YouTube description: Artists have abandoned artworks for many reasons throughout history. Guest host John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks and explains why they resonate with him... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 3 weeks ago • 387 views • 9:42

YT description-Much of the information on the midnight paintings was obtained from this website which has a few more paintings I didn't mention. If you want to learn even more I encourage people to visit it. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,068 views • 11:53

YouTube description: It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 5:10

YouTube description: The hippie aesthetic owes a lot to Art Nouveau.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 6 months ago • 935 views • 5:41

YouTube description: It’s amazing what Anne Rosat can do with a pair of scissors. This 83-year-old artist has been depicting life in the Swiss Alps through the folk art known as papercutting for 50... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 7 months 4 weeks ago • 447 views • 2:58

https://youtu.be/h9AiJWk5QdU Dorothea Lange captured this iconic photo known as Migrant Mother in 1936. But who was the woman pictured? And how did she and her family feel about its existence in the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 396 views • 11:19

"... Step aboard Discovery and explore the space shuttle in 360. National Air and Space Museum and Google Arts & Culture have teamed up to bring a piece of Hubble’s history to life like never before.... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 9 months ago • 18 views • 6:55

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago • 214 views • 6:55

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 163 views • 20:41

YouTube description: Learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work. -- In 1925, Frida Kahlo was... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 149 views • 4:06

YouTube description: Micco and his older brother Samsoche (Seneca and Muscogee Creek), who perform together as the Sampson Brothers (https://sampsonbrosarts.com) are well known on powwow grounds and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 201 views • 4:21

YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 441 views • 5:13

I've heard a lot of discussions about Banksy, but this does a really good job of explaining it from all sides as well as giving it thorough philosophical and historical context. Good stuff.

YouTube description: Ruben Orozco Loza is an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a self-taught sculptor. He creates sculptures of celebrities and everyday people using modeling clay, silicone, resin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,425 views • 3:06

YouTube description: Sabra Kauka finds great joy in making the past present. A cultural practitioner on Kauai, she teaches Hawaiian children the arts of their ancestors, including kapa. In this physically... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 346 views • 4:13

YouTube description: At 15 years old, Tan Wei Tian already has a prolific 12 year opera career behind her. By day, she’s your average high school student, balancing schoolwork and friends; by night,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 295 views • 2:41

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 4 months ago • 415 views • 11:31

YouTube description: In 1958, scientists from Russia left a plastic bust of Vladimir Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, and as of 2007 it was still there. What does it mean? Guest host John... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 94 views • 8:10