pioneer Lotte Reiniger Adapts Mozart’s The Magic Flute into an All-Silhouette Short Film (1935), 06 Jan 2021 in Animation&History&Music
• Rome’s Colosseum Will Get a New Retractable Floor by 2023 — Just as It Had in Ancient Times, 05 Jan 2021 in Architecture&History&Travel
• Discover Tokyo’s Museum Dedicated to Parasites: A Unique and Disturbing Institution, 04 Jan 2021 in Biology&Museums
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2021: The Great Gatsby & Mrs. Dalloway, Music by Irving Berlin & Duke Ellington, Comedies by Buster Keaton, and More, 01 Jan 2021 in Film&Literature&Music
• Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated Films, 31 Dec 2020 in Animation&Film
• How Martin Luther King Jr. Got C’s in Public Speaking–Before Becoming a Straight‑A Student and a World Class Orator, 30 Dec 2020 in Education&History
• The Power of Pulp Fiction’s Dance Scene, Explained by Choreographers and Even John Travolta Himself, 29 Dec 2020 in Dance&Film
• In 1896, a French Cartoonist Predicted Our Socially-Distanced Zoom Holiday Gatherings, 28 Dec 2020 in Comics/Cartoons&History&Magazines&Technology
• Stream 48 Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Broadcasts Featuring Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Ida Lupino & More (1930–1959), 25 Dec 2020 in History&Radio
• When Our World Became a de Chirico Painting: How the Avant-Garde Painter Foresaw the Empty City Streets of 2020, 24 Dec 2020 in Art&History
• Carl Sagan on the Importance of Choosing Wisely What You Read (Even If You Read a Book a Week), 23 Dec 2020 in Books
• Why David Sedaris Hates “The Santaland Diaries,” the NPR Piece that Made Him Famous, 22 Dec 2020 in Comedy&Literature
• Why Is Napoleon’s Hand Always in His Waistcoat?: The Origins of This Distinctive Pose Explained, 21 Dec 2020 in Art&History
• Three Amateur Cryptographers Finally Decrypted the Zodiac Killer’s Letters: A Look Inside How They Solved a Half Century-Old Mystery, 18 Dec 2020 in History&Math
• Salman Rushdie and Jeff Koons Teach New Courses on Art, Creativity & Storytelling for MasterClass, 17 Dec 2020 in Art&Creativity&Literature&Online Courses&Writing
• The Dune Graphic Novel: Experience Frank Herbert’s Epic Sci-Fi Saga as You’ve Never Seen It Before, 16 Dec 2020 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Literature&Sci Fi
• The Art of Movie Posters: View Online 40,000+ Movie Posters & Learn How They’re Made, 15 Dec 2020 in Art&Film
• Isaac Newton Theorized That the Egyptian Pyramids Revealed the Timing of the Apocalypse: See His Burnt Manuscript from the 1680s, 15 Dec 2020 in History&Religion
• Study Less, Study Smart: A Longtime Psych Professor Explains How to Study (or Do Any Intellectual Work) Effectively, 11 Dec 2020 in Education
• The Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery: A Kyoto Woodworker Shows How Japanese Carpenters Created Wood Structures Without Nails or Glue, 10 Dec 2020 in Architecture&Art
• A Biostatistician Uses Crochet to Visualize the Frightening Infection Rates of the Coronavirus, 09 Dec 2020 in Biology&Current Affairs&Health
• The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made, 08 Dec 2020 in Food & Drink&History&Technology
• Why Japan Has the Oldest Businesses in the World?: Hōshi, a 1300-Year-Old Hotel, Offers Clues, 07 Dec 2020 in History&Travel
• Watch “Jackson Pollock 51,” a Historic Short Film That Captures Pollock Creating Abstract Expressionist Art on a Sheet of Glass, 04 Dec 2020 in Art&Film
• A Look into the Wondrous Life & Expansive Work of the Late Jan Morris, Who Wrote the Entire World, 03 Dec 2020 in Books&Travel
• A 1913 Children’s Book Lampoons Duchamp, Picasso & Other Avant-Garde Artists: Read The Cubies’ ABC Online, 03 Dec 2020 in Art&Books&History
• What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like & How We Know It, 02 Dec 2020 in History
• Salvador Dalí Gets Surreal with 1950s America: Watch His Appearances on What’s My Line? (1952) and The Mike Wallace Interview (1958), 01 Dec 2020 in Art&Television
• Learn How to Play Chess Online: Free Chess Lessons for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Beyond, 30 Nov 2020 in Games&How to Learn for Free
• A Flying Car Took to the Skies Back in 1949: See the Taylor Aerocar in Action, 26 Nov 2020 in History&Technology
• A Mysterious Monolith Appears in the Utah Desert, Channeling Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 25 Nov 2020 in Art
• The Polygraph: The Proto-Photocopy Machine Machine Invented in 1803 That Changed Thomas Jefferson’s Life, 24 Nov 2020 in History&Technology&Writing
• The Geometry of Sound: Watch Artist Kenichi Kanazawa Make Amazing Geometric Designs Out of Sand, Using Sound Waves Alone, 23 Nov 2020 in Art&Physics
• David Lynch Explains How Simple Daily Habits Enhance His Creativity, 20 Nov 2020 in Creativity&Film&Life
• How Errol Morris Became Obsessed with — and Figured Out — the Truth of a Famous War Photograph, 19 Nov 2020 in History&Photography
• Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack, 18 Nov 2020 in Film&History&Music
• How Soy Sauce Has Been Made in Japan for Over 220 Years: An Inside View, 17 Nov 2020 in Food & Drink
• Watch Sassy Justice, the New Deepfake Satire Show Created by the Makers of South Park, 16 Nov 2020 in Comedy&Current Affairs&Technology&YouTube
• Experience a Video Painting of Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon That Has Soothed & Relaxed Millions of People, 13 Nov 2020 in Music
• Futurist from 1901 Describes the World of 2001: Opera by Telephone, Free College & Pneumatic Tubes Aplenty, 12 Nov 2020 in History&Magazines&Technology
• How the Beach Boys Created Their Pop Masterpieces: “Good Vibrations,” Pet Sounds, and More, 11 Nov 2020 in History&Music
• The Last Video Store: A Short Documentary on How the World’s Oldest Video Store Still Survives Today, 11 Nov 2020 in Film&History&Travel
• Watch the Making of Japanese Woodblock Prints, from Start to Finish, by a Longtime Tokyo Printmaker, 10 Nov 2020 in Art
• The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway & Other Auteurs, 06 Nov 2020 in Film
• The Meticulous, Elegant Illustrations of the Nature Observed in England’s Countryside, 05 Nov 2020 in Art&Books&Nature
• 40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library), 04 Nov 2020 in History&Maps
• Three Days in Twin Peaks: An In-Depth Journey Through the Evocative Locations of David Lynch’s TV Series, 03 Nov 2020 in Film&Television&Travel
• Before Creating the Moomins, Tove Jansson Drew Satirical Art Mocking Hitler & Stalin, 02 Nov 2020 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&History&Magazines
• The Legend of How Bluesman Robert Johnson Sold His Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads, 30 Oct 2020 in History&Music
• The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: Psychologist Daniel Goleman Explains the Power of Focus, 29 Oct 2020 in Neuroscience&Psychology
• A Glass Floor in a Dublin Grocery Store Lets Shoppers Look Down & Explore Medieval Ruins, 28 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History
• When Billy Idol Went Cyberpunk: See His Tribute to Neuromancer, His Recording Session with Timothy Leary, and His Limited-Edition Floppy Disk (1993), 27 Oct 2020 in History&Music&Technology
• The Craft of Writing Effectively: Essential Lessons from the Longtime Director of UChicago’s Writing Program, 27 Oct 2020 in Writing
• Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber, 23 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History&Nature
• “The Dark Side of the Moon” and Other Pink Floyd Songs Gloriously Performed by Irish & German Orchestras, 22 Oct 2020 in Music
• Tom Lehrer Releases His All of Catchy and Savage Musical Satire Into the Public Domain, 21 Oct 2020 in Music
• Take a Digital Drive Along Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Boulevard, the Famous Strip That the Artist Photographed from 1965 to 2007, 20 Oct 2020 in Architecture&History&Photography
• Watch Ridley Scott’s Controversial Nissan Sports Car Ad That Aired Only Once, During the Super Bowl (1990), 19 Oct 2020 in Film&Television
• Edward Hopper’s Creative Process: The Drawing & Careful Preparation Behind Nighthawks & Other Iconic Paintings, 16 Oct 2020 in Art
• Denmark’s Utopian Garden City Built Entirely in Circles: See Astounding Aerial Views of Brøndby Haveby, 15 Oct 2020 in Architecture&Design
• Werner Herzog Lists All the Languages He Knows–and Why He Only Speaks French If (Literally) a Gun’s Pointed at His Head, 14 Oct 2020 in Film&Language Lessons
• A Creepy 19th Century Re-Creation of the Famous Ancient Roman Statue, Laocoön and His Sons, 13 Oct 2020 in Art&History
• The David Lynch Retrospective: A Two Hour Video Essay on Lynch’s Complete Filmography, from Eraserhead to Inland Empire, 12 Oct 2020 in Film
• The Story of the SynthAxe, the Astonishing 1980s Guitar Synthesizer: Only 100 Were Ever Made, 09 Oct 2020 in History&Music&Technology
• Foreign Exchange Students Debate Whether American Teenagers Have Too Much Freedom (1954), 08 Oct 2020 in Education&History
• What Caused the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe?: A Brief Investigation into the Poet’s Demise 171 Years Ago Today, 07 Oct 2020 in History&Literature