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• 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
• Twin Peaks Essentials to Get You Ready for the Debut of Season 3: A 55-Minute Refresher, Maps, Commercials & Behind-the-Scenes Footage & More, 19 May 2017 in Television
• Guillermo del Toro Creates a List of His 20 Favorite Art House/Criterion Films, 18 May 2017 in Film
• Huge Hands Rise Out of Venice’s Waters to Support the City Threatened by Climate Change: A Poignant New Sculpture, 17 May 2017 in Art&Science
• Edward Gorey Illustrates H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds in His Inimitable Gothic Style (1960), 16 May 2017 in Art&Literature&Sci Fi
• Hear the 10 Best Albums of the 1960s as Selected by Hunter S. Thompson, 15 May 2017 in Music
• Japanese Computer Artist Makes “Digital Mondrians” in 1964: When Giant Mainframe Computers Were First Used to Create Art, 12 May 2017 in Art&Technology
• How Filmmakers Tell Their Stories: Three Insightful Video Essays Demystify the Craft of Editing, Composition & Color, 11 May 2017 in Film
• How Good Are Your Headphones? This 150-Song Playlist, Featuring Steely Dan, Pink Floyd & More, Will Test Them Out, 10 May 2017 in Music
• How Hunter S. Thompson Gave Birth to Gonzo Journalism: Short Film Revisits Thompson’s Seminal 1970 Piece on the Kentucky Derby, 09 May 2017 in Film&Writing
• 30 Hours of Doctor Who Audio Dramas Now Free to Stream Online, 08 May 2017 in Radio&Sci Fi
• “Play Without Bitching About the Key,” and Other Humorous, Blunt Annotations Added to Musical Scores, 05 May 2017 in Music
• Watch “A Family Tree,” Jonathan Demme’s 1980s Sitcom Episode with David Byrne & Rosanna Arquette, 04 May 2017 in Film&Television
• A Three-Minute Introduction to Buckminster Fuller, One of the 20th Century’s Most Productive Design Visionaries, 03 May 2017 in Design&Technology
• A Hypnotic Look at How Japanese Samurai Swords Are Made, 02 May 2017 in History
• The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson: A 5‑Part Video Essay on the Auteur of Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and More, 01 May 2017 in Film
• Metamorfosis: Franz Kafka’s Best-Known Short Story Gets Adapted Into a Tim Burtonesque Spanish Short Film, 28 Apr 2017 in Film&Literature
• How Jonathan Demme Put Humanity Into His Films: From The Silence of the Lambs to Stop Making Sense, 27 Apr 2017 in Film
• Download 200+ Free Modern Art Books from the Guggenheim Museum, 26 Apr 2017 in Art&Books&Internet Archive
• Watch Teeny Tiny Japanese Meals Get Made in a Miniature Kitchen: The Joy of Cooking Mini Tempura, Sashimi, Curry, Okonomiyaki & More, 25 Apr 2017 in Food & Drink
• What Makes a Coen Brothers Movie a Coen Brothers Movie? Find Out in a 4‑Hour Video Essay of Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men & More, 24 Apr 2017 in Film
• Hear Four Hours of Music in Jim Jarmusch’s Films: Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins & More, 21 Apr 2017 in Film&Music
• Salvador Dalí Figurines Let You Bring the Artist’s Surreal Paintings Into Your Home, 20 Apr 2017 in Art
• Watch the First Chinese Animated Feature Film, Princess Iron Fan, Made Under the Strains of WWII (1941), 19 Apr 2017 in Animation&Film
• The Coffee Revolt of 1674: When Women Campaigned to Prohibit “That Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor Called COFFEE”, 18 Apr 2017 in Food & Drink&History
• Take a 16-Week Crash Course on the History of Movies: From the First Moving Pictures to the Rise of Multiplexes & Netflix, 17 Apr 2017 in Film&History
• Discover the “Lost” Final Scene of The Shining, Which Kubrick Personally Had Recalled and Destroyed, 14 Apr 2017 in Film
• How Quentin Tarantino Creates Suspense in His Favorite Scene, the Tension-Filled Opening Moments of Inglourious Basterds, 13 Apr 2017 in Film&Writing
• Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?: A 2‑Hour Debate with Neil Degrasse Tyson, David Chalmers, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark & More, 12 Apr 2017 in Philosophy&Science
• 138 Short Animated Introductions to the World’s Greatest Ideas: Plato, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir & More, 11 Apr 2017 in Animation&Education&History&Philosophy&Politics
• Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Very First Film, La Cravate, Based on a Novella by Thomas Mann (1957), 10 Apr 2017 in Film&Literature
• Watch Marcel Marceau Mime The Mask Maker, a Story Created for Him by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1959), 07 Apr 2017 in Dance&Film
• Steve Martin Teaches His First Online Course on Comedy, 06 Apr 2017 in Comedy&Education
• Graphic Designer Redesigns a Movie Poster Every Day, for One Year: Scarface, Mulholland Dr., The Graduate, Vertigo, The Life Aquatic and 360 More, 05 Apr 2017 in Art&Film
• Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future, 04 Apr 2017 in Film&Games&Sci Fi
• Richard Feynman’s “Notebook Technique” Will Help You Learn Any Subject–at School, at Work, or in Life, 03 Apr 2017 in Education&Productivity&Science
• The Philosophy of The Matrix: From Plato and Descartes, to Eastern Philosophy, 31 Mar 2017 in Film&Philosophy
• The Origins of Anime: Watch Free Online 64 Animations That Launched the Japanese Anime Tradition, 30 Mar 2017 in Animation&Film
• The Philosophy, Storytelling & Visual Creativity of Ghost in the Shell, the Acclaimed Anime Film, Explained in Video Essays, 29 Mar 2017 in Animation&Film
• Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf, 28 Mar 2017 in Art
• 200-Year-Old Robots That Play Music, Shoot Arrows & Even Write Poems: Watch Automatons in Action, 27 Mar 2017 in History&Technology
• Stream Loads of “City Pop,” the Electronic-Disco-Funk Music That Provided the Soundtrack for Japan During the Roaring 1980s, 24 Mar 2017 in Music
• How Orson Welles’ F for Fake Teaches Us How to Make the Perfect Video Essay, 23 Mar 2017 in Film
• Every Page of Depero Futurista, the 1927 Futurist Masterpiece of Graphic Design & Bookmaking, Is Now Online, 22 Mar 2017 in Books&Design
• How to Tell a Good Story, as Explained by George Saunders, Ira Glass, Ken Burns, Scott Simon, Catherine Burns & Others, 21 Mar 2017 in Radio&Writing
• Watch 70 Movies in HD from Famed Russian Studio Mosfilm: Classic Films, Beloved Comedies, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa & More, 20 Mar 2017 in Film
• Marshall McLuhan in Two Minutes: A Brief Animated Introduction to the 1960s Media Theorist Who Predicted Our Present, 17 Mar 2017 in Technology
• How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Illuminates the Central Problem of Modernity, 16 Mar 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• How Filmmakers Like Kubrick, Jodorowsky, Tarantino, Coppola & Miyazaki Use Color to Tell Their Stories, 15 Mar 2017 in Film
• See Japanese Musicians Play “Amazing Grace” with 273 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls–Then Learn How They Perform Their Magic, 14 Mar 2017 in Music&Technology
• How 1940s Film Star Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent the Technology Behind Wi-Fi & Bluetooth During WWII, 13 Mar 2017 in Film&History&Technology
• Memoranda: Haruki Murakami’s World Recreated as a Classic Adventure Video Game, 10 Mar 2017 in Literature&Video Games
• Akira Kurosawa’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death Finally in Production, Coming in 2020, 09 Mar 2017 in Film&Literature
• Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7‑Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the Youngster Perform for John F. Kennedy (1962), 08 Mar 2017 in Music
• All of the Music from Martin Scorsese’s Movies: Listen to a 326-Track, 20-Hour Playlist, 07 Mar 2017 in Film&Music
• Talking Heads Featured on The South Bank Show in 1979: How the Groundbreaking New Wave Band Made Normality Strange Again, 06 Mar 2017 in Music&Television
• Stream 8,000 Vintage Afropop Recordings Digitized & Made Available by The British Library, 03 Mar 2017 in Music
• Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will Wasn’t a Cinematic Masterpiece; It Was a Staggeringly Effective Piece of Propaganda, 03 Mar 2017 in Film&History
• Watch Umberto Eco Walk Through His Immense Private Library: It Goes On, and On, and On!, 02 Mar 2017 in Books
• What Is Apocalypse Now Really About? An Hour-Long Video Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam Masterpiece, 01 Mar 2017 in Film
• Arthur C. Clarke Creates a List of His 12 Favorite Science-Fiction Movies (1984), 28 Feb 2017 in Film&Sci Fi
• Petite Planète: Discover Chris Marker’s Influential 1950s Travel Photobook Series, 27 Feb 2017 in Books&Photography&Travel
• Kurt Vonnegut Gives a Sermon on the Foolishness of Nuclear Arms: It’s Timely Again (Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1982), 27 Feb 2017 in History&Politics&Technology&Theatre
• A Free Short Course on How Pixar Uses Physics to Make Its Effects, 24 Feb 2017 in Animation&Film&Technology
• Bertrand Russell Writes an Artful Letter, Stating His Refusal to Debate British Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley (1962), 23 Feb 2017 in History&Letters
• “Stop It and Just DO”: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Advice on Overcoming Creative Blocks, Written by Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse (1965), 22 Feb 2017 in Art&Creativity&Letters
• Slavoj Žižek Expounds on His Hatred of Teaching, Grading Papers, and Particularly Holding Office Hours, 21 Feb 2017 in Education
• Rarely Seen, Very Early Godard Film Surfaces on YouTube, 20 Feb 2017 in Film
• Japanese Priest Tries to Revive Buddhism by Bringing Techno Music into the Temple: Attend a Psychedelic 23-Minute Service, 17 Feb 2017 in Music&Religion
• Hayao Miyazaki Meets Akira Kurosawa: Watch the Titans of Japanese Film in Conversation (1993), 16 Feb 2017 in Animation&Film&Television
• How Machiavelli Really Thought We Should Use Power: Two Animated Videos Provide an Introduction, 15 Feb 2017 in History&Philosophy&Politics
• Martin Scorsese on How “Diversity Guarantees Our Cultural Survival,” in Film and Everything Else, 14 Feb 2017 in Film&Life
• The Velvet Underground’s John Cale Plays Erik Satie’s Vexations on I’ve Got a Secret (1963), 13 Feb 2017 in Music&Television
• Abstract: Netflix’s New Documentary Series About “the Art of Design” Premieres Today, 10 Feb 2017 in Design&Television
• Hunter S. Thompson Gets in a Gunfight with His Neighbor & Dispenses Political Wisdom: “In a Democracy, You Have to Be a Player”, 09 Feb 2017 in Life&Politics
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 375,000 Images of Fine Art Available Under a Creative Commons License: Download, Use & Remix, 08 Feb 2017 in Art
• David Foster Wallace on What’s Wrong with Postmodernism: A Video Essay, 07 Feb 2017 in Current Affairs&Television
• Discover the 1126 Books in John Cage’s Personal Library: Foucault, Joyce, Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Buckminster Fuller & More, 06 Feb 2017 in Books&Literature&Music&Philosophy
• Kraftwerk Plays a Live 40-Minute Version of their Signature Song “Autobahn:” A Soundtrack for a Long Road Trip (1974), 03 Feb 2017 in Music
• The Filmmaking of Martin Scorsese Demystified in 6 Video Essays, 02 Feb 2017 in Film
• John Cage Had a Surprising Mushroom Obsession (Which Began with His Poverty in the Depression), 01 Feb 2017 in Food & Drink&Music
• Watch “Geometry of Circles,” the Abstract Sesame Street Animation Scored by Philip Glass (1979), 31 Jan 2017 in Animation&Music&Television
• Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience Against Bad Governments Is Justified: An Animated Introduction, 30 Jan 2017 in History&Politics
• Meet Theda Bara, the First “Vamp” of Cinema, Who Revealed the Erotic Power of the Movies, 27 Jan 2017 in Film&History
• Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says, 26 Jan 2017 in Psychology
• Hear Jeremy Irons Read the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Available for a Limited Time), 25 Jan 2017 in Poetry&Radio
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut Visit the Afterlife & Interview Dead Historical Figures: Isaac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Eugene Debs & More (Audio, 1998), 24 Jan 2017 in History&Radio
• Before Siri & Alexa: Hear the First Attempt to Use a Synthesizer to Recreate the Human Voice (1939), 23 Jan 2017 in Technology
• 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels, UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More, 20 Jan 2017 in History
• Learn What Old Norse Sounded Like, with UC Berkeley’s “Cowboy Professor, Dr. Jackson Crawford, 19 Jan 2017 in History&Language Lessons
• An Animated Introduction to Theodor Adorno & His Critique of Modern Capitalism, 18 Jan 2017 in Philosophy
• David Lynch Explains How Meditation Boosts Our Creativity (Plus Free Resources to Help You Start Meditating), 17 Jan 2017 in Creativity&Film&Health
• Learn Digital Photography with Harvard University’s Free Online Course, 16 Jan 2017 in Online Courses&Photography
• How the World’s Oldest Computer Worked: Reconstructing the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, 13 Jan 2017 in Astronomy&History&Technology
• Mesmerizing GIFs Illustrate the Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery — All Done Without Screws, Nails, or Glue, 12 Jan 2017 in Animation&Architecture&Art
• How the French New Wave Changed Cinema: A Video Introduction to the Films of Godard, Truffaut & Their Fellow Rule-Breakers, 11 Jan 2017 in Film