Get Inspired
Wander freely. Explore wildly. The right inspiration tends to find you. You never know what might become your next muse.
Dog-Eared on the Bookshelf[##]
A Book of Luminous Things
Czeslaw Milosz
American Primitive
Mary Oliver
Art is Work
Milton Glaser
Blood, Bones, & Butter
Gabrielle Hamilton
Delights & Shadows
Ted Kooser
Essential Writings
Thich Nhat Hanh
Felicity
Mary Oliver
From the New World
Jorie Graham
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
In The Company of Women
ed. Grace Bonney
Innocents & Others
Dana Spiotta
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Simon Garfield
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
M Train
Patti Smith
Mr. Vertigo
Paul Auster
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
My Berlin Kitchen
Luisa Weiss
On Writing
Stephen King
Ooga-Booga
Frederick Seidel
Our Inner Ape: Why We Do What We Do
Franz de Waal
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Reclaiming Conversation
Sherry Turkle
Sculpting in Time
Andrey Tarkovsky
The Abundance
Annie Dillard
The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
ed. Arnold Rampersad
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The Gift
Hafiz; trns. Daniel Ladinsky
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Rise
Sarah Lewis
The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
eds. Jay Allison & Dan Gediman
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Viviane Maier, Street Photographer
ed. John Maloof
You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero
Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with The Universe
Yumi Sakugawa
Fave Films for the Queue[##]
3 Women
dir. Robert Altman
A Room With A View
dir. James Ivory
Atonement
dir. Joe Wright
Au Revoir Les Enfants
dir. Louis Malle
Big Night
dirs. Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott
Brideshead Revisited
dir. Jeremy Brock
Cinema Paradiso
dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Cold War
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Desk Set
dir. Walter Lang
Dogville
dir. Lars von Trier
Elizabeth
dir. Shekhar Kapur
Everlasting Moments
dir. Jan Troell
Fanny & Alexander
dir. Ingmar Bergman
Finding Viviane Maier
dirs. John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
Good Morning Vietnam
dir. Barry Levinson
I Am Love
dir. Luca Guardagnino
Ida
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Lazzaro Felice
dir. Alice Rohrwacher
M. Hulot's Holiday
dir. Jacques Tatí
Magnolia
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonlight
dir. Barry Jenkins
Orlando
dir. Sally Potter
Pina
dir. Wim Wenders
Roma
dir. Alfonso Cuarón
Summer With Monika
Ingmar Bergman
The Fall
dir. Tarsem Singh
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
dir. David Fincher
The Lives of Others
dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Lobster
dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
The Master
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
The Red Shoes
dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The Square
dir. Ruben Östlund
The Two Faces of January
dir. Hossein Amini
The Violin
dir. Francisco Vargas
The White Ribbon
dir. Michael Haneke
Three Coins in the Fountain
dir. John Negulesco
Three Colors Trilogy
dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
dir. Tomas Alfredson
To Catch a Thief
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Twelfth Night
dirs. Kenneth Branagh
Vanya on 42nd Street
dir. Louis Malle
What's Up, Doc?
dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Wise Blood
dir. John Huston
Albums on Repeat[##]
History: America's Greatest Hits
Warner Brothers, 1975
Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition
Miles Davis; Sony BMG, 1959
Rare & Unreleased
Aretha Franklin; Atlantic Recording Corp, 2007
Reich: The Four Sections
Steve Reich; Nonesuch Records, 2014
The Big Broadcast: 1920’s Jazz Recordings
Rivermont, 2005
The Dharma At Big Sur
John Adams; Nonesuch Records, 2006
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
Max Richter; Deutsche Grammophon, 2017
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Trouble
Ray LaMontagne; Stone Dwarf, 2004
Zomba Prison Project: I Will Not Stop Singing
Six Degrees Records, 2016
Hope Candy: Speeches and Ammo for Dark Days[##]
Online Goodie-Bag: Favorite Free Resources[##]
MIT’s Global Shakespeare Archive
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing 1972 BBC Special
IDEO’s Design View of the Universe
Tour The Louvre
Free & Open Yale Courses
The Metropolitan Opera’s Video Archive Database
Ovrtur's Digital Musical Theater Archive
Google’s Arts & Culture
ZenHabits
NYPL’s Jerome Robbins Digital Dance Archive
Designspiration
The New York Public Library Digital Archives
Poetry Foundation's Online Collection
Stream Classic Films with your Library Card: Kanopy
Explore the Planet: Google Earth’s Showcase
Dream Big: Resources for Young Artists[##]
WorldStudio Foundation
Americans For The Arts: Young Artists Resources
The Kennedy Center’s ArtsEdge Archive and Access Website
National YoungArts Foundation
Louisiana Channel’s 8 Artists: Advice to Young Artists