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This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com. In the summer of 2014, one of the world’s top nature photographers was on an expedition in the far north to document the changing Arctic. Paul Nickle...

https://blog.ted.com/paul-nickens-new-images-carry-a-dire-warning-about-climate-change/

Photographer Angélica Dass captures some of humanity’s truest colors through her portrait project Humanae, a catalogue of human skin color displayed as a simple, captivating collage of Pantone...

https://blog.ted.com/where-in-the-world-has-humanae-been/

A Sudanese high jumper towers over Rio de Janeiro, arching over a 25-story building in the Flamengo district. A triathlete plows through the waters of Botafogo Bay, mid-stroke, her wingspan as...

https://blog.ted.com/giant-olympic-athletes-take-flight-over-rio-in-jrs-latest-work/

The image itself looks laid back enough — a 20-year-old man in a hoodie and jeans, walking through New York City. Except that this image is 150 feet tall and pasted on a plaza near the Flatiro...

https://blog.ted.com/jrs-stunning-image-of-a-new-york-man-graces-the-cover-of-the-new-york-times-magazine/

Alexandre Farto spends his days creating towering works on the buildings of Lisbon and London — portraits of people that mirror urban decay, dissolving into scratches and splatters. Their stret...

https://blog.ted.com/street-artists-from-around-the-world-brought-together-virtually/

On the surface, the talk is “TED-like”: the round red carpet, the well-rehearsed speaker, the shadowy audience, the headset mic. But quickly, discordant elements begin to register: the strang...

https://blog.ted.com/a-satirical-ted-talk-inspired-by-dostoevsky-and-given-by-a-10-year-old/

More than a million people took to the streets of Paris yesterday to show solidarity against extremism and terrorism. And their eyes were on the eyes of Stéphane Charbonnier, the editor of the s...

https://blog.ted.com/stephane-charbonnier-eyes-courtesy-of-ted-prize-winner-jr/

. Artist Julie Freeman creates kinetic sculptures, compositions and animations from nature-generated data. Think: the motion of fish swimming, or the quiver of moths’ wings. This week, Freeman ...

https://blog.ted.com/data-becomes-art-in-julie-freemans-we-need-us/

Jean-Baptiste Michel has sold a small sculpture to the Whitney Museum of American Art. A major museum acquiring a piece—that’s a big moment for any artist. But this sculpture is the very fir...

https://blog.ted.com/jean-baptiste-sells-his-very-first-piece-of-art-to-the-whitney/

This portrait of a girl tells a story larger than the massive piece of vinyl it is printed on. Unfurled in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan, “#NotABugSplat” was created by a coll...

https://blog.ted.com/an-inside-out-portrait-that-delivers-a-message-to-drone-operators/

“It looks like it’s holding up the clouds.” “It’s like a sky jellyfish.” “I love how the light moves across it along with the sound.” These were some of the comments heard at TED2...

https://blog.ted.com/unnumbered-sparks-fly-through-the-sky-initiated-by-ted-attendees/

When TED Fellow Gabriel Barcia-Colombo saw an extraction of strawberry DNA for the first time, he was smitten. “I’d never thought about DNA being a beautiful thing before I saw it in this fo...

https://blog.ted.com/7-ways-to-have-fun-with-dna/

Janet Echelman is installing her new sculpture as we speak. Not in a gallery or on a pedestal, but instead soaring over the middle of downtown Vancouver. The installation involves cranes, hard ha...

https://blog.ted.com/janet-echelman-begins-installation-of-745-foot-sculpture-for-ted2014/

Aparna Rao makes the kind of art that makes you go “awwwwww,” even if you are the kind of person who would never make such a noise. In today’s talk, this TED Fellow shows us a gallery of a...

https://blog.ted.com/art-that-will-make-you-laugh-sketches-and-behind-the-scenes-images-from-aparna-rao/

Artist JR’s latest project turns the floor of the David H. Koch Theater, home of the New York City Ballet, into a swirl of bodies. For it, JR photographed the company’s dancers and assembled ...

https://blog.ted.com/jr-on-his-collaboration-with-the-new-york-city-ballet/

TED2014 Fellow Jorge Mañes Rubio is an artist and perpetual tourist who investigates invisible, forgotten places — Chinese cities submerged by the Three Gorges Dam Project, a little-known Paci...

https://blog.ted.com/how-to-build-a-micronation/

When the lights went down at TEDxMet, a TEDx event hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in October, anyone looking very closely could see a tiny light in the first row, casting a dim glow on ...

https://blog.ted.com/words-from-tedxmet-become-art/

Alicia Eggert makes kinetic sculptures that investigate the nature of language and time. Meanwhile, Ryan Holladay is a musical artist who creates sound-specific installations and GPS composit...

https://blog.ted.com/everything-you-are-looking-for-alicia-eggert/

When artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang first installed “Before I Die” — a public artwork that invites passers-by to share their life’s wishes on the side of an abandoned New Orleans build...

https://blog.ted.com/my-10-favorite-before-i-die-responses/

Jess Thom wants you to know that it’s okay to laugh. “You’re going to hear the words ‘biscuit’ and ‘hedgehog’ a lot in the next few minutes,” she says at the beginning of her tal...

https://blog.ted.com/a-qa-with-jess-thom-of-touretteshero/