When You Need a Good Pilot: ‘Love Steering the Boat of Humanity’
It can be very dangerous to row a small boat on the high seas, especially as a storm approaches. The air becomes thick and sultry. Dense, dark thunderclouds press overhead, ...
03-27-2023
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Classical Sculpture and American Myth: Hiawatha
In the mid 19th-century, when the United States was still in search of its own artistic tradition, the sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (circa 1844–1907) traveled to the Old ...
03-25-2023
The War Stories of George Kaleel | Documentary
At the age of 100, World War II veteran George Kaleel tells his war stories in this documentary. Dustin Bass, co-founder of The Sons of History, and Jarred ...
03-23-2023
The Genius of Collaboration: Architect Julia Morgan’s Valuable Contributions
Sometime early in the 20th century a diminutive woman, smartly dressed in a modest dark suit, stepped onto a construction site. She was soft-spoken, but when she spoke, ...
03-20-2023
Elgin Marbles Should Not Be Loaned Back to Greece Until British Museum’s Ownership Accepted: Historian
One of the world's leading historians has rejected claims the Elgin Marbles were illegally removed from the Parthenon in Athens and has recommended they not be loaned back ...
03-20-2023
North Bend: A Late 19th-Century Home With Its History Intact
If rooms and furnishings could talk, the home referred to as North Bend in Charles City, Virginia, would be in perpetual chatter mode. Throughout its history, many significant ...
03-19-2023
Unraveling the Unicorn Tapestries
Perched atop a hill in the northern tip of Manhattan, The Met Cloisters is a jewel box museum filled with medieval European art treasures. One of its most ...
03-18-2023
Unabashed | Documentary
"Unabashed" is a compelling documentary from Xs in the Sky Films about Frank X. Panico and his journey from the gay lifestyle in Los Angeles to one of ...
03-18-2023
Successfully Navigating the Art of Landscape Painting
Montana-based landscape painter Jake Gaedtke’s first art museum visit astounded him, leaving him with a lifelong impression and a dream to fulfill. He can’t recall the paintings, but ...
03-16-2023
Honoring Parents, the Bedrock of Society
Western morality is based on 10 very old and very good rules for living: the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments (sometimes known as the Decalogue, or "Ten Words," are the ...
03-16-2023
Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Free Speech, and Modern Censorship
In 2020, a group of time-honored American novels including Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and ...
03-15-2023
A Knight’s Tale: Ronald Lauder’s Arms and Armor
Long before the “Night at the Museum” movie franchise, The Metropolitan Museum of Art made a dynamic Hollywoodesque “knight at the museum” film entitled “A Visit to the ...
03-14-2023
Abdiel and Lucifer on the Question of Freedom
What is freedom? Is freedom the ability to do whatever we want whenever we want? Or is freedom directly connected to our ability to control ourselves? Does freedom ...
03-12-2023
Art With a Higher Purpose: ‘The Ladder of Divine Ascent’
For centuries, Byzantine art acted like a compass, orienting the devout in their faith and, ultimately, guiding them to their salvation. The Byzantine artist painted in a specific ...
03-11-2023
Shen Yun’s Jisung Kim Seeks to Tell Timeless Stories Through Universal Art
The speed at which Shen Yun Performing Arts catapulted to world renown since stepping onto the performing arts scene in 2006 has sparked worldwide interest. Perhaps one of ...
03-11-2023
Quiet Explosions | Documentary
Learn how athletes, vets, and civilians with traumatic brain injury and PTSD are becoming healthy and healing their brains. A humanistic documentary about the journey of ten individuals ...
03-10-2023
Weed Your Garden: ‘Minerva Expelling the Vices From the Garden of Virtue’
It’s a hot summer day. A professor is preparing his lectures in his home office. He stretches and takes a much-needed break. He opens a window of his ...
03-9-2023
The Enduring Charm of the ‘Magic Flute’
In a distant land filled with magic and perils, a prince and his companion set out on a brave quest to free an imprisoned princess from the forces ...
03-9-2023
Australia Appoints First Nations Ambassador in Bid to ‘Progress Indigenous Rights Globally’
The Australian federal government has announced the country's First Nations ambassador in an attempt to elevate Indigenous rights to the world stage. The move comes as the Labor ...
03-9-2023
Natural Beauty: Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson
The Sun King, Louis XIV (1643–1715) launched haute couture, the business of fashion. It was a brilliant move. He made personal appearance important for social interaction. At court, ...
03-8-2023
What Plato’s ‘Myth of Er’ Tells Us Today
Plato is justly famous as one of the world’s greatest philosophers. Indeed, 20th-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead once commented that all Western philosophy is but “a series of footnotes to Plato.” ...
03-7-2023
Your Health: A Sacred Matter | Documentary
A comprehensive overview of the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health.
03-6-2023
Using Well the Power to Hurt: Sonnet 94 as a Reflection on Good Government
What does a poem have to do with governing a country, any country, our country? Shakespeare's Sonnet 94, while often interpreted as referring to the power of art ...
03-6-2023