Happy birthday, Exile on Main St.

The Stones' album, Exile on Main St., was released on this date in 1972.

"Rocks Off"

Absorbed.

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed. 

- Michelangelo

From the BBC's series, Private Life of a Masterpiece, Michelangelo's David …

Live.

Spoken-word poet Sarah Kay was stunned to find she couldn’t be a princess, ballerina and astronaut all in one lifetime. In this talk, she delivers two powerful poems that show us how we can live other lives.

CONNECT

Turns.

Homer, Sloop, Nassau, 1899

… an imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

- William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Heaven.

My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support

The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy

And my brush as it drips continually

Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.

Michelangelo

NOVA's retrospective on the decades long restoration of Sistine Chapel.

Michelangelo's fresco technique explained …