12-18-2020

A 50th anniversay celebration of the release of The Velvet Underground's legendary LOADED; curated by Barvadon's Production Manager Stephen LaMarca with commentary by Barvadon Executive Director Chris Silva, Michael Nickerson and others. Click here to see more.

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these stories stand as timeless classics known in almost every culture in the world. Click here to see more.

This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Each lecture outlines the play so there is no assumption you have already read it, then goes on to try to understand its historical context and its dramatic legacy, drawing parallels with modern film and contemporary culture as well as with Elizabethan material. Click here to see more.

Follow along on this one-page PDF tutorial to learn how to draw a deer (or antelope as the file name claims). Click here to see more.

Bornholm Art Museum is situated about six kilometres north-west of Gudhjem in one of the most spectacular landscapes in Denmark. The museum’s floor space covering 4,000 m² is dispersed over three levels, following the natural slope of the terrain down to the rocky coast. The collection’s visual arts range chronologically from the early 19th century up to the present, and revolve around the painters of the “Bornholm School”, who worked on the island in the early 1900s. Click here to see more.

Listen to a live orchestra re-imagine the theme music to Tetris in Games in Concert 2, a concert which took place in 2007 in the Netherlands. Click here to see more.

Simple DIY gifts you can give to your friends and family...or yourself. Click here to see more.

Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. Click here to see more.

Join The Show Must Go On! this Friday, 12/18, at 7pm GMT, as they strut into the the smash hit musical, Kinky Boots. The musical, which is based on the 2005 British film, tells the story of Charlie (who just inherited a shoe factory from his father) as he develops a partnership with Lola, a night club drag queen, to produce a line of sturdy high-heeled boots to save his business. Stream will be available for 48 hours. Click here to see more.

Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots, and make virtual fireworks explode. The subjects you learn in school — math, science, computer science, and humanities — are used every day to create amazing movies at Pixar. This collaboration between Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy is sponsored by Disney. Click here to see more.

This short YouTube video by artist Rosemary Babikan features a "zentangle" which is a creative doodle type drawing exercise. There is no right way or wrong way to draw a zentangle piece, and this style of art is known to be relaxing and almost meditational. Click here to see more.