Ideas worth spreading

Painting

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Painting.

Video playlists about Painting

How art shapes conversation

Powerful art makes people talk. These TED Talks bring context and nuanced perspectives to subjects surrounding history, race, socioeconomics and more.

Using art history to examine modern day

Observe our modern times through the lens of art history with these compelling, masterful talks.

Talks about Painting

The community-building potential of the arts

Can you guess what's wrong with these paintings?

Artemisia Gentileschi: The woman behind the paintings

Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting

An illustrated kingdom of real, fantastical plants

Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Iseult Gillespie

How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe

The art forger who tricked the Nazis

Iseult Gillespie

Why is this painting so shocking?

Iseult Gillespie

Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend

Jordana Moore Saggese

The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Who decides what art means?

Touria El Glaoui

Inside Africa's thriving art scene

Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow

Can art amend history?

See all talks on Painting

Exclusive articles about Painting

Meet the artist who submerged Ariana Grande in a pool of paint

Painter Alexa Meade opens up about creativity, hair and what she learned from working on Ariana Grande’s “God Is a Woman.”

Posted Nov 2018

Gallery: Pretty poison

Artist and professor John Sabraw is turning industrial acid runoff into striking pigments and paints that could be used to save Ohio’s rivers and streams

Posted Jun 2017

Gallery: Maira Kalman’s girls standing on lawns

Who else but Maira Kalman would come up with a series of images dedicated to "girls standing on lawns"? Here, the artist explains her fascination with the subject matter, and shares some of her favorite paintings.

Posted May 2014

See all articles on Painting