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Ava DuVernay and Damian Woetzel

Featuring Ava DuVernay, Award-winning film and television director and activist in conversation with Damian Woetzel, Director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program.

BY New York Public Programs

Video

10.05.2017
Arts

Master of Science, Master of Art

A three-day celebration of Leonardo Da Vinci showed why curiosity about the world is an endlessly renewing principle in life.

Longform

10.01.2017
Arts

Finding My Creative Courage in North Korea

An excerpt from Aspen Ideas Festival scholar Welby Altidor's new book.

BY Welby Altidor

Blog Post

09.27.2017
Arts

Leonardo’s Legacy and the Nature of Genius

What did Leonardo’s artistic and scientific innovations ultimately yield for those who came after him?

BY Aspen Society

Video

08.14.2017
Arts

Leonardo’s Accidental Masterpiece: The Last Supper in Historical Context

This illustrated lecture will put the painting in the context of its times, revealing how Leonardo tells the biblical story of The Last Supper through a series of fascinating historical details.

BY Aspen Society

Video

08.14.2017
Arts

Science and Art: The Connection Between Leonardo’s Disciplines

How did Leonardo, who began his career as an artist and a technician in Verrocchio’s workshop in Florence, slowly transform himself into a scientist?

BY Aspen Society

Video

08.14.2017
Arts

Inside Leonardo's Mind: The Codices

In this two-part session, we will begin with an overview of the incredible world of the codices — the notebooks that Leonardo used to record thousand ...

BY Aspen Society

Video

08.14.2017
Arts

Lessons from Leonardo

Walter Isaacson discusses the lessons to take away from Leonardo Da Vinci's body of work.

BY Aspen Society

Video

08.14.2017
Arts

The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa began life in an orthodox manner, as a commissioned portrait of a bourgeois woman. From there, as confirmed by the technical examinations, it evolved into a “universal picture” embodying Leonardo’s science of art - optics, geology, anatomy, psychology, and also expressing the notion of the “beloved lady” as evoked in poetry from Dante onwards. We will explore the origin, details, and universal reaction to this historic work.

BY Aspen Society

Video

08.14.2017
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