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The Second Moment of Creation

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How Do We Look?

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What Is Art Good For?

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Civilizations

The Multitudes of the Displaced

For artist Ai Weiwei, the calamity of our time is the disaster of the multitudes of displaced. Those who are uprooted, through no fault of their own, and cast adrift on an infinite ocean of terror and despair.

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What Is Art Good For?
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52:50
Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
The Cult of Progress
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Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.
Color and Light
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52:44
Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
Paradise on Earth
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Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.
Renaissances
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Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
Encounters
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See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
God and Art
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Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
How Do We Look?
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Explore how we look at the human body in art.
The Second Moment of Creation
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity.
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