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• The Beauty of Degraded Art: Why We Like Scratchy Vinyl, Grainy Film, Wobbly VHS & Other Analog-Media Imperfection, 29 Oct 2019 in Art&Film&Music
• Explore 1400 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh–and Much More–at the Van Gogh Museum’s Online Collection, 28 Oct 2019 in Art&Museums
• Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Get Re-Issued: The Occult Meets Surrealism in a Classic Tarot Card Deck, 26 Oct 2019 in Art&Books
• A Flowchart of Philosophical Novels: Reading Recommendations from Haruki Murakami to Don DeLillo, 25 Oct 2019 in Literature&Philosophy
• The Provocative Art of Modern Sketch, the Magazine That Captured the Cultural Explosion of 1930s Shanghai, 24 Oct 2019 in Art&History&Magazines
• The First Faked Photograph (1840), 22 Oct 2019 in History&Photography
• The Internet Archive Makes 2,500 More Classic MS-DOS Video Games Free to Play Online: Alone in the Dark, Doom, Microsoft Adventure, and Others, 21 Oct 2019 in Games&Internet Archive
• Banksy Launches a New Online Store: Make Purchases Through October 28, 18 Oct 2019 in Art
• The Politics & Philosophy of the Bauhaus Design Movement: A Short Introduction, 17 Oct 2019 in Art&Design&History&Politics
• How Magazine Pages Were Created Before Computers: A Veteran of the London Review of Books Demonstrates the Meticulous, Manual Process, 16 Oct 2019 in Design&History&Magazines
• Fight Club Came Out 20 Years Ago Today: Watch Five Video Essays on the Film’s Philosophy and Lasting Influence, 15 Oct 2019 in Film
• MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works, 15 Oct 2019 in History&MIT&Technology
• William Burroughs Meets Francis Bacon: See Never-Broadcast Footage (1982), 14 Oct 2019 in Art&Literature&Television
• H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds Becomes a New BBC Miniseries Set in Edwardian England, 14 Oct 2019 in Literature&Sci Fi&Television
• Where Did Human Beings Come From? 7 Million Years of Human Evolution Visualized in Six Minutes, 10 Oct 2019 in Biology
• Watch 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki Free Online: A Four Part-Part Documentary on the Unstoppable Japanese Animator, 09 Oct 2019 in Animation&Film
• Talking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and More, 08 Oct 2019 in Art&Design&Music
• 26-Year-Old Steve Jobs Debates the Utopian & Dystopian Promise of the Computer (1981), 08 Oct 2019 in History&Technology
• When Ted Turner Tried to Colorize Citizen Kane: See the Only Surviving Scene from the Great Act of Cinematic Sacrilege, 04 Oct 2019 in Film
• Metropolis Remixed: Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist Sci-Fi Classic Gets Fully Colorized and Dubbed, 02 Oct 2019 in Film&Sci Fi
• Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies, 01 Oct 2019 in Film
• The Japanese Fairy Tale Series: The Illustrated Books That Introduced Western Readers to Japanese Tales (1885–1922), 30 Sep 2019 in Art&Books
• Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain, 27 Sep 2019 in Archives&Books&Internet Archive
• A New Kurt Vonnegut Museum Opens in Indianapolis … Right in Time for Banned Books Week, 26 Sep 2019 in Literature&Museums
• The Proper Way to Eat Ramen: A Meditation from the Classic Japanese Comedy Tampopo (1985), 25 Sep 2019 in Film&Food & Drink
• “Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code, 24 Sep 2019 in Film
• A Brief History of the Great American Road Trip, 24 Sep 2019 in History&Travel
• Wes Anderson Explains How He Writes and Directs Movies, and What Goes Into His Distinctive Filmmaking Style, 23 Sep 2019 in Film
• Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Teaches a Course on Creativity & Leadership, 19 Sep 2019 in Fashion&Magazines&Online Courses
• Visit the Homes That Great Architects Designed for Themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius & Frank Gehry, 18 Sep 2019 in Architecture
• Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles & London, to Venice and New York, 17 Sep 2019 in Art&Travel
• How Sergio Leone Made Music an Actor in His Spaghetti Westerns, Creating a Perfect Harmony of Sound & Image, 16 Sep 2019 in Film&Music
• Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931), 13 Sep 2019 in Film&History&Sports
• Expressionist Dance Costumes from the 1920s, and the Tragic Story of Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt, 12 Sep 2019 in Dance&History
• American Cities Then & Now: See How New York, Los Angeles & Detroit Look Today, Compared to the 1930s and 1940s, 11 Sep 2019 in Architecture&History
• Watch an Archaeologist Play the “Lithophone,” a Prehistoric Instrument That Let Ancient Musicians Play Real Classic Rock, 10 Sep 2019 in History&Music
• Watch a Short 1967 Film That Imagines How We’d Live in 1999: Online Learning, Electronic Shopping, Flat Screen TVs & Much More, 09 Sep 2019 in Film&History&Technology
• Orson Welles Trashes Famous Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (“Egotism and Laziness”), Woody Allen (“His Arrogance Is Unlimited”) & More, 06 Sep 2019 in Film
• Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language”, 05 Sep 2019 in Education&Language Lessons&TED Talks
• The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutes, 04 Sep 2019 in Animation&History
• The Greatest Cut in Film History: Watch the “Match Cut” Immortalized by Lawrence of Arabia, 03 Sep 2019 in Film
• What Makes Guernica So Shocking? An Animated Video Explores the Impact of Picasso’s Monumental Anti-War Mural, 02 Sep 2019 in Art&History
• The Scandalous Painting That Helped Create Modern Art: An Introduction to Édouard Manet’s Olympia, 30 Aug 2019 in Art&History
• Ray Harryhausen’s Creepy War of the Worlds Sketches and Stop-Motion Test Footage, 29 Aug 2019 in Animation&Film
• Werner Herzog Narrates the Existential Journey of a Plastic Bag: Watch a Short Film by Acclaimed Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, 28 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Timeless Beauty of the Citroën DS, the Car Mythologized by Roland Barthes (1957), 27 Aug 2019 in History&Literature
• Why Should You Read Haruki Murakami? An Animated Video on His “Epic Literary Puzzle” Kafka on the Shore Makes the Case, 27 Aug 2019 in Animation&Books&Literature
• Why Route 66 Became America’s Most Famous Road, 23 Aug 2019 in History&Travel
• Where Zombies Come From: A Video Essay on the Origin of the Horrifying, Satirical Monsters, 22 Aug 2019 in Film
• The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders: A Tokyo Restaurant Where All the Servers Are People Living with Dementia, 21 Aug 2019 in Food & Drink&Neuroscience
• The Importance of Film Editing Demonstrated by the Bad Editing of Major Films: Bohemian Rhapsody, Suicide Squad & More, 20 Aug 2019 in Film
• Aldous Huxley Trips on Acid; Talks About Cats & the Secret of Life (1962), 19 Aug 2019 in History&Psychology
• Hear Laurie Anderson Read from The Tibetan Book of the Dead on New Album Songs from the Bardo, 16 Aug 2019 in Music&Religion
• People Pose in Uncanny Alignment with Iconic Album Covers: Discover The Sleeveface Project, 15 Aug 2019 in Music&Photography
• Philip K. Dick Tarot Cards: A Tarot Deck Modeled After the Visionary Sci-Fi Writer’s Inner World, 14 Aug 2019 in Literature&Sci Fi
• View/Download the Highest Resolution MRI Scan of a Human Brain, Revealing It as We’ve Never Seen It Before, 13 Aug 2019 in Neuroscience
• Hear Glenn Gould Celebrate the Moog Synthesizer & Wendy Carlos’ Pioneering Album Switched-On Bach (1968), 12 Aug 2019 in Music&Radio&Technology
• How to Focus: Five Talks Reveal the Secrets of Concentration, 09 Aug 2019 in Creativity&Life&Neuroscience&Psychology
• How Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Computer Code That Helped Save the Apollo Moon Landing Mission, 08 Aug 2019 in Computer Science&History&Technology
• Joyce Carol Oates Teaches a New Online Course on the Art of the Short Story, 07 Aug 2019 in Literature&Online Courses&Writing
• What the First Movies Really Looked Like: Discover the IMAX Films of the 1890s, 06 Aug 2019 in Film&History
• RIP D.A. Pennebaker: Watch Scenes from His Groundbreaking Bob Dylan Documentary Dont Look Back, 05 Aug 2019 in Film&Music
• The Authentic Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Watch a Performance Based on Original Manuscripts & Played with 18th-Century Instruments, 05 Aug 2019 in Music
• The Authentic Pachelbel’s Canon: Watch a Performance Based on the Original Manuscript & Played with Original 17th-Century Instruments, 01 Aug 2019 in Music
• How Quentin Tarantino Steals from Other Movies: A Video Essay, 31 Jul 2019 in Film
• How Ladies & Gentlemen Got Dressed in the 18th Century: It Was a Pretty Involved Process, 30 Jul 2019 in Fashion&History
• Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake, 29 Jul 2019 in History&Photography
• Martin Amis Explains How to Use a Thesaurus to Actually Improve Your Writing, 26 Jul 2019 in Literature&Writing
• Bryan Magee (RIP) Presents In-Depth, Uncut TV Conversations With Famous Philosophers, 26 Jul 2019 in Philosophy
• “I Saw the Future”: Rutger Hauer (RIP) Remembers His Most Memorable Role in Blade Runner, 24 Jul 2019 in Film
• Why 1999 Was the Year of Dystopian Office Movies: What The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space & Being John Malkovich Shared in Common, 24 Jul 2019 in Film&History
• The Velvet Underground Captured in Color Concert Footage by Andy Warhol (1967), 23 Jul 2019 in Film&Music
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Listens to John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space & Starts to Create Its Own Free Jazz, 22 Jul 2019 in Music&Technology
• Alexis de Tocqueville’s Prediction of How American Democracy Could Lapse Into Despotism, Read by Michel Houellebecq, 19 Jul 2019 in Books&History&Politics
• An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, 18 Jul 2019 in Books&Literature
• Beatles Songs Re-Imagined as Vintage Book Covers and Magazine Pages: “Drive My Car,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” & More, 17 Jul 2019 in Books&Design&Music
• The Principles for Success by Entrepreneur & Investor Ray Dalio: A 30-Minute Animated Primer, 16 Jul 2019 in Life&Philosophy
• George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Praised as the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, Gets Digitized as Early Installments Enter the Public Domain, 15 Jul 2019 in Comics/Cartoons
• A Beautiful 1870 Visualization of the Hallucinations That Come Before a Migraine, 12 Jul 2019 in History&Science
• The Evolution of the World Map: An Inventive Infographic Shows How Our Picture of the World Changed Over 1,800 Years, 11 Jul 2019 in Maps
• Arnold Schoenberg, Avant-Garde Composer, Creates a System of Symbols for Notating Tennis Matches, 10 Jul 2019 in Music&Sports
• When MAD Magazine Ruffled the Feathers of the FBI, Not Once But Three Times, 09 Jul 2019 in Comedy&History&Magazines
• Download Beautiful Panoramic Paintings of U.S. National Parks by H.C. Berann: Maps That Look Even More Vivid Than the Real Thing, 08 Jul 2019 in Art&Maps&Nature
• The Walkman Turns 40: See Every Generation of Sony’s Iconic Personal Stereo in One Minute, 05 Jul 2019 in Music&Technology
• A Documentary Introduction to Nick Drake, Whose Haunting & Influential Songs Came Into the World 50 Years Ago Today, 03 Jul 2019 in Music
• How Sleep Can Become Your “Superpower:” Scientist Matt Walker Explains Why Sleep Helps You Learn More and Live Longer, 03 Jul 2019 in Health&TED Talks
• How to Read Many More Books in a Year: Watch a Short Documentary Featuring Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores, 02 Jul 2019 in Books&Travel
• Queen Guitarist Brian May Is Also an Astrophysicist: Read His PhD Thesis Online, 01 Jul 2019 in Astronomy&Music&Physics
• A Quick Six Minute Journey Through Modern Art: How You Get from Manet’s 1862 Painting, “The Luncheon on the Grass,” to Jackson Pollock 1950s Drip Paintings, 28 Jun 2019 in Art
• Deliberate Practice: A Mindful & Methodical Way to Master Any Skill, 27 Jun 2019 in Life&Productivity
• Watch Battered & Bruised Vintage Toys Get Mesmerizingly Restored to Near Mint Condition, 26 Jun 2019 in Design&History&K-12
• The Meandering Mississippi River and How It Evolved Over Thousands of Years Visualized in Brilliant Maps from 1944, 25 Jun 2019 in Maps
• Elvis Costello’s List of 500 Albums That Will Improve Your Life, 24 Jun 2019 in Music
• Hear a Previously Unheard Freddie Mercury Song, “Time Waits for No One,” Unearthed After 33 Years, 21 Jun 2019 in Music
• The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km”, 20 Jun 2019 in Astronomy&Design&Science
• When Stanley Kubrick Banned His Own Film, A Clockwork Orange: It Was the “Most Effective Censorship of a Film in British History”, 19 Jun 2019 in Film
• How the Universe Will Come to Its Explosive End: Trillions of Years Covered in 29 Timelapse Minutes, 18 Jun 2019 in Astronomy
• Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away Opens in China 18 Years After Its Original Release: See Beautiful New Posters for the Film, 17 Jun 2019 in Animation&Film
• Scenes from HBO’s Chernobyl v. Real Footage Shot in 1986: A Side-By-Side Comparison, 14 Jun 2019 in History&Television
• A Subway Map of Human Anatomy: All the Systems of Our Body Visualized in the Style of the London Underground, 13 Jun 2019 in Biology&Maps
• The Recorder Played Like You’ve Never Heard it Before: Hear a Stunning Solo from Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C Major, 12 Jun 2019 in Music
• Watch The Meaning of Life: One of the Best Animated Short Films Ever Made Traces the Evolution of Life, the Universe & Beyond, 11 Jun 2019 in Animation
• Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac, 10 Jun 2019 in Film
• How David Bowie Delivered His Two Most Famous Farewells: As Ziggy Stardust in 1973, and at the End of His Life in 2016, 07 Jun 2019 in Music
• When Kraftwerk Issued Their Own Pocket Calculator Synthesizer — to Play Their Song “Pocket Calculator” (1981), 06 Jun 2019 in Music&Technology
• 136 Maps Reveal Where Tourists & Locals Take Photos in Major Cities Across the Globe, 05 Jun 2019 in Maps
• The Giger Bar: Discover the 1980s Tokyo Bar Designed by H. R. Giger, the Same Artist Who Created the Nightmarish Monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, 04 Jun 2019 in Art&Food & Drink
• Why You Should Read The Master and Margarita: An Animated Introduction to Bulgakov’s Rollicking Soviet Satire, 03 Jun 2019 in Books&History&Literature
• The First Museum Dedicated to Japanese Folklore Monsters Is Now Open, 31 May 2019 in History
• Take a Visual Journey Through 181 Years of Street Photography (1838–2019), 30 May 2019 in History&Photography
• McDonald’s Opens a Tiny Restaurant — and It’s Only for Bees, 29 May 2019 in Food & Drink&Nature
• Andy Warhol Demystified: Four Videos Explain His Groundbreaking Art and Its Cultural Impact, 28 May 2019 in Art&History
• Why You Should Read Crime and Punishment: An Animated Introduction to Dostoevsky’s Moral Thriller, 27 May 2019 in Literature
• Johannes Kepler Theorized That Each Planet Sings a Song, Each in a Different Voice: Mars is a Tenor; Mercury, a Soprano; and Earth, an Alto, 24 May 2019 in Astronomy&Music&Science
• The Creative Life of Jim Henson Explored in a Six-Part Documentary Series, 23 May 2019 in History&Television
• The Strikingly Beautiful Maps & Charts That Fired the Imagination of Students in the 1880s, 22 May 2019 in Education&History&Maps
• The Bauhaus Bookshelf: Download Original Bauhaus Books, Journals, Manifestos & Ads That Still Inspire Designers Worldwide, 21 May 2019 in Art&Design&History
• Discover Kōlams, the Traditional Indian Patterns That Combine Art, Mathematics & Magic, 20 May 2019 in Art&Math&Religion
• What Did Etruscan Sound Like? An Animated Video Pronounces the Ancient Language That We Still Don’t Fully Understand, 17 May 2019 in History
• The Writing System of the Cryptic Voynich Manuscript Explained: British Researcher May Have Finally Cracked the Code, 16 May 2019 in Books&History
• Paris, New York & Havana Come to Life in Colorized Films Shot Between 1890 and 1931, 15 May 2019 in Film&History
• Would You Go Back to 1889 and Take Out Baby Hitler?: Time-Travel Expert James Gleick Answers the Philosophical Question, 14 May 2019 in History&Sci Fi
• Oliver Sacks’ Recommended Reading List of 46 Books: From Plants and Neuroscience, to Poetry and the Prose of Nabokov, 13 May 2019 in Books&Neuroscience
• Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Creates a Short Film for NASA to Recruit New Astronauts (1977), 10 May 2019 in Science&Television
• What is Camp? When the “Good Taste of Bad Taste” Becomes an Aesthetic, 09 May 2019 in Fashion
• What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions to Postmodernism, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Marxist Literary Criticism and More, 08 May 2019 in Philosophy
• How David Bowie Used William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method to Write His Unforgettable Lyrics, 07 May 2019 in Art&Music
• The Rise and Fall of Western Empires Visualized Through the Artful Metaphor of Cell Division, 06 May 2019 in Animation&History
• How to Make a Medieval Manuscript: An Introduction in 7 Videos, 03 May 2019 in Books&History
• The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film, 02 May 2019 in History
• Watch Six New Short Alien Films: Created to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Film, 01 May 2019 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Cast of Avengers: Endgame Rendered in Traditional Japanese Ukiyo‑e Style, 30 Apr 2019 in Art&Film
• Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations: “It Is Almost a Crime to Allow Your Child to Go Unimmunised”, 29 Apr 2019 in Life&Science
• Watch the Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack Released Only in Japan: A New Way to Experience David Lynch’s Classic Show, 29 Apr 2019 in Music&Television
• Trivial Pursuit: The Shakespeare Edition Has Just Been Released: Answer 600 Questions Based on the Life & Works of William Shakespeare, 26 Apr 2019 in History&Literature&Theatre
• Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World), 25 Apr 2019 in Maps
• An Animated Introduction to H.P. Lovecraft and How He Invented a New Gothic Horror, 24 Apr 2019 in Literature
• The Daily Rituals of 143 Famous Female Creators: Octavia Butler, Edith Wharton, Coco Chanel & More, 23 Apr 2019 in Creativity&Productivity
• Enter, Explore, and Learn About Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson with a New Augmented-Reality App, 22 Apr 2019 in Art&Technology
• Climate Change Gets Strikingly Visualized by a Scottish Art Installation, 20 Apr 2019 in Art&Science