The Wall Street Journal
Peloton's Robin Arzon on the Future of Fitness
Robin Arzon, vice president for fitness programming at Peloton, and Gwen Bethel Riley, head of music at Peloton, discuss what the long-lasting effect of the pandemic will be on the workout industry, as well as how the company is fusing...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Howard Rheingold - Teachers Make a Difference
Rheingold was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, from 1964 to 1968. His senior thesis was entitled "What Life Can Compare with This? Sitting Alone at the Window, I Watch the Flowers Bloom, the Leaves...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Venturing into Visuals - Visual Techniques, Body Language, Text & Intertextuality (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
In today’s lesson, we’ll venture further into visual techniques. Grab your notes as we delve into the finer details of images, including body language and text. We’ve also thrown in some more complex techniques to help you get ahead...
Indigo Artbox
Wassily Kandinsky 60 Second Art History Lesson - MENA
Did you know Kandinsky had synesthesia and painted the colors that heard while he listened to music? Learn about Kandinsky and the time in which he created art.
Indigo Artbox
Indigo Artbox Sneak Peek
Learn about art history, get supplies delivered, and watch a how-to video to get you started making your own work of fine art.
Curated Video
Artistic Optical Illusions
This video explores the concept of optical illusions in art, highlighting how arrangements and compositions can deceive our perception. It showcases various examples, including images formed by branches and sidewalk art that create...
Curated Video
The Science and Applications of Black Lights
This video explains how black lights work and their various applications. Black lights emit long wave ultraviolet light, which is invisible to the human eye but causes certain objects, like phosphors, to glow.
Indigo Artbox
Paul Cezanne: 6 Minute Art History Video
Learn about Paul Cezanne, one of the greatest painters of our time.
Amor Sciendi
Bouguereau Vs. Renoir
Why are some artists popular in their time, but are forgotten later? We discuss this question by looking at Bouguereau and Renoir, two artists from the 1880's, and compare their styles set against the backdrop of the culture in which...
Indigo Artbox
How to draw with soft chalk pastels (using Degas for inspiration!)
Soft chalk pastels are a fun medium to try out. Learn how to draw and blend with them!
Curated Video
From Marine to Entrepreneur: Building Caskets as Therapy
The video features a man named Bill, who is a veteran suffering from PTSD, sharing his experience of finding solace in building caskets. Initially perplexed by his unusual hobby, his loved ones soon realize that building caskets provides...
Amor Sciendi
Perceiving Women: a Couple paintings by Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt is a great American Experessinist painting who lived in France. This is the story of how she played with the tropes of female representation in her work.
The Wall Street Journal
Inside the Work of Urs Fischer
Artist Urs Fischer talks about how he uses his sculptures to explore ideas about memory, scale and optical illusion.
The Art Assignment
Create a desktop monument.| Lee Boroson | The Art Assignment
In which we visit artist Lee Boroson in his summer studio in upstate New York, where he was hard at work on his exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened this week! Boroson assigns us to create a desktop monument.
Curated Video
New York: Great Art Cities Explained
Abstract Expressionism would emerge from a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These were artists who, like the surrealists before them had a profound interest in the unconscious mind. They produced work that may have been abstract but...
Makematic
Hand drawn selfies
Self-portraits are images that look outward and inward, revealing what we truly feel inside and displaying our personalities and interests. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create a hand-drawn selfie to explore self-identity and...
Curated Video
Joseph Henry Douglass: Changing America With Music
Classical violinist Joseph Henry Douglass helped empower the Black community through music and education at a time when Southern lawmakers were pushing back against the progress of Reconstruction.
Indigo Artbox
How to Draw & Paint With Watercolors
Learn simple tricks to draw a horse and paint with watercolor
Weird History
Behind The Scenes on MTV 'Cribs'
MTV Cribs was one of the most beloved and outrageous shows of the early '00s. From Mariah Carey's lavish, 11,000 square-foot penthouse to Redman's Staten Island shack, the show gave everyday people an inside glimpse of what it's really...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Conceptual Art
Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why? Let's learn about "Conceptual Art," where the idea is more important than the form.
Curated Video
Photorealism: The Art of Reproducing Reality
This video explores the art style of photorealism, where artists aim to recreate images and subjects in a way that appears incredibly realistic. It discusses the origins of photorealism and explains the techniques used by artists to...
Amor Sciendi
Kehinde Wiley and the Obama Portrait Explained
A history and analysis of Kehinde Wiley's presidential portrait of Barak Obama
Indigo Artbox
How to Paint Apples (using acrylic paints!)
Learn how to create dimensional forms using color and paint.