In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.



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Music theory is often confused as being mostly about identification, but really - it's more about interpretation. Music Theory is an art. And it's an artform that is both valuable and practical for all musicians throughout their...

There are few people who love a good kazoo jam session more than Darla Shaw. The self-proclaimed lifetime learner, among other things, is in a kazoo band. She is a professor at Western Connecticut State University...

In a sun-filled church in Stamford, Connecticut, a small group of young students sit with their musical instruments. Among them are many instruments you'd expect to see in a classroom—like violins and...

In the words of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Music is the universal language of all mankind." For Tenor Saxophonist Dusty Rhodes, this is the anthem that he lives by.



Prior to embracing the magic of...

In this video, children are taken on an adventure through different historical periods, including the Baroque period. They learn about fashion, art, music, and important figures like Isaac Newton. The video emphasizes the importance of...

Music as a form of expression exists across all cultural and geographic barriers. It has been called the "universal language," but is it truly a language that is understood universally? How did it become so prevalent in societies across...

Join us in this lesson as we explain the difference between collective and plural nouns. Collective nouns are groups of nouns, like a family, a neighborhood, or a bouquet of flowers. Although there are many people or things together, we...

The marriage of Orpheus, the greatest of all poets and musicians, to Eurydice, a wood nymph, was heralded as the perfect union. Anyone could tell the couple was deeply in love. So when their wedding ceremony ended in Eurydice's untimely...

"Music is so much more than sound simply traveling through the ear," says sign language interpreter Amber Galloway-Gallego. In a spirited performance, musician and activist Madame Gandhi plays two songs -- "Top Knot Turn Up" and "Bad...

In recent years, Africans on the continent and in the diaspora have become leading voices in black culture – in music, film, fashion, social media, comedy and even our memes. When Grace Shutti was growing up, black culture usually...

In the words of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Music is the universal language of all mankind." For Tenor Saxophonist Dusty Rhodes, this is the anthem that he lives by.



Prior to embracing the magic of music, Dusty was at...

Solresol, Esperanto, Karinthy, Swift, & Defoe -- some extra linguistic tidbits about constructed languages, connected to our video about Music ( Thank you to all...

How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel of biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, musicians and writers, including leading bird scientists...