TED Talks
Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA
When the Museum of Modern Art's senior curator of architecture and design announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, "all hell broke loose." In this far-ranging, entertaining, and deeply insightful talk, Paola Antonelli...
TED Talks
Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web
Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that.
The Art Assignment
Art is Pretentious* | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
*and other things I learned about art from the internet.
The Art Assignment
Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA.
NASA
Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
ESA's (The European Space Agency) ExoMars rover is headed to the red planet in 2020, on a mission to search for signs of past or present life. One of its primary tools in this endeavor is MOMA, the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer. MOMA is...
Curated Video
The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained
In 1639 Japan closed its borders and cut itself off from the outside world. Foreigners were expelled, Western culture was forbidden, and Entering or leaving Japan was punishable by Death. It would remain that way for over 200 years. It...
Curated Video
Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained
Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal symbol...
Curated Video
Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night: Great Art Explained
Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old. Just seven years later, he would be dead. It was really his last four years where he developed the style we would come to know...
Bloomberg
La pequeña botella diseñada para dar felicidad
Apr.16-- Behind de Design es una serie de videos simples y concisos sobre el diseño de objetos de uso diario que no valoramos. Este episodio cuenta la historia de cómo un exmonje budista diseñó la botella de salsa de soja que vemos en...
Curated Video
Met Gala: Kardashian As Monroe, A Gilded Blake Lively
Kim Kardashian spent nearly $5 million on her Met Gala dress, which was originally worn by Marilyn Monroe.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Anouk Kruithof | Subconscious Travelling
Travel photographs, image circulation and obsolescence were on Anouk Kruithof's mind when she made 'Subconscious Travelling.' Hear Kruithof discuss the ideas behind this photographic installation, which began with her discovery of an...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bicycle Wheel' by Marcel Duchamp, 1951 | Mo Ma Education
A MoMA educator discusses how she teaches 'Bicycle Wheel' by Marcel Duchamp, 1951.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Carolee Schneemann, 'Up to and Including Her Limits'
Carolee Schneeman describes her piece Up to and Including Her Limits as being in discussion with Jackson Pollock. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Artists Experiment 2014: Mo Ma
What happens when the museum becomes a studio and the visitor becomes a collaborator? Learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Andres Jaque: Cosmo | Young Architects Program 2015
See how Andres Jaque and The Office for Political Innovation are redefining our relationship to water with COSMO, a 'movable artifact' made out of customized irrigation components. COSMO is this year's winner of The Young Architects...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ab Ex Ny: Mo Ma and Abstract Expressionism
Take the online course Modern and Contemporary Art: 1945-1989 to find out what happens next or experiment with Abstract Expressionist painting techniques in the online course, Materials and Techniques of Postwar painting.
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Khan Academy: Shitao, Returning Home
Met curator Joseph Scheier-Dolberg on journeying in Shitao's Returning Home, c. 1695. This gemlike work demonstrates both Shitao's mastery of the album format and his ability to innovate within it. Landscape scenes alternate with tightly...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Degas's Little Girl Practicing at the Bar
Met curator Cora Michael on awkwardness in Edgar Degas's Little Girl Practicing at the Bar, c. 1878-80. [2:17]
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Khan Academy: Cult Image of the God Ptah
Met curator Diana Craig Patch on language without words in Cult Image of the God Ptah, dating from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, c. 945-600 B.C.E. [2:40]
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Khan Academy: Curtain of the Tabernacle
Met curator Melanie Holcomb on the potency of images in Curtain of the Tabernacle, one of six illustrated leaves from the Postilla Litteralis (Literal Commentary) of Nicholas of Lyra, c. 1360-1380. [2:22]
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Khan Academy: Rossellino, Madonna and Child With Angels
Met curator Luke Syson on faith in Antonio Rossellino's Madonna and Child with Angels, c. 1455-60. [2:28]
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Khan Academy: Plaque With the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere
Met curator Peter Barnet on theatricality in Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere, c. 1115-20. [2:35]
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Khan Academy: Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus
Met curator Charles Little on miraculous beauty in Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus, made in Amiens, Picardy, France. [2:24]
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Khan Academy: Cristofori, Grand Piano
Met curator Bradley Strauchen-Scherer on intuition in Bartolomeo Cristofori's Grand Piano, 1720. [2:35]