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Art That Was Never Finished
Artists have abandoned artworks for many reasons throughout history. Guest host John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks and explains why they resonate with him so deeply. Featuring work by Michelangelo, Leonardo da...
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Become Someone Else | Tameka Norris | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment travels to New Orleans to meet with Tameka Norris, who makes art in a variety of media and often uses her body in her work. She challenges YOU to become someone else. Sarah then highlights Adrian Piper, who created an...
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The Case for Ai Weiwei | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless, and was once named the most powerful artist in the world. Who is Ai Weiwei? And why is he considered one of the most renowned artists of our time?
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Behind the Banksy Stunt
When Banksy shredded his artwork the moment after it sold at auction, he left many questions unanswered. What are we to make of the stunt?
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What's a Curator? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Digital Studio's The Art Assignment asks what the title "curator" really means, both traditionally and as it is used today. Can you be a curator of vintage sneakers? Let's talk about it in the comments.
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How to Sound like you Understand Art
Do you question your ability to talk about art in a coherent way? Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art, even if you've never taken a class or set foot in a museum.
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Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
The Guerrilla Girls are asking, nay demanding, that we complain! But we must do so in ways unique and memorable. We met up with them in London at Tate Modern's new Tate Exchange space, where the Guerrilla Girls were in residence and...
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Landscape Archaeology | Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly | The Art Assignment
This week we speak to collaborating artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and learn about their approach to learning about and working with landscapes.
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Creativity is Overrated
You don't need to be creative or inspired to make art, but you may need the advice of artists, and perhaps a prompt!
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The Case for Video Art
What is video art? How is it any different from all the other moving pictures that are apparently not-art? Let's explore its history and present.
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The Case for Jackson Pollock | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock and know of his infamous “drip paintings,” but what is it that you’re supposed to do when you look at his work today? Why did it cause shockwaves in 1947, and what does it mean now? We explore the life,...
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The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds...
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The Case for Land Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
EARTHWORKS. LAND ART. EARTH ART. Whatever you call it, we look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.
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The $150,000 Banana
Artist Maurizio Cattelan duct taped a banana to a wall, titled it "Comedian", and sold 5 editions of the artwork for as much as $150,000 each. Why did it capture our attention, curiosity, and memes? What does it mean?
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Why You Don't Like Art History
Was your Art History class an endless succession of names and dates and movements? Art History doesn't have to be that way! We discuss new (and much more compelling) approaches the study of art.
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Walk On It | Kate Gilmore | The Art Assignment
In which we visit artist Kate Gilmore in her Brooklyn studio and receive the assignment to Walk on It.
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Art or Prank? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
A pair of glasses on an art gallery floor. Art? Or prank? What about a urinal? We compare recent pranks in art museums to art that uses some of the same strategies.
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Art Therapize Yourself
What is Art Therapy? How can you use aspects of it in your next art encounter? We explore these questions at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art with art therapist Lauren Daugherty.
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Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile McLorin Salvant is a visual artist and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, and she shares with us an art assignment.
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The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...
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The End of Art Assignments. | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
With 2017 comes great change. Assignments are ending, but the channel is not! Starting in March we’ll be focusing on "The Case for" videos, Art Trips, and other art and art history related topics. We're also starting an Art Assignment...
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Why Murals? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Today we're going to continue our discussion of public art, this time focusing on murals. We've invited Richard McCoy back to the studio to share with us what exactly murals are, where they came from, and how they can contribute to the...
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Sadequain Gallery at Frere Hall, Karachi 1
Details of masterpiece by Pakistani eminent calligrapher Sadequain Naqqash, titled "Arz-o-Samawat" (The Earth and the Sky), at Frere Hall, Karachi. Sometimes referred to as the 'Sistine Chapel' of Pakistan. Colour corrected.
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CLEAN : Cannes: 'Culture is the best solution' to war, says Russia's Serebrennikov
"Culture is part of the dialogue, culture is a bridge between the nations, it's the best solution," says dissident Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is in Cannes to present his latest film, "Tchaikovsky's Wife," despite calls...