Shea Hembrey sculpts dark matter in a new gallery show
Shea Hembrey is 100 artists in one. At TED2011, he shared how he staged an international biennial containing works from 100 artists … all of...
On our reading list: David Byrne’s book, How Music Works
Many people simply listen to music. Not David Byrne, the solo artist and former frontman of the Talking Heads. Even beyond making music, Byr...
Tips for thinking like a dancer, from acclaimed choreographer Wayne McGregor
[ted id=1527 width=560 height=315] What made Wayne McGregor want to become a choreographer? Onstage at TEDGlobal 2012, he revealed his two c...
Doodling at TEDxPittsburgh
As Sunni Brown explained in her TEDTalk “Doodlers, unite!,” doodling isn’t about distracting yourself from something boring — it actu...
A thousand times NO: Fellows Friday with Bahia Shehab
When art historian and scholar of Arabic script Bahia Shehab was asked to create a piece commemorating the centenary of the first exhibition...
8 mind-bending sculptures from Antony Gormley
[ted id=1551 width=560 height=315] Traditional Greek sculptors took a hunk of marble and, by chipping away at it, crafted the human form. An...
6 art installations by Candy Chang that make the viewer part of the piece
[ted id=1553] TED Fellow Candy Chang creates art installations that are interactive, in a chalk and marker sense of the word. In this talk g...
The music teacher you wish you had
Far too many of us still have flashbacks to piano lessons, when an uber-serious teacher would rap our knuckles after every wrong note. If on...
14 brilliant quotes on remixing
[ted id=1535] Art cannot be created or destroyed — only remixed. In a convincing talk from TEDGlobal 2012, director Kirby Ferguson exp...