Aesthetics and Art

Aesthetics and Ethics
Good Art versus Bad Art
Art and Taboo (Dalrymple)
Life is But a Dream: The effect of reductionism on art
The State of Poetry
Steiner: The power of fiction; Learning by Heart; Rudimentary Grammar of Unfathomable

Christian Aesthetics
Form and Content: Francis Schaeffer and Philip Yancey on Christian Art

1.Is Acting Risky for Actors?
2.Acting Revisited
3. How Acting Changes the Actor, Part I
4. How Acting Changes the Actor, Part II

The Scouring of the Shire; photo here and here.

The Scalpel and the Pen ; The Carapace of a Surgeon ; Humanizing Medicine (Richard Selzer)

Do you need to know anything about the artist? (more here)

Painting/Sculpture
Art and ID (Jackson Pollock)
Michelangelo
Vincent

Music
Johnny Cash; More Cash
Aaron Rosand

Film
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Third Man
Winged Migration, Winged Migration Again
The Return
La Strada
The Island
LOTR and the Joy of Goodness
Tristan and Isolde
The Third Miracle
The Secret of Roan Inish