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Ideas about Art - Collection of TED Talks from sculptors, painters, illustrators and photographers
Arts and Humanities Topics
- Abstract Expressionism
- African-Americans, portrayal in…
- African Dance
- afterlife
- agnosticism
- aliens
- amusement parks
- ancient cultures
- ancient musical instruments
- ancient Roman bath houses
- angels
- animal fighting events, ethics of
- animal testing, ethics of
- animation
- anime/manga
- anti-Semitism in literature
- art glass
- Arthurian legend
- Arts & Crafts movement
- atonement
- autobiography, art of
- bagpipes
- Bayeux tapestry
- beat poets
- Beatles, cultural impact
- bebop to hip-hop
- body piercing
- Bono (U2) activism
- Buddhism
- butoh
- carnivals & circuses
- carousels
- castrati
- celebrity
- censorship in journalism/of the media
- censorship in contemporary art
- cloning, ethics
- comic strips
- concrete poetry
- creationism vs. evolution
- Crusades
- cultural speech
- dance as meditation
- Dance of Death
- Day of the Dead
- Delphic Oracle
- demonology
- disinformation
- dragons & other mythical beasts
- ecology in art
- economic context of a novel
- ecopoetry/ecocriticism
- electronic music
- elegies
- embedded journalists
- epitaphs
- Esperanto
- euthanasia
- evil
- fairy tales
- faith healing
- fate
- Fauves
- feng shui
- fiber art
- free will
- Freudian interpretation
- fundamentalism
- fur fasion, ethics
- gargoyles
- ghosts and poltergeists
- Gnostics
- goddesses
- Golum
- Gothic
- graphic novels
- Guerrilla Girls
- Gullah dialect
- gypsies
- Harlem Renaissance
- heaven
- the hero in literature
- Hinduism
- hip hop culture
- hippies
- hipsters
- historic preservation
- history of the tuba, piano, etc.
- holy grail
- humor
- icons
- immortality
- incarnation
- Indigo children
- information theory (in literature)
- Islam
- jazz, contemporary
- Kabuki theater
- karma
- kinetic sculpture
- kissing customs
- klezmer music
- labyrinth in religion
- lace
- line, texture, color across the arts
- liturgy
- Lost Colony
- magic
- make-up--fashion or stage
- manners
- Mardi Gras
- media ethics
- meme
- method acting
- mime
- minimalism
- misinformation
- modern murals
- monasteries
- monsters in mythology
- morality
- mosaic, ancient & modern
- movies' influence on fashion
- mummies
- music festivals
- music therapy
- musical satire
- mystery plays
- mysticism
- myths, similarity across cultures
- Nation of Islam
- neo-romanticism
- Nihilism
- nirvana
- Nobel Prize
- nocturnes
- noh
- non-sexist language
- non-violence
- Nostradamus
- nymphs
- opera, contemporary
- organ transplant ethics
- otherkin
- paganism
- papacy
- plagiarism
- post-modern architecture
- priests and marriage?
- pyramids
- racism
- raku pottery
- rap lyrics as poetry
- "reality" tv--realistic?
- reincarnation
- religious holidays in various countries
- rhythm & blues
- right to privacy
- robots
- rose windows
- saxophone in the symphony
- science fiction
- Scientology
- serial music
- sin
- sitcom
- slang
- slanting in journalism
- snake-handling in religious practice
- social media
- social networking
- the soul
- space and place in literature
- speakeasy
- special effects in movies
- Stonehenge
- suffering
- sustainable design
- symbolism
- tabloid ethics
- tattoos
- textile arts
- Theater of the Absurd
- Third Stream music
- totem poles
- tramp art
- Transcendentalists
- trickster
- troubadours
- urban sculpture
- vampires
- Virginia authors
- vocal vibrato
- voodoo
- war--influence on arts
- witches
- women artists, musicians, writers
- women as priests
- women photographers
- women's roles in history
- world music
- yellow journalism
- yin/yang
- Zoroastrianism
