The Art of Creating a Bonsai: One Year Condensed Condensed Into 22 Mesmerizing Minutes
To be a good writer, one must be a good reader. This is made true by the need to absorb and assess the work of other...
Category: Culture
The Mistake Waltz: Watch the Hilarious Ballet by Legendary Choreographer Jerome Robbins
So often mistakes are the most memorable part of live performance. In Jerome Robbins’ The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody), they’re built in. The portion set to Chopin’s Waltz...
The Psychology of Video Game Engagement — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #94 with Jamie Madigan
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_94_5-8-21.mp3 Why do people play video games, and what keeps them playing? Do we want to have to think through innovative puzzles or just lose ourselves...
What Is Contemporary Art?: A Free Online Course from The Museum of Modern Art
What is contemporary art? In this course from the Museum of Modern Art, you’ll explore this question through more than 70 works of art made from...
When Neil Young & Rick “Super Freak” James Formed the 60’s Motown Band, The Mynah Birds
At the height of Motown’s powers in the 1960s they were setting trends, not chasing them, but even that record company fell under the spell of...
The Origin of the Rooftop Concert: Before the Beatles Came Jefferson Airplane, and Before Them, Brazilian Singer Roberto Carlos (1967)
When did the first rooftop concert happen? Probably not long after construction of the first rooftop. How could early humans resist such an opportunity to project...
Download 1,000+ Beautiful Woodblock Prints by Hiroshige, the Last Great Master of the Woodblock Print Tradition
For 200 years, beginning in the 1630s, Japan closed itself off from the world. In its capital of Edo the country boasted the largest city in...
Who Designed the 1980s Aesthetic?: Meet the Memphis Group, the Designers Who Created the 80s Iconic Look
For those who remember the 1980s, it can feel like they never left, so deeply ingrained have their designs become in the 21st century. But where...
When Salvador Dalí Created a Surrealist Funhouse at New York World’s Fair (1939)
Only the violence and duration of your hardened dream can resist the hideous mechanical civilization that is your enemy, that is also the enemy of the...
Martin Scorsese Introduces Classic Movies: From Citizen Kane and Vertigo to Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind
In today’s cinema culture, there’s only one thing as reliably entertaining as watching a Martin Scorsese movie: watching Martin Scorsese talk about the movies of his...
