Random Talks

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. “Speak to the Heart” is David’s motto for an invitatio

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-thi… On first glance, the painting “Las Meninas” (“The Maids of Honor”) might not seem terri

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-his… Before we began putting art into museums, art mostly served as the visual counterpart t

Why did an Irish economist working for the EU in Tokyo end up making a powerful and incisive film about suicide in Japan? Simple: a friend and neighbo

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-origins… Can you imagine a party where every movement and every visual detail were governed by a

Professor Semir Zeki is Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL. He pioneered the study of the higher visual areas of the brain, and discovered the special

Nana Watanabe has a wide-angle lens on life. As a photographer, she has shot for iconic brands like Shiseido, Sony Music and Paris Vogue, and also exh

de Guadalupe is an independent performing artist, Arts Programmer, and a member of the SC Arts Commission’s Roster of Approved Artists for the A

The same forces that have fueled the the past year’s protests have reshaped the art world. Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in

VERBAL is a hiphop MC who has collaborated with a variety of musicians, including m-flo . He is a member of the famous rap group TERIYAKI BOYS® and ha

Imamaru Hayashiya – Paper Cutting Artist A paper-cutting entertainer in the vaudeville tradition, Imamaru Hayashiya is also a paper-cutting arti

The fusion of science and art opens doors to possibilities beyond our imagination. Experimental performance and talk by Yoko Shimizu, contemporary art

生きるとは何か？ 死ぬとは何なのか？ 花を通して「生」のあり方を探求する花道家のパフォーマンスです。 会場に立ち込めるバラの香りを想像して下さい。 花を通じて「生」のあり方を探求する 偶然出会った勅使河原宏氏の展覧会に衝撃を受け、華道を学び始めた上野氏。 「はないけ（花生け）」と称する創造と破壊を繰

The BABL project is a public intervention art work, combining a long established interest in the act of reading, emotional fluency, empathy and art as

Amin Bahari is an unpublished Sudanese comic artist-turned-animator and film director. Amin is currently a trainee in Emergency Medicine and animates

Shizuka Aoi – Dancer Shizuka Aoi tumbled into the world of gymnastics at the age of six and continued it until college, leaving a great record o