Video-The Chief-Yuri Ancarani extracts a striking portrait of marble-“Marble quarries are places so unbelievable and striking, they almost feel like they are big theaters or sets,” says Yuri Ancarani, the filmmaker behind today’s excerpt from the documentary, Il Capo (The Chief), which follows a quarry boss as he guides his men through the extraction process, […]

Video-Jim Krantz’s Wild West-A conversation with photographer Jim Krantz regarding his work exploring the iconography of the American West. https://vimeo.com/120827543

Video-Coined: Book preview-The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us-author Kabir Sehgal casts aside our workaday assumptions about money and takes the reader on a global quest to uncover a deeper understanding of the relationship between money and humankind. More than a mere history of its subject, Coined probes the conceptual […]

Video-The Price We Pay-movie trailer-Director Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress) exposes the world of corporate malfeasance with this documentary about the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harboring profits in offshore havens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3bvuKuiaiI

Video-Interview with Demis Hassabis founder of Deep Mind where he discusses the potential of Artificial intellgience to solve some of biggest problems that humanity faces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lge-dl2JUAM

Video-Gateway to the Ganges-Daily life in the Indian holy cities of Rishikesh, Haridwar, and Devprayag. This region lies in the foothills of the Himalayas where the Ganges River descends from the mountains. http://vimeo.com/116044343

Video-A perspective on life by a ninety-nine year old man named Henri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myxiJ_Y3U0k

Video-Dogon Mask Dance- The dancers performed during the inauguration ceremony of Mali’s new President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita at the Stade du 26 Mars stadium in Bamako. The Dogon are an ancient tribe from Mali known for their elaborate ceremonial masks used for celebratory dances performed by the men of the tribe. Dogon masks are known […]

History is strewn with ruins left by the deliberate defacement of beautiful works of art, from religious iconography to priceless paintings. Historian Simon Schama looks at what drives people to perform such violent acts upon our most treasured objects   http://video.ft.com/2659425970001/Simon-Schamas-art-attack/Editors-Choice

Video-Bill Brandt (1904-83) the finest British photographer of modern times. He photographed with imagination, compassion and humour. His photographs show us the vivid interactions of social life and the realities of labour and class. He is a witness to the Depression of the 1930s and the Blitz of 1940. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yXmuVN_TxdU